This document provides a summary of business, technology, developer, IT professional, Windows, Microsoft, mobile, and upcoming event news. Key items include the availability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 RC, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 betas, Windows 7 training resources, Office 2010 technical beta signup, and upcoming Technet Live and community events on Hyper-V and backup using DPM. Readers are invited to submit their own news by tagging tweets or emailing the author.
2. Developer News Silverlight 101: Tasty Library Visual Studio 2010 Beta dotNET 4.0 Beta 1 Available on MSDN Only
3. IT Professional News Native VHD Support in Windows 7 Service Packs & Updates Galore! Vista & WS 2008 SP2 (MSDN & TechNet only) Office 2007 Suite , Applications + Servers SQL 2008 SP1 + SQL 2005 SP3 Update Rollup 4 for Dynamics CRM Update Rollup 8 for Exchange 2007 Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 CTP Desktop & Server Energy Efficiency Calculators
4. Windows news Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 RC Now available SDK, WDK (MSDN only) and WAIK also available Windows Virtual PC & Windows XP Mode betas New & Updated Windows 7 Training Resources MS Press Windows 7 Book – preview chapters US Army deploying Windows Vista NSW Department of Education beta testing Windows 7
5. Microsoft News Microsoft MyPhone now in open Beta Virtual Earth now part of the Microsoft CDN Office 2010 Technical Beta July - signup Public Beta late 2009 Office 2010 The Movie Microsoft SharePoint’s site redeveloped http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/
6. Mobile & Device news Android ‘Rosie’ shows itself New Blackberry accessory Blackberry Helmet iPhone to come in 6 flavours? Windows Live Writer for Windows Mobile HTC TouchPro 2 now available!! (via the UK)
7. Upcoming events Technet Live! Event: How efficient is your Microsoft Security Update Process Community Event – Hyper-V and Backup using DPM!
8. How to submit news Tag a tweet with #sbtug Email nicholas@raynerco.com Speak up during the news
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Microsoft have announced some new (much needed) features for OfficeLive including Folder support and file copy/paste from within OfficeLive itself.The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team kicked off a world tour at the end of February targeting developers considering using Dynamics CRM as a line-of-business platform, Silverlight or WPF to build compelling experiences, Office or SharePoint to build on the familiar skills of your end-users or Partner-Hosting or Azure Services to extend you application to the cloud.The OneNote community site was developed by OneNote fans with the aim to help new users and raise product awareness.Microsoft recently announced, probably due to a number of rumours out there, that they are internally testing a new search engine Kumo
The Samsung Q!EX is the successor to the very popular Q1p and Q1u UMPCs
