Microsoft has until June 30, 2010 servers in the limit of 5000 virtual machines, each connected to a Windows Live ID and subject to the acceptance condition of use, they can attend pre-written scenarios on different products such as :

• SharePoint
• Configuring a server
• Create a website in Joomla, Wordpress and other CMS
• Development in collaborative mode with TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Some scenarios are not yet available but should arrive shortly, access to the server is done either through a connection Microsoft Terminal Server Client either directly with Visual Studio TFS.

Between the creation of your account and prepare the virtual machine it takes between 10 and 15 minutes.

Once you are finished ie the June 30, 2010, two choices open for you:

• Retrieve the virtual machine
• Migrating to an offer partner

Please visit my web platform for you as your server for free *

* Within the limits of the 5000 servers

Microsoft has begun distributing the update responding to accusations of anti competition from Opera Software and other alternative browsers that have subsequently joined.

This BallotScreen presents itself as a web page that loads an icon associated with a browser has a description, both provided by the publisher and the link for the download.

Top 5 browsers are those that are most used to know Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera in order of appearance is random. Followed 6 other browsers with less market share as their order is random.

For more information on the Ballot Screen Brower I return to this old article

To apply this update just for the moment to go to Windows Update and look at the optional updates.

The update will be automatic from 1 March.

Since February 8, 2010 if you are MSDN subscriber it was possible to download the RC versions of Visual Studio 2010, from today all the world can download them.

The RC version was not originally planned but was released after many comments at the virtual memory consumption and overall performance.

The final version is expected for its release in April 2010.

Below are the links to download:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server RC
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium RC
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional RC
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC

RC attention these versions are not compatible with Silverlight Development 4 and although these versions are close to the final version they are not intended to be used in production environments.

Bugs can be reported by the Connect program in Visual Studio 2010

Website Visual Studio 2010 on MSDN RC U.S.

The release of Office 2010 is approaching, scheduled for June, and the first information on updates like the arrival arrive in RC version.

According to initial reports, from March 5 purchased versions of Office 2007 would get an upgrade to Office 2010.

To this should be installed and activated Office 2007 before September 30, 2010 and have applied to upgrade before October 31, 2010.

As for the program upgrade from Windows 7, the resulting version of Office 2010 will depend on the purchased, see the correlation table below:

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Tomorrow is the launch of Microsoft Techdays 2010 and this year you can attend live from your home or your workplace, the plenary lectures of the three days on the following areas:

• First day: Infrastructure development and information systems agile
• Second day: Offer a new experience with your digital information system
• Third and last day: The future of computing: a few points of inflection

You can return to live below this item directly from 9:00 dice for each of three days or the link at the end of this article.

View Techdays Microsoft Live Internet

Also if you do not have time to register it is still possible to register on site at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.

The badges will be to recover the host is provided with your invitation received by mail.

Site Techdays 2010 Microsoft