At a financial presentation, Microsoft has unveiled the release date of Windows 7 Phone (WP7) as they announce a "Getting back in the game" that have little mean back in the race, inspired WP7 Zune for menus and music, will be connectable to the service Xbox Live, Facebook, Office so as to Kin reserving an important place in social networks.
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Phones are already made for some developers of applications for Windows 7 Phone had their best to create and test their applications, games.
Hopefully Microsoft will make a product more popular with the public unlike his last phone Kin who was a real failure, it was removed 48 days after launch and have never seen the European market. The launch of WP7 will be in two stages, in October for the European continent and in November for the United States.
At the launch on Monday of Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight and 4. NET Framework 4, Microsoft makes available to all evaluation versions of each edition available:
Visual Studio 2010 Professional (2.16 GB)
Visual Studio 2010 Premium (2.24 GB)
Ultimate Visual Studio 2010 (2.25 GB)
Visual Studio 2010 Professional Test (408 MB)
Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server (1.56 GB)
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management
The launch will take place this afternoon at 18 pm (Paris time) and will be broadcast on the Internet, also if you live in the Paris region, Jeff Beehler is the team leader for Visual Studio in Redmond, present a keynote on April 15 at Microsoft headquarters in Issy les Moulineaux France this keynote is of course free, you can already sign up.
Today on the second day of Mix 10, Microsoft has put at the disposal of all the world but especially for developers, Platform Preview version for testing the rendering engine in a version that can be described as the Alpha light absence of real public browser, only the options bug reports and support the development of websites are present.
Thanks to this version you will see Testdrive render your site but also a few demos of new technologies integrated into Internet Explorer as the CSS3, drafts of HTML 5.
This new rendering engine achieves a score of 55/100 on Acid 3 test, albeit less efficient than other browsers like Opera, Google Chrome, but it shows that Microsoft is working to comply with web standards.
Microsoft has until June 30, 2010 servers in the limit of 5000 virtual machines, each connected to a Windows Live ID and subject to acceptance of terms of use, they can track different scenarios pre written about products like :
SharePoint
Configuring a server
Create a website in Joomla, WordPress and other CMS
Development in a collaborative mode with TFS (Team Foundation Server)
Some scenarios are not yet available but should arrive shortly, access to the server is using either a Microsoft Terminal Server Client connection directly with Visual Studio TFS.
Between the creation of your account and the preparation of the virtual machine it takes between 10 and 15 minutes.
Once this is done is to say June 30, 2010, two choices available to you:
As announced last weekend, the arrival of the beta version of Office 2010 was coming soon, it is now after the announcement to the PDC (Professional Developer Conference) to download beta versions of Office 2010 version is possible 32 or 64 bits with 6 selectable languages:
French
English
Japanese
Simplified Chinese
German
Spanish
These options are valid until October 2010 and they use the new activation system Windows 7 version Office 2010 Professional Pro Plus is a volume license version.
All information to know before you download your copy of Office 2010 are available on the download page on TechNet.
In terms of system requirements, it is necessary that the installed version of Office (if any) is the same architecture (x86 or x64) that you download otherwise you will need to uninstall the previous version initially.
The operating systems Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 are supported client side and server versions of Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 SP2 R2et.
The installation required at least 5 GB of free space on the hard disk.
