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Good news for IT professionals. The digital editions of MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobb’s Journal can now be subscribed for free. MSDN magazine (Microsoft Journal for Developers) is the publication to read for comprehensive coverage of Microsoft development technologies, whereas Dr. Dobb’s Journal covers all practical technologies, languages, platforms, and tools.  Dr Dobb’s Journal has […]

Windows Live is working on a new feature of Windows Live Messenger dubbed as “Messenger IM Control”. At Mix UK, ScottIsAFul from liveside.net managed to get the first look of this new feature from Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan who are both very much involved with the Windows Live Platform. Here is a link of […]

At the start of this year, stories started surfacing on the blogs about Microsoft’s free web analytics tool, codenamed Gatineaue which later on confirmed by Ian Thomas (Director at Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions) on his blog. Gatineau is the name of the Canadian city where DeepMetrix ( Web Analytics Tool is based on this product) […]

The Google-Microsoft battle is now one step ahead with the addition of new service called Windows Live Translator Beta, into the managed beta testing of Windows Live Suite. The service is very similar to Google Translate and Yahoo’s Babelfish (developed by Altavista in nineties). Windows Live Translator is powered by a French company called Systran […]

Windows Server 2008, which was due to be released in the second half of 2007, is now going to be released on Feb 2008. Kevin Turner (Microsoft’s COO) announced during his keynote session at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week that Windows Server 2008 will be launched along with SQL Server 2008 and […]

Microsoft has recently switched its main website, www.microsoft.com to Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft-IIS/7.0. Microsoft.com is the 5th most trafficked site in the world, 4th most in the US. The site is supported by roughly 80 Web servers delivering content daily to around 287M unique users via +300k concurrent connections at a rate of over […]

Livestation, a project currently under development, is based on the technology developed by Microsoft Research team of Cambridge. The project is an effort of Skinkers with support from Microsoft Research team. LiveStation is currently in beta stage, but essentially the project is designed to enable users to watch live television on their machines. “Interactive live TV […]