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After the much hyped flash rival SilverLight announced some weeks back by Microsoft, they’ve launched an Official Site for SilverLight : http://silverlight.net/Default.aspx
Here’s what it says :
“Welcome to the Silverlight community site, where you will find the latest information about Silverlight for both designers and developers. This is the one place to hear directly from the [...]

Microsoft released the feature-complete, third beta for Windows Server “Longhorn” on April 25, which is also the first public beta of the software.
The product remains on track for release to manufacturing in the second half of 2007, and the beta code can be downloaded here.
Some 10,000 people in Microsoft’s technical beta program have already [...]

REDMOND, Wash. — Apr. 26, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $14.40 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, a 32% increase over the same period of the prior year. This revenue drove record profits with operating income of $6.59 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. Diluted earnings per share for [...]

The latest from MS is that anyone running any pre-release version of Vista code — from the creaky Beta 2 to the slicker Release Candidate builds and assorted Customer Preview Program (CPP) editions — is eligible for upgrade pricing on the full version of Vista !
It says anyone still using pre-release code, which was made [...]

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 platform got a boost on Monday when Research in Motion announced a new software suite that will provide phones running on WM6 with a “virtual” BlackBerry experience.
The software will be available later this year, and is set to feature e-mail, browsing, instant messaging and other capabilities. The app will also let [...]

Some of you who do Update Vista regularly must have already noticed about an Update for the Media Center in Vista.
Here’s some into on what’s fixed or added :
Issues that are resolved by this update :
In addition to the fixes that are contained in the updates that are listed in the “Hotfix replacement information” section, [...]

Gaming revolution or a hoax ?
MICROSOFT HAS BEEN talking about DirectX 10 being an integral part of Vista, saying that DirectX 10 could not be implemented onto any other operating systems. The reason for this is the approach of DirectX 10 inside the Vista kernel, with a more console-style approach to hardware.
However, that was before [...]