Windows Embedded Standard 2009, 120-day Evaluation Edition
Windows Embedded Standard delivers the power, familiarity, and reliability of the Windows operating system in componentized form, helping device makers to easily create smart connected devices requiring rich applications, services, and end-user experiences. Featuring technologies that easily connect with many common industry standards plus several Microsoft desktop and server technologies leading to lower costs in application development, operating system deployment, servicing, and maintenance. With Windows Embedded Standard, developers get access to a mature technology portfolio of embedded specific tools that work in the familiar developer environment of Visual Studio allowing them to rapidly configure, build, and deploy devices that are more secure, reliable, and manageable. Support for all the PC architecture processor families; compatibility with thousands of certified, production-quality, off-the-shelf applications, drivers, and services; and a global ecosystem of Windows Embedded Standard experts help ensure that device makers have flexibility and access to the skills to develop the next generation of smart connected devices with confidence.
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Deep Zoom Composer Updated for Silverlight 2 (And More!)
Yesterday was a busy day, for we released an updated version of Deep Zoom Composer as well! You can download the updated version from the following link:
This version of Deep Zoom Composer presents several under-the-hood changes to improve reliability. We are getting close to wrapping up work on version 1 of this powertoy, so we are focusing on improving our existing features in lieu of adding anything new. Expect to see some details on some of those under the hood changes in the upcoming months.
With that said, that isn’t to say you won’t find anything new in this release. The biggest change is that our project templates now work with the released version of Silverlight 2. Previewing in the browser should just work, and our Deep Zoom upload/sharing service, PhotoZoom, has been updated as well.
Source- MSDN Blog
October 2008 Security Release ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on October 14th, 2008. The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. This DVD5 ISO image is intended for administrators that need to download multiple individual language versions of each security update and that do not use an automated solution such as Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). You can use this ISO image to download multiple updates in all languages at the same time.
Office 2008 12.1.3 and Office 2004 11.5.2 available now
This is probably going to get lost in all of the discussion of the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, but just in case you feel like taking a break from all of that, Update Tuesday has delivered new updates to Office 2008 and Office 2004.
Office 2008 12.1.3 has suite-wide improvements in performance, stability, and security. It’s also got some fixes that I’m sure will make some folks happy. In Word, we’ve made some improvements to our EndNote support. In PowerPoint, opening a file no longer changes the saved time timestamp. In Excel, we tracked down issues that caused "not enough memory" errors when saving. And in Entourage, we fixed a problem that would result in events being duplicated when viewed in Outlook or OWA. For full details, our knowledge base article for the update. To update to 12.1.3, you need to already have 12.1.2 installed.
Office 2004 11.5.2 has suite-wide improvements in reliability and security, as well as a couple of tweaks for Excel. The knowledge base article for the update has the full details. To install 11.5.2, you need to already have 11.5.1 installed.
As a bonus update, we also updated our standalone Office Open XML converters to make security improvements. The knowledge base article for the update has more details. To install this update, you need version 1 of the converter installed.
If you can drag yourself away from drooling over the new laptops (so sez the woman reconsidering whether she wants a MacBook Air), you can go forth and update.
Source- MSDN Blog
Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (RC1)
This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.
This download will install the following:
- Silverlight 2 developer runtime
- Silverlight 2 software development kit
- KB956453 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
and/or
KB956485 for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1 - Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
and/or
Silverlight Tools for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes:
- Visual Basic and C# Project templates
- Intellisense and code generators for XAML
- XAML design preview
- Debugging of Silverlight applications
- Remote debugging of Silverlight applications for Mac
- Web reference support
- WCF Templates
- Team Build and command line build support
- Integration with Expression Blend
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 BizTalk Adapter Now Available
The Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 is now available. This adapter has the same functionality as the previously released 3.0 adapter, with the following updates:
- Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
- Supports form-based authentication
- Supports multi-tenancy
With this adapter, you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 with any other non-Microsoft business application using the BizTalk server mapping capabilities, which allows you to discover and use the schema of any of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM entities.
It can be downloaded from here.
New App-V downloads available
The first is the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Security Configuration Wizard roles that contain hardening definitions for:
- Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Management Server
- Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Streaming Server
- Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Management Service
These roles can be used to help protect and harden your Application Virtualization environment on Windows Server 2003 and 2008 by closing or disabling unnecessary ports and services reducing the overall attack surface.
The download can be found here.
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The second is the Application Virtualization Best Practices Analyzer. This is a diagnostic tool that verifies configuration settings for computers running a Microsoft Application Virtualization Streaming Server version 4.5 or Microsoft Application Virtualization Management Server version 4.5.
Feature Bullet Summary:
- Scans Microsoft Application Virtualization Streaming Server
- Scans Microsoft Application Virtualization Management Server
- Reports warnings and guidance for configuration settings that should be adjusted
- Produces an HTML report with all errors and warnings
This can be downloaded here.
Source- Technet Blog
Microsoft HealthVault Connection Center Beta 2 for Windows Vista
HealthVault Connection Center 2.0 provides quick and easy upload of device data to HealthVault and helps you use the data with Web sites and applications that work with HealthVault. This most current release includes:
- A simpler, more engaging user interface
- Guided setup to find and install compatible devices
- Ability to select multiple records for upload (for multi-user devices)
- Ability to set upload preferences for each device you use
- Improved support to prevent upload of duplicate data
We encourage you to get the most from your personal health or fitness devices by upgrading to this release. To check which version you have on your computer, simply click Help and then click About.
About HealthVault Connection Center
You can use the free HealthVault Connection Center software to upload data to HealthVault from health and fitness devices (such as blood pressure monitors, pedometers, glucometers and many others) and Gadgets for Windows Sidebar. HealthVault Connection Center connects your device, your computer and your HealthVault record to manage the upload process for you.
