I’ve talked before about the fact that we cannot Live Migrate from an AMD CPU to an Intel CPU or vice-versa, but what about Live Migrating from an older Intel CPU to a newer Intel CPU?  I’m going to show you a Live Migration from a three year old Intel Xeon 5050 CPU to a new Intel Xeon 3440 CPU.  Below the video, I’ve also included the comparis.. more »

Read this case study on how HCL uses p&p to design applications up to 40% faster... more »

The Smart Client Software Factory provides integrated guidance that assists architects and developers to create composite smart client applications. This version is hosted in Visual Studio 2010... more »

Manish is a Sr. Program manager in our NETCF Part of the Mobile Developer Group ; he recently wrote up an article on the using GZip encoding for WCF application for .NETCF. So take a look at his blog on http://blogs.msdn.com/maagniho/archive/2008/12/24/gzip-message-encoding-for-wcf-applications-written-using-net-compact-framework.aspx which has th.. more »

pre-releases of IE8, we’ve blogged about the performance optimizations done in the Script engine and the addition of new language features such as . We also provided details about the One of the big pieces of feedback during our beta cycles was for compatibility, which, for JScript, meant focusing on how we version some of the language features we.. more »

Add-in Builder. 3.The first step is to describe your add-in, including name, description, homepage, and version. (I'll publish another post in the near future to describe the other more advanced options in this dialog.) 4. To create a panel for your add-in, click Add Panel. Name, Source, and ID are required fields. 5. Click Insert, and then click C.. more »

We on the Expression Encoder team are proud to announce that Expression Encoder 3 is complete and will shortly be available!  Since releasing V2 SP1 back in November of 2008 we have worked hard to improve core encoding capabilities,  continued...(read more).. more »

Brian Harry is continuing a great series of posts on VS2010 performance, you can read the latest in that series here; where Brian talks about the issues we've been seeing around Virtual Memory Exhaustion and what we're doing to address it.  .. more »

Security Development Lifecycle for Line-of-Business applications (SDL-LOB) Phase Four: Verification for LOB The SDL-LOB defines the standards and best practices for providing security and privacy for new and existing line-of-business (LOB) applications currently under development or being planned for development. If you missed prior phases, read .. more »

We get quite a few calls from administrators who ask if they can manually update their Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint scan engines. Well, the short answer is yes, but the long answer is a bit longer, so in order to provide guidance to those of you who wish to manually update the .. more »

Today we're announcing plans to release a security update to address the vulnerability discussed in on Monday, August 2, 2010 at or around 10 AM PDT.  We are releasing the bulletin as we've completed the required testing and the update has achieved the appropriate quality bar for broad distribution to customers. Additionally, we're able to confirm t.. more »

Today, Microsoft announced plans to release of an out-of-band update to address CVE-2010-2568 (described in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article (2286198) ). As mentioned earlier this month, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), along with other Microsoft Active Protection Program partners, have been keeping a close watch on the use of .LNK .. more »

Bargaining networks model social or economic situations in which agents seek to form the most lucrative partnership with another agent from among several alternatives. There has been a flurry of recent research studying Nash bargaining solutions (also called `balanced outcomes') in bargaining networks, so that we now know when such solutions exist, .. more »

Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery.. more »

Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, says that the many areas in which Microsoft Research offers expertise has been the key to the forthcoming Kinect system that enables game control through body movements... more »

Judith Bishop and Rico Malvar were among those who represented Microsoft Research during the Snowbird Conference, held in Utah from July 18 to 20 under the auspices of the Computing Research Association... more »

Microsoft Research's danah boyd and her colleague Eszter Hargittai have published a paper that examines the attitudes and practices of 18- and 19-year-olds regarding Facebook's privacy settings... more »

Captain Dash, one of the Showcase Startups at the European BizSpark Summit, provides a solution that lets marketing people access all their data in a visual and interactive way. Hear from Co-Founder of Captain Dash, Gilles Babinet, in the below video interview. The BizSpark startup of the day is Captain Dash, based in France. Below you will find an .. more »

MVPsJason Kergosien and Caleb Jenkins are scheduled to speak during OpenCamp in Addison, Texas August 27 - 29, 2010. According to organizers:   OpenCamp is dedicated to the concept of removing both real and artificial barriers and bringing together webmasters and web developers, bloggers, podcasters, and social media enthusiasts, regardless of th.. more »

Abstract: This post details some of the preparations that the Office Content Publishing team is making as it gets ready to upgrade our internal organization SharePoint site to SharePoint Server 2010. Category: SharePoint 2010; Site Admin Published: 7/29/2010 1:13 PM # Comments:.. more »

The SharePoint 2010 Products are, at core, Web applications built on SQL Server databases. To best administer an environment and keep it performing well, administrators should understand the following: We have assembled key database, storage, and SQL Server content in one easy location—the SQL Server and SharePoint Server 2010 Databases resource ce.. more »