The Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products went live today, which will enable customers to find an up-to-date list of all of our Service Pack, Public Update, and Cumulative Update releases in one location. While the SharePoint team blog has posted Cumulative Update package information in the past, this will be .. more »

If you will be installing the SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Microsoft Windows 7, then you will need to download and install an update from http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=23806  to resolve an issue that occurs in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 when pr.. more »

Abstract: Find outhow SharePoint Server 2010 search features can help you find information faster. New videos describe and demonstrate what's available in the new public beta. Category: SharePoint 2010;Search ;Cool Content Published: 11/20/2009 9:41 AM # Comments: 0.. more »

PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010 introduces the decomposition tree, an interactive arrangement of bar charts that makes it easy to explore contribution relationships. It provides an effective alternative to the “Drill Down To” feature in...(read more).. more »

The Groove Web Services SDK for SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides documentation, WSDL definition files, and sample code for the Groove Web Services API. The Groove Web Services API in SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides compatibility with the API available in Groove 2007. It provides the same access to Groove 2007 workspaces and tools as Groove .. more »

If this is the first you have heard of the Beta (Where have you been? Can I come next time?) then take a look at for the links to Project and for great links to the new developer stuff (Great work Jim!). A couple of early issues or regular questions are: No, 2010 can only talk to 2010 Server. You can however still use 2007 against an upgraded (2007 .. more »

If you havent seen the other announcements of the brand new Project Administration then take a look over at and add a link to your browser favorites or RSS reader. Treb Gatte will be the primary blogger, but some of the kind of postings that have come from me and will in the future be posted via the Project Admin site. Ill be keeping my usual .. more »

While economists have declared the in the U.S., we still live in challenging times, and its truer than ever that an education is the best first step to future success. At the MacBU, were committed to helping students achieve their goals, and still have enough money to pay for books, tuition and other realities of college life. With that in mind, .. more »

and created a donations application that ran in the browser. I thought it would be helpful to provide some background to the vision and direction. Years ago I came across a post on UtterAccess that articulately described what we hope to accomplish with Access 2010. Reading between the lines a littleStormin wants to keep all the goodness of the .. more »

(Editor's note: This post from Robert Firth continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) . It's so useful. Were currently using it in my software engineering class to collaborate on a group project. But let me tell .. more »

Microsoft is launching a new campaign with JiWire to provide free Wi-Fi access throughout airports and hotels in exchange for searching on Bing. The deal is the latest in an ongoing strategic push to further encourage new users to test the decision engine. Monday, the campaign "is based on the premise that once people experience Bing first-hand .. more »

Great news. All the new features we about last week are live for 100% of our users. Many of you may have seen them over the past few days as the ramp progressed, but now everyone can take full advantage of the great work the team has done in this fall wave for Bing. I wanted to point that out because recently, to my complete surprise, I was told .. more »

The Bing Maps China site just released some huge updates to their site. Following the release to Bing Maps (Bing Maps Gets An Overhaul…And, Some New Features) and Bing Maps UK (Released: Bing Maps UK), the Bing Maps China site has updated much of their data, added tons of new data and added a few new features. Check out the list: Yellow Page.. more »

The Microsoft UK Education team has a dozen people in it (surprised?) who are focused full-time on education across schools, colleges and universities. Which means that were awfully busy and spread across many, many things all the time. But fortunately we have the help of other similar teams around the world, and a much bigger team in our offices .. more »

Posted by John Vassallo Vice President, EU Affairs Earlier this week Microsoft joined with the European Environment Agency to launch a compelling example of how Microsoft’s cloud computing technology can be a real ‘change maker’ in the fight against climate...(read more).. more »

Over the last few months Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and I have blogged about our Board of Directors consideration of Say-on-Pay proposals that enable shareholders to weigh-in on our executive compensation practices. As we shared in September, our Board approved a policy that enables Microsoft shareholders to cast a non-binding, advisory .. more »

Today I presented a session at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York called Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Using Your Preferred Technology Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK for PHP , which enables PHP developers to connect applications via the cloud more easily using the AppFabric Service Bus & Access Control. Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP .. more »

. We reported the progress made on the Stonehenge project and presented the roadmap. is to provide a public forum to test the interoperability of WS-* protocols on different vendor stacks and to build sample applications that could provide best practices and coding guidelines for better interoperability. The main sample application, StockTrader has .. more »

The Microsoft Hohm team continues rolling out its online energy management software with power utilities in North America. Today, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) customers in the California area will be able to better understand and change their energy consumption habits and receive personalized energy conservation recommendations from .. more »

To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of High Business Impact (HBI) information, Microsoft IT designed and implemented a system using Microsoft technologies in conjunction with a third-party solution that automatically identifies and classifies HBI information at risk, and then starts the remediation proccess... more »