Archive for the 'Betas' Category

Reminder: Windows 7 RC

0 Comments Posted by Michael February 2nd, 2010 in Betas, windows 7

Just a quick reminder, if you are still running the Release Candidate (RC) of Windows 7, you will need to move to the final (RTM) version before June 1st 2010, otherwise your copy of Windows will be considered non-genuine and you will not be eligible for updates.
On February 15th, anyone still running the RC [...]

Office 2010 for June 2010

0 Comments Posted by Michael December 2nd, 2009 in Betas, Microsoft, Office, Software

After a rumour appeared saying Office 2010 would be released in June 2010, Ars Technica contacted MS to confirm it, and it is true!
Microsoft expects Office 2010 and related products to be generally available in June 2010.
In the meanwhile, remember that you can get free access to the beta, which you can use for free [...]

Office 2010 Public Beta

0 Comments Posted by Michael November 20th, 2009 in Betas, Microsoft, Office

Just in time to try out over the holidays, the Microsoft Office 2010 public beta is here!
http://officebeta.microsoft.com/en-us/
Head to that website to download either the 32bit or 64bit version of the next version of Office, and experience the nice changes they have made for yourself.
Personally I have found Outlook to be much more responsive compared to [...]

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3

0 Comments Posted by Michael July 11th, 2009 in Betas, MIX, Software, silverlight

Just last night Silverlight 3 was officially released to the public for general use, along with a new Silverlight website, a virtual launch (SeeTheLight) and the Expression Blend 3 RC (with Sketchflow!).
The new features in Silverlight 3 include, but are not limited to:

Support for MPEG4 H.264/AAC
Full 720p+ support
GPU accelerated HD playback
Perspective [...]

Visual Studio 2010 beta 1

0 Comments Posted by Michael May 21st, 2009 in Betas, Microsoft, Office, Software, Visual Studio

Right on time, the Visual Studio 2010 beta has been released to the public. You can grab the beta bits (Including the .Net Framework 4.0 beta) from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx. There you can choose from the Professional or Team Suite beta, and find out more about the new features in 2010.
There is a nice list at [...]

The Windows Virtual PC Beta is here

0 Comments Posted by Michael May 6th, 2009 in Betas, Microsoft, Software, windows 7

Windows Virtual PC 7 is a feature of Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise and Ultimate designed to support the XP Mode feature, as well as running older or other versions of Windows within your Windows 7 environment.
Probably the best known feature coming is XP mode, where you get a fully integrated XP  virtual machine to run [...]