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Silverlight for Windows Embedded CE Is Not True Silverlight
With the RTM of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3, Microsoft has included a version of Silverlight targeted at embedded devices. There are major differences between Silverlight on the desktop and “Silverlight for Windows Embedded" (Silverlight for WE).
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New Installer Provides a Much Faster Ruby for Windows
Luis Lavena is working on an update to the Ruby installer for Windows, including a new Ruby binary built with a modern compiler. Benchmarks show Ruby 1.8.6 running more than twice as fast than previously. We talked to Luis Lavena about the new Ruby Installer.
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RubyGems Roundup: Fat Binary Gems, Is It JRuby and New Plugins
Aaron Patterson has a solution for native Windows RubyGems that support both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 at the same time: fat binary gems. Is It JRuby.com tracks JRuby compatibility for popular Gems; and some new RubyGems plugins emerged.
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Red Hat and Microsoft Get Together in the Virtualization Arena
Red Hat has announced an agreement with Microsoft to support each other’s guests on their virtualization servers including coordinated technical support.
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VMware Open Sources the View Client
VMware has open sourced its View Client software which enables connections from Linux clients to remote Windows desktops managed by VMware View. VMware would like to see their partners developing the client for non-x86 devices using operating systems other than Windows XP or Linux.
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Microsoft Bringing Multitouch to Windows
Microsoft is planning on publicly releasing the Surface SDK at this year's PDC. This is seen by some as the next step towards bringing their multitouch technology to the Windows operating system.
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Amazon's EC2 Switches from Beta to Production
Amazon's EC2 services are no longer offered as beta, but they have been switched into production, Amazon offering a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Windows on EC2 is still available as beta.
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Windows Will Soon Enter Into the EC2 Cloud
After years of offering its Cloud Computing Services to run Linux or Solaris, and after receiving support for running Java EE applications, Amazon is promising its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) will support Microsoft Windows later this fall.
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Windows 7 Will Be the Next Operating System from Microsoft
Chris Flores, a Microsoft director on the Windows Client Communications Team, talks about the future of Windows.
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Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released
Microsoft has released the March 2008 version of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools.
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SpringSource Announces Acquisition by Microsoft
In a surprise announcement, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson announced that SpringSource has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft. InfoQ interviewed Johnson to learn more about this acquisition and what it will mean for the future of both Spring and the .Net Framework.
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Windows Server 2008 Available for Evaluation
The long awaited Windows Server 2008 is finally here. Was it worth waiting for?
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Adobe AIR 1.0 - Native OS Integration Problem
A frequent criticism of the Adobe AIR platform is that it lacks support for native OS integration, which is typically essential when building desktop applications. With the AIR 1.0 release coming soon, Mike Chambers of Adobe published a proof of concept last week that demonstrates how developers can work around this problem.
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MinWin Core: 25MB on Disk and 100 Files
The Microsoft MinWin core is 25MB in size on disk and contains 100 files total. This appears to be a major overhaul of Windows when contrasted with a minimal install of Windows Vista at 4GB on disk and 5000 files in size.
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XNA Game Studio Express Releases
XNA Game Studio Express was released early this morning. Now developers can create games for the Xbox 360 and play them in the same day on their own console.