Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
It looks like the Windows Live team is at it again. They’ve taken the plunge at PDC 2008 and committed to supporting the OpenID initiative. All Windows Live product teams are committed to supporting open standards where such standards are relevant to our work and when ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
After many months of beta testing Microsoft Silverlight 2 it has been officially announced that it will release today, the 14th of October 2008. A release build was expected to emerge sometime in November so it seems the team is very confident with the RC0 developer-only build that emerged ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Awesome news for the local gaming industry. The Xbox 360 was by far the prominent console platform at rAge Expo 2008 once again and it just goes to show how committed Microsoft South Africa are in succeeding in this market. JOHANNESBURG – 6th October 2008 – ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Megarom is going to have a busy stand next month at rAge 2008 with some pretty awesome games coming out this year. In particular I’m keen to get my hands on Far Cry 2 as well as for some more play time on the new Call of Duty and ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Looks like the run up to the 2008 festive season is going to be quite a busy one with some good interactive titles planned for release on the Xbox 360 platform. Its great that there should be a game for every member of the family. I’m personally keen ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
If you are a developer using Visual Studio 2008 and have tried to install SQL Server 2008 on top of it, you might have noticed that it doesn’t want to install. According to KB956139 Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is a required if you intend to use certain ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Isaac Kunen has posted details about the new SQL Server Spatial Tools project on CodePlex containing functions that can be used when working with the new SQL Server 2008 spatial data types. The core idea is that instead of pushing up more samples showing how to ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
The other day during the Tech-Ed South Africa 2008 closing keynote it was announced that SQL Server 2008, formerly code-named Katmai, had gone gold and would release onto MSDN the same day. This is awesome news and the team has worked hard on this release. The most important ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
We all knew it was coming and finally its confirmed and coming to an Xbox 360 console near you later this year. Using the free XNA Game Studio 2.0 coupled with Visual C# Express Edition from Microsoft you can now not only design and build your own ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The Silverlight SDK blog has an overview of what new features to expect from the Silverlight 2 beta 2 release coming this week. Highlights for me include: DataGrid improvements: Autosize, Reorder, Sort, Performance increase, and ...
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