Released on Tuesday 9th March 2010, this month’s regular update to Microsoft software to keep those bugs at bay (and keep our software secure!) involves two product areas; Office and Windows.
Both have a single Security Bulletin – meaning a Windows Update for affected Operating Systems (OS).
“MS10-016 addresses one vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker. BothWindows XP [...]

This is a great question – it throws all sorts of variables in to the mix and is one of those questions which can torment even the most savvy of us.
Whether it’s what processor, which service provider or what operating system – there is a debate to be had. Just because of where you might [...]

Something I’ve never blogged on but often take advantage of are the Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides.

Rupert Murdoch would have us all believe that “paying for content online is right and that aggregators like Google that use newspaper content but don’t pay for it are doing something wrong.” (BBC article). And he’s actually got a level of support behind him…from the traditional print media that is.
Johnson Press, the UK’s largest regional [...]

Over at the Windows Server Divison Team WebLog, news that a couple of new addons for IIS have been released. Take advantage of these new technologies and the latest Windows Server operating system and see your site soar up the rankings!

Developers looking to take advantage of the new features in R2 should be delighted to hear about a new training kit made available for download by MS.

I cant advise this enough.  This is a great OS.  The Vista OS was good in my opinion and this is a better more streamlined version.  People state that Vista was buggy and sluggish – depends what you did with it and what hardware you ran it on.  Windows 7 does strip out this complication [...]

MS giving away stuff? Yep! the Multi-billion dollar company has released the Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 eBook – owing to the recent wave of R2 launches no doubt.
If you fancy it, follow the link below ….
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/windowsserver.aspx

Over at MS they’re developing a whole load of web addons (as discussed in previous WebPI post). This particular little number might be useful for the wider community of developers who might not need such automated tools to configure their servers.
Bing Maps beta (http://www.bing.com/maps/)
MSDN: Developing a Silverlight Application Using Bing Maps Web Services (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc879136.aspx)
Event [...]

It is no surprise that over the last 18 months marketing spend has decreased as businesses tighten their belts against recession. Spending money on speculating for new customers always seems to be the first expense to be cut back.
However, proving that no businesses can do without any advertising, notoriously ad shy Google has just launched [...]