Anith Gopal

Microsoft Australia reached new heights with the Software Donation Program last financial year donating more than $40 million dollars’ worth of software to an increasing number of community organisations.  This amazing outcome is a 20 percent increase on last year’s already impressive figure.This comes at a time when Microsoft also announced updates to its program to make it even easier for non-profit organisations to access affordable technology. Read more …( read more )

Each year a variety of organizations publish ratings on the progress they are seeing from corporations on environmental issues. This year was no different and we wanted to share some of them to show how they view our progress on sustainability.     First up is the non-profit organization Climate Counts , which works to raise consumer and corporate awareness of climate impact and corporate responsibility

“REPL TALK”  The Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services team is currently in the processes of setting up this Replication-focused blog.  For now, please check out content on  http://blogs.msdn.com/chrissk/ . Thanks, Chris Skorlinski

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Av Fredrik Normén, Cornerstone At the moment I’m updating a code example for my Silverlight 3.0 course and have added some exception handling to the code. I also got a question about how to handle exception while calling the Load operation of the DomainService class. So I decided to write a blog post about it, maybe someone more have the same question.

Our new location is: http://blogs.msdn.com/innov8showcase Also follow us on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/innov8showcase…( read more )

To get up and running quickly with the PHP toolkit for data services check out this walkthrough post by Phani from the data services team: http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/archive/2009/09/08/using-the-php-toolkit-with-ado-net-data-services.aspx     -Mike Flasko ADO.NET Data Services, Program Manager

After WMF (Windows Management Framework ), i.e., the combined download package of  Powershell, WsMan and BITS,  for Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released to the Web on Aug.

Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have established a more community focused way of tracking Silverlight 4 feature requests.  You can find their feature tracker here: Silverlight Feedback Forum .   Other than a few items that our outside our control (iPhone, bundling), you’re likely to see at least a few of the top items in the next version of Silverlight.

Когда вы думаете о будущем компьютеров в медицинских учреждениях, что вы себе представляете? Будем ли мы через пять-десять лет по-прежнему использовать настольные компьютеры, портативные компьютерные стойки, ноутбуки и “таблетки”

Буквально в тот же день, более полный репортаж о том, в каком направлении может двигаться российская медицина. Ваш покорный слуга даже получил несколько секунд эфирного времени! Российская медицина осваивает технологии будущего – обратите внимание на ролик с бегущей женщиной – такого видение на данный момент ведущей ИТ-компании поддержания здорового образа жизни

По заказу сообщества – написали статью о том, что такое юзер группы (.NET USer Groups). Тут не надо пугаться слово юзер – это на самом деле клуб для программистов. Юзер группы – просто устоявшийся годами термин.