Expectations Beyond Windows 7

While many users have just got their hands on Windows 7 or are about to, some people have looked beyond the current release. Technologizer talked to journalists, technologists, and former Microsoft employees and gathered their mostly divergent views and thoughts. However, some of them held similar expectations in a few areas, for example, making computing devices more touch capable, integrating various devices such as mobile phones, TVs, game consoles, set-top boxes, desktop computers, and making…( read more )

Download R2 of SQL Server Modeling Nov 2009 CTP

SQL Server Modeling Nov 2009 CTP R2 is a re-release of the CTP for it to work with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 RC releases.

PETA Campaign: Animal Testing Breaking Hearts Petition Powered By Silverlight 3

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA’s) youth marketing division is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to generate attention for their campaigns. AIS created an interactive online petition utilizing Silverlight 3 technology giving site visitors the opportunity to add their own unique messages to a heart that is then added as a leaf to an ever-growing tree. The petition allows site visitors to easily share their hearts with friends and family via e-mail or social networking…( read more )

Intel Hosts Free C++ Parallelism and Threading Seminar

Free 1-Day Course on Parallelism and Threading Learn directly from Intel when you attend this free one-day course on parallelism and threading. This is a great opportunity learn about threading your applications for multi-core platforms.

A Pragmatic Hybrid Approach to Cloud Computing

The paper on Cloud Computing that is referenced in this article (Outlook: Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells to Follow) is one of the best treatments of the subject of Public, Private and Hybrid clouds that I have ever read.