Adobe Flex going open source

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According to eWeek, Adobe Systems has announced that the Flex Web framework is being released to the open source community. Flex is a framework for building cross-platform rich internet applications for the web and also enables the new Adobe Apollo applications for the desktop. The next release of... Read more

Microsoft Malware Protection Center

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The portal officially launches in early July and will have additional features such as malware sample submission. In the meantime, it lists things such as the most active families and variants for malware, most active email threats, and the top adware/spyware removed. It also provides links to download the... Read more

Microsoft release first public beta for "Longhorn"

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According to eWeek, Microsoft will release the third beta, which is also the first pubic beta, for Windows Server “Longhorn” today. So far, Longhorn remains on track for RTM in the second half of 2007. More than 10,000 people have already tested the product either directly through Microsoft’s technical... Read more

WM6 Devices To Gain 'Virtual BlackBerry' Support

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Redmond Developer News just published an article saying that Research In Motion (RIM) will be making available later this year software that provides Windows Mobile 6 devices a “virtual” BlackBerry experience. The software will feature email, browsing, instant messaging, and other capabilities and will also let WM6 devices take advantage... Read more

Visual Studio user settings per project/solution - update

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The other day, I posted about a feature request submitted to Microsoft Connect. Well, it ended up getting 21 votes before Microsoft closed it as “Closed (Won’t Fix)”. The comment they left was Thanks for reporting this suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to address this... Read more