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As most people will be aware, Microsoft supports a number of Windows OS’s virtualised on Hyper-V.  ‘Tell us something we don’t know’ I hear you shout!  Well, Microsoft have also worked with Novell, and Red Hat to ensure that distributions of Linux are supported, and optimised to run virtualised...

First thing you’re thinking is, ‘What’s a Community Technical Preview?’  Well, I’m not actually 100% sure to be honest, but I think it’s pre-beta, but not too far off beta, if you know what I mean :-)  As always, I could be wrong! :) Anyway, if you’re not familiar with MAP, in a nutshell, MAP...

I certainly think it could be.  For those of you who may not know what I'm barking on about - it's all about the web.  Well, to be more specific, it's about W indows, I IS, S QL and P HP, as oppose to L inux, A pache, M ySQL and P HP.  Notice the common factor in both of those; the P,...

Say, for example, I'm a busy kinda guy (I am, honest!) and I need to send out a mail shot to all the clients in our database. I'll use a mail-merge, and take the addresses straight from our backend SQL database. Simple, you'll say, just use the wizard which comes with the particular piece of document...

Interoperability, Choice and Open XML. Over the past year, Microsoft has done a hell of a lot to try and ensure that our products inter-operate with other products, not necessarily produced by Microsoft, out of the box, without the need for the user to call on an advanced team of consultants to make...

There has just been an announcement detailed on the Microsoft PressPass and also the http://port25.technet.com/ sites, providing details on the Technical Collaboration between Microsoft and Zend Technologies. This collaboration, announced at the Zend/PHP Conference in San Jose, aims to enhance the...