Hi Everyone

Here are some of the important Microsoft announcments from the week ending 4th December.  Thanks to Aaron Hamilton for this information.

Recent Releases:

• Updated Guidance on Microsoft MPIO Settings  - 02-Dec-2011
• Learning Suite: Microsoft’s new suite of education apps now available!  - 02-Dec-2011
• HTML5 for Applications: The Fourth IE10 Platform Preview  - 29-Nov-2011
• New book: Developer's Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET  - 02-Dec-2011
• Quick news: New and improved Microsoft Press page at Amazon.com  - 01-Dec-2011
• Zentity Source Code  - 28-Nov-2011
• Compiler Security Enhancements in Visual Studio 11  - 02-Dec-2011
• Available Today: Preview Release of the SQL Server [C/C++] ODBC Driver for Linux  - 29-Nov-2011

Important Announcements:

• SkyDrive: Everything on SkyDrive that you upload is private until you tell us otherwise.  - 29-Nov-2011
• Deaf Society improves communication and services with Microsoft Lync  - 29-Nov-2011
• Microsoft Cloud Services Get Major Service Updates, New Customers  - 29-Nov-2011
• Microsoft and AgreeYa Mobility Announce Protocol Licensing Agreement  - 29-Nov-2011
• Microsoft Project Conference 2012: The Can't-Miss Conference of the Year!  - 01-Dec-2011
• What’s New in SharePoint Online: November 2011 Update  - 29-Nov-2011
• Announcing SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB RC0  - 28-Nov-2011

Windows 8:

• Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8  - 29-Nov-2011

Betas:

• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 Released  - 29-Nov-2011
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘No-Magic’ Walkthrough  - 29-Nov-2011
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations)  - 29-Nov-2011

Thanks

Ben Pearce

Microsoft Premier Support