The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide for SQL Server 2008 has been released here . This guide is one in a series of planning and design guides that clarify and streamline the planning and design process for Microsoft infrastructure technologies...

The existing Support Statement on the Visual Basic version 6 runtime for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been updated to include Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. So, the VB 6 runtime will continue to be shipped with Windows 7 and Windows...

Overnight, a few updates for Windows 7 Beta build 7000 have been released on Microsoft Update and Windows Update. One of the updates is a patch for Internet Explorer 8, to give it some of the stability updates that have been released in Internet Explorer...

An interesting community movement has started to take root: Stop Living in the Past . The movement wants users who are using Internet Explorer 6 to finally upgrade to the latest Microsoft browser and stop using the outdated “dinosaur” browsers. The movement...

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user...