It’s true. New Accelerators for Internet Explorer 8, found at the Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery, can actually saves you time and clicks, so you get things done more quickly. To showcase how this is possible, the Windows Experience Blog is featuring a video, Accelerators in IE8 Help Save Time!, which documents the testing of common tasks people actually do in four browsers: Safari 4.0, Chrome 2.0 beta, Firefox 3.5 beta 99 and Internet Explorer 8.

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If your organization uses Windows Server Update Services, Internet Explorer 8 will be made available as an update rollup starting August 25, 2009. If you have WSUS configured to auto-approve update rollup packages, IE8 will install automatically on computers running IE6 or IE7. If you auto-approve update rollups but want more control over when and how IE8 is deployed, read this IEBlog post for more prescriptive guidance.

If you are ready to deploy Internet Explorer 8 today, check out the Internet Explorer TechNet Center.

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·        ProcDump v1.0 -- This new command-line utility is aimed at capturing process dumps of otherwise difficult to isolate and reproduce CPU spikes. It also serves as a general process dump creation utility and can also monitor and generate process dumps when a process has a hung window or unhandled exception.

·        Windows Internals 5th Edition Released --The 5th Edition of Windows Internals, the official book on the architecture and internals of the Windows operating system, is now available. This release is 25% larger than the 4th Edition and is updated to cover Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Visit the official book page and watch Mark and David’s Channel 9 interview on the book.

Also, a reminder that the Sysinternals Live service allows you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as http://live.sysinternals.com/<toolname> or \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname>. You can view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at http://live.sysinternals.com.

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The Microsoft Online Services team has targeted the next Service Update for Microsoft Online Services to be available by mid-July. The Service Update for July 2009 began deployment into production data centers yesterday.

The Service Update for July 2009 will include the following features: 

·        Migration support for hosted Exchange mailboxes

·        An increase for SharePoint Online file uploads from 50MB to 250MB

·        An increase in Live Meeting attendees from 15 to 250 attendees

·        Microsoft Online Services trials for India

·        Quick Trials—with user actions required to set up a trial account reduced by 75 percent

·        Worldwide user provisioning

For more on the release deployment status and information on planned downtime, check the Microsoft Online Service team blog.

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The Data Platform Insider reports that Microsoft is updating the branding for SQL Services and SQL Data Services to Microsoft SQL Azure, and Microsoft SQL Azure Database, respectively. Expect more news and updates related to the Software + Services strategy next week at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. For those of you not attending in person, all the news and information can be found at http://www.digitalwpc.com/ starting next Monday, July 13. Check back for daily updates.

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