The customer push from Microsoft continued this week, with all the retail start of Kinect on November 4 plus the opening of the newest Microsoft shop in Oak Brook, Unwell,
Office Pro Plus 2007, the identical day.There;s additional consumer news coming subsequent week, too as some goodies for company customers as well.On November 6 (Saturday), Microsoft is going to be opening a different new Microsoft Retailer. This one is going to be in Bloomington, Minn., in the Mall of The us. The Bellevue, Wash., store is slated to open on November eighteen.On November eight,
Office 2007 License, Microsoft and partners will make its 1st Windows Phone seven phones readily available inside the U.S. on AT&T. The Samsung Focus and HTC Surround will likely be accessible in stores that day (no pre-orders allowed). The HTC HD7 will likely be available from T-Mobile the very same day, also.It will be interesting to see if the U.S. start is as plagued by telephone shortages since the earlier launches in other countries have been. Microsoft has a lot more than one,400 apps within the Windows Phone Marketplace now, the vast majority of which are games at this point.On November eight, Microsoft will kick off its TechEd Europe conference, which is targeted at IT professionals. From the docket, it looks like there will be lots of focus around the cloud,
Office 2010 Activation, virtualization, its Lync PBX-competitor technology and a lot more.Microsoft is on tap to show off a new Windows seven migration tool — “P2V Migration for Software Assurance” — at the conference. The P2V tool is a combination of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and the company’s Sysinternals Disk2 VHD product,
Office Pro 2010 Key, and is currently in beta.The Silverlight vs. HTML 5 panel at the show should yield a few fireworks, as well.Other Microsoft tidbits from this past week about which I didn;t blog already:Microsoft has released F# 2.0 under the Apache 2.0 license: The Microsoft F# team made a new drop of the F# 2.0 compiler and core library readily available this week as part with the F# PowerPack Codeplex project — all of which is now under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. Previously, F# was offered under a Microsoft Shared Source license. Microsoft moved IronRuby and IronPython under the Apache 2.0 license just before the provider offloaded those development efforts to the community. It doesn;t sound as if that;s the enterprise;s intention with F#, however, as Microsoft recently integrated F# support directly into Visual Studio 2010.Microsoft is moving the Seadragon Ajax project to the Expression team: Seadragon Ajax is the JavaScript implementation with the Microsoft Live Labs Seadragon project. SeaDragon is a library for DeepZoom viewing. Microsoft is in the process of disbanding Live Labs, and is sending most of the remaining Live Labs projects and employees to work about the Bing team. It looks like Seadragon Ajax will have a numerous home.Microsoft may have one more Azure prize-cut plan up its sleeve: On the heels of introducing the new “Extra Little Instance” pricing for entry-level Windows Azure developers, Microsoft may be readying an additional low-end pricing option, as cloud blogger Roger Jennings noted this week. Microsoft is surveying Azure customers regarding their interest in a pay-per-use/consumption pricing model – something that would give Microsoft a lot more leverage against Google with its Google App Engine platform-as-a-service offering. Extra Little instance offer doesn’t start until January seven, 2011 and requires participants to be Microsoft partners, Jennings said. But so significantly,
Windows 7 X64, there;s no start date, or even guarantee, that Microsoft will end up fielding pay-per-use Azure pricing.
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