Today ReadersZone comes with all major software releases by Microsoft in last month.
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Windows Vista Ultimate Extras : Three new Windows Ultimate Extras are now available for installation via Windows Update! This is the 6th wave of Ultimate Extras released by Microsoft exclusively for Windows Vista Ultimate users.
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New Online Food Website: Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines, and MSN today announced the launch of
Delish (a new online food destination. Delish.com, also available at
msn, features thousands of quick and easy food and cocktail recipes from Hearst Magazines and other sources, as well as fan blogs on the most popular food television shows, and the latest on food events and festivals worldwide.
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Word2007 Redaction Tool : This open-source tool is unsupported by Microsoft, however advanced users and IT Professionals may wish to review it. The tool enables the process of removing specific parts of text which you don’t want to appear in the final document.
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Windows Server 2008 HPC Server (HPCS) : Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing infrastructure.
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SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update #1 : You can find more information in the
KB Article 956717 to take your SQL Server to build 10.00.1763.00.
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System Center Essentials Technology Adoption Program (TAP): The goal of the
TAP program enables customers and Microsoft to build a mutually beneficial and long term relationship to build the next version of the
System Center Essentials product. If you are interesting in joining the TAP.
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Windows Live Messenger BETA : The next version of the popular
Windows Live Messenger is now available, get the
BETA version here. What’s new? A new improved and cleaner User Interface, pictures of people right in your contact list, the ability to search for people and the web, new categories feature and much more.
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Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0 : The next version of
Virtual Earth is now available with new features included, enhanced mobile support, better international support and more detail for more countries around the word, the platform infrastructure with new geocoding and parsing improvements, and a richer user experience and more intuitive functionality.
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Silverlight 2.0 RC0 : The release candidate of
Silverlight will give developers the change to convert their sites from Beta 2 before the final release is announced.
Source : Microsoft News Summary, 28th September 2008
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At the SharePoint Conference 2008, Bill Gates announced the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint and today CodePlex has released the source code for the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint—based on the Silverlight Beta 2 release. The Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint provide a way for developers to better understand how to integrate Silverlight applications with SharePoint. Silverlight is an incredibly popular technology and with the increase in SharePoint adoption we’re finding an increased call for integrating technologies like Silverlight with SharePoint.
Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint includes five blueprint samples.
- Hello World
- Media Player
- Slider Control
- Custom Navigation
- Colleague Viewer
The goal of these Blueprints is to show how to integrate Silverlight applications with SharePoint.
Download Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint
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Microsoft India development center with more then 100 developers working very hard to develop mobile version of Silverlight. Mobile version of Silverlight allows streaming of video and interactive applications such as video games on Windows and other mobile phones. Next version of Windows Mobile that is WinMobile7 will be integrated with Silverlight.
Microsoft India Development center also working for Nokia Smartphone’s which will be launched subsequently.
S Somesegar, head developer division, Microsoft Corp, said
IDC placed two big bets last year, kicking off work on mobile technologies and testing tools. “We see the 2.4 billion global installed base of mobile phones as a major opportunity and intend using Silverlight to exploit it
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Earlier this week Adobe said a statement that it’s work with Google and Yahoo
To enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines.
And this is said on Google Blog
In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.
But there is no one talking about what is the role of Microsoft Silverlight.
After searching on web I find that Microsoft has added the technology in Silverlight that help search engines to easily index Silverlight content. What Microsoft officials said on this
Microsoft designed Silverlight from the beginning to be easily accessible by search engines. Because it is simply a ZIP archive, a Silverlight application packaged in a XAP (the Silverlight application-package file extension) file is easily accessible to search engines without a special software development kit (SDK). And because XAML is W3C-compliant XML, any static textual XAML content can be easily parsed by search engines. Furthermore, any metadata embedded in the ZIP file is easily indexed by search engines as well. Silverlight applications also support “deep linking” as they easily consume the URL they were loaded from, and use information on the URL query string to rapidly load and display appropriate data. Finally, the Silverlight DOM itself can be easily inspected to detect all text, links and images that are being visualized by the control.
So does this mean that Silverlight offers customers superior search engine optimization (SEO)? Yes. Not only was Silverlight architected to offer superior searchability, but Silverlight excels at enabling dynamic content published from content management systems to be easily indexed by search engines. By publishing dynamic content to Silverlight via XAML and XHTML mirroring, users are able to dramatically reduce the time it takes to optimize content for search engines.
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