Office 365 - We have your data !

Woke up to this today. An email from Microsoft regarding Office 365: "We hope you had an opportunity to explore all the rich features and functionality of your Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E3 (TechNet). You can continue offering these services to your business by purchasing a subscription today. If you buy within the next 30 days, all of the data and customizations made during your trial will be preserved."

Can you imagine if I/we depended on this service? Do we OWN your data? Damn right Microsoft does !-(

PhotoShop CC & Microsoft's JPEG XR plugin

If you are looking at using Microsoft's JPEG XR plugin with PhotoShop CC [MAC] the install instructions do not mention PhotoShop CC.

Here is the file location I used to get it working:
{Boot Drive}/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC/Plug-ins/File Formats/

where {Boot Drive} is the name the hard drive your Mac starts-up from.

For example:
Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC/Plug-ins/File Formats/

***NOTE: I had to create a folder called, "File Formats" as it is NOT created by the Adobe installer.

Microsoft: XBox ONE - The next generation XBox

Microsoft has revealed the next XBox. Officially called the, "XBox ONE". The specs as follows:

8 Core CPU
8GB Memory
500GB HDD
Blu-Ray
802.11n
HDMI I/O
USB 3.0

... more details to come ...

Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022 - Download Links and offline instructions

Visual Studio Releases: 2012 -> 2022

Visual Studio 2012:
Update 3 - now available (Jun-26/13)

Visual Studio 2013
 - Initial Release - now available. (Nov-11/2013).
 - Update 1 - now available. (Jan-20/2014).
 - Update 2 - CTP 1 (Feb-05/2014).
 - Update 2 - Official Release (May-08/2014).
 - Update 2 - now available (May-12/2014).
 - Update 3 - CTP 1 (May-23/2014).
 - Update 3 - Release (Jul-29/2014).
 - Update 4 - CTP 2 (Sep-22/2014).
 - Update 4 - Release (Nov-06/2014).
 - Update 5 - Release (Jul-14/2015)

Visual Studio 2014
 - CTP 1 (Jul-03/2014)
 - CTP 3 (Aug-18/2014

 Visual Studio 2015
- Preview (Nov-12/2014)
- Release Candidate (Apr-29/2015)
- Update 1 (Nov-30/2015)
- Update 2 (Feb-10/2016
- Update 3 (Jun-27/2016)

 Visual Studio 2017
- Final (Mar-07/2017)

 Visual Studio 2019
- Final (Apr-02/2019)

 Visual Studio 2022 - Preview
- Preview 4 (Sep-14/2021)

- Preview 5 | RC (Oct-21/2021)

- Final Release (ETA: Nov-08/2021)

C# for Mac

Xamarin releases C# for Mac.

Microsoft Surface Announced Pricing

Microsoft on Thursday announced that the full Windows 8 version of its Surface tablet will go on sale in January for $899. Read more ...

Microsoft Surface 2 - Simulator - coming soon.

The Microsoft Surface 2 Simulator [coming later this Summer] lets developers write and test Surface applications on any Windows 7 machine, even if it’s not connected to a Surface unit, even if it’s not touch-enabled.

Expression Studio 3

Microsoft's Expression Studio 3 Trial version is now available.

Blend3 + Sketchflow - RC Available

Microsoft has released the Blend 3 RC1 including SketchFlow.

Microsoft Expression Suite Listings

Did you ever want to know all the 'Expression' related downloads that are available from Microsoft's download site? If yes try this search.

SQL Server 2008: Geo Data Types

Here's a post regarding the upcoming version of SQL 2008 that states it will support a new data type: Geo Data.