Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Dev launched at dev.live.com

The Windows Live Developer community site has now launched at dev.live.com, a few days before the start of Tech-Ed 2006. Windows Live Dev is your one-stop shop for the Windows Live Platform, including information on getting started with Windows Live services, latest documentation and APIs, samples, access to community areas and relevant blogs, and announcements of future releases and innovations.

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Windows Live Messenger – General Availability

According to Bink.nu, Windows Live Messenger will be made available to the general public in 8 days from now, Friday the 16th of June 2006 to be exact. Now though Bink are generally correct about their dates, I can’t be 100% sure that this time they are correct, so I’ll let you decide on yourself whether or not this date

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MSDN Product Feedback Center now on Microsoft Connect

The MSDN Product Feedback Center is now hosted on Microsoft Connect, heres a bit about the migration and why it took place: Connect Migration FAQ Why Connect? Microsoft moved the feedback at the Product Feedback Center (PFC) to Connect. We made this change so our systems can grow and scale with the increase of customers and feedback we see from

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The MSDN Wiki Beta is Live!

The MSDN Wiki beta is now live at http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com/! What is MSDN Wiki? The MSDN Wiki site experiments with ways we can integrate community contributions into the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation.  This is phase one.  On the current site you can add content and edit other people’s contributions in a wiki-like fashion around the official Microsoft-authored

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Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Download now Available!

The Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Download is now Available! So all you need to do now to get a chance to play around with the cool OS, is to obtain a windows vista beta 2 key and then download Windows Vista which you can then install on your computer, note however that Windows Vista Beta 2 is time-limited pre-release

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My Information Technology Degree Modules for next year!

Finally some news on what Modules I will be taking or can take next year for my last year on my Degree in Information Technology with the University of Kent have finally emerged from a meeting held yesterday morning with us students. The mandatory and optional modules are as follows: Preterm Foundations of Information Technology and Computing Autumn term Computing

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Get your Windows Vista Beta 2 keys early!

Ok so would you like your Windows Vista Beta 2 keys early? well now you can! I heard about this earlier today but I wasent going to publish it until later tonight as I’m still trying to finish of my course work, but hey as I’ve just noticed that Barty has already posted about it, I might as well post my one too

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Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Coming Very Soon!

If this is true, and I expect or at least hope it is, today/tomorrow will mark another great Milestone for Microsoft’s new Operating System Windows Vista, as very soon Windows Vista Beta 2 is going Public! Today, Microsoft will make Windows Vista Beta 2 available to the masses for downloading in three different languages. If you can’t download you don’t

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Microsoft Windows Live and Qwest Team Up!

Today Qwest announced that it is now the first communications company to announce plans to offer co-branded Windows Live services in the U.S. providing personalized Internet experiences for customers. Marshall Kirkpatrick has posted on his blog that he thinks this was a very good deal and that this is going to help Web 2.0 take off to the road even more than what it

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CafeMSN UK – April 2006

Hurray goes to me for once again winning a £10 Gift Certificate for Amazon UK from CafeMSN UK, thanks CafeMSN I think you are doing a great job of getting people to participate in the discussions on the Buddy Program at CafeMSN by rewarding them with prizes. My Winning so far: April 2006 Prize winner #5 £ 10 shopping voucher winner