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Microsoft’s offering a new contest “embeddedSPARK 2010 Challenge,” that requires developers to put together an embedded project for a chance to win $15,000 and additional prizes. It’s just one of ways Microsoft’s nurturing its vision to grow and support this important developer community. embeddedSPARK offers a kit that combines Windows

Brad Jones with Marcus Schmidt released a new book entitled “Windows Live Essentials and Services: Using Free Microsoft Applications for Windows 7,” and is a full-colour, step-by-step guide for using Microsoft's new Windows Live Essentials series of free app. Step-by-step instructions

This post explain how to enable Group Policy Preferences debug logging using RSAT. As a refresher, Group Policy Preferences debug logging’s enabled through Group Policy administrative templates. Many customers experienced a problem when trying to enable logging using RSAT and Windows Vista: policy settings didn’t exist. You’ll experience same behavior when using Windows 7 RSAT. Group

Associated Press launched a new application for Windows Mobile devices called “AP Mobile,” that offers news from 1100+ local providers across 50 categories including top news, business, politics, world, sports, celebrity, travel, and more. Topics appear across top of the app and you can swipe through them using

Joe Stegman discuss Silverlight 4's Out of Browser improvements (OOB means you can run Silverlight applications on the desktop, outside of, well, the browser...). Of note, you can now interop with COM objects in SL4's OOB. We also touch on the the future of Silverlight and clearly define the distinctions/differences between Silverlight and WPF.

A Microsoft employee with InteropSystems, put together a project called “Unix to Windows Porting Dictionary for HPC,” which’s designed to streamline the porting of Unix apps on Windows, when it comes down to high performance computing environments. “This dictionary is organized by frequently used HPC Unix calls. Each entry show the Unix function, its Windows equivalent

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 since the software was released. This update rollup’s highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP2 customers. For a list of changes included in this update rollup, see KB971534. This update rollup doesn’t apply