SBTUG: Recap from last week

A big thank you to Aaron Saikovski for presenting on Groove and Catherine Eibner for demo-ing the MERGE keyword in SQL 2008.

Andrew Coates and Roger Lawrence looked after us with their usual passion and generosity (and Rog videoed the demo).

In case you didn’t know we post the news (and presentations if possible) on the SBTUG site – they are there going back to May last year.

 

But, following Justin King’s lead I’ve extracted the news links from last week’s preso and listed them here:

 

General Microsoft news

•Demos Happen Here

•Microsoft & Yahoo still searching for a sale

•Microsoft World Wide Telescope

•Live Mesh

•Released:

–Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

–.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta

–ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 released

 

More Microsoft news

•Microsoft IE8 Beta 2 not coming until Q3

•Windows 7 details aren’t appearing…

–Sinofsky interview on Windows 7

•Live Search Cashback thingo

•Exchange hosting to trend up

•Microsoft Office Live 1.1 Update

•Microsoft adding 10,000 servers per month

•Microsoft Touchwall

 

Technology news

•Web 2.0 fails to produce cash

•Borders returning to online retailing

•The internet is about giving up control

•Facebook platform going Open Source

•Yandex – 3rd largest search engine in Europe

•Cloud computing growth rates

•Data portability wars start

•Google Health launches

 

Buying spree

•Comcast buys Plaxo

•Conde Nast buys Ars Technica

•CBS buys CNET

 

Tool of the month

•Foxit PDF Reader

 

See you next month.