Microsoft Launches New Product Category: Surface Computing Comes to Life in Restaurants, Hotels, Retail Locations and Casino Resorts

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First commercially available surface computer from Microsoft breaks down barriers and provides effortless interaction with information using touch, natural gestures and physical objects.

Microsoft Launches New Product Category: Surface Computing Comes to Life in Restaurants, Hotels, Retail Locations and Casino Resorts

Windows Defender

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This is the most current release of Windows Defender. If Windows Defender informed you that an update is available, you are running an older version. We encourage you to upgrade to this version. You can check your version of Windows Defender by clicking the down arrow next to the help icon and choosing About Windows Defender.

This release includes enhanced features that reflect ongoing input from customers, as well as Microsoft's growing understanding of the malicious software landscape.

Specific features of Windows Defender include:

A redesigned and simplified user interface
Incorporating feedback from our customers, the Windows Defender UI has been redesigned to make common tasks easier to accomplish with a warning system that adapts alert levels according to the severity of a threat so that it is less intrusive overall, but still ensures the user does not miss the most urgent alerts.

Improved detection and removal
Based on a new engine, Windows Defender is able to detect and remove more threats posed by spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Real Time Protection has also been enhanced to better monitor key points in the operating system for changes.

Protection for all users
Windows Defender can be run by all users on a computer with or without administrative privileges. This ensures that all users on a computer are protected by Windows Defender.

Support for 64-bit platforms, accessibility and localization
- Windows Defender supports accessibility and 64-bit platforms. Microsoft will release localized versions including German and Japanese soon after the availability of the English versions. Please be sure to use WindowsDefenderX64.msi for 64-bit platforms.

Delta definition updates
- Windows Defender now downloads smaller delta definition updates when possible which reduces the time required to download and install definition updates. Customers can expect shorter download times when updating their definition updates.

Free Limited Support
- As a part of our commitment to the security of our customers, Microsoft is offering two free support incidents relating to Windows Defender on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Examples of valid support scenarios are installation, configuration, definition update, detection and removal errors. Please refer to the Windows Defender support policy for more information.

WGA enforcement
- There are significant risks to running non-genuine Windows. Only genuine Windows customers can receive product downloads, Windows updates and special offers. Windows Defender will validate that your copy of Windows is genuine before installation. Furthermore, Windows Defender will only remove Severe threats for machines that are not genuine. Low, Medium and High threats will be detected, but not removed unless your copy of Windows is genuine. For more information, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/genuine

Important Notes

Windows Defender no longer supports Windows 2000 as it went out of mainstream support in June 2005. Please refer to the support lifecycle website for more information.

Access to Newsgroups:
In addition to phone support we also have newsgroups to help get your questions answered.

For Additional Information:
Please see the Release Notes to learn more about known issues with Windows Defender.

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Microsoft, TCG get closer on NAC

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The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is tying its authentication software standard to Microsoft's proprietary network access protection platform -- a move that leaders in the network access control (NAC) segment tout as a major step toward getting products made by different vendors to work together.

Microsoft, TCG get closer on NAC

Windows Media Center Software Development Kit

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The Windows Media Center Software Development Kit is designed to help developers create applications and software components that take advantage of features provided by Windows Media Center.

This release includes documentation, tools, sample code and Visual Studio 2005 project templates for the following Windows Media Center platform models:

Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Application (Local, Background and Web)

Hosted .NET Framework 3.0 eXtensible Application Markup Language Browser Application (XBAP)

Hosted HTML

Windows Media Center Software Development Kit

Microsoft and SanDisk Join Forces to Create New Experience for USB Flash Drives and Flash Memory Cards, Expanding on and Replacing  U3 Smart Technology

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New offering for USB flash drives and flash memory cards will give users and developers greater mobility, more security and seamless integration with Windows-based PCs.

Microsoft and SanDisk Join Forces to Create New Experience for USB Flash Drives and Flash Memory Cards, Expanding on and Replacing  U3 Smart Technology

Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite VHD Image

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This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite in a Windows Vista environment.

Visual Studio Team Suite, a member of the Visual Studio Team System, provides each member of the core software development team with the most comprehensive collection of tools for software design, development, and test.

Provides multi-discipline team members with the flexibility to work seamlessly as an architect, developer, and tester within a single familiar Visual Studio development environment.

Includes new functionality based on tools used within Microsoft for years to create world-class software.

When used in conjunction with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Suite fosters better team communication and provides project stakeholders with unprecedented transparency into the software development process.

Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite VHD Image

Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0

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This toolkit helps you bring the power of .NET to your existing VB6 applications, by allowing them to display .NET Forms and Controls from within the same application. Instead of upgrading the entire code base, these applications can now be extended one form at a time. The goal is a phased upgrade, with production releases at the end of each iteration containing both VB6 and VB.NET forms running in the same VB6 .exe process.

Interop Forms Toolkit

Microsoft Developer Support Office Framer Control 1.3 Sample (KB 311765)

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The Microsoft Developer Support Office Framer Control 1.3 Sample is a Visual C++ control sample, provided for developers working with Microsoft Office documents (such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Visio drawings, Project files, or PowerPoint presentations) who would like to host such files inside a HTML web page, Visual Basic 6.0 UserForm, or Visual Basic or C# WinForm application. The control demonstrates hosting ActiveX Documents inside of a control window for host applications that do not natively support ActiveX Document embedding.

The sample comes with full source code and is meant as a demonstration. It has not been fully tested with all ActiveX Document servers, and is meant as a proof of concept. Developers interested in the approach can use the control sample as a base to start a custom project. The sample is provided "AS IS" and is not directly supported by Microsoft Customer Support Services.

This KB sample is capable of hosting the most common document types generated by Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2007.

Microsoft Developer Support Office Framer Control 1.3 Sample (KB 311765)

Microsoft Group and Contact Management Sample for Office Communicator 2005

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The samples illustrate how you can add contact and group management functionality to your applications, leveraging existing contact repositories used by your business. The Contact Manager Client sample application demonstrates adding functionality to your custom applications, such as:

Add or remove groups
Add or remove contacts
Copy or move contacts between groups

Contact Manager uses a plug-in architecture that offers developers the ability to create custom libraries that can import contacts from various sources such as Microsoft Outlook or a Microsoft SQL Server database. Contact Manager has been built with a plug-in architecture that offers developers the ability to create custom libraries that can import contacts from various sources. A single plug-in that provides Active Directory searching has been included with the sample application to use as a reference point.

This download includes a fully functional sample application with source code, Hands on Lab, Code Walkthrough, and supporting documentation. The Hands on Lab is provided in C# and Visual Basic .NET.

Microsoft Group and Contact Management Sample for Office Communicator 2005

Windows Workflow Foundation labs

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Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. This download is a set of 10 Hands-on Labs for Windows Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET versions. These labs are suitable for a .NET developer with 6 months experience who wants to learn about Windows Workflow Foundation. Each lab is approximately 60 minutes of work. The download package includes lab manuals for each lab, pre-requisite files for the labs and sample completed solutions for each exercise in the labs. MSDN has more information about Windows Workflow Foundation.

Windows Workflow Foundation labs

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