The customer push from Microsoft continued this week,
Windows 7 Home Premium, using the retail launch of Kinect on November four and the opening of the newest Microsoft retailer in Oak Brook, Ill, the very same day.There;s far more consumer news coming subsequent week, also as some goodies for enterprise people too.On November 6 (Saturday), Microsoft will likely be opening another new Microsoft Store. This one will probably be in Bloomington,
Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, Minn., in the Mall of The us. The Bellevue, Wash., shop is slated to open on November eighteen.On November eight, Microsoft and partners will make its 1st Windows Phone 7 phones out there inside the U.S. on AT&T. The Samsung Focus and HTC Surround will likely be readily available in stores that day (no pre-orders allowed). The HTC HD7 is going to be out there from T-Mobile the very same day, also.It might be interesting to see if the U.S. start is as plagued by phone shortages because the earlier launches in other countries have been. Microsoft has more than 1,
Office 2007 Standard Key,400 apps within the Windows Phone Marketplace now, the vast majority of which are games at this point.On November eight, Microsoft will kick off its TechEd Europe conference,
Office Standard 2010 Key, which is targeted at IT professionals. From the docket, it looks like there will likely be lots of focus on the cloud, virtualization, its Lync PBX-competitor technology and additional.Microsoft is on tap to show off a new Windows 7 migration tool — “P2V Migration for Software Assurance” — in the conference. The P2V tool is a combination with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) as well as the company’s Sysinternals Disk2 VHD product,
Office Enterprise 2007, and is currently in beta.The Silverlight vs. HTML 5 panel in the show should yield a few fireworks, also.Other Microsoft tidbits from this past week about which I didn;t blog already:Microsoft has released F# 2.0 under the Apache 2.0 license: The Microsoft F# team made a new drop with the F# 2.0 compiler and core library obtainable this week as part with the F# PowerPack Codeplex project — all of which is now under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. Previously, F# was obtainable under a Microsoft Shared Source license. Microsoft moved IronRuby and IronPython under the Apache 2.0 license just before the business offloaded those development efforts to the community. It doesn;t sound as if that;s the corporation;s intention with F#, however, as Microsoft recently integrated F# support directly into Visual Studio 2010.Microsoft is moving the Seadragon Ajax project to the Expression team: Seadragon Ajax is the JavaScript implementation of the Microsoft Live Labs Seadragon project. SeaDragon is a library for DeepZoom viewing. Microsoft is in the process of disbanding Live Labs, and is sending most with the remaining Live Labs projects and employees to work about the Bing team. It looks like Seadragon Ajax will have a totally different home.Microsoft may have another Azure prize-cut plan up its sleeve: Around the heels of introducing the new “Extra Tiny Instance” pricing for entry-level Windows Azure developers, Microsoft may be readying a different low-end pricing option, as cloud blogger Roger Jennings noted this week. Microsoft is surveying Azure end users regarding their interest in a pay-per-use/consumption pricing model – something that would give Microsoft more leverage against Google with its Google App Engine platform-as-a-service offering. Additional Modest instance offer doesn’t start until January 7, 2011 and requires participants to be Microsoft partners, Jennings said. But so far, there;s no start date, or even guarantee, that Microsoft will end up fielding pay-per-use Azure pricing.