This week was mainly all about Windows Telephone 7. But there were a number of other things taking place in and about the Redmond campus. Among them:New MSE and Forefront updates out this week: With all the Patch Tuesday madness (and Microsoft setting a new file with 49 vulnerabilities addressed),
Office 2007 Download, a few new protection updates really worth a separate call-out.Those running the very first edition of Microsoft Safety Essentials (MSE) — not the one that is currently in beta and due by year end — may have noticed an update pushed by Microsoft this week. “In addition to minor performance fixes (nothing noteworthy) and the inclusion of additional languages, this update includes the new EULA (end user license agreement) which allows small businesses to install Microsoft Protection Essentials on up to 10 PCs,
Office 2010 Product Key,” a spokesperson said when I asked what was included.Microsoft also delivered on October 12 its Forefront Client Safety (FCS) Update1. FCS is Microsoft;s paid anti-malware client. Included in the update are various virus definition changes and other performance and reliability fixes. Microsoft is slated to deliver FCS; successor,
Office 2010 Product Key, known as Forefront Endpoint Security, before the end of 2010.New CTP available of Eclipse tools for Windows Azure: There;s a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) test version with the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP available for download this week. “This CTP update refines the new features we announced in the upcoming version 2, which should be ready next month,” according to a post on October 12 to the Microsoft Port 25 blog. The update enables one-click deployment of PHP Applications from Eclipse directly to Windows Azure; support for Windows Azure Diagnostics; the integration of theAppFabric SDK for PHP Developers and more. Now if Microsoft would just post the list of sessions for its cloud-focused PDC 2010 — which is less than two weeks away…The real Old Spice guy (and not Steve Ballmer as Old Spice Guy) is stumping for Windows Telephone seven: Around the time of Microsoft;s company meeting, a rumor/joke surfaced that Microsoft might have been working on a spoof of the “Old Spice Guy” viral videos,
Office 2007 Enterprise, starring SteveB. Well,
Office Professional 2007, it turns out there;s no spoof. The real Isaiah Mustafa is going to be doing some WP7 spots (starting with Australia). No word on whether and when the Softies will be taking this campaign broader.