Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM are now available for download on MSDN for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Currently, the only available bits are in English. The other languages will become available on October 1st. Volume License customers with an existing Software Assurance license will be able to download the bits starting tomorrow.
For more information on these releases check the Windows Team Blog.
Update: Windows Server 2008 R2 is not yet available.
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Romanians won two of the nine awards at the 2009 Imagine Cup in Cairo: Software Design, the most important category, won by Sytech team, Adrian Buzgar, Calin Juravle, Andreas Resios, and IT Challenge, won by Cosmin Ilie.
This year’s theme was “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world’s toughest problems.” About 300.000 students from 142 countries took part in the 2009 competition.
I want to congratulate Adrian, Calin, Andreas and Cosmin for their achievement, but also all the other winners and finalists.
Update: Here is Somasegar talking about Imagine Cup 2009.
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I am please to announce the launch of Sharparena.com, a developer community focused on the .NET framework and the # languages, C#, F# and J#.
This is an English site where you can ask questions about C#, F#, J# and the .NET framework in general, publish articles and stay up to date with news about the development on the .NET framework.
Here are some links:
On the main site you’ll find a series of FAQs about using the site. Consider reading the following for registering and publishing:
See you there!
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In perioada 6-8 aprilie va avea loc la Bucuresti la sediul Uzinexport un training de Introducere in .NET, sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania. Dupa cum explica Zoli pe blogul sau, acest training este
dedicat programatorilor începatori, juniorilor din firmele de software, programatorilor de FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, dar si programatorilor care nu au reusit sa treaca de primele versiuni de .NET (1.0, 1.1…). Sunt bineveniti si programatorii de aplicatii web, care dezvolta în PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl etc, si care vor sa se familiarizeze in ASP.NET, Silverlight si restul platformei Microsoft.
Subiectele tratate in curs vor fi:
- Programarea Orientata Obiect (OOP) cu C#
- Platforma .NET
- Limbajul C#
- Programarea web cu ASP.NET
- Programare vizuala
- ADO.NET si acces la date
- SQL Server si elemente de Business Intelligence
- Dezvoltarea de servicii web si elemente de SOA
- Programare pe SharePoint
- Programare pe Windows Mobile
- Dezvoltarea de Rich Internet Applications (RIA) cu Silverlight
- Dezvoltarea de aplicatii compatibile cu Windows 7 si Windows Vista
Cursul fiind sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania, taxa de participare este de doar 150lei (lei noi, include TVA).
Informatii detaliate despre acest eveniment gasiti pe blog-ul lui Zoli.
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On March 28, turn off lights for one hour starting at 20:30. This way you can tell the world leaders they have to take real action against the global warming and climate changes.
This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.
You can find all the details about this campaign at www.voteearth2009.org and www.earthhour.org.
Earth Hour 2009 by WWF – Sign up for Earth Hour!
Be one of the one billion people to turn off lights on March 28!
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The MVP Global Summit 2009 is talking place between 1 -4 March in Seattle and Redmond. Its going to be over 700 sessions during these 4 days. Last two years it was really good and it will probably be the same this time too. I’ll be mostly focused on sessions with the Visual C++ team about the new features in Visual Studio 2010.
We are seven MVPs from Romania. Here is a picture from yesterday dinner.
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Urmatoarea conferinta europeana PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server) va avea loc intre 22-24 Aprilie 2009 la Neuss in Germania. AXTI a obtinut un promo-code pentru membrii RONUA si DboDev (RO16F6). Cei interesati de a participa si a beneficia de aceasta reducere, vizitati blog-ul lui Aurelian, unde puteti afla mai multe informatii.
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In perioada 1 iulie – 30 septembrie, CODEXPERT sustine un concurs de articole a carui castigator va primi o licenta Visual Studio Team Suite cu abonament MSDN Premium pe 1 an. Pentru a participa nu trebuie decat sa trimiteti un articol in format MS Word Document sau HTML pe adresa articole@codexpert.ro. Castigatorul va fi desemnat de catre membrii CODEXPERT prin votarea celui mai bun articol.
Detalile concursului sunt disponibile in forum. Asteptam cu interes articolele voastre.
Mult succes!
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Manning Publications, for which I reviewed a couple of books, opens today a promotion called .NET Daily Drawing, that will be available until July 17th. During this time they are giving away one free .NET e-book each day and a final grand prize consisting of a Manning .NET Library. If you want to take part in the drawing, you have to register here.
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The MVP Global Summit ended today. It has been a great week here at Seattle and Redmond. There were 1753 MVPs present at the summit and 1000 Microsoft employees from the product developing teams were involved in the event, delivering presentations, talking about the things they do for the next versions of their products and, most important, taking a lot of feedback from the MVPs. Personally, I spent two days with the Visual C++ team, and the feeling among the MVPs there was great. In the past there has been some frustration among us about the quality of VC++, but now we have a good feeling that things will change and VC++ will retake its place and lead, at least to some extent, the innovations deliver by Microsoft.
Here are some pictures from the summit.
The flags at Microsoft Convention Center…
Welcoming the MVPs…
Group picture…
CodeGuru MVPs together with Korean MVPs…
Canadian group picture…
The battle between Newsgroups and Forums…
CodeGuru group picture…
That’s it for this year summit. Looking forward for the next one.
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