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Worldwide Partner Conference announcement promises Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will be ready to ship by the end of September. read more

Skytap’s Virtual Lab service lets developers subscribe to virtual machines (VMs) and provides a VM image library and a virtual lab-management app. read more

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial bring geospatial technology to the enterprise. read more

Embarcadero Technologies releases DB Optimizer, a new toolset designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases. read more

Live Mesh has the potential to become a platform that will tie together all of Microsoft’s online storage, file management, synchronization and sharing services, along with other third-party services that care to use its API for integration. read column

Make no mistake, Microsoft SharePoint is the Shimmer floor wax/dessert topping of the software industry. read column

For anyone who wants to get the most out of Visual Studio 2008, one of the best sources has been Microsoft developer/evangelist Zain Naboulsi's "Is This Thing On?" .NET developers’ blog and webcasts. read column

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