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Today I received the message that several of the Windows products are about to become unsupported. So just to inform you and make sure you are in a supported scenario I'd like to share the information with you. Get the service packs you need and make sure you are covered!

Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server are approaching 10 years since their launch and both products will go out of support on July 13, 2010.

Windows XP was launched back in 2001. While support for the product will continue, Service Pack 2 will go out of support on July 13, 2010. From that date onwards, Microsoft will no longer support or provide free security updates for Windows XP SP2.  Please install the free Service Pack 3 for Windows XP to have the most secure and supported Windows XP platform.

Finally, Windows Vista with no Service Packs installed will end support on April 13 2010.  Please install the free Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista to have the most secure and supported Windows Vista platform.

For more information:
http://blogs.technet.com/lifecycle/archive/2010/02/24/end-of-support-for-windows-xp-sp2-and-windows-vista-with-no-service-packs-installed.aspx

Resources:

Service Pack 3 for Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68C48DAD-BC34-40BE-8D85-6BB4F56F5110&displaylang=en

Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/default.aspx

 

 

In a few hours I'll be on my way to Redmond. This week it's the MVP Summit 2010 where over 1300 MVP's from all over the world will get over there and meet each other and get some updates on technology. An opportunity to meet members of the Program Group and discuss some hot issues.

I didn't get any sleep tonight as I needed the time to prepare my machines in order to get some work done over the week and probably will use my time on the plane to catch up and sleep a bit. I guess I'll end up with a double Jet Lag this time.

For 2010 we (the magazine team on the Software Development Network, Dutch developer user group) decided that it would be a good thing to bring the pedal to the floor and speed up with our magazine.

In previous years we provided four magazines distributed to our user group member delivered by mail (handed over by the mailman). Four magazines in a year will bring only one magazine in about 13 weeks. For the world we live in we thought this to be a tad too slow.

These days we are seeing a burst in eReader-deliveries all over the place, gadgets of all kinds and we decided this to be a good time to double our magazine count per year but to distribute fifty percent of the magazine count as digital magazine where possible optimized for eReader devices. That all sounds easier than it is as we are now experiencing. We need more input from our authors, advertisements but most of all we had to double our magazine tasks such as collecting and editing texts, working on the layout, verify the content etc.

One of the goals we have planned for our new setup is to change our layout a little bit and provide space for small editorial announcements to be supplied by whoever wants to announce something related to Software Development. Now that we deliver eight magazines a year these small announcements bring more up to date relevance to the magazine but for that to work we need your assistance.

If you have news on your software products, new releases, feature enhancements, hardware reviews related to software development, book releases (maybe you want -us- to review your books, soft- or hardware), maybe you want to share your research results from your software labs, announce your whitepapers, event, code projects, architect info ... send us your information and we'll try to fit it in our magazine!

Whenever you think you fit in this description (or you want to provide larger articles or want to discuss sponsored editorials-larger articles discussing products allowing to emphasizing on your product/business) just contact me on my contact page: http://blogs.officezealot.com/maarten/contact.aspx and one of our magazine members will contact you to work things out.

Oh, one more thing ... we accept content in two languages: Dutch and English. Being a Dutch magazine of course we prefer the text to be in Dutch but we understand not everybody is able to provide the text in Dutch leaving the other option to provide an English text.

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The Dutch Information Workers Usergroup (DIWUG) powered by the Dutch Software Development Network (SDN) has published an SharePoint eMagazine free for download.

A free magazine for IT-Pro's, Developers and End (power) Users and available in two versions where one is optimized to read in eReaders.

http://www.sdn.nl/IW/FreeMagazine/tabid/139/Default.aspx

Have Fun and let me know what you like or don't like in the magazine.

 

For your convenience Microsoft posted an overview with all the Visual Studio 2010 options and features compared over the available editions (VS 2010 Professional, Premium and Ultimate).

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx#compare

Check it out and decide what your favorite edition will be. Remember the launch is announced for March 22, 2010 so that’s only about 4 months from now!

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