Maarten van Stam - Soft As In Software :-)

First discussions are starting to hit the world about the just released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 Beta. What happened is that instead of just fixing things in the Service Pack, Microsoft decided to add a whole lot of new features Read More...

Microsoft created a new student initiative called DreamSpark where students are able to download Microsoft developer and design tools at no charge. In order to get the software the student is asked to establish or verify the student status every 12 months. Read More...

First let me wish everybody who reads this a happy New Year. 2008 will be another year where technology will be more complex and to be an expert in your area you have to keep up with the technologies even faster than last year. With the New Year for me Read More...

As I announced in my previous blog item Microsoft released the Office 2007 Service Packs (Both for client and server software) December 11 2007. If you go to the Microsoft Download site you can find all installers available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=%22Office%202007%22%20SP1&productID=&categoryId=&period=&sortCriteria=date&nr=20&DisplayLang=en Read More...

The deployment machine at Microsoft is working full throttle. We already received the RTM version for Visual Studio 2008, Service Packs for the .NET frameworks and now Microsoft announced to have planned to deploy the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Read More...