MonoDevelop 2.4 is out
The Mono project is an open source clone of. NET framework Microsoft. Its director, Miguel de Icaza has announced the arrival of his MonoDevelop Development Environment 2.4, consistent with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Many new features make their entry. Note the arrival of a engine and a new navigation bar and search function autocompletion.
Listed tools, MonoTouch (for developing applications for iPhones) has better support. To be fair, talking about MonoDroid (for developing applications for Android),. Due to its late onset, the tool is still in beta.
The UI has also been reviewed in depth.
Finally, side language, support for Vala has greatly improved. Vala is a programming language compiled. Its syntax is based on that of C # but it requires no runtime environment. Vala is transformed into C code, itself compiled into native machine code.
What can "produce software that requires less memory and run faster. Furthermore, the transition from step C makes it possible to use C libraries with interfaces defined in the files Vapi" (from Wikipedia).
These are just a few innovations from among the long list of improvements to the IDE.
MonoDevelop 2.4 download
Source : developpez.com
MonoDevelop website
Internet Explorer 9 faster than Safari 5?
They say that, sometimes, development teams are likely.
At the launch of Safari 5 (yesterday), Apple did not lose to emphasize that his browser was much faster than its main competitors, namely Chrome and Firefox.
No word, however, Internet Explorer, superbly ignored.
Microsoft responded today with a small video that there is no comparison with four path: Internet Explorer 9 is fast, very fast, very fast. So much faster than Safari 5 bear bad (or no) comparison.
While it is still a bit early to make a real opinion (EI 9 is still in its second preview release), it is clear, however, that Microsoft's browser will make up part of the hardware acceleration (using the GPU and not the CPU) for video and other multimedia content (including Flash).
Note that Safari 5 does not offer this type of technology (hence the test results from Microsoft).
In contrast to the JavaScript (subject not addressed in the video), Safari 5 should continue to hold its own in the game
Anyway, the message is clear. The next time Apple decides to denigrate its competitors, thank you for not forgetting Microsoft.
The video is on this page (requires Silverlight).
Visual Studio 2010 Express free available
While Visual Studio 2010 arrives with his new features, its free version Visual Studio Express
2010 has just been made available to developers on Microsoft's official website.
This version features certainly limited by compared to the full version (it is scheduled at the base to
students and developers "amateur") but it offers still a significant number of tools including Express
Web Express Windows Express Database ... and Express Phone for those who wish to engage in the creation of a Phone application for Windows 7 (the new OS for mobile Microsoft is not yet officially released).
Download it here
SP for Microsoft Exchange 2010 planned
Microsoft has unveiled the contents of the next service pack coming for Exchange 2010, "Secure communication and collaboration for businesses, based on the email," to quote the words of Redmond.
What SP1 should allow better archiving (creating filters to better automate the archiving or deleting messages), a more efficient search in mails (with the introduction of research "multi-box" for example) and that an improved Outlook Web Access (ability to do something else while uploading a large attachment, move the display window or sharing calendars with anonymous users).
We'll know more about this SP1 and on its promises (kept or not) with the release of a beta version planned for next June.
Source : Microsoft Exchange's blog
Microsoft will release this afternoon urgent patch for Internet Explorer, which corrects several security vulnerabilities
Microsoft announced yesterday the online release this afternoon of an urgent update for versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer.
The proposed patch out of cycle patch Tuesday (a set of patches released on the second Tuesday of each month), is to correct flaws that affect all versions of Internet Explorer including IE8, and on all operating systems including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft did not give details of these vulnerabilities are classified as critical and said that this patch will concern in particular a flaw in versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer, but it also includes fixes for 9 other faults that also affect the version 8 browser.
Microsoft will support jQuery JS library
Scott Guthrie, vice president of platform. NET at Microsoft, announced at the MIX10 that Microsoft would actively contribute to the development of the jQuery JavaScript library.
Meanwhile, Redmond, Microsoft will also work to improve interoperability between ASP.NET and the same library for developers. NET can better incorporate its features.
Finally, Microsoft is committed to the promotion of the jQuery JavaScript library in the distribution with development products such as popular Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2 (which comes out officially).
To "mark the spot," and as a first step, Microsoft has decided to donate a templating engine for the team in charge of the library.
Microsoft Word legal : Patent infringement
Microsoft has asked the Federal Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision. It did not.
In his trial, which opposes the company i4i, so Microsoft has to lose another round. Justice considers that Word, word processing of Redmond, has indeed infringed patents belonging to the "small" company.
The decision of a judge said even the "voluntariness" of patent infringement because the evidence provided by i4i showed clearly that Microsoft employees had attended the presentation of the technologies of their competitors.
The appeal was filed that Redmond was to hear again all the players file: the complainant i4i - of course - but also all the judges who ruled in that case (which, for the record, 3 of which had first call confirmed the ban on sale December 22 last).
This procedure is called "en banc". An expression of American law very appropriate that the judges can imagine sitting next to each other to call college.
The chances that such hearings "en banc" occurring today are virtually zero unless dramatic turn of events. Microsoft, however, can still bring the case before the Supreme Court.
For the CEO i4i, this is a "decision even more detailed and reasoned that goes in our direction."Microsoft has not yet reacted. The company may still further be ordered to pay 240 million dollars in damages to his adversary.
Google swallows DocVerse to compete with Microsoft Office
Google has an appetite of an ogre. Having bought these last weeks of start-up as diverse as Picnik, Aardvark and remail it was the turn of DocVerse falling into the hands of the Internet group.
Created in 2007 by former Microsoft employees, DocVerse comes in the form of an extension dedicated to the Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) that offers its users to update, synchronize and back up these types of documents online.
Google has an appetite of an ogre. Having bought these last weeks of start-up as diverse as Picnik, Aardvark and remail it was the turn of DocVerse falling into the hands of the Internet group.
Created in 2007 by former Microsoft employees, DocVerse comes in the form of an extension dedicated to the Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) that offers its users to update, synchronize and back up these types of documents online.
DocVerse also deploys a tool for online collaboration, which allows a designated group in real time, view, annotate and edit at will Office documents, but also to save and synchronize mode cloud computing.
The amount of the transaction were not disclosed. But thanks to the acquisition of DocVerse, Google does a great snub to Microsoft. Indeed, the Mountain View company intends to foster interoperability between its Office Suite Google Docs (and Google Apps software suite) and Microsoft Office applications.
The ultimate objective is for Google, especially through DocVerse, pushing many users of Microsoft Office to its own office tools and online collaboration.
Already, a few weeks ago, Google had made a further step towards cloud computing by offering users of Google Docs service for storing and sharing documents online.