Microsoft Software in 2005

Bink has posted a new article listing the software that assumed Microsoft will release in 2005
the list till now includes

Windows 2003 Server R2
Biztalk 2004 64
Commerce Server 2002 64
Windows XP x64
Windows Server 2003 x64
SQL 2000 Service Pack 4
Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Encarta 2006
Money 2006
Longhorn Beta (client)
Longhorn Server Beta 1
Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (includes some elements of Edge Services like Sender ID)
Monthly IMF updates for Exchange 2003
MSN Messenger 7
MSN Search web
MSN Search desktop
Corperate Error Reporting 3.0
Automated Deployment Services 2.0
ISA 2004 Service Pack 1
Office 12 Beta
Small Business Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Windows Update Services (SUS 2.0)
Sharepoint Portal Server 2005
ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS)
Windows PE 2005
Windows 2000 Security Rollup Pack 2
ADAM 2.0
System Center 2005 (SMS 2003 sp1, MOM 2005, SQL reporting)
Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 express editions (C#, VB, …)
Visual Studio 2005 Team System
SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
AntiVirus and AntiSpyware 2005
Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition
Hot Patch Technology Support (part of common engineering initiative)
.NET Framework 2.0
Commerce Server 2006 beta
ASP.net 2.0
Network Access Protection (NAP)
Windows Update (support for more MS products)
"Instanbul" Windows Messenger (Voip client for LCS 2005)
Xbox 2 US release ?
Fingeprint reader in Intellimouse Explorer
Windows Mobile 2005 (3G [UMTS] , Wifi, VGA)
ActiveSync 4.0
Live Meeting 2005
Office for Small Business Management
Office 2003 sp2 ?
CRM 2005
Mappoint 2005/2006 ?
Windows XP Reduced Media Edition
Digital Image Suite 11 ?

MPA Graduation Cermoney Photos :)

hay, finally i got the graduation cermoney photos for Microsoft Partners Academy(MPA),
MPA is concened with raising the partners business and technical skills, and it was an initiative from Microsoft Egypt.

here my friends and me with Karim Ramadan- Microsoft Egypt GM, Ali Faramawy- Microsoft Vice Presedent for MEA, Tarek Kamel the minister of coummincation.

 

Detecting browser refresh is your problem ?, Read this

This article is implementing a very simple mechanism to detect if the user pressed the refresh button, it plays around saving a value in the viewstate and compare this value with the another session value.

http://stevenbey.co.uk/detectingPageRefresh.aspx

Steps Microsoft needs to take in the coming year

A nice article on directionsonmicrosoft.com discuss what Microsoft should focus on the next year.

Christmas Tree Competition :-)

Hii all, the holidays spirit all over everybody here in my company :), the folks organized a competition for the best Christmas tree  and wowww our team made a great one :), look the pic below 🙂

will we be the winners ?

BizTalk RoadMap (Code name PathFinder)

Scoot posted some information about features intended to be in Biztalk 2006, have a look 🙂

MSN Search wiki site

Want to send a feedback about MSN Search ? , MSN team has created a wiki site for you to share with them your suggestions and comments. 

Microsoftbookclubs.com

Microsoftbookclubs.com was created to promote reading and discussion amongst professionals and to also provide a forum for linking publishers, authors, and their respective audiences. What do you get out of this? A community to share thoughts and ideas with your peers and actually communicate with the authors of the books you’ve have been reading.

Basic membership to the club is free and offers members discounted books, chapter previews of popular books related to various technologies, an online forum, author interviews, and book reviews along with the option to participate in writing your own reviews. Members will also be invited to interact with the authors of certain books in live Webcast.

How to add a web part to a site definition

A very nice article talking about modifying the site definition in SPS or WSS to add your own web parts, you can find it on Jan’s Blog

Read Blogs using Outlook 2003

Have you ever wished to read blogs from your email client; hay cheer up now you can, Niobe Framework is an open source project that expose APIs that you can use managed code against, you can use it to build powerful solutions against microsoft office, but the most interesting is that there is a sample Add-in for that reads RSS feeds, try it, i found this cool thing on Maxim’s Blog