Earlier this year, the Windows Live Messenger team released an app for Facebook which officially integrated Live Messenger with Facebook. The Windows Live Messenger Facebook app shows your online presence on your Facebook profile and lets you IM with your friends directly on the Facebook web site itself.

Recently,this app received an update. The new V.2 version of Facebook Messenger now syncs your Live Messenger status with your Facebook status. The team also listened to user feedback and removed the HIP (Human Interface Proof) challenge which was presented before you could start a conversation.

Additionally,the new version will automatically set your display name to whatever your name is in Facebook. Before it used to prompt you to fill this in. With these updates (both the HIP and display name), there are now no more dialog boxes that appear before chatting can begin. You can now just start typing to IM your friends!

If instead, you don’t have much time, have a look to our Windows Mobile Hands On Lab, which give you a good overview of what is possible today to do with the Windows Mobile Platform. Manual is available in English at http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/events/eventdetail.mspx?EventID=1032382445 (click on the Download link at the bottom of the page).

Microsoft ha lanzado Silverlight 2 RC0, la primera release candidate de su plataforma multimedia y competencia directa de Flash. Se trata de una versión especialmente dirigida a desarrolladores y todos aquellos interesados en probar la tecnología.

Respectode la beta 2 de Silverlight, ya disponible desde hace varios meses, hay unas cuantas mejoras respecto de las funciones disponibles, como así también de su perfomance y estabilidad. Hay nuevos controles y funciones de retrollamada por frame, que permiten realizar enlaces a funciones, o ejecutar código, desde cada cuadro de una animación.

Laversión final de Silverlight 2 se espera para antes de fin de año, por ello esta primera release candidate era muy esperada. Sobre todo después del tremendo éxito que tuvo la transmisión compartida con NBC de los Juegos Olímpicos, a través de la cual Silverlight logró un muy fuerte empujón y pasó a ser utilizada en masa. Si estás entre quienes utilizan esta plataforma para desarrollos, puedes obtenerla desde el enlace en el sitio web de Microsoft.

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REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 29, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today provided the first look at the next version of its developer tools and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM).

Today’s announcement included an in-depth look at how Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 (code-named “Rosario”) will help democratize ALM with a unique solution that brings all the members of a development organization into the application development life cycle, and removes many of the existing barriers to integration. Additional details on the other focus areas will be disclosed over the product development cycle.

“With Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, we are focused on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms spanning client, server, services and devices, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements,” said S. “Soma” Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. “These pillars are designed specifically to meet the needs of developers, the teams that drive the application life cycle from idea to delivery, and the customers that demand the highest quality applications across multiple platforms. You can expect to hear a lot more about Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 in the coming months.”

Democratizing Application Life-Cycle Management

Today, much of application development remains siloed throughout the enterprise, leading to decreased productivity and lengthy product development cycles. With VSTS 2010, Microsoft is taking the next step forward in giving individuals and development organizations an advanced solution that enables them to integrate effectively and build and deliver high-quality applications.

This includes new capabilities that make it easier for all contributors on the software team to participate throughout the life cycle — from the core developers and testers to the wider team of project managers, designers and business analysts. Highlights include the following:

•	Modeling tools. With VSTS 2010 Architecture, Microsoft will enable both technical and nontechnical users to create and use models to collaborate and to define business and system functionality graphically. The new version supports both Unified Modeling Language and Domain Specific Language support, so development organizations will have the right tool for right job. The new modeling capabilities in VSTS 2010 are a core part of the larger Microsoft modeling platform, which will also include the “Oslo” repository, tools and language.
•	Improved efficiency throughout the test cycle. With VSTS 2010, Microsoft has made a significant investment in testing features and dramatically simplifying the tools required to integrate testing across the life cycle. New features include the ability to eliminate nonreproducible bugs, fast setup and deployment of tests to ensure the highest degree of completeness of test, focused test planning and progress tracking, and ensuring that all code changes are properly tested.
•	Substantial improvements in collaboration capabilities. Microsoft has made major investments in the capabilities and scalability of Team Foundation Server (TFS) including significant improvements that allow teams to configure and adopt any flavor of Agile development processes. Teams can track and trace work more easily with richer linking of work items enabling hierarchical work item relationships. In the source code management system, TFS now provides visualization tools for tracking changes across branches and into the production build. VSTS 2010 also introduces workflow-based builds that catch errors before they have a chance to affect the rest of the team or, worse, enter production. Finally, administrators will find dramatically simpler TFS deployment and management.

“The application life cycle is an integral part of today’s business. Regardless of core competencies, all organizations are driven by software that is created and customized to deliver a competitive advantage,” said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke, inc. “Enterprises that invest in an ALM solution can decrease their total cost of ownership of applications in their IT portfolio, and bring about a global approach that is an integrated and expansive system consisting of people, processes and technology. This global approach to ALM facilitates collaboration and takes the risk out of software development to produce predictable and reliable results for an optimized business outcome. Solutions such as VSTS are poised to take advantage of market opportunity by offering an application life-cycle platform to help enterprises realize this ROI benefit.”

In another move to increase integration across the life cycle, Microsoft also announced that VSTS 2010 will provide a unified VSTS Development and Database product. As a benefit to existing Software Assurance (SA) customers, those who currently own Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition or Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition will receive all the following products starting Oct. 1, 2008, for free:

•	Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition
•	Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition
•	Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Software Developers
•	Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Database Professionals

The products will be available to SA customers through their normal Microsoft Developer Network channel. More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa.

More information about Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 is available at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9537302.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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Skype 4.0 beta 2 para Windows ha sido lanzada, con varias actualizaciones que corrigen cuestiones de uso y estabilidad. Pero con un cambio que destaca por sobre todos, y es que ahora nuevamente es opcional el vídeo a pantalla completa.

Esque con la llegada de la primera beta de Skype 4.0 y su uso obligado de vídeo a pantalla completa, las críticas fueron muy fuertes y sus usuarios manifestaron su disconformidad en los foros. La posibilidad de ver vídeos fullscreen está muy bien, pero parece que nadie quiere sentirse obligado a ello.

Porello y para satisfacer todos los gustos, ahora se puede cambiar entre los modos de ventana y pantalla completa de manera sencilla con un combinación de teclado. En Skype 4.0 beta 2 hay avisos de llamadas perdidas, de mensajes entrantes (verás una notificación en naranja en tu barra de sistema) y la habilidad de agrupar contactos (algo muy solicitado) está presente. Casi todos los elementos de las ventanas se pueden modificar en tamaño con solo arrastrar sus esquinas, entre ellos los de la imagen de tu perfil.

Parala próxima beta, última antes de Skype 4.0 final, habrá historial de llamadas, chats públicos y notificaciones de cumpleaños, entre otras cosas.

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