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Microsoft has taken the covers off a future update to its Bing Maps service that removes the need for its Silverlight browser plug-in, as well as completely removed its 3D map viewer. The changes will arguably make the service more approachable to the masses, but indicate that the company is going in a different direction [...]

If one thing was made clear at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference last week, it’s that the software giant wants in on some of the HTML5 mojo competitors have been trumpeting over the last year or so. What wasn’t made clear, however, was the future of Silverlight–Microsoft’s media runtime that competes with HTML5 in a number [...]

Microsoft has released a controller for its Silverlight multimedia software that can present dynamic visual summaries of large data sets in Web browsers. Developed by the company’s Live Labs research group, PivotViewer can visualize large collections of data in such a way to make them easier to order and analyze. [ Discover what's new in [...]

Microsoft is offering on Monday a second beta release of its Windows Server AppFabric technology, which features services intended to improve speed, scale and management of Web, composite and enterprise applications. The beta is available at Microsoft’s Web site. Windows Server AppFabric makes it easier to build and manage Web and composite applications running on [...]

AWS (Amazon Web Services) unveiled this week an SDK (software development kit) intended to make it easier for developers to build Microsoft .Net applications that can access the AWS platform for cloud computing. The free AWS SDK for .Net includes the AWS .Net Library, featuring “developer-friendly” APIs for .Net that hide low-level plumbing associated with [...]