Appart from Windows Vista and Windows 7 Learning Snacks series, now its time for Server 2008. Following are some of the Windows server 2008 snacks released at Microsoft learning center.
I have blogged that Microsoft has Introduced Windows 7 in Silverlight Snack player. Now few more Learning Snacks for Windows 7 are available.
As described in earlier post Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning (our mother org) experts. Each Snack is delivered by using Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos.
For IT professionals:
For Home users:
Source | WinSpark.net
Garbage collection in Microsoft .NET common language runtime environment completely absolves the developer from tracking memory usage and knowing when to free memory. However you’ll want to understand how it works.
This session will highlight how resources are allocated and managed and then provide a detailed step-by-step description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. You will also learn the way resources can be cleaned up properly when the garbage collector decides to free a resource’s memory and how to force an object to clean up when it is freed.
Language(s): English.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: 28 April 2009 14:00 India
Now you can translate your Microsoft Office documents with Microsoft Translator . You can even translate words, phrases, or even your entire document, through the Research task pane.
The Microsoft Translator Official Team Blog has blogged about setting up manually for Office 2007 and Office 2003 previously.
Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 currently use WorldLingo as the default machine translator in the Research task pane. This download will update the Research task pane registry keys to set Microsoft Translator as the default translator and WorldLingo as the fallback translator.
Learn the technology with more than 95 sessions on current and emerging technology in developer tools, Mobility, Windows, Office/Sharepoint and Web development.
Its an unique opportunity to meet and connect with Microsoft, Industry experts and your peers from all over the world.
Be a part of Microsoft History and join Developers from all over the world for the first ever 24 Hrs day of Technology learning.
Windows 7 has many features for the consumer, developer and IT Pro. But what about Security? In this session we’ll talk about and show some of the important security features that are coming as part of Windows 7. These include Applocker™, Bitlocker™ and Bitlocker To Go™, DirectAcess™, User Account Control and the security changes to Internet Explorer 8. There will be demo’s on all these technologies so you can see firsthand how Windows 7 security has evolved. 
Date: Friday April 3rd 2009
Time: 11:00AM – 12:30PM
(GMT +10 Sydney Daylight Savings Time)
Location: Live Meeting
Registration: Click here to register>>
PowerShell MVP and prodigious PowerShell blogger Keith Hill has converted his very popular Effective PowerShell blog series into a FREE Ebook.
Now its your chance to learn something new and to discover the best techniques and practices for security on Microsoft technologies and platforms.
At this half-day event, the focus will be the one topic that impacts all of us: securing your IT infrastructure. A number of guest speakers will join us to help us determine the best methods for keeping your systems safe, including employees from Microsoft!
Windows 7 what’s New Guide
This document covers many new and changed Windows 7 features of interest to IT professionals, including DirectAccess, BranchCache and other networking technologies, VHD boot and other deployment technologies, and AppLocker, Biometrics, and other security technologies.
Download | Windows 7 What’s new Guide
Windows 7 Manageability Overview
Windows 7 introduces a number of manageability improvements that can reduce total cost of ownership by helping to increase automation, improve user productivity, and provide flexible administrative control to meet compliance requirements. This paper provides an overview of each of these improvements.
Download | Windows 7 Manageability Overview
Microsoft is offering this months free e-books in the celebration of Microsoft Press’s 25th anniversary.
Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition
By Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, and Jerry Honeycutt with the Windows Vista Team
Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!
By Patrice Pelland
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