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Migrating ASP.NET 1.1 Applications to ASP.NET 4.0

May 11th

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Migrating your ASP.NET 1.1 applications to the newer version of the framework is a topic which is under discussion at many places these days, the main reason for this move is because Visual Studio 2010 (the latest VS release to date) has stopped supporting .NET Framework 1.1 applications and it only allows you to have application built on 2.0+ i.e. (2.0; 3.0; 3.5; 4.0). So if you are looking forward to scale your apps, take them to 64 bit, use them with latest Server OS (2008 R2) or want to have (SQL 2008 R2) as backend then the only solution More >

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Participate in the world’s largest premier student technology competition

Mar 16th

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Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s largest premier student technology competition. It encourages students around the globe to imagine a better world in which people are empowered by technology.

Last year, more than 2,500+ students from Pakistan participated in this competition and team Magno Touch from University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore won the Pakistan finals and represented Pakistan in the global finals held in Warsaw, Poland.

This year, the Imagine Cup 2011 – Global Finals will be held in United States of America (USA) and the winning team in the Software Design Category from Pakistan will be fully sponsored by Microsoft to More >

Unveil the Beauty of the Web today!

Mar 16th

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Microsoft Announces Global Availability of Internet Explorer 9

More than 250 top sites from around the globe join the launch of Internet Explorer 9 to celebrate a more beautiful, immersive Web.

Microsoft Corp announced the launch of the latest version of the world’s most-used browser with the release of Windows Internet Explorer 9 in 39 languages at an event at the SXSW Interactive conference. Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft’s most-downloaded browser beta of all time, with more than 40 million downloads, and it has already has gained more than 2 percent usage on Windows 7. Already more than 250 top sites from More >

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Microsoft Pakistan launches Catalyst program for Entrepreneurs

Mar 10th

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Innovation and entrepreneurship is the backbone of the IT software industry. Microsoft believes that harnessing the power of ICT to support innovation helps people think differently and solve problems in ways that were never imagined before. Following the same lines Microsoft Pakistan in partnership with Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA) & The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) has started MIC Catalyst program in Pakistan to foster innovation by helping students & young entrepreneurs.

 

MIC Catalyst is a new and unique program designed to promote innovation in Pakistan ICT industry. The main idea behind this program is to facilitate More >

The SMART; SMARTER & SMARTEST [PHONE]

Feb 13th

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It been like just two years when the PCs which ruled the world in communication & collaboration for more than 25 years have been replaced by a similar but compact device called laptops / notebooks. On the parallel side of the game feature phones which again were equally important for communication and collaboration amongst humans ruled the market for around more than a decade will be replaced in just a fraction of time from the similar but powerful devices knows as smart phones. Now on one side of the game you are exposed to the compact but equivalent versions of More >

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What’s new in IE9, Release Candidate (RC)

Feb 12th

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The Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 9, available now at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 40 languages.

With this Release Candidate Microsoft has added over a thousand new test cases for JavaScript and updated over fifty test cases based on community feedback. During IE9 development Microsoft has now submitted just under 4000 test cases in total for standards like HTML5. Microsoft has submitted these tests to the appropriate standards bodies for feedback and eventual inclusion in their official test suites.

You can try them out for yourself at the IE Test Center.

Web Standard

# of Submitted Tests

Internet Explorer 9 RC

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13

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It’s not only the Cloud, Microsoft CRM hits everywhere

Jan 19th

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Going through various articles and stats I would not agree that Microsoft CRM has hit the cloud, I belief it has hit every where. Not going into the discussion who holds major market share or what was missed from the CIOs technology priority list, let’s leave the marketing material behind and dive into the ground realities.

Your organization buys CRM solution to Acquire, Enhance & Retain customers, sales channels and relationships but what if the solution you opt for is not a product meant for business guys to use rather its for IT Pros or Engineers or you are riding a More >

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Microsoft Online Family Safety Workshop in Pakistan

Dec 29th

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As a part of its social services commitment Microsoft Pakistan held an awareness workshop on Online Family Safety. The basis agenda of this workshop was to put an effort to keep children safe while they are online. To make this possible this workshop was targeted towards Teachers and Parents as they being the responsible for guiding children and ensuring their safety.

Various speakers from Industry addressed the Parents & Teachers during this half day long workshop where the main idea was to Act smart, Keep yourself updated with latest threats & their precautions, Understand the significance of online safety especially incase More >

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Six Sigma & it’s certification in Pakistan

Dec 2nd

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Compiled by: Fouzia Naz & Muhammad Adil

Six Sigma is a business management strategy in which defects reduce to 3.4 parts millions. In Six Sigma we minimize the defects in minimum cost, OR, it is a statically method to find the defects per million.

Six Sigma stands for Six Standard deviations from the arithmetic mean. It tells us how often defects are likely to occur. A defect may be thought of as anything that results in customer dissatisfaction. The higher the value of sigma, the lower the probability of a defect occurring. Six Sigma statically ensures that 99.99966% of all produced products More >

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Project Scope & Change Management

Dec 2nd

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Compiled by: Faisal Shareef & Syed Hummayon Hussain

PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

The product’s characteristics and features described the scope of a project, work that must be executed and delivered to the project objective as a product with specific features and functions. The processes of these areas of concern ensuring that the content and scope of the project has defined and any change can be controlled.

The processes in this field of knowledge dealing with the ongoing refinement of the description of what will be shipped in the project ever has. Before a project or a new phase of the project can start at More >

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