Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

Early this week (Monday), I had tweeted that SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 Download was available for Microsoft Partners – SDPS. If you are following me on http://twitter.com/alpesh you know about it! This download has now been made available for everyone.

To quote from the download page:

Overview

This download contains a two Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS  Read more... (624 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Microsoft have released a limited beta of their new antivirus application – Microsoft Security Essentials Beta.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

I am based in Australia and have just finished downloading this using my U.S based Live ID.

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect web site.

Download

As can be  seen, there are 3 separate downloads for you, depending on your version of the operation system  Read more... (173 words, 1 image, estimated 42 secs reading time)

Microsoft Exchange® Server 2010 Beta helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.  Read more... (417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

• Flexible and reliable – Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company’s unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
• Anywhere access – Exchange Server 2010 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications – e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more – from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.

I had blogged about IE8 Downloads and related content when IE RTW (released to web).

IE team blog on MSDN wants you to prepare for automatic download of IE8.

From the source:

Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE8. This rollout will start with a narrow audience and expand over time to the entire user base. On Windows XP and Server 2003, the update will be High-Priority. On Windows Vista and Server 2008 it will be Important.  Read more... (287 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

IE8 has been RTM and you can download for different platforms per links under. In this post you will find all IE8 related links that I have copied from various sources to bring everything in one place.

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Technology Overview

Windows Internet Explorer 8 includes a host of new features, enhancements, and other improvements driven from real world scenarios and customer desires that puts the Web at your service. This document will give you more information and examples on how to create rich user experiences and make sure your Web sites are ready for Windows Internet Explorer 8.

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Download IE8 for different platforms