Why Steve Ballmer Will Make Microsoft Good for SOA
The increasing popularity of SOA could be one of Microsoft's best tickets into the server room. Microsoft already has a solid software foundation for good SOA with .Net. All Microsoft has to do is polish up its offerings and push them as part of its new mission to interface cleanly with open standards. Ballmer is just the guy to make it a reality.
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is icing, and more cake
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) Service Pack 1 (SP1) took eight months to arrive. Considering the capabilities that have been added, eight months might not seem so long. In some ways, SP1 feels like the completion of what Visual Studio 2008 was supposed to be. It's certainly not just the collection of bug fixes that you'd expect from the term "service pack."
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Hacking Exposed, Sixth Edition
By Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz; Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne
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