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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 are the tools that form the backbone for developing on Windows 8, and Microsoft has released them more than two months ahead of the Oct. 26 planned release of Windows 8 to give developers a head start on building apps for the platform.Jason Zander, Microsoft’s vice president of Visual Studio, said MSDN subscribers can download Visual Studio 2012 immediately at the MSDN Subscriber Download Page, and volume licensing customers will be able to download starting Aug. 16 from the Volume Licensing Service Center. Developers also will be able to find Visual Studio in stores in the next month or so, as well as some availability to purchase it through the Visual Studio product Website in the next few days, Zander said. Moreover, to evaluate the free trial versions or download Microsoft’s free Express products, developers can go to the Visual Studio product Website.
autocratic attitude
Quote from: DavidR on August 21, 2012, 03:26:15 PMautocratic attitude+1It's NOT security related.
Me, that is what I hate about MS, its autocratic attitude that it knows best. Yet again Windows Defender sticks it nose in.
Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturer in China, has taken steps to improve working hours and conditions, said the US-based Fair Labor Association (FLA).Health breaks and measures to guard against repetitive stress injury were some of the changes the FLA found after an inspection.The report said Foxconn was ahead of schedule in implementing the FLA's recommendations.
Nathan Myhrvold and other executives at the controversial company say critics simply don't understand what they're doing. CNET went behind the scenes to understand what 40,000 patents and an unapologetic plan to make money from them really means.To many in the high-tech business, a troll plots his schemes in a white office building on a hill in this leafy suburb of Seattle.This is the home of Intellectual Ventures, which, depending on whom you ask, is either the biggest, most aggressive patent troll on the planet or a pioneering company that's helping inventors get their fair share.
Chen Lifang is a board member and senior vice president at Huawei, the giant telecommunications gear maker based here. She's digesting news that broke a day earlier that the U.S. House Intelligence Committee has increased the pressure it's putting on the company to disclose details about its ties to the Chinese government. The bombshell came in the form of a letter, released to the media, from the committee's chairman and the ranking Democrat to Huawei founder and Chairman Ren Zhengfei.Really, the letter was more of an 11-page laundry list of accusations, wrapped around questions about everything from funding the company has allegedly received from the Chinese government to queries about how board members got their posts. In the letter, Congressmen Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said they were investigating "the threat posed to our critical infrastructure and counter-intelligence posture by companies with potential ties to the Chinese government."In June and July, CNET visited Huawei's headquarters here, as well as its giant research and development operation in Shanghai and a research facility in Santa Clara, Calif. Huawei provided an in-depth look a company that's a rare breed -- a Chinese tech giant that's not merely cheap, outsourced manufacturing for Western electronics customers. Huawei is the second largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, behind only Sweden's Ericsson. It generated $32 billion in revenue last year, selling its networking technology to such global giants as Vodafone, Bell Canada and Telekom Malaysia, though only smaller U.S. carriers Leap and Clearwire use the company's gear. Huawei's heft has allowed it to pour resources into adjacent markets, such as mobile handset development and data center technology that's already paying off with new customers and billions more in revenue. This (past) winter's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was something of a coming out party for Huawei's consumer business, where it unveiled what it claims is the world's fastest mobile phone, the Ascend D Quad.
