Microsoft announced today the release of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) 1.0, a free downloadable tool designed to help install the Microsoft Web Platform or its components. The whole platform can be ...

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Redmond, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of ...

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that allows you to install all or part of Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS 6.0 and 7.0, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, .NET ...

In its latest bid to keep Web developers in the fold, Microsoft has developed a tool designed to manage the setup, configuration and retrieval of different Web applications. Microsoft Wednesday ...

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Microsoft is giving Visual Studio 2008 one more year of support, and that’s it. Visual Studio 2008 debuted in late 2007, and in keeping with the company’s 10-year support policy, Microsoft’s support ...