Microsoft: HTML5 And Javascript Key For The Development Of Office 15

The Microsoft case seemingly endless love with HTML5 continues, this time from Office 15, the next version of Office is probably due in 2012.

In Office 15, Microsoft to allow developers to use JavaScript to create HTML5 and add ons, plugins, and also to interface with the 365 Office and SharePoint.

Because Office SharePoint 365 and are generally labeled as services "cloud" that Microsoft provides HTML5 in applications that are to be filled, it is hardly surprising, but it is important that the company is on a kick of the unification of the product, something it desperately needs.

News HTML5 and JavaScript programming options for future inclusion in Office 15 development was revealed to ZDNet, which is referring to the ability of a number of job ads for Microsoft. Knowledge of these messages is a simple and effective way to flush out what Microsoft has long-term projects, without having to go through the jungle of PR.

According to an announcement of work "[The integration will JavaScript/HTML5] allow developers to participate in professional development by the Office platform as easy and enjoyable as the creation of applications for the next version of Windows!"

Sounds like a touch optimistic, but the concept is to be commended.

What does this mean for more traditional programming languages ​​and frameworks are in use today? According to ZDNet:

Note that these messages do not work to make it sound as if Microsoft is retiring the VBA, VSTO or other programming tools of Office in the near future
There is little doubt however that the new focus is definitely on HTML5 and JavaScript as the preferred means to develop new programs and services for the next versions of Windows and Office. With the battle for the concept of Microsoft Windows 8 App Store, it is easy to see how HTML5/JS-crafted Office add-ons and applications could be integrated into any course.

The future of Office 15 is taking shape, but there are many more layers to be unwrapped before we can claim to have a good sense of its raw form. For now, we learn bits and pieces. Maybe in September BYG Microsoft will provide fresh insight.

Microsoft Announces The $260,000 Contest To Find New Approaches To Computer Security

Today Microsoft has announced BlueHat security prices, which will provide $ 260 000 in cash and prizes at the event Black Hat USA 2012.

Microsoft claims that the award is to bring together "to produce new ideas for how to sustain a title defense." First prize takes home $ 200,000 in cash, $ 50,000 in cash in the second, third, and MSDN Universal subscription that the company has a value of $ 10,000.

The moment of creation of the price is not an accident, computer attacks worldwide increasingly common in the public eye, and more often of brass. Lulzsec and anonymously with their pranks, hacking and insecurity led to the forefront of the mind of the average consumer.

Microsoft, which acquired an interest in computer systems are secure and can afford cats (208 000 times its current level of cash), so the investment is worth the potential reward: an innovative approach to security.

Of course, the winners will be published on the case, Black Hat, Microsoft will offer a gesture more hidden way in the world.

Specifically competition "challenges security experts to design a technology implementation of new mitigation measures to prevent the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in the memory." The criteria for winning is innovation, with the most innovative project to win the top prize, according to Microsoft copy.

TNWmicrosoft like the move by Microsoft, as it should stimulate discussion, and perhaps some new ideas loose, but I think a slow way to find answers to big questions, questions that must be solved now, and maybe not in one year .

MacBook Air This Aggressive Challenge To The Ultra-Price Books

With the abandonment of low-end white MacBook and the aggressive pricing $ 999 for the new MacBook Air, Apple has made its position more aggressively in the category of thin and light notebooks. This can cause problems for farmers trying to produce material competitive with Intel's Ultra specifications book, reports Digitimes.

The specification was developed by Intel Ultrabook to advance the mobile industry in the space super-thin MacBook Air. The call details of the resolutions to adopt a non-replaceable battery, the heat of dissapating metal chassis, solid-state storage and welded components in order to minimize the size and weight. This is very similar to how the MacBook air is constructed.

It is also a significant departure from the modular structure currently adopted by most manufacturers. This means that much of the manufacturing line Ultrabooks must use new methods, making them more expensive to produce than traditional laptops.

Reports from sources indicate that the channel, unless Intel was to reduce the cost of its processors, which represent one third of the total cost of a book Ultra potential, it is unlikely that manufacturers like Asus and Lenovo will be able to provide textbooks Ultra at or below the price point of $ 999 that the MacBook Air is currently a member.

Apple is engaged in low-cost version of the MacBook Air when it was introduced two years ago, and the versatile and cost-price versions of the Air that was announced last month, are the culmination of a year of refining and supply contracts.

The standard of the Book Ultra, by comparison, was introduced at Computex this year. Apple has a history to build a supply chain based on investments at the beginning of new manufacturing processes and very favorable agreements with suppliers, making it more difficult for competitors to produce similar products at competitive prices.

If the ultra-Books is gaining momentum, Intel may have to make some concessions with the new processor pricing Ivy Bridge, is because until the end of this year or in the first quarter of 2012. We will probably see the ultra-books on the market before Q2, so Apple is likely to approach the issue of 4 generation MacBook Air.

If the first ultra-Books are not able to compete with the price, the more likely that sales will stop in front of the growing popularity of air, which is now the best selling Mac ever. The real question is, how long it takes, the supply chain and manufacturing processes of other makers Apple's well-muscled lead.

Windows 8 to have Unprecedented Virtualization Prowess

New information from criminal records in Windows 8 in hand, it seems that Microsoft was more than honest when asked for the next operating system produced risky bet.

Two reports, one of ITWorld, and the other to describe the features of Windows virtualization ZDNet 8, and if what they say bears in the future, Microsoft's operating system could be like no other before him.

Virtualization is only for reference, is distinguished in the ability of the operating system to run multiple "images" of the OS both on one piece of equipment. Each image is called an example.

Let's start with the inclusion of Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows 8 will be the first time this specific virtualization technology included in a standard version of Windows, in other words, a non-server construction. This question, when it creates the potential for virtualization in a scale that is unprecedented for Windows.

Even better is the explosion of MinWin in Windows 8. MinWin is the core of the core components of Windows operating system, in other words, the stripped version of Windows. He appeared in Windows 7, and started with Vista, Windows 8, but seems willing to take a much greater role.

Now, with the two together, greatly expanded and powerful virtualization with Hyper-V and access to MinWin, Windows 8 (at least some of its builder, probably the news of the company) have the ability to create a multitude of 'virtualized instances of Windows that individual programs have their own instigation.

ZDNet remember the following quote from Microsoft from 2009 that explains exactly what the company belongs to:

"The goal is to MinWin, when it comes to Windows 8 if all goes well, it is completely removed these features is to ensure that they have no presence at all. At the time, this gives the opportunity to get your desktop , Windows Server Core is responsible for the event ... Hyper-V, V3, the workstation is as small as possible, whether a potential attack surface of rack space and disk storage. "

This move seems to XP mode.

It's a story that takes place, but new construction of Windows 8 flight, and details of the depth break, it seems that Microsoft is not trying to reinvent the look of Windows, but also its foundation base. Sound off in comments, would this level of virtualization to excite you?

LinkedIn Profiles To Get Renewed, More Download PDF

LinkedIn has updated their user profile today with a new look and new features. Among the changes are a new profile design, a checklist to help you create your profile and download the PDF Profile. The new look seems to be of life for all now you should be able to view your own profile.

One of the additions must be updated on a checklist tool that will give you reminders of the various features of LinkedIn and the actions you need to fill out your profile. The new checklist is presented in a little post-it on the right side, as shown below.

You are also able to recover public profiles in the form of PDF files, creating a sort of CV disconnected from your LinkedIn profile. This should make it easier to share information in your profile with a portfolio or to release it on an interview. This should also be useful for clients wishing to make a list of prospects.

The new look presents information in a more monochrome side with shadows on separate window, but feels a little more crowded for us. It seems that although the route is more attractive, it makes it a little difficult to read.

It seems to be a number of other minor adjustments in the design and layout of LinkedIn profiles as well. If you're a heavy user LinkedIn, what changes have you noticed?