Microsoft Trading Platform M4 Silverlight Edition is ready to download

It's not evaluation software but real stuff requiring real cash like ~$7000.00

Find details at Modulus here.

It's a platform agnostic  browser app with the look and feel of a desktop app.

This info from Modulus noted here:

"M4 SL is affordably priced at $6,799 for use on one domain. This price includes C# source code, a license for StockChartX WPF and StockChartX SL, free setup via Remote Desktop, 6 months of email technical support and one year of source code updates (renewable on an annual basis)."

Test drive Denali (SQL Server 2011) with pervasive insight

This version 11.0.1103.9 of SQL Server 2011 CTP1 was published recently 11/8/2010

Get this CTP1 version of SQL Server 2011 code named 'DENALI' from here.

File name for x86 is SQLFULL_x86ENU.exe (1296.9 MB)

An ISO and an exe file for x64 are also available from the same link.

As advertised highlights:

Enhanced mission-critical platform
Developer and IT Productivity
Pervasive insight

Supported Operating Systems are:
Windows 7;Windows Server 2008 R2;Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2;Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Hardware for x32:

Intel or compatible 1.0 GHZ processor, ~1GB RAM and ~2.2GB Hard disk OK

Microsoft Trading Platform on your desktop

Microsoft is partnering with Saxo Bank of Denmark to offer a trading platform according to Financial Times (FT) launching tomorrow. I hope this investment bank known for its success in internet brokerage (according to WikipediA) provides the proverbial Midas Touch to Microsoft's various products and thereby its share holders (disclaimer: I don't own MSFT stocks).

Highlights

Trade over 11000 stocks On 23 world exchanges
Fundamental Analysis
Powerful stock screener
Diversify  risk Management etc.

Perhaps early next year a trading platform on the cloud!!!

Office 365 coming to a cloud near you

Microsoft's star product Microsoft Office gets launched to the cloud soon as Office 365.

Summary of what is offered:

Microsoft's star product Microsoft Office gets launched to the cloud offering the following services:

• Office Professional Plus

 Accessible from all hardware platforms-PC, Phone and Browser

• Exchange Online

 All your emails, calendar and contacts with anti-virus and anti-spam features

• Sharepoint Online

 All sharing between colleagues, partners and customers

• Lync Online

 Instant messaging, video conferencing, online meeting etc.

Key benefits of Office 365 (according to MSFT):

• 24/7 IT-Level Phone support

• Get up and run faster with migration tools

• Server patching, updating all gone

• Variable pricing to fit your pocket

Now you have SQL Azure Reporting Services in the Cloud

At the PDC on October 28th Microsoft announced two new features for SQL Azure Reporting CTP and SQL Azure Data Sync CTP2.
You can embed cloud based reports using SQL Azure Data. You use the familiar SSRS to author reports and use it on-site or, up on the cloud (you can have your cake and eat it too!).
SQL Azure Sync CTP2 enables synchronization between on-premises SQL Server and SQL Azure. Now you have it both ways.
If you are new to SSRS I strongly recommend my book,
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2009/03/finally-book-is-published.html
If you are new to SQL Azure you can order my book from here,
https://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-sql-azure-enterprise-application-development/book
Do you want to have your own free copy? Follow this link here:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-you-want-free-copies-of-my-latest.html