Tech ++ » Microsoft http://www.praveenmodi.com Musings on SharePoint, ECM, and more... Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Consumer Preview http://www.praveenmodi.com/microsoft-releases-windows-8-consumer-preview/ http://www.praveenmodi.com/microsoft-releases-windows-8-consumer-preview/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:16:25 +0000 Praveen Modi http://www.praveenmodi.com/?p=201 Microsoft has finally released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview to the public. So here’s your chance to download and be one of the first to try it out.

The file sizes range from 2.5 to 3.3 GB depending on your preference between the 32-bit or 64-bit versions, so you may be downloading for quite some time.

Here are the download links:

English

64-bit (x64) Download (3.3 GB) Sha 1 hash — 1288519C5035BCAC83CBFA23A33038CCF5522749 Download Link
32-bit (x86) Download (2.5 GB) Sha 1 hash — E91ED665B01A46F4344C36D9D88C8BF78E9A1B39 Download Link

Product Key: DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J

You can find the download links for other languages and version here.

System Requirements

  • Windows 8 Consumer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7:
  • Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
  • RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
  • Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  • Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device or higher
  • To use touch, you need a tablet or monitor that supports multitouch
  • To access Windows Store and to download and run apps, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768
  • To snap apps, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768
]]> http://www.praveenmodi.com/microsoft-releases-windows-8-consumer-preview/feed/ Oxite - Open Source blogging platform from Microsoft http://www.praveenmodi.com/oxite-open-source-blogging-platform-microosoft/ http://www.praveenmodi.com/oxite-open-source-blogging-platform-microosoft/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:56:28 +0000 Praveen Modi http://www.praveenmodi.com/?p=36
Microsofts Open source Blogging Platform

Microsoft today released an alpha version of Oxite, an open source CMS (Content Management System) that developers can use to build sophisticated blogs or large web sites.

Microsoft Oxite offers almost everything you need in a good blogging platform - anonymous or authenticated commenting, comment moderation, gravatar support, RSS feeds, pingbacks, trackbacks, SEO optimized clean URLs, multiple blogs, group blogging and support for custom pages.
At first glance Oxite appears to compete with established blogging products including those from Six Apart.

Oxite vs WordPress and Blogger

  1. Oxite is is not targeted at the end user or less-technical Web users wanting to set up a blog, instead it is designed for developers who need to create CMS applications using the Microsoft Platform.
  2. You need Windows hosting to run Oxite since it is based on the Microsoft technology stack - ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server. WordPress’ runs on less costly Linux based PHP and MySQL hosting.

Like WordPress and Blogger, Oxite does support the MetaWebLog API so it should be easy for end users to publish content via Windows Live Writer and other existing blog clients.

Oxite on Codeplex

http://www.codeplex.com/oxite

Video from Oxite Developers

Video from Oxite dev team sharing how they built Oxite and the salient features of the product.

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