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Microsoft Office 2012 (or Office 15) to get ‘Web Extensions’ for enhanced Third-party features

With Office 15, Microsoft is going one step ahead to try and catch the pulse of the web and integrate it with its legacy product line. Microsoft has decided to allow ‘Agave’ web extensions by third party developers to be integrated into their upcoming Office suite.

Inclusion of ‘Agave’ web extensions into Office 15 or MS Office 2012 will allow for deeper web integration and also help creating an eco-system around upcoming Office 15. Developers will be able to build third-party ‘Agave’ extensions using technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and REST in order to create such web extensions.

So far, three types of ‘agaves’ have been detailed:

• Task Pane agave
• Content agave
• Contextual agave

Task Pane Agave: It will allow Office 2012 users to see an extension parallell to the opened Office document, allowing users to look up information from a particular web service, without leaving the document in progress.

Content Agave: This is meant to embed webpages within the document in progress. This will be highly useful if and when someone is writing a research paper and wants to include citations from the web within the document.

Contextual Agave:  This is meant to help display parallel content from the web, alongside mail or calendar items.

All the web extensions for Office 2012 will be sold through exclusively built Office marketplace.

Microsoft Office 2012 Screenshots

From the screenshots, its pretty clear that Microsoft Office 2012 will follow the lines of Windows 8 in having a clutter-free and flatter design theme. The emphasis is more on content and therefore the options in Word, Excel or any application have been left hidden in Office 2012 UI.

This ensures that Office 2012 will bring a drastic change in design and UI from Office 2010, something that will address the complaint of many people who did not buy Office 2010 becuase of lack of design innovations from the older version of Office.

Stay hooked as we will keep on bring you more news and updates about upcoming Office 2012.

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Microsoft is one step closer to delivering the final versions of its Visual Studio integrated development environment and the .NET Framework 4.5. The Release Candidates are available today for download with "Go Live" licenses, in time for the Windows 8 Release Preview, which was also released on Thursday.

The Release Candidates of Visual Studio 11, now officially named Visual Studio 2012, are available to all developers (including MSDN subscribers). In addition to a new name, and a new purple logo, Microsoft is reintroducing a customizable setup process that allows developers to bypass installation of select Visual Studio components.

With or without a streamlined setup, users of the Release Candidates should see improved installations, which are about 20 percent faster than the beta releases, according to Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jason Zander, who heads the Visual Studio team.

Zander provided an overview of what's new in the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate in his blog and offered a demonstration of some of those features in a Channel 9 Visual Studio Toolbox video, hosted by Robert Green. In addition to the updated user interface, which reintroduces some color in the icons and elsewhere in response to developer feedback on the beta; the RC offers performance enhancements in areas such as typing, the toolbox and large C++ projects, according to Zander.

With the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate, Microsoft is introducing more Web publishing features, for example, additional support for Entity Framework Code First Migrations. The Release Candidate also supports Web site optimization through bundling and minification (removing unnecessary characters from source code) in JavaScript, and ASP.NET MVC 4 projects.

In addition, the Release Candidates introduce significant updates to the Visual Studio XAML designer and Microsoft Expression Blend tooling, according to Zander. For XAML projects, Microsoft is introducing theme animations from an Animations library, as well as a devices panel, which enables you, for example, to see the FullScreenLandscape, FullScreenPortrait, Filled, and Snapped states of Metro-style apps. Expression Blend for HTML supports the display and editing of multiple images, background gradients and components. It also adds the ability to cut and paste styles (CSS properties) between rules.

The company announced the official Visual Studio 2012 product lineup and specifications on May 18, when the next generation of products was still codenamed "Visual Studio 11." The Visual Studio 2012 editions and hardware requirements remain largely unchanged from Visual Studio 2010 outside of the free, lightweight Visual Studio 2012 Express tools, which are now platform-centric.

Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate is the company's all-in-one Application Lifecycle Management platform. It integrates all of the tools (including the higher end testing functionality and design tools) with Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server for team collaboration. Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry, the product unit manager for Team Foundation Server (TFS), details the changes in the Visual Studio 2012 TFS Release Candidate in his blog. Visual Studio 2012 Premium offers most of the diagnostic and testing tools without the high level architecture and modeling support. Visual Studio 2012 Professional is the entry-level developer product. Visual Studio LightSwitch, which was introduced out of band last summer and formerly a standalone product, is now available in all three editions. Visual Studio 2012 features LightSwitch version 2, which adds Metro-style templates and support for the OData protocol.

Changes to Express Tooling

With the unveiling of the Visual Studio product lineup earlier this month, Microsoft announced that the free Express tools are now platform-centric with multiple language support. So far the company has previewed Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 (Metro-style apps), Visual Studio 2012 Express for the Web and Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server Express. All three Release Candidates are available for download.

The earlier previews of Visual Studio 2012 did not support Windows Phone development or the out of band Windows Azure upgrades. Microsoft has announced that it is planning to introduce Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone with the next release of Windows Phone, and Windows Azure tooling in conjunction with an upcoming upgrade to its cloud platform.

You can still download and use the language editions of Visual Studio 2010 Express (Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++) free of charge.Visual Studio Express 2010 tools and apps will run on Windows 8, according to a Microsoft.

Visual Studio 2012 targets Windows Vista and higher. Some existing apps may not be compatible with .NET 4.5, which is an in-place upgrade. Developers can use Visual Studio's multi-targeting support to run managed applications on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with .NET 4 and earlier versions of the framework, according to Microsoft. However, multi-targeting for C++ requires a side-by-side installation of Visual Studio 2010.

System Requirements


Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
• Windows 8 Release Preview (x86 and x64)
• Windows Server 2008 (x64) with Service Pack 2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
• Windows Server 2012 RC (x64)

Supported Architectures

• 32-bit (x86) (Windows 7 and Windows 8 clients)
• 64-bit (x64)

Hardware Requirements

• 2.2 GHz or faster processor
• 1 GB RAM – Basic installation
• 2 GB RAM – Standard installation (no SharePoint)
• 10 GB RAM – Full installations (includes SharePoint)
• 8 GB of available hard disk space

Optional Components

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 or SharePoint 2010

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Microsoft SQL Server Overview

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization and quickly build solutions to extend data across on-premises and public cloud, backed by mission critical confidence.

Highlights:

• The 9s you need with AlwaysOn
• Blazing-fast query performance with ColumnStore Index
• Rapid data discovery via Power View and PowerPivot
• Credible, consistent data via BI Semantic Model and Data Quality Services
• Scale on demand from devices to datacenter to cloud
• Write applications once, run anywhere with SQL Server Data Tools

Hardware and Software Requirements 

• Framework2 SQL Server Setup installs the following software components required by the product: .NET Framework 3.5 SP11, SQL Server Native Client, SQL Server Setup support files
• Software2 SQL Server Setup requires Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5 or a later version. After installing required components, SQL Server Setup will verify that the computer where SQL Server 2008 R2 will be installed also meets all the other requirements for a successful installation. For more information, see Check Parameters for the System Configuration Checker.
• Network Software requirements for the 64-bit versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 are the same as the requirements for the 32-bit versions.Supported operating systems have built-in network software. Stand-alone named and default instances support the following network protocols: Shared memory, Named Pipes, TCP/IP, VIA
• Virtualization SQL Server 2008 R2 is supported in virtual machine environments running on the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions. The virtual machine must run an operating system supported for the specific SQL Server 2008 R2 edition listed later in this topic.In addition to resources required by the parent partition, each virtual machine (child partition) must be provided with sufficient processor resources, memory, and disk resources for its SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. Requirements are listed later in this topic.3 Within the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2008 SP2, a maximum of four virtual processors can be allocated to virtual machines running Windows Server 2008 SP2 32-bit or 64-bit editions. A maximum of 2 virtual processors can be allocated to virtual computers that are running Windows Server 2003 32-bit editions. For virtual computers that host other operating systems, a maximum of one virtual processor can be allocated to virtual computers.
• Internet Software Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or a later version is required for all installations of SQL Server 2008 R2. Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or a later version is required for Microsoft Management Console (MMC), SQL Server Management Studio, Business Intelligence Development Studio, the Report Designer component of Reporting Services, and HTML Help.
• Hard Disk Disk space requirements will vary with the SQL Server 2008 R2 components you install. For more information, see Hard disk space requirements later in this topic.
• Drive A CD or DVD drive, as appropriate, is required for installation from disc.
• Display SQL Server 2008 R2 graphical tools require Super VGA or higher resolution: at least 800x600 pixel resolution.
• Other Devices Pointing device: A Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device is required.

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