Microsoft Delivers Latest Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Releases

REDMOND, Wash., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced availability of Visual Studio(R) 2005 Beta 2, Microsoft(R) .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 and the SQL Server(TM) 2005 April Community Technology Preview (CTP), the latest milestone in delivering these produc...

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Published in:PR Newswire p. 1
Format: Newsletter
Language:English
Published: New York PR Newswire Association LLC 18.04.2005
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Summary:REDMOND, Wash., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced availability of Visual Studio(R) 2005 Beta 2, Microsoft(R) .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 and the SQL Server(TM) 2005 April Community Technology Preview (CTP), the latest milestone in delivering these products to customers. Together, the products provide a deeply integrated development and data management platform, enabling customers to utilize existing skills and familiar tools to harness data in powerful new ways that increase productivity and efficiency. Several early adopters such as ABS-CBN Interactive, ORF and Townsend Analytics Ltd. have deployed these products in their production environments to reap the benefits of close tool and database integration. Because of broad customer demand to work with these prerelease products today, Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Go-Live license program for customers interested in deploying Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition immediately. Microsoft and multiple partners today also announced plans to provide customers with educational resources that will help them prepare for the launch of these two products. Microsoft also continues to deploy SQL Server 2005 internally and has more than 65 applications in production today. In addition, Microsoft is running full SAP payroll, expense, tax data warehouse and document repository systems, and has more than 10 instances of SQL Server 2005 storing multiple terabytes of data. These SQL Server 2005 installations have been responsible for processing more than 7 billion transactions against Microsoft's SAP system. The SQL Server 2005 April CTP is available today on BetaPlace and to MSDN(R) Universal, Enterprise and Professional subscribers. More information about putting SQL Server 2005 Express Edition into production with the Go-Live license program can be found at https:// login.passport.net/ppsecure/uisecure.srf?id=42814 . Microsoft is committed to providing customers with training resources and tools for lifelong learning. To support the availability of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, Microsoft Learning is offering developers who register Beta 2 a free online Microsoft Press(R) book. Microsoft Learning will further support the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 April CTP availability with Microsoft E-Learning titles planned for this summer, and will continue to support Visual Studio 2005 with training opportunities such as books in the box, free Microsoft E-Learning and vouchers for discounted exams. Microsoft Learning enables customers to adopt and take immediate advantage of new technologies. With hundreds of Microsoft E-Learning modules, courses and certifications, and dozens of books for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 to be made available at all stages of the product life cycle, Microsoft Learning enables users to deliver business value to their organizations faster. To view the full list of Microsoft Learning offerings for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, customers can visit http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/learning .