Microsoft knows the pain of web developers who have been trying to test their websites in both IE6 and IE7. For this reason Microsoft has released a Virtual Imaged pre-activated copy of Windows XP Professional that will stop working as of April 1st, 2007. This copy must be loaded in Virtual PC 2004 or 2007 which is a free download also. This will allow developers to install IE7 on there main machine and test there website in IE6 on a virtual Machine.

This is great new for designers and developers alike, and I’m really excited! With ASP.NET 1.x and ASP.NET 2.0, if you wanted to create pure CSS pages, it really wasn’t possible. The ASP.NET controls would render with tables, inline styles and all sorts of other things that would make most web designers wince.

Sun microsystems this week submitted Java to two open source licenses the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), and the GPL v2 license. For more information please visit Sun Microsystems Project Overview located here (Free and Open Source Java Project Overview).

Microsoft has released a white paper pertaining on “how to develop UAC compliant applications for Windows Vista”, The following document contains the subjects or topics below.

Microsoft has now made the final version of .NET Framework 3.0, It is up for download on Microsoft downloads. Remember if your wanting to learn Windows Presentation Foundation for free then check out this post.