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2007 Microsoft Office System SP1 Released

The first Service Pack for the 2007 Office System was released to web earlier this week.

2007 Microsoft Office Suite SP1 [ Download | KB936982 ]

Applies to:

    - Office Basic 2007 
    - Office Enterprise 2007
    - Office Home and Student 2007 
    - Office Professional 2007 
    - Office Professional Plus 2007 
    - Office Small Business 2007 
    - Office Small Business Management 2007 
    - Office Standard 2007 
    - Office Ultimate 2007 
    - Office Access 2007 
    - Office Excel 2007 
    - Office InfoPath 2007 
    - Office Outlook 2007 
    - Office PowerPoint 2007 
    - Office Publisher 2007 
    - Office Word 2007 
    - Office OneNote 2007 
    - Office Groove 2007

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 [ Download | KB936988 ]

Applies to:
    - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 

2007 Microsoft Office Servers SP1 [Download | KB936984]

Requies:
    - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1

Applies to:
    - SharePoint Server 2007
    - Project Server 2007
    - Form Server 2007
    - Groove Server 2007, 64-bit edition

ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 is Released

You can download the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 and ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools Dec 07 CTP.

This release enables the users to work with the ADO.NET Entity Framework using Visual Studio 2008 RTM and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM. It also includes bug fixes, performance improvements as well as new features.

As you may know, amongst other features, the Entity Framework adds support for various data sources so the Entity Framework extends the capabilities of LINQ to work with many back-end databases. Various database providers are developing Entity-Framework enabled versions of their offerings and some of these offerings are scheduled to be publicly available shortly after the RTM of the Entity Framework. Microsoft is updating the provider for SQL Server Compact Edition as part of the SQL Server 2008 release. Microsoft will also provide an Entity Framework enabled version of the .NET Provider for DB2, which will ship in BizTalk Server "6".

More information can be found on the ADO.NET Team Blog, MSDN Data Platform Developer Center and in the press release.