Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4.0 to its MSDN subscribers on 18 May 2009. Visual Studio 2010 is a monstrous and the most awaited release which is surely set to have a big impact on Microsoft platform developers in a positive way! The Beta bits released today are available in following SKU’s:

• Visual Studio 2010 Professional
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite

General public availability of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is expected on 20th May through Microsoft Downloads Center.

Download from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx

Google has now made it possible to integrate you Gmail account and other mail accounts like Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL etc. Now you can import not only the contacts but also emails too! into your new gmail from your other email accounts. This means that users of other services can easily start new Gmail accounts without abandoning everything they have built up with another provider. Google is making the switch more enticing.

This facility is being provided to all new Gmail accounts and for existing users, it'll start soon.

Google's Service Outage on 14 May 2009 for about an hour was due to an ongoing transition from an older networking standard to a newer one called IPv6.

According to C|Net: