Archive for April 30th, 2007
Apr
30
Now that Longhorn Server Beta 3 is released, it's time to take the covers off a new feature in Longhorn Server - Terminal Services Easy Print. The folks over at the Terminal Services Team Blog just published their post on the topic - here's something to whet your appetite ...
TS Easy Print is a proxy for
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Apr
30
MIX07 kicks off at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas with the keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and General Manager Scott Guthrie. You can continue to catch live, on-going coverage at the Visit MIX website.
Let me take a moment to quickly outline the many announcements that occurred today.
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Apr
30
MTP was first shipped as part of the Windows Media Device Manager 10 SDK. This porting kit includes the complete MTP specification, updated design documentation, updated sample source code, software to implement a PC-based MTP simulator, and MTP test tools.
Download (validation required)
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Apr
30
George Ou -"After yesterday's blog about the relevance of feature bloat, I figured that I would follow up with some quantitative analysis on the performance characteristics to measure resource bloat. This isn't the first time I've measured Office CPU and memory consumption of Microsoft Office and Open Office. I have a whole series on it dating
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Apr
30
Microsoft Expression Media is a professional asset management tool to visually catalog and organize all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation. Expression Media Encoder is an advanced video encoding tool especially suited for generating content that takes full advantage of the rich graphic and interactive capability of Silverlight playback scenarios. Expression Blend 2 is
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Apr
30
Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 delivers new features including an MMC-based user interface with advanced filtering and reporting, improved performance and operational reliability, flexible deployment options to improve branch office support, and more content access through the Microsoft Update Catalog site.
More info | Download
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Apr
30
This week at MIX07, Web designers, Web developers, industry decision-makers and marketing professionals gathered as Microsoft Corp.’s Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Scott Guthrie, general manager of the Developer Division, presented the full breadth of Microsoft’s vision and road map for Microsoft® Silverlight™ and how it fits into the company’s broader Microsoft .NET platform and
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Apr
30
Scott writes out some instructions on how to migrate from Radio Userland to Wordpress in the process of finally migrating to Wordpress himself. I found some resources in the Wordpress wiki that needs serous TLC but Scott’s instructions might help some people. He uses a tool from Steve Hooker called backLogAllRSS but had to
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Apr
30
Anyone who likes the Silverlight brand can now enjoy an exciting Silverlight wallpaper available to download from the download page of the Microsoft Silverlight web site.
The Sliverlight crew has put together a Silverlight DreamScene that they call "Dusk" and are releasing at MIX07 this week, in both standard 4:3 and widescreen 16:9 aspect ratios.
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Apr
30
Windows Vista prize packages are an integer part of a Microsoft initiative designed to educate consumers about the Certified for Windows Vista logo program. And Microsoft has not held back when it came to putting the money where its mouth is, as “the total ARV of all prizes to be awarded during the Promotional Time Period is
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Apr
30
The Microsoft ASP.NET Futures May 2007 (“Futures No Comments » - Posted by DG
Apr
30
Whenever your operating system would hit you with a crash there was not too much to do except restart your computer and maybe looking on the Internet for the prompted error in search for a cause. Generally these crashes will not multiply if you re-install your Windows.
Having a monitoring tool that records all the mischiefs taking
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Apr
30
Techcrunch reporting that Wikipedia was giving special treatment to their own properties, in terms of using standard, non-nofollowed, links to Wikia, "Wikipedia’s for-profit spin off."
Back in January, Wikipedia nofollowed all external links from the site, in an effort to reduce Wikipedia spam. If you visit the Wikipedia page on Wikia, you may
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Apr
30
Welcome to the Silverlight community site, where you will find the latest information about Silverlight for both designers and developers. This is the one place to hear directly from the product teams that are creating the technologies and tools and to interact directly with the community through the forums and the gallery. Come back often
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Apr
30
Samsung has announced that it is the first company to begin mass production of 16Gb NAND flash memory using the 51 nanometre manufacturing process. The memory is based on a multi-level cell structure and is 60% more efficient than its 60nm counterpart, which also means it is up to as much as 80% faster.
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