Archive for July 18th, 2007
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David Feng, Director of Technical Services in Systex Corporation in Taiwan. He has been involved in Microsoft technologies for many years and was part of Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Beta Program.
Below is a great success story about how Systex Corporation was able to use Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool to assist Sporton International
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Jul
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In the June 2007 issue of Microsoft's TechNet magazine Michael Murgolo has a great article about how to elevate commands in scripting using a free PowerToy called elevate.
Elevate allows you to elevate the permissions of a script or exe automatically instead of having to right click on a file and selecting Run as Administrator. Instead, you can just run "elevate my_script_that_needs_admin_rights.cmd" at command prompt or in a vb script.
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Jul
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With the release of the Scalable Networking Pack that is included with Windows 2003 SP2, we in Exchange support have been seeing some connectivity issues once the new networking features are enabled. These new features are enabled by default and are only used if your network card driver supports them. Some of the new architectural additions
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Jul
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MSN and Farecast.com, the airfare prediction Web site, has announced an agreement in which MSN will offer its users free airfare predictions and planning tools on the MSN Travel Channel. The addition of Farecast’s innovative technology and planning tools on MSN Travel will hopefuly empower its millions of monthly users to make
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Jul
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AdWords is a product that’s constantly evolving. This post is based on the update from the Click Quality team, a group of folks dedicated to protecting advertisers from invalid clicks and click fraud.
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Jul
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It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time. Yes, Redmond wants to own the patent on
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Jul
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The Windows Driver Kit team sent an updated e-mail earlier today regarding Vista SP1 WDK Beta notice.
We have included both the original and new e-mails below:
Original e-mail from yesterday: A new beta WDK build is now available for download on Connect. This WDK beta release to Connect coincides with the recent OS beta release for Vista
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Jul
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Microsoft is working on a variety of innovative photo projects, ranging from experiments with its 3D maps offering to massive panoramic photos that users can zoom into for details.
Developers who work in the company's research arm showed off the technologies on Tuesday during the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington.
HD View is one photo
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Jul
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If the world were to ever overflow with lava, Microsoft Research would have the maps for this new world first in the industry. Last April, Danyel Fisher, a Microsoft Researcher at Redmond developed a tool to create a paradox of looking at what we look at on online maps.
He
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Jul
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The Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit includes a set of hands-on-labs and presentations for technologies such as IIS7, Management, WCF, WF, Windows CardSpace, Windows PowerShell, Virtualization and the Transactional File System (TxF). The content was originally created by Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism group as part of the Windows Server 2008 Touchdown training activities.
The seven
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Jul
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Microsoft is running as fast as it can to patch up its patent agreements with Linux vendors to thwart any possible impact from the GPLv3.
On the heels of repudiating any Novell Linux products covered by the GPLv3, Microsoft is taking a similar tack with Linspire, another of the Linux distribution vendors which inked a patent-protection/interoperability contract
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Jul
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With AdWords, you can target your campaigns to show only to potential customers in specific countries, regions, or cities. And since we show ads based on a user's internet protocol (IP) address, you may not see your ad if you don't target your own geographical area. To see your ad as it would appear to
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Jul
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Voodoo PC on Wednesday launched a new desktop replacement notebook for its hardcore gaming audience: the 17-inch, full HD Envy H:171 is based heavily on the Clevo D900C and focuses on raw performance above all else.
Desktop CPUs are mandatory and peak at the dual-core, 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme; the system can also be equipped with
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Jul
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Microsoft Corp. today announced an alliance with mobile advertising provider JiWire Inc. to begin placing ads on municipal Wi-Fi networks, starting with Portland, Ore., and Oakland County, Mich.
The two companies would not disclose terms of the alliance but said they will place ads in a variety of styles, including so-called ultramercials, which are interactive ads that
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Jul
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If you've used Windows XP on a Tablet PC, then you're probably aware that it wasn't very easy to select multiple files when in Tablet mode. Luckily, Windows Vista changed this to make it a lot easier to navigate via Windows Explorer and use the Tablet functionality of your Tablet PC. It may not seem like
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Random From The Windows Vista: 10 Things – Using checkboxes on the Tablet PC & UMPC
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