Archive for July 27th, 2007
Jul
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During Microsoft's annual financial analysts conference today, the company's chief operating officer boasted about increases in Windows volume licensing.
It's the "best rate we've seen in many, many years," Kevin Turner said of annuity licensing contracts. He acknowledged that Windows Vista Enterprise and MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) were major drivers. Both products can only be purchased
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Jul
27
There’s a new Windows Live buzzword in town: Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned publicly the elusive Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure during his remarks at Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) on July 26 in Redmond.
Microsoft has been bucketing and rebucketing its collection of Live services for months, in an attempt to explain succinctly
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Jul
27
Google Pack is a collection of free applications from Google and other third-parties that removes the hassle of installing and updating software. Google said it didn't receive money for including applications in the Pack and only chose apps that meet "Google's high software standards and are considered best in their class", but it's hard to
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Jul
27
The final release of the first Service Pack for Windows Vista has been officially confirmed by the Redmond company for sometime after February 2008. Microsoft will not touch the subject of the exact availability date of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 even with a ten-foot pole. Keeping customers and the media in the dark is the
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Jul
27
It looks like Microsoft Australia aren’t the only ones with a “Windows Vista SP1? typo on their TechEd website. This time around two upcoming TechEd events in Barcelona - TechEd IT Forum and TechEd Developers - both inherit the same ‘typo’ that was on TechEd
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Jul
27
GeoAddress is a WordPress Plugin for providing a contact/address list in a Google map by means of markers to be represented can. The representation the Google map and/or the address form can be affected in the Admintool by means of numerous options.
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Jul
27
Last weekend, Eric was in Traverse City, Michigan speaking to the annual conference of the National Governors Association. As reported by the Traverse City Record-Eagle, Eric told the governors that "education must evolve to teach students how to research and access information instead of memorizing facts," and lamented that the tremendous teaching resources on the Internet are not being fully used to teach students. Check out the full video of Eric's NGA talk:
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Jul
27
For Daniel Duffy, president of Valley Network Solutions, a leading Fresno, Calif. systems integrator, the strong demand by his customers for Office 2007 instead of Microsoft Corp.'s other big release this year -- Windows Vista -- was unexpected.
"There are a lot of five- to 50-seat companies getting new installations of Office for the first time," he
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Jul
27
By prosecuting copyright infringers in Asia, it drives consumers into the Linux camp. Better to ease up and build market share—for now
On July 25, in a rare collaboration between U.S. and Chinese law enforcement, the FBI and China's Public Security Bureau raided a southern Chinese operation that had allegedly pirated Microsoft Windows Office and Vista software.
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Jul
27
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, formerly called Live Communications Server, delivers streamlined communications to help you find and communicate with the right person, in real time, from the applications you use most.
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Jul
27
The Rounded V2 blue edition and Rounded V2 themes are a 2-column, widget-ready, blue and green colors with round CSS sidebars.
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Jul
27
Search for a US location in Google Maps, you'll find a list of popular queries associated with that location. For Mountain View, Google Maps lists: Stanford University, Microsoft, HP, a hotel and an amphitheater, but there's no sign of Google.
This could help you explore a city using the
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Jul
27
This Plugin draws GPS-trackingdata from xml-based GPX-Files on Google maps by using the Goopglemaps-API v2.
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Jul
27
The MyDashboard plugin is designed to replace the standard, but limited, WordPress dashboard with something a bit more useful, extendable and skinnable. It is based on the igoogle, Pageflakes and Netvibes style of home page and is designed to be easily extendable and skinnable.
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Jul
27
During a chat with AMD’s Steve Demski, product manager for Opteron line, we learned that the company’s upcoming Barcelona processors will launch at 2.0GHz and, more interestingly, will compete with Intel’s Xeon 5345 processor, which is clocked at 2.33GHz.
When asked about the clock frequencies Barcelona will launch at, Felipe Payet, worldwide channel market development manager in
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