Archive for August 10th, 2007
Aug
10
Microsoft Corp started testing on Thursday a new dashboard view for its various Windows Live online services.
A Windows Live user can sign onto home.live.com and quickly scan for new e-mails, blog postings from friends, contact updates or try out other Microsoft services such as online antivirus and spyware scans.
"It's a quick view and summary for all
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Aug
10
A while ago I talked about Internet Explorer sessions we were giving at Tech-Ed 2007. And while it was a great pleasure for me to see many of you there, not everyone could make it to Tech-Ed. Working with TechNet’s IT Showtime, we’ve made my presentation Windows Internet Explorer 7 Security
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Aug
10
Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. at a meeting in downtown Seattle Thursday.
More than 58 million shares were voted to approve the deal, out of approximately 79 million shares outstanding. Fewer than 20 shareholders attended the meeting in person.
In May, Microsoft offered $6 billion or $66.50 per share
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Aug
10
High definition discs became the second most popular video medium in the first half of 2007, officially overtaking legacy format VHS.
According to a research piece from trade publication Video Business, sales of Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs combined in the first half of 2007 beat VHS. During the last six months of 2006, the now-archaic format
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Aug
10
In the case of online storage, whether it's a picture, a video or an email, you should just, well, be able to store it without having to worry about whether you've got enough space in each particular product.
The Picasa team has announced the rolling of extra storage that you can
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Aug
10
The Google blog has posted about “running a test of an ad serving technology” that will help us understand online ad serving better, and allow us to experiment with some new approaches to privacy for third-party ad servers. The privacy features we'll test in these experiments follow some recently-announced policies, such as a shorter
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Aug
10
On Saturday, Google AdSense users will not be able to login to their accounts, although ads will still be served.
Official AdSense blog post —”Tomorrow, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance from 10am to 12pm PDT. Although you won’t be able to log in to your account for 2 hours, we’ll continue to serve
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Aug
10
Microsoft Windows Scripting Host (engine) hasn't been updated for ages, now 5.7 is released and even for Windows 2000!
This download installs Microsoft® Windows® Script containing Visual Basic® Script Edition (VBScript.) Version 5.7, JScript® Version 5.7, Windows Script Components, Windows Script Host 5.7, and Windows Script Runtime Version 5.7.
Windows Script 5.7 for Windows Server 2003
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Aug
10
Justin told me about the new virtual Lab for Softgrid that you can try out for yourself. I particularly like the Softgrid demo that I do to people, it blows their socks off with just how simple it is to provision applications and deploy them in a way that insulates them from the operating
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Aug
10
Aaron has hacked /modified the Gadget created by Jay at Widget Waker to add keyword research tools & competitive research tools in a Google Gadget. If you use the iGoogle homepage you can add the tool to your homepage by selecting add by URL and then submitting this URL:
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Aug
10
One of the new features in Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services is Server Drain Mode. When a terminal server needs maintenance, the administrator may want to prevent users from logging onto a server which is about to be taken offline. In Windows Server 2003 there was a command-line tool to disable all remote connections; however, this
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Aug
10
Companies need to think about security and risk management before they get too excited about virtual worlds, according to analyst group Gartner.
The risks businesses face as a result of getting involved in virtual worlds can be significant, according to Gartner vice president Steve Prentice. These risks shouldn't be ignored, he said--but neither should the potential opportunities
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Aug
10
With in few hours of the launch of Windows Live SkyDrive Beta. The Spaces and SkyDrive team have unveiled a new module for your Windows Live Space, which shows the SkyDrive public folders on your account. To access it, sign into your Space account, click on the Customize button and add the module and then go to the Windows Live
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Aug
10
Microsoft is surely getting a nick into designs, liveside has noticed that the header color of the newly launched Windows Live Home Beta turns colors with the change of time. The pic below has a light blue header for the bright sunny Seattle zone:
...while later
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Aug
10
Matt Cutts of Google informed everyone that Stephan Spencer's report at News.com that Google now treats underscores as word separators is not 100% correct.
Matt explains that he is having "someone looking at that now" but "wouldn’t consider it a completely done deal at this point." Meaning that currently, Google is not treating underscores as
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Random From The Matt Cutts Dashes And Underscores Aren’t Same
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