Archive for September 14th, 2007
Sep
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a comprehensive solution optimized for the management of Microsoft Windows Server operating systems running in the virtualized data center.
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) enables easy and fast consolidation of physical machines onto virtual machine infrastructure and rapid provisioning of virtual workloads. VMM enables increased physical server utilization, centralized
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Sep
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Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.
Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.
Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged
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Sep
14
We all wish we could control the network usage patterns of our networks. Imagine if you could specify which computers could use 10MBsec of a gigabit Ethernet network, and which could use 1MBsec. Even better would be to be able to set aside or prioritize bandwidth to allocate it to necessary applications.
All of these can be
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Sep
14
Windows Server 2008 is going to ship it's next public release candidate very soon. Inside that release will be a CTP of Windows Server virtualization (WSv). WSv will be setting the stage for a whole new wave of technologies so with that in mind, I thought I'd give you a
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Sep
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Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.
On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the
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Sep
14
Microsoft is taking steps to ease the transition back from daylight-saving time.
Microsoft is trying to ensure that when daylight-saving time ends and Americans turn the clock back in the first week of November, the experience is seamless.
That was not the case on March 11, when daylight-saving time started three weeks earlier than usual.
It will also
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Sep
14
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with
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Sep
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These gadget samples are intended to demonstrate the functionality of the Windows Sidebar scripting elements. In addition, most of the code snippets found throughout the Sidebar Reference documentation are extracted directly from the gadget code provided here.
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Sep
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Windows Vista is the first software product to go with its entire development process through the Microsoft Software Development Lifecycle. Via the SDL, the Redmond company attempted to bulletproof Vista as much as possible, making it "Secure by Design, Secure by Default, Secure in Deployment and Communication." Essentially, the SDL was set in place as a
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Sep
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Joost has signed a partnership agreement with Paramount Pictures, for movie distribution. The movies will be launched in the UK, France, Germany and Spain to start off with, and more countries to come in the near future.
So I’m sure you’d like to know what kind of movies you’ll actually get. Not the new ones,
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Sep
14
There have been some questions raised about how we service the Windows Update components and concerns expressed about software installing silently. I want to clarify the issue so that everyone can better understand why the self-updating of Windows Update acts the way it does. So first some background: Windows Update is designed to help
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Sep
14
These step-by-step guides help IT Professionals learn about and evaluate Windows Server 2008.
These documents are downloadable versions of guides found in the Windows Server 2008
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Sep
14
At a briefing given to French press yesterday about Microsoft's calendar year so far, Laurent Delaporte VP for Microsoft France kindly gave the Windows Live Wave 2 launch as November 2007. This will include the following:
Software - Messenger 8.5, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, Family SafetyServices - Hotmail, Events, Skydrive and Live
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Sep
14
While Google is leading a charge to create a global privacy standard for how companies protect consumer data, the search giant is recommending that remedies focus on whether a person was actually harmed by having the information exposed.
Google's proposal is scheduled to be presented by Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel in a speech Friday in
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Sep
14
Tomorrow's legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements. These add-ons are growing in functionality and popularity, which has led legal experts we surveyed this week to speculate about when the first lawsuit will be filed.
If ad-blockers become so common that they slice away at publishers' revenues, "I absolutely would expect
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