Archive for September 17th, 2007
Sep
17
One of the Vista team in the US went to the trouble of creating a list of Microsoft team blogs - meaning those in the product groups in the US building our products. If interesting then please go back to the list as I am sure this will get updated regularly.
Source page: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/pages/microsoft-blogs.aspx
Listing as at
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Sep
17
European Commission and Microsoft: Court of First Instance Decision September 17, 2007 Today the Court of First Instance issued its decision in Microsoft's appeal of the European Commission's March 2004 ruling. This site will be updated regularly, and provide background information on
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Sep
17
Office Live Store Manager seems to be a new set of features/functionality that Microsoft is planning to add to one or more of its existing Office Live Small Business SKUs. Store Manager is currently in private beta test with a "few of our select small business customers," James
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Sep
17
If you already have a Media Center PC, it’s your lucky day, as Microsoft adds two features to the platform: Internet TV and Media Center’s own version of SlingBox called WebGuide.
Both services will be available free of charge to Media Center owners. “It’s a good example of how
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Sep
17
Do you have someone at your office or do any of your clients have anyone that could benefit from additional accessibility on their computer, such as making the computers more comfortable to see, hear and use? If so, you may want to take advantage of the Free Microsoft Accessibility CDs offer from Microsoft that provides accessibility demos and tutorials for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and more accessibility resources. the best part, this resource is free to you and your clients. Head over the the Free Microsoft Accessibility CD order page and get one today.
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Sep
17
Microsoft PowerPoint has two new competitors.
On Monday, Google plans to launch its online presentation application, referred to internally as Presently, and TransMedia, the startup behind the Glide media sharing and storage service, said it will introduce its improved recipe for online presentations in the form of Glide Presenter 2.0.
In the near term, Microsoft PowerPoint isn't going
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Sep
17
Philipp reports that Google has pulled the special Roald Dahl Logo after few hours of placement. Google has put up a special Roald Dahl logo to celebrate the birthday of the author of works like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant
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Sep
17
As you might know, that Vista After Hours events are currently running across the country over the next few weeks.
James has announced a free! copy of Using Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center written by Tony Campbell and Ian Dixon.
We're going to be demoing a lot
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Sep
17
Mark Cuban is currently billionaire number 407 in Forbes' top of the world's wealthiest people. Credited with a self-made fortune of $2.3 billion, the man which started out as a bartender and ended up owning the NBA professional basketball team Dallas Mavericks failed to be impressed with the Wow that Microsoft advertised so heavily in
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Sep
17
ATI Tray Tools is a free utility that runs in the system tray and provides easy right-click access to all of your ATI video card's crucial settings. You can change anisotropic filtering + antialiasing levels in Direct3D and OpenGL, adjust image quality, turn on/off special driver features, or simply just fool around with clock settings (core
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Sep
17
Microsoft's Windows operating system is more secure than Mac OS X, Linux and Sun Solaris, if you take into consideration the volume of patched vulnerabilities affecting each operating system in the first half of 2007. According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report – Trends for January–June 07, Microsoft
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Sep
17
Wath this Windows Live Search commercial about Eskimos after the jump.
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Sep
17
Nokia intends to boost its mobile ad business through the acquisition of Enpocket, which provides cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers, Web publishers, and carriers.
Nokia announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Enpocket, whose technology platform and business partnerships Nokia expects will allow it to rev up its
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Sep
17
One of the big headaches for independent developers was the way 64-bit Vista locks out non-signed drivers. This was certainly a problem for graphics tweaking routine Rivatuner, until bright spark tweaker, Alexey Nicolaychuk managed to work things out, and 2.04 revison came out compatible with 64-bit Vista as well.Among other things, this revision brings
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Sep
17
Deployment 4 is the code name for the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 and unifies the tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment into a common deployment console and collection of guidance. For the thousands of IT professionals already trained on BDD 2007, Deployment 4 requires minimal extra training to perform
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