Archive for the Year 2008
Sep
3
At TechEd Australia 2008 Microsoft conference keynote, Dr. Neil and Amit Mital teased a very quick preview of the Live Mesh application running on a Windows Mobile Palm Treo Pro which should be publically available in the coming months.
During the short demonstration, Dr. Neil
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Mar
18
Mary Jo Foley: Some of my testing sources are buzzing that real soon now — as in tomorrow, March 19 — Microsoft will release a feature-complete Release Candidate (RC) test build of its Hyper-V hypervisor for Windows Server 2008.The new RC build will support an updated list of guest operating systems, sources
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Feb
17
Microsoft has been running forums & newsgroups, to provide community support for all its products. In fact, its these very forums that form the breeding ground for many of its MVP's, where they are among the top contributors !
Initially, Microsoft used Community Server from Telligent to host its forums. But now, Microsoft is
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Apr
11
After concluding a 9 month pilot gathering customer and partner feedback, Microsoft Business Solutions is announcing the worldwide availability of Global Volume Agreements (GVA). GVA provides a framework for custom Terms and Conditions offered by Microsoft, to address the following scenarios:
Customers willing to purchase a minimum of 161 BRL users over a 3-year period
Customers with
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Jul
18
After adding offline functionality to its two most popular web apps Google Reader and Google Docs, Google is ready to integrate two other services with Gears. About a year ago, we had posted that Google is preparing an offline version of Gmail. In an article Andrew Fogg noted that Gmail and
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Aug
6
Facelift Image Replacement or FLIR, pronounced fleer is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with
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Jun
2
Microsoft envisioned Circles was an idea about how users could interact with a core group of friends, family, or other acquaintances. To share information with them, to stay in touch with their updates. In fact if Microsoft had launched Circles when it first emerged in public, Facebook et al could have been the ones playing catchup now.
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Jul
17
An important aspect of virtualization is the actual management: as an administrator, you want to have a single console for managing all your virtual machines and hosts. With software such as VMware’s VirtualCenter, you can manage a complete ESX environment and add a ton of extra features (such as DRS, HA, intelligent placement, templates, etc). Microsoft’s
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Dec
20
id Software announced the dates and first details of QuakeCon 2009. Id Software's upcoming browser-based upgrade to Quake 3, Quake Live, will have a prominent showing at the event. QuakeCon 2009 is a rather important notch in tournament history, as Quake Live is liable to be released publicly somewhere in the same time frame. QuakeCon has always
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Jul
23
Michael Arrington reports that Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is
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Oct
20
OpenOffice.org 3.0 was downloaded 3 million times in its first week, with about 80% of the downloads by Windows users, an official with the group said in a blog post on Monday. The successful introduction of the open source office suite came despite the group's download servers being temporarily overwhelmed by
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Nov
26
Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge.A Google spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Google Mobile uses undocumented APIs (application programming interfaces) in order to use the
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May
17
The Office Live Update 1.1 installs (1) performance updates to make using Office Live Workspace with Microsoft Office programs faster, (2) the latest Office Live Add-in for Microsoft Office that enables you to access your workspaces directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and (3) the Multiple Document Upload Tool.The Office Live Add-in adds new
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Feb
26
Fans of Homebrew on the Nintendo Wii can celebrate with an explosion of releases today, in just a few hours there has been a release of a proof of concept version of Linux for the Wii, an MP3 Player, the Super Nintendo
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Apr
30
Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that its Hyper-V server virtualization technology is likely to ship up to a couple months ahead of the previously projected date.
The company has said all along that Hyper-V, which is currently in beta, would ship within 180 days of the release of Windows Server 2008.
The server officially launched at the end of
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