Archive for January 15th, 2008
Jan
15
According to Microsoft, one reason to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Refresh and test drive it is the added performance. While inviting the comparison between Vista and Windows XP SP2, the Redmond company has managed to come short. In its own Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 benchmark
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Jan
15
A security issue has been identified in TCP/IP that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
This update is provided
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Jan
15
Playing the latest DX10 Windows games on PlayStation 3 is now a reality with StreamMyGame. Obviously, there is a catch accompanying this claim. Announced today, the name of the product makes its nature clear, StreamMyGame is a server/client technology that allows you to stream the video output from a Windows PC game
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Jan
15
Authors will create books more quickly; lawyers will build cases in less time; and students will design great-looking presentations with ease.
Simplify your workday and unleash your creativity with the brand new Office 2008 for Mac and the newly redesigned Mactopia.
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Jan
15
The WhereAmI Project is an attempt to use GPS tracking to find your friends and have them find you. The project, an experimental beta at the moment, has its only users in WhereAmI's creator, Nagi Babu Punyamurthula, and his friends. WhereAmI works by letting a user transmit their GPS location to a central server
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Jan
15
Responding to consumer excitement for the Zune 80GB, Microsoft Corp. is making the popular wireless digital media player available in red with Zune Originals, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Inspired by the themes of love and sharing, an exclusive collection of 20 new laser-engraved
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Jan
15
Dutch not-for-profit venture capitalist NLnet Foundation has called on Microsoft to release its older file formats into the public domain to enable businesses, open source-developers and the standards community to better access their own documents in the future, and to help them get Microsoft's products to work with the new open standard ODF.
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Jan
15
Apple have announced a number of new features for the iPod touch which will cost $20 to add to the music/video player. Although in my view they make the iPhone look a less than good offer and feature set. They are as follows:
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Jan
15
Here’s is 90's flashback, a promotional instructional Windows 95 video starring Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston from Friends. It's quite strange, but funny! Watch video’s after the jump.
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Jan
15
Justin Smith updated PictureServices to work with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (what a mouthful). My testing rigor for this release was less than perfect. Please let me know if you find any bugs.
For what it's worth, the changes in the API made the simple list extensions
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Jan
15
Several of you have been asking about if and when Windows Home Server would be available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. My last post on this indicated that discussions were still underway, but that it looked promising that it wouldn't be added.
Unfortuntely it is not going to be made available for MSDN Subscribers at this
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Jan
15
Xbox Live Marketplace has always been the place to be for all your gaming needs, but it's about to get even better. There are great games coming in 2008, Grand Theft Auto, Splinter Cell Conviction, Halo Wars, Resident Evil 5, and of course the fan favorite Burnout 3 (download the demo now), Xbox Live Marketplace is
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Jan
15
In almost every Windows OS release so far, we’ve changed something major in the OS subsystems, to improve the Windows infrastructure. And that generally screws up application or driver compatibility:
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Jan
15
The User State Migration Tool (USMT) is what you use to move lots of users from one operating system to another. It moves files and settings from their old PC to their new one with the minimum of fuss and is a great tool to use when
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Jan
15
It´s very hard to find a dokumentation for a Vista Deployment with the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in a domain.
I finished last week a small deployment project and I posted a documentation for this in this blog. Because this is a german blog, the documentation is also in german.
But I want to summerize the importants points
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