Archive for January 29th, 2008
Jan
29
Weeks out from a crucial ISO vote in Geneva on the ratification of Microsoft's proposed Open XML standard, Microsoft is engaged in a last ditch campaign to convince the wider industry that its endeavours are in the best interests of users.
After its first attempt to have Open XML approved as an ISO
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Jan
29
You can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you... Vista is the first client platform that features both the x86 and x64 flavors simultaneously, on the market since the moment of launch. Although Microsoft delivers the operating system on a single DVD, the
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Jan
29
Fueled by rumors about Microsoft Corp.'s next operating system, pranksters have taken to posting what they claim are leaked builds of Windows 7 but that actually are, according to downloaders, just fake disk images full of nothing.According to the Windows enthusiast site Neowin, several BitTorrent sites have been seeded with files posing
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Jan
29
Greece signed an agreement with the world's biggest software company, Microsoft, on Monday to establish IT development centers in an effort to boost the country's competitiveness.The agreement, signed by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Greece's finance minister calls for the creation of centers to provide IT and business development skills."From
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Jan
29
Every year since Microsoft has held the MIX conference in Las Vegas, it has also held a CSS web design competition. This year it’s called ReStyle. The premise of the competition is identical to most CSS competitions out there - most notably css Zen Garden.
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Jan
29
I'm not focusing on the entire SQL server development process but rather give you some insight in to what we did in the manageability team. This is more philosophical for high-level process then meat and potatoes.
After we shipped SQL2K5 we sat down and brainstormed things we could do for the next release. As you can imagine
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Jan
29
Software giant Microsoft has announced plans to adopt the mortgage industry’s marketing concepts to speed up the uptake of its latest release, Vista.The company’s local subsidiary Microsoft Kenya said it had embarked on an aggressive drive aimed at convincing small business owners to upgrade their software systems to Microsoft Vista and Office
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Jan
29
A new product called Chirpscreen is a screensaver that displays information from your social networks. Having just launched into beta, the screensaver currently shows content from Facebook and flickr, but plans to offer much more in the future. The Facebook content includes status updates from your friends and the flickr content can be your photos
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Jan
29
We are ramping to the launch of Windows Vista SP1 and most of the Microsoft watchers are speculating whether business, particularly enterprises, will move to Vista once this major patch is out. In thinking back to Windows 95, we had similar issues, but Windows 95 had some rather significant and unique benefits as well
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Jan
29
As reported few days ago, Microsoft did said that they "expect the development to take approximately 3 years since the release of Windows Vista" lending credit to a late 2009/early 2010 release.Mary Jo Foley: This is just a quick post to help guide those who aren’t used to Micro-speak.Contrary to many
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Jan
29
Microsoft Research is working on a project for dynamic analysis and test generation for .Net-based software development projects.
Pex, for Program EXploration, is an intelligent assistant to a programmer, according to a Microsoft Research Web page. It automatically generates unit tests to help find bugs early and also suggests to how to fix bugs.
The
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Jan
29
A Microsoft partner has become the first to offer Microsoft's new unified communications software as a hosted service.Intermedia on Tuesday will begin offering Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) as a hosted service on a subscription basis for $7.95 per user, per month, said Rurik Bradbury, vice president of strategy for Intermedia. The
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Jan
29
All the kerfuffle over Windows 7 - leaked memos, shaky handheld video clips of leaked builds, equally shaky tentative release schedules - is amusing. I don No Comments » - Posted by DG
Jan
29
What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?
Several well-known Microsoft engineers, plus programming-language gurus from other companies, are convening on the company’s Redmond campus this week for its second Lang.Net symposium. The three-day conference is all about the future of “programming languages, managed execution environments, compilers, multi-language libraries, and integrated development
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Jan
29
Microsoft recently launched a contest for channel partners that puts an entertaining spin on the complex task of dealing with Microsoft's software licensing agreements.
The Microsoft Licensing Quiz includes background training materials and guides partners through a series of multiple choice questions related to common misconceptions about Microsoft's volume licensing
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