Archive for February 13th, 2008
Feb
13
The virtualization team is pleased to announce the public beta release of the Hyper-V WMI interfaces.
Hyper-V WMI APIs. Hyper-V uses WMI APIs (similar to the Virtual Server COM API) to create, manage, monitor, configure virtual resources. We expect the Hyper-V WMI APIs to be used widely in a variety of ways such as:
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Feb
13
How much do you love Windows Vista? A little bit? Oh, not at all huh? Well what if you were offered the chance of winning an entertainment package worth $15,000 to spend 30 minutes of your precious time looking at why Windows Vista is just so damn fantastic? Ah…thought that might change things.In what
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Feb
13
A browser itself let you browse the Web, but to get the most out of the Web, you need add-ins that give your browser plenty of extra features. In this post, we share some Internet Explorer add-ins. Tired of being besieged by ads, including exceedingly annoying Flash ads? Then you'll want free Quero Toolbar,
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Feb
13
The long-awaited Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista brings with it a number of significant bug fixes and other improvements. Microsoft promises that with it you will also see a number of noticeable performance improvements as well. In our initial round of testing, we saw a mixed bag of results: we saw
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Feb
13
As the person responsible for the product marketing of System Center Service Manager, our IT service desk and IT service management product, I wanted to provide an update on the timeline for the release of the product. I also wanted to share some of the reasons for the change to that timeline.
We’ve had
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Feb
13
TrueCrypt can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk, or an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB memory stick, floppy disk, etc. This software provides two levels of security: a hidden volume (more information may be found here), and a volume cannot be identified
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Feb
13
Microsoft may soon be defending itself from a class action lawsuit over its 'Vista Capable' marketing campaign, and several of the vendor's channel partners aren't the least bit surprised.Microsoft launched the Vista Capable campaign in order to keep PC sales strong after its decision to delay the release of Vista
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Feb
13
In the midst of its acquisition bid for Yahoo, Microsoft is set to announce — most likely on February 14 — its latest company-wide reorg.According to sources, the still-unprofitable Online Services Business will be where the greatest number of changes will happen. As previously rumored, Online Services Group
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Feb
13
A pre-release version of Google’s free blogging paltform Blogger or Blogspot (Blogger in Draft ) added an widget that lets you display the latest posts from your favorite blogs. It's an enhanced blogroll that displays the recently updated blogs and snippets from the most recent posts.You can
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Feb
13
Microsoft is seeing shortages of its Xbox 360 video game console in the United States, as the company failed to anticipate strong post-holiday demand, an executive said on Wednesday.
“We are really running short of product here in the United States,” Jeff Bell, head of global marketing for Microsoft's games business, said in an
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Feb
13
Microsoft Corp. today announced the results of a new survey that found teenagers between seventh and 10th grades are less likely to illegally download content from the Internet when they know the laws for downloading and sharing content online.
About half of those teens, however, said they were not familiar with these laws, and only
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Feb
13
Just one day after Microsoft issued a massive set of security patches for its software, hackers have begun posting code showing how to exploit one of the flaws.
The proof-of-concept code, posted Wednesday to the Milw0rm Web site, exploits a bug in the Microsoft Works file converter software that is part of Office
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Feb
13
Besides putting a traffic counter on a "regular" website you can also put one up at your Windows Live Space blog with StatCounter.
To add StatCounter to your Windows Live Space, first register your account at www.StatCounter.com, create a 'project' for your blog, then grab the HTML code for your home page counter by clicking the little
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Feb
13
Logitech's Cordless Desktop S 510. The Logitech Cordless Desktop S 510 is Certified for Windows Vista and has some great features:
Fast 27 MHz wireless performance.
Programmable F-Keys that can be set to open favorite applications, websites, or files.
One-Touch Controls that let you access music, video, volume, email, and the Internet.
Power Management lets you go
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Feb
13
An automatic Microsoft upgrade that has crashed popular word proccesing package Word which is part of Microsoft's Office 2007 offering has been pumped to millions of computers.
Overnight Microsoft has pumped 11 upgrades for Vista and Office to millions of computers and on two seperate computers both at
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Random From The Microsoft Service Pack crashed Word
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