Archive for February 29th, 2008
Feb
29
Microsoft may have made mistakes launching Windows Vista, but the operating system was far from a failure, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia, the company's senior vice president of servers and tools.
The embattled OS may have gone too far in improving security at the expense of application compatibility, and ignored performance issues
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Feb
29
Online word processing and document collaboration suite Zoho Writer received an update which has made it compatible with Microsoft's Office Open XML file format.
Zoho's free online productivity suite already offered many of the same features as Microsoft Office, and even went so far as to coyly address the need for
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Feb
29
Security researchers discovered that new malicious code spread through the black market is making its way onto some of the largest corporate Web sites in the world. San Jose-based Finjan, a security company specializing in Web gateway solutions, announced today that it uncovered a database containing more than 8,700 harvested FTP account credentials, including
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Feb
29
Sometimes, when you upload a new .cab file for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition or Microsoft RoundTable using the OCS 2007 Software Update Service Management Console Upload Software feature, the upload fails with an HttpException and the message Request timed out in the event log. The actual exception might vary, but the real reason is
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Feb
29
Intel Corp. Wednesday unveiled five new processors and a chipset for the embedded market. The quad-core and dual-core Xeon processors are being built with the company's new 45 nanometer (nm) process and will take advantage of Intel's new transistor design. At the same time, Intel announced that it will extend life cycle support for
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Feb
29
PayPal has issued a warning regarding the Apple’s Safari web browser, and left Safari out of its list of recommended browsers because it lacks two anti-phishing security features:
Safari has no built-in phishing filter to warn users of suspicious sites
Safari has no support for EV (Extended Validation) certificates, a secure web browsing technology that gives a
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Feb
29
Server virtualisation is over-hyped and less used than reported, according to Microsoft executives speaking at the launch of Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft corporate VP Bob Kelly claimed that despite the technology being the "buzz of the industry", less than 10 percent of servers sold into the market are being deployed as hosts for virtualised servers.
"Virtualisation
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Feb
29
Sony fears the Asus Eee PC. It worries the elfin notebook's low price, low spec approach could cut the bottom out of the laptop business. "If [Asus' Eee PC] starts to do well, we are all in trouble," Mike Abary, a senior VP with Sony US' IT products operation, told Cnet.
"That's just a race
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Feb
29
Yesterday was the official launch of Window Server 2008, the first version of Windows to include PowerShell! Is that a good day or what? How could the day get any better? Well, the people at Quest Software answered that question by officially releasing PowerGUI!
PowerGUI ROCKS! If you haven't used it yet, you should download
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Feb
29
Last-minute changes to Windows Vista broke drivers, forcing key hardware vendors to "limp out with issues" when the operating system launched last year, according to a presentation by Dell Inc. that was made public this week."Late OS code changes broke drivers and applications, forcing key commodities to miss launch or limp out
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Feb
29
A pivotal meeting of international delegates to decide the fate of Microsoft's Open XML finished on Friday with advocates and foes of the standards bid predicting victory.Brian Jones, an Office program manager at Microsoft involved in the process to standardize Open XML, posted a blog Friday saying that
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Feb
29
As reported here yesterday, one of the most eye-catching elements of the newly disclosed internal Microsoft e-mails on Windows Vista was an e-mail from Microsoft's John Kalkman to Scott Di Valerio, then in charge of the company's relations with PC makers. In the February 2007 message, Kalkman explained why the company lowered
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Feb
29
Microsoft Reduces Price on Several Retail Stand-Alone Versions of Windows VistaQ&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing at Microsoft, discusses changes to pricing of Windows Vista retail stand-alone editions.
Since its release, Windows Vista has seen solid sales through the first year of availability, primarily through the sale of new PCs. Stand-alone
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Feb
29
PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 is now available for free download, along with source code and a readme document. PowerCommands, is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE.
The source code, which requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 installed, can
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Feb
29
Fliiby stands for File Library is a unique and simple way for uploading, categorizing and sharing files. You can upload any files be it “e-book, image, video, audio file or software” and share across the network. Fliiby works like YouTube, in that anyone can upload and share files. And visitors can browse or search for files, many of
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Random From The Fliiby: Files (any file type) Upload & sharing service like YouTube
- Nov14Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset 6 (DaRT) “Hands-on”
Brandon from Windows Experience Blog recently had a chance to give one of the components of MDOP - the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) - Mar11Windows Live Image Search Beta Now Live, Too
Lost in this week's Windows Live Search unveiling was yet another new Microsoft service, known as Windows Live Image Search. Live Image Search - Apr10Windows XP: Protect shared access Computers with Windows SteadyState – Part 2
How to configure Windows SteadyState – a completely free toolkit from Microsoft that helps administrators take control of shared access computers running Windows XP. - Sep21Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool CTP
Team System Web Access is a free download that will be incorporated into a future release of Visual Studio Team System. You may install it with licensed installations of Team Foundation Server. You must be a licensed user of Team Foundation Server to access Team System Web Access. - Feb18Google writes to City of Mountain View for development opportunities around Google campus
In an effort to change the current facilities that Google provides “luxury buses with wi-fi to employees commuting from San Francisco” – Google