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Archive for March 3rd, 2008

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Mar 3

Microsoft Corp. expects to see some economic slowdown eventually, particularly in the United States, but its business has not felt any major impact yet, Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said on Monday.Liddell, speaking at a technology conference, said the software maker is "not blind to the fact that it's a difficult economic

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With Techfest just a couple of days away, I caught up with Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft research and ask him about the history of MSR, some interesting projects coming out at Techfest later this week including projects like contextual search and WorldWide Telescope, and how he sees technology evolving in the future. Video:

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he wishes Apple hadn't released a 2G version of the iPhone; that the Apple TV is frustrating to use, and that the MacBook Air won't be a hit. Wozniak was in Sydney this morning to deliver the keynote speech at a conference focused on Australian broadband. But his commentary during

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Microsoft's Surface has yet to become a permanent act on the Vegas Strip, but the tabletop computer did play a one-night gig at Caesars Palace last week.The it-list gadget was shown off at Caesars Pure nightclub at the drawing party for the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Among the celebrity hands that got

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Business Objects and Cognos have long been considered the leaders in business intelligence (BI) platforms. But in a surprising new report, Gartner ranks Microsoft ahead of those companies in its ability to execute. Gartner's "magic quadrants" are typically annual market evaluations that place software vendors in one of four quadrants within a square: niche players,

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Dave Northey, Microsoft Ireland: I was just reading this report from Cenzic - it makes for interesting reading!For accuracy, I'll point out that the report states that web browser vulnerabilities comprised roughly 5% of the total application vulnerabilities - all the same, it's nice to see

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This document provides more detail about the notable changes made to Windows Vista in Service Pack 1, which were focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards. Download Microsoft, Windows Vista, SP1, Vista SP1, Document, Download

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Getting text and other content out of your PDF documents is often a hassle. Adobe Acrobat (or your other favorite PDF viewer) can do copy-and-paste, but that's time-consuming and tedious for anything but the smallest jobs. Acrobat also has a 'save as text' option, but unless you spring

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We have some information we'd like to share in regards to Windows Vista SP1 and folks running Language Packs. Some of you may have noticed that after installing Windows Vista SP1 on Windows Vista Ultimate - the Language Packs fail to appear on Windows Update (KB947875). We will be releasing Windows Vista SP1 in two

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Michael Gartenberg, VP & Research Director, JupiterResearch: According to an old industry joke, IBM was once so poor at marketing that if it had invented sushi, it would have called it "cold, dead, raw fish." This occurs to me because I've been thinking of Microsoft's Vista as the sushi of operating systems. I'll

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Mike Glass, I attended Embedded World in Nurnberg last week. The number one application I saw over and over again was embedded devices based on multi-core processors. If you think of Microsoft’s entire range of embedded operating systems – Micro-framework at the low end, Windows CE (the only real-time OS (RTOS)), and Windows XP;

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There are a number of software projects to let Web applications run offline, including Adobe's AIR, Google Gears, and the Mozilla Foundation's Prism. What about Microsoft and its Silverlight browser plug-in? Microsoft does not currently have specific plans to bring offline capabilities to Silverlight, but it's something it will

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Are you still undecided about Windows Vista?  Unsure about deployment?  Running into some roadblocks?  This is the event for you! Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable—broadcast LIVE over the Internet on Wednesday, March 5th.  The subject?  Windows Vista adoption and deployment. 

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To try to spur interest in its upcoming Office Live Workspace service, Microsoft Corp. plans to announce Tuesday that it is running a sweepstakes with a $100,000 grand prize for U.S. beta testers of the Web-based document storage and collaboration offering.Microsoft also said that it has added several new features to

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A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.Adam Boileau first demonstrated the hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been tested with Windows Vista, at a security conference in Sydney in 2006, but

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