Archive for March 13th, 2008
Mar
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Nintendo's Wii led by a wide margin in U.S. video-game console unit sales in February, followed by the Sony's PlayStation 3, according to data released by the NPD Group this afternoon. Microsoft's Xbox 360 came in third among current-generation consoles for the second straight month. Here are the numbers that NPD released:Nintendo Wii: 432,000
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Mar
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IBM today rolled out new technology aimed at securing mashups -- Web applications that business users can build themselves by linking information streams from multiple sources.IBM also disclosed that it has donated the new technology, codenamed "Smash" (for secure mashup), to the OpenAjax Alliance of vendors working to create standards
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Mar
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The Microsoft Learning Group has released three new exams for Windows Server 2008. All three are available worlwide at Prometric testing centers. The release comes quickly on the heels of the official release of Microsoft's newest network operating system software in Los Angeles at the end of February.
70-640 TS: Windows Server 2008 Active
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Mar
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Stardock released the preview version of DeskScapes 2.0, which allows users of Windows Vista to have animated wallpapers on their desktop. It runs the Stardock created .DREAM format which can contain videos as animated wallpapers or dynamically generated content.What makes DeskScapes special is that animated wallpapers can be run that use hardly any system resources (obviously this
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Mar
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The time has finally arrived where Microsoft has spent the time and energy to provide us all with a useful Event Viewer. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 come with a revamped Event Viewer, as well as some additional tools that really make using the Event Viewer something that is easy to manage. In
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Mar
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Guy Kawasaki has launched his new news aggregation site called “Alltop”, that displays news from selected top online publications and blogs, group them into forty categories, displays the first few lines of the opening paragraph of each posts and directs you to the blog where the articles was written by a click of the mouse.
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Mar
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Microsoft internal use only Office 2007 powertoy, “Search Commands” (codename “Scout”), made an unexpected appearance on the IEBlog today hiding in a list of installed applications.
Jane Maliouta, program manager for IE8 deployment, was outlining the process to uninstall IE8 when she posted a screenshot of her
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Mar
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Craig Mundie, Microsoft Corp's chief research and strategy officer, is sure he has a good handle on where technology is going. When is another story. Mundie, who took over as Microsoft's lead visionary from co-founder Bill Gates in 2006, is preparing the company for a technology shift that he expects will be as big
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Mar
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It's all a silly misunderstanding, we tell you. Microsoft has been holding fast to its "three years" development time frame for Windows 7 since forever, the problem is that it's never been clear when that three year period started. Well wonder no longer, Microsoft has finally officially confirmed that the three years
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Mar
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Google unveiled a browser version of its Google Sky application on Thursday for people who don't want to download the Google Earth software.The browser version allows you to zoom in and out and pan around the celestial bodies, search for planets and galaxies and view the sky through infrared, x-ray, ultraviolet, and
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Mar
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An official AMD roadmap turned up by ComputerBase recently revealed that the company is, in fact, doing its job and churning out CPUs at a steady pace. This latest batch consists of four Griffin-based chips, which are spread across the company's Turion 64 Ultra, Turion 64, Athlon 64, and Sempron mobile processor lines.
On the Turion front, the
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Mar
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As discussed in an introduction post, Microsoft adLab showcases some of the innovative tools and technologies our researchers are helping to build, providing advertisers and publishers with the very best ways to connect with consumers.
Today, I’ll single out just two from the Keywords & Content category on the
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Mar
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Exclusive eWEEK research indicates that Microsoft's desktop Windows operating system is a rousing success. Vista? No, XP.
In a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research for eWEEK of enterprise IT professionals, just 2 percent of respondents said that Vista was the primary desktop operating system at their companies, while 92 percent indicated that XP
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Mar
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The Office Open XML (OOXML) format may not have gotten ISO's final blessing as an open standard yet, but Microsoft is finalizing plans to release a software development kit for it anyway. Microsoft plans to put out the final beta of the OOXML SDK next month, and release Version 1.0 in May, according to
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Mar
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It seems Microsoft may have a successor or replacement for Windows Vista after all and it’s already been released. Windows Server 2008 isn’t easy to configure as a desktop operating system but when done correctly can be 20% faster than Vista while retaining most of the same features.Windows Workstation 2008 is not a product
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Microsoft released the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Virtual PC 2007 Binary BSP (board support package). The Virtual PC BSP ships with a Virtual