Archive for March 18th, 2008


Mar 18

Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it
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Mar 18

Microsoft Partner Training: Implementing and Migrating to Hyper-V

Currently there are three dates available for your Partners to sign up for Microsoft Partner Training on Implementing and Migrating to Hyper-V –
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Mar 18

Networking Adapter Performance Guidelines

Networking performance has increasingly become one of the most important factors in overall system performance. Many of the factors that affect networking performance fall under the following three categories: Network adapter hardware and driver performance, network stack performance, and the way applications interact with the network stack. We will highlight some of the more important networking
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Mar 18

Google Search Quality Rater Guidelines

A newer version of the Google’s quality rater guidelines (PDF) has been leaked, which is used internally to evaluate the quality of search results, reveals some interesting things about Google's approach to search. Brian Ussery gave it a look already. According to the document, which is dated April 2007 and at least looks legitimate,
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Mar 18

Microsoft and Amazon confirms Windows Vista SP1 Tuesday arrival

Microsoft Corp. late Monday inadvertently confirmed that Windows Vista users will be able to upgrade to Service Pack 1 (SP1) starting tomorrow.The news had been expected, with some Web sites, including TechARP.com, calling the date several weeks ago.In an e-mail meant to clarify when Amazon.com could begin shipping
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Mar 18

HP plans to sell Linux Desktop PCs and Laptops

HP is planning to introduce desktop and laptop computers that come with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop operating system preinstalled. Systems are scheduled to start shipping worldwide in select geographies in the second quarter of this year, according to a source familiar with the matter. The two vendors will jointly develop software drivers and provide
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Mar 18

BonkEnc 1.0.7 Beta

BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. More formats are available through plug-ins. It makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your
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Mar 18

Kontera Hybrid

In-Text Advertising is an excellent source of ad revenue program, which has opened a neat & clean form of online advertising that works without taking any extra space on your web page. Kontera is a leading provider of In-Text Advertising and Information Services. Their flagship product, ContentLink™, finds contextually relevant keywords on a web
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Mar 18

Windows Me

At a time where there was still a separation between consumer and enterprise operating systems, Windows Me was at the top of its class. What a lot of people forget or don’t even recognize to begin with is that Windows Me is actually a rather innovative and forward-looking operating system. Instead, almost everyone focuses on its reliability
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Mar 18

Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO: Microsoft is still a dinosaur

For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications. Nowadays, the peripatetic entrepreneur might just as well swap the old buttons out with a replacement bearing a
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Mar 18

VMware Server for Windows 1.0.5 build 80187

VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use product for users new to server virtualization technology. VMware Server enables companies to partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines, and to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization. VMware Server has the following other editions available: VMware Server for Linux. Download VMware, WMware Server, Virtualization, Freeware, Software,
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Mar 18

WirelessKeyView 1.16

WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the 'Wireless Zero Configuration' service of Windows XP and by the 'WLAN AutoConfig' service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard. Download Wireless, Wireless Network, WEP, WPA, Wireless Network
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Mar 18

Intel to ship Six-Core processors in IInd Half of ’08

Intel announced Monday that it expects to ship a six-core processor to OEMs in the second half of this year. With 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of L3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel's new 45 nanometer (nm) technology, according to Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general
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Mar 18

Plaintiffs oppose Microsoft Windows Vista Capable appeal

In a court filing today, plaintiffs in the "Windows Vista Capable" lawsuit formally opposed Microsoft's request for an appeals court to review the judge's decision granting the case class-action status. Here's the court filing, outlining the plaintiffs' arguments: PDF, 26 pages. Microsoft's arguments are detailed in this previous post about its appeal.
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Mar 18

Microsoft new adCenter Community website

Microsoft has launched a new adCenter Community website. The new site replaced the old blog and forums and can be found at adcentercommunity.com.
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