Archive for March 31st, 2008
Mar
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John Lakos wrote the book on Large-Scale C++ Software Design more than 10 years ago, but it remains a must read for any serious C++ developer today.It doesn't go much into the language. For instance there isn't anything inside regarding dynamic casts and virtual inheritance. Neither will it tell you how to
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Mar
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“Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft” is right on track to get an official video home courtesy of the Redmond company. Microsoft Videos Beta features the "coming soon" label but nothing else much. And in this context, the lack of content is most frustrating, because the Redmond giant manages not to give out too many
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Mar
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Microsoft Corp. expects that shipments to China of handsets with its software will more than double in the next year amid an expected boom in demand for Web access once the country launches 3G wireless services.
About 2 million mobile devices installed with Microsoft operating systems were shipped to China in the last year, about 10
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Mar
31
In my post about Windows 7 back in January (“Windows 7 = Vista Release 2&Prime), I ended with a statement that deserves some follow-up:
Those who are predicting that Windows 7 will include some radically stripped-down kernel (the so-called MinWin project) or a new file system are missing the point completely.
Many of the articles and
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Mar
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Corporate users of Apple Inc.'s Leopard operating system are more than five times more likely to say that they are "very satisfied" with the OS than business users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista , a research firm said last week.
In a February survey of 2,200 U.S. corporate computer users, 53% of
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Mar
31
Internet Explorer 8 WebSlices (read Jane Kim's overview of both Activities and WebSlices on the IE blog for details) uses an updated version of the Windows RSS Platform. In many ways, WebSlices are just a different form of an RSS feed.
The advantage, of course, is that developers can integrate WebSlices into their applications just
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Mar
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The MIT Kerberos Consortium, a security authentication and authorization group, announced Monday that Microsoft has joined its shindig.The consortium, which launched in September with Google, Apple, Sun Microsystems and a collection of universities, noted Microsoft is coming aboard as a founding
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Mar
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Microsoft Technical Fellow and IT guru Mark Russinovich hosts a panel of top independent industry experts to drive an open discussion around Windows Vista adoption and deployment, and demystify known issues. The panel will feature leading third-party Windows Vista adoption subject-matter experts including Mark Minasi , author of Administering Windows
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Mar
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June 30 of this year and Jan. 31, 2009, may be the deadlines for U.S. retailers and custom system builders, respectively, to sell Windows XP. But, due to exceptions Microsoft has made, the operating system will be available for at least the next two years for those who purchased business and Ultimate versions of
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Mar
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Microsoft's aggressive strategy to build out its Software-as-a-Service capability to online storage—even as physical, hardware-based storage remains ubiquitous and competitive—some businesses may find it tempting to allow employees and workgroups to jump into Microsoft's SkyDrive for some limited purpose.
SkyDrive, Microsoft's Office Live storage arm, is a free, Web-based service that is loosely integrated
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Mar
31
Please let your customers and partners know about these two upcoming Live Meetings on certification, below. As always, everyone can find recordings of past meetings here, and MCPs can download transcribed versions of the PPTs from the MCP site (log-in required).
· If your customers care about Windows Server 2008 certification,
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Mar
31
Microsoft announced the release of the next version of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile on PartnerSource available for all our Microsoft Dynamics Partners.
With this release we will support:
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 SP3
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1
Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 SP1
Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 SP2
We are releasing in 2 packages, one for the Microsoft Dynamics
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Mar
31
On the same day that Mozilla is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Mozilla source code release, Forrester Research analysts have released a new study that shows that Firefox's market share among business users has doubled in the past year, and is now at 18 percent.Forrester
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Mar
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had announced their important privacy policy changes to protect consumers from losing their domain names if the registrar goes defunct or loses its accreditation. ICANN now requires all registrars to store a copy of their registrations with an outside data storage firm. This protects you by ensuring
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Mar
31
Google Docs' word processor is finally getting offline access. Using the free Google Gears extension, users will soon be able to read and edit their files even when they have no Internet connection.The Gears-enabled version of Google Docs will roll out to users over the next few weeks, starting Monday.
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Random From The Google Docs to get offline access
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At the All Things D's AsiaD conference on Wednesday, Google's mobile chief Andy Rubin talk to Walt Mossberg about the Android.When Walt asked, "How come - Jul03Panasonic unveils 4X, dual-layer Blu-Ray burner
Panasonic today announced that it had developed the world's first Blu-Ray drive that can write at 4X on a dual-layer disc, outpacing the 2X record - Aug15Microsoft protected Windows Vista against Kernel Hacks
Microsoft Corp. quietly beefed up a key defensive feature of 64-bit Windows Vista yesterday to better protect the operating system against hacks that have plagued