Archive for April 7th, 2008
Apr
7
The KB article on best practices and the troubleshooting information for the MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization. The best practices and the troubleshooting information for the MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization.
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Apr
7
NeoSmart made available the Windows Vista Recovery Disc for download back in January, we've been inundated with requests for an x64-compatible version. The Windows Vista Recovery Disc can be used to access a system recovery menu, giving you options of using System Restore, Complete PC Backup, automated system repair, and a command-line prompt for manual advanced recovery.
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Apr
7
Yahoo's board of directors on Sunday reportedly hashed over Microsoft's three-week deadline to close its mega-merger bid, according to a report in the Financial Times The report did not note whether the directors would authorize the Internet pioneer
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Apr
7
Now that Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is available, I thought I'd demonstrate installing Cluster Continuous Replication on Windows Server 2008. As stated by Scott Schnoll in the blog post, Windows Server 2008 includes a number of improvements and enhancements that can directly benefit servers running Exchange 2007 SP1. Exchange 2007 SP1 also includes support for
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Apr
7
IBM and Microsoft are poised to dominate the collaboration technology market for providing applications to the future workplace, says a new Forrester Research. But that doesn't mean small vendors in the Web 2.0 space, or a little company called Google, won't have a prominent role as well.
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Apr
7
Microsoft Update Team back in February posted about the release of a couple of prerequisites for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. While several million customers installed the updates successfully, you may have read that a few customers experienced an endless reboot cycle while installing one of the prerequisites: KB937287, the Servicing Stack Update (SSU),
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Apr
7
The Asus Eee mini-laptop doesn't just run Linux; it can also run Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded (XPe). An interesting new post on the Embedded Windows team's blog tells how to create a USB-based boot disk that lets the Eee boot a custom-tailored XPe installation whenever desired.Asus's
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Apr
7
That didn't take long. Two days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a three-week acquisition ultimatum to Yahoo’s board, Yahoo answered with its own letter.Signed by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman of Yahoo Board Roy Bostock, the Yahoo letter reiterated that Yahoo feels Microsoft’s $44 billion fee is
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Apr
7
Something that seems to always be a topic of discussion around Windows Mobile is why Microsoft does not provide Operating System upgrades. This is something that has frustrated me in the past too.
There are two main reasons for this:
Windows Mobile is for all intents and purposes a read-only OS (particularly true in the Standard (Smartphone, non-Touch
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Apr
7
The Microsoft Update Blog contains some important information about updates to the Windows Vista SP1 prerequisite distribution plan. Starting tomorrow, we are resuming the automatic update and installation of the Servicing Stack Update.
In mid-April, we will begin distributing SP1 (in the first 5 languages) using the Automatic Update system. We have a lot
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Apr
7
As you’ve probably surmised by my blog posts and other writings, I like knowing exactly what my systems are doing. I want to know if a process is running away with the CPU, causing memory pressure, or hitting the disk. Besides keeping my computers running smoothly, my vigilance sometimes helps me spot performance and reliability problems
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Apr
7
Mary-Jo Foley spotted reports that Microsoft are all set to give a Live Mesh demo presentation during the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo conference at the end of April. Running from April 22nd-24th, Amit Mital the “General Manager of Live Mesh” is leading a session
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Apr
7
The Windows XP SP3 is not even released and security company Symantec warned of a security vulnerability impacting XP SP3. The proof of concept of a new bug impacting Windows Explorer is now available in the wild, with potential exploits affecting XP SP3.
“The bug affects the code that parses Word documents in
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Apr
7
As you may have read, the Beta release of Windows Live OneCare 2.5 is now available on Microsoft Connect for folks to start testing. I of course went ahead and installed Windows Live OneCare 2.5 to give it a spin myself. So what's new with Windows Live OneCare 2.5? After installing the Beta myself,
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Apr
7
The IE team announced the availability of Chinese (Simplified) and German versions of Windows Internet Explorer Beta 1 for Developers. The two languages released today are fully localized versions of the IE8 English Beta 1, released March 5, 2008. They carry with them the same improved CSS 2.1 support, better scripting performance, and
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Random From The IE8 Beta 1 for developers in Chinese (Simplified) and German
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