Archive for April 17th, 2008
Apr
17
The April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. In the April issue, we take a look at some new technologies like voice apps and Silverlight animations, plus a look back at performance and scaling optimization. We also feature our first full-scale interview in a long time, with our Editor in Chief
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Apr
17
Intel will sell more mobile CPUs than desktop processors this year, the chip giant's CEO claimed this week.
"The crossover from the desktop to the notebook [is] happening essentially a year sooner than we first had thought," said Paul Otellini at Intel's earnings conference.
It's not that long ago that Intel and others were looking out
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Apr
17
The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a new study that shows (yet again) that Americans are not backing up their digital photos, music, documents or other types of files. Results of the study, "Amassing Digital Fortunes: A Digital Storage Study," show that nearly one in three consumers don't see the need to back up their files,
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Apr
17
The Open XML Format SDK Technology Preview simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages. The Open XML Application Programming Interface (API) encapsulates many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code. Using this API, you can programmatically generate and manipulate Word
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Apr
17
A new report has recently been published demonstrating the hard savings available from Windows Vista's Power Saving functionality. If your company has hard C02 reduction targets, or you would like to tell your management that you can save them $11 per desktop in direct costs then go ahead and read this report.
The headlines are:
1. Windows Vista
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Apr
17
Popular Mechanics carried out performance benchmarking test of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard & Windows Vista Home Premium, The test was done on both desktop machines and on laptops computers featuring similar hardware configurations. Apple's proprietary operating system Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard proved its superority over Microsoft’s Windows Vista Home Premium.
Mac OS X Leopard's arenas were an iMac featuring a 2.4
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Apr
17
Many of the changes made in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 occur behind the scenes and were designed to improve performance. As such, they may not be readily apparent unless you’re actively seeking them out and using a stop watch. Many Vista users were hoping for a few, possibly dramatic, changes in the graphical user interface. However,
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Apr
17
At RFID Journal LIVE! 2008, Microsoft Corp. unveiled Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile — a lightweight platform for a variety of mobile devices, which simplifies the development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information. BizTalk RFID Mobile enables delivery of relevant information from mobile devices to core business processes for a variety of scenarios,
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Apr
17
Deduplication is being pushed front-and-center in enterprise storage by yet another vendor that claims the technology's potential benefits shouldn't be limited to backend, offline storage.
Ocarina becomes the latest to talk up "de-dupe" -- a mainstay of the backup realm -- for a new role in enterprises' primary storage environments.
Not everyone agrees that deduplication
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Apr
17
In case you missed its one-night gig at Caesars in Vegas last month and are still dying to see it, Microsoft's "Surface" is reportedly scheduled to make a debut in four cities on Thursday.
Already delayed for months and still a pipe dream for consumers (until at least 2011), the company plans to display the much-anticipated touch-screen
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Apr
17
You may not remember this because the news came out during CES, but back in January there was a gigantic leak of Windows Mobile 7 details, including an Alaskan Senator's dump truck full of images. Brandon from Pocket Now recently got to SEE Windows Mobile 7 at a Microsoft MVP event, and while he
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Apr
17
Microsoft Corp. acquired travel search startup Farecast Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
The Seattle startup tries to predict whether air fares will rise or fall, helping travelers decide when to buy plane tickets for upcoming trips. Farecast's site also has a section that searches for hotel room rates, then tells Web surfers whether the
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Apr
17
Excel is a very versatile tool and is often used in ways that are hard to imagine. This blog post is a follow up of Joe's post "Unusual (but cool!) Uses of Excel" . I am going to show you how to use Excel for rapid application development using the new Office Art graphics
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Apr
17
At at ad:tech, Google announced that Urchin 6.0 is out of Beta and is available to everyone. Urchin software is the paid version of Google Analytics that runs directly on your own server, while Google Analytics is a Google-hosted service. You can even use Google Analytics and Urchin together at the same time and have the
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Apr
17
PeerAware enables individuals to search for and share documents securely with small groups of people. Shared documents are indexed and searched by content. A peer can create his own workspace and administer access. Within a workspace a user can collaborate through group chat and a collaborative whiteboard.
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