Archive for May 17th, 2008
May
17
Chris Lord one of the PMs gave an insite into this on the technet forurm @ http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2880423&SiteID=17 .
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May
17
Tranquil's T2 WHS A3 Harmony Home Server - "more substantial" vs. the T7 HSA - is a recommended product on PC Pro's "A List."
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May
17
Diomidis Spinellis has written a good paper for the "30th International Conference on Software Engineering" (ICSE '08) that looks at the code quality of the source codes of Windows (WRK – Research Kernel based on Windows Server 2003), Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. Diomidis has analyzed the source codes of these
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May
17
The My.Live.com Team announced that personalized page has move from Live.com to http://my.live.com. You can visit new page and bookmark it.
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May
17
The row between PC Tools and Microsoft over Windows Vista security escalated today with PC Tools attacking the effectiveness of Vista’s User Access Control (UAC) tool.Earlier this week, Microsoft attacked results of a PC Tools' study which found Vista allowed 639 threats per thousand PCs compared with 586 for Windows 2000.
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May
17
Google Translate, has added translation capabilities for 10 new languages to bringing the total to 23 languages. The newly featured languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.In addition, you can now translate text and web pages as well as perform
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May
17
Mr Lamb’s keynoted at the recent event on ”Building a Security Infrastructure with Microsoft Forefront”. The main sessions were delivered by Ronald Beekelaar MVP on Security and Virtual Machines. I'd recommend checking them out to get an overview of what you can achieve with Forefront in your environments.
Building a Security Infrastructure Keynote- Steve Lamb,
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May
17
NTDebuggers, I’d like to talk about a common issue we deal with on a regular basis. We are often tasked with finding what functions are using CPU within a user mode process / application. Typically a user will find an application that is using more CPU then they expect it to, and this can affect overall
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May
17
Here’s an interesting campaign from Microsoft Australia to promote Office 2007. By listening to a short thirty-second demo of Office 2007 presented by a nine year old kid, Microsoft promises to donate one Australian dollar to the Smith Family - a charity in Australia to support. Although the site’s terms and conditions state “Microsoft
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May
17
The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable application blocks designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. This following application blocks are included: Caching Application Block, Cryptography Application Block, Data Access Application Block, Exception Handling Application Block, Logging Application Block, Policy Injection Application Block, Security Application Block, Validation Application Block,
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May
17
Microsoft is offering a performance and reliability update for the platform. "If for some reason you have not been able to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), an update is available from the Microsoft Download Center that might improve the performance and reliability of Windows Vista. If you are already running Windows Vista SP1,
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May
17
Windows Home Server users are reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3. Following the update, attempting to access those home computers via Windows Home Server’s Remote Access features brings up a dialog asking the user to add their homeserver.com domain to the Trusted Sites list in Internet Explorer.
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May
17
The Office Live Update 1.1 installs (1) performance updates to make using Office Live Workspace with Microsoft Office programs faster, (2) the latest Office Live Add-in for Microsoft Office that enables you to access your workspaces directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and (3) the Multiple Document Upload Tool.The Office Live Add-in adds new
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May
17
UAC is often maligned as over prompting for a single task. In this short and sharp clip I show a basic difference of Windows Vista RTM and Windows Vista SP1 and the reduction in UAC prompting to create a folder in a protected system location from four to one.
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May
17
YouTube Insight, is a free video analytics tool for YouTube, that enables users to view “detailed statistics” about their videos. Google has added a new feature to insight called “demographics” tab, that displays view count information broken down by age group (such as ages 18-24), gender, or a combination of the two, to help
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Random From The Demographics in YouTube Insight
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