Archive for June 25th, 2008
Jun
25
Microsoft is working on application virtualization technology for the server that is designed to provide administrators the flexibility to quickly deploy infrastructure and even stream applications on-demand.
The capabilities would be similar to the application virtualization capabilities available in the client side via Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid).
SoftGrid, which Microsoft acquired when it bought Softricity in
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Jun
25
“Terminal Services Application Compatibility” tool on connect is located in the “Connections Directory” at the top of the page.
Application Compatibility is the term given to the collection of issues which prevent an application from executing satisfactorily in a given environment. In this specific instance, the environment is the Windows Terminal Services (TS) Platform. TS is deployed
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Jun
25
Google has added more real-time stock market data to Google Finance, now onwards, in addition to NASDAQ data, Google shows, real-time, last sale prices from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). If you use iGoogle, add the Google Finance portfolio gadget to your homepage, and monitor all your NYSE and
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Jun
25
According to a June 20 Fortune Magazine article, Microsoft has earmarked “an additional $200 million for Windows advertising this year, even though in nonlaunch years thre is typically no budget increase at all.” It sounds as though this is in addition to the $300 million Microsoft already has agreed to spend with Crispin Porter
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Jun
25
With SharePoint gaining popularity in the last year and the recent release of DPM 2007 which supports the protection of SharePoint this has become a hot topic in the last few months. The protection and recovery of SharePoint data is not small undertaking and there is quite a bit of flexibility with what you can recover.
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Jun
25
Is that spin I smell? Despite earlier rumors to the contrary,Microsoft seems now to be standing firm behind a 2010 release date for the next-generation version of Windows, currently known as Windows 7. Nobody is being too specific just yet, but a letter sent by Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte reiterated that the new OS
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Jun
25
If you're installing Windows XP SP3 on multiple machines, or you still haven't got around to downloading it at all - you'll be pleased to learn Microsoft has released SP3 as an ISO image you can burn to CD, and then install from disc. The pack contains all the fixes, updates and security hotfixes released previously, and we have it available for download via our download section here. It's a hefty 540MB, but once you've got it on disc, you won't need to download again. Given that Dell and others are making XP available via "downgrade" rights, this is just the thing to keep your network in top shape.
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Jun
25
Google AdSense has celebrated its fifth b’day, now it is five years old. Google AdSense was formally announced on June 18, 2003 to allow webmaster to monetize their website. In the press release, Google co-founder Sergey Brin explained:
“Google AdSense improves the overall web user experience by bringing relevant, unobtrusive, text ads to
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Jun
25
Computer researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered a critical flaw within most recent version of Adobe's Reader and Acrobat software applications that could allow hackers to take control of vulnerable systems. Adobe recommends affected users update their installations, explains Adobe advisory. There are reports that the exploit is in the wild, which both Adobe and
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Jun
25
This part of the series post, will look at a couple of new changes/additions to the Task Scheduler service in Windows Vista and Server 2008. As an overview, the Task Scheduler service provides controlled, unattended management of task execution, launched either on a schedule or in response to events or system state
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Jun
25
After you install Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), Device Manager may not show any devices, and Network Connections may not show any network connections. This problem may occur when an antivirus application is still running during the installation of Windows XP SP3. Applying this fix could help resolve this problem.
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Jun
25
Google has launched a new tool that allows users to contribute and edit Maps data for regions around the world called “Google Map Maker.” In a similiar move, Microsoft has also launched a new tool for Virtual Earth imagery called “GoVE” that lets user upload, edit data to Virtual Earth.
Google Map Maker allows you
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Jun
25
Virtual Earth blog updates of another “20TB of new imagery,” including Microsoft UltraCam images of Iowa City in drier times [Full List]. If you don't see good photography in your city, country, state, or backyard? You can now submit your imagery to Microsoft Virtual Earth via the GoVE program,
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Jun
25
number of testers who’ve been dabbing with the first version of Microsoft’s ADO.Net Entity Framework are unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken with the technology. As of June 24, more than 150 testers had signed the “no confidence vote” petition to make their gripes public, including several Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs).
The ADO.Net Entity
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Jun
25
This package is an add-on to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2. It can be installed either on top of Visual Studio 2008 RTM or Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Beta, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.
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