Archive for June 30th, 2008
Jun
30
The Bill Gates farewell minute-by-minute event webcast. Video and links after the jump.
Employees Welcome Gates (00:22) – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduces Chairman Bill Gates at the Employee Town Hall. June 27, 2008
Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)
Gates - Starting Microsoft (00:17)
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Jun
30
PlacesBar Editor is a software program that fills a need Microsoft left behind. Windows 2000/ME/XP/Vista and Office dialogs have 5 buttons on the left hand Outlook-style bar known as the PlacesBar. This utility allows you to change them to be any folder you want. Why Microsoft didn't include a utility like this we will never know....
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Jun
30
WindowsAndMe is a new website launched by Microsoft. It will be the place where the Windows community at large will come together to share their experiences, explore the magical world of Windows and learn to make the most of their digital experience.
Share your experiences, voice your opinion & learn from other Windows users to get
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Jun
30
With Simple Mail you can get notified, read and write email messages inside Firefox. You can configure one or more accounts in Preferences, set account refresh time and get notified of new mail. When new mail arrives, Simple Mail shows new messages count in status bar. You can click Simple Mail icon to open received messages in a separate browser tab. Also Simple Mail has a toolbar button, which you can put on a toolbar to more easily access SM.
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Jun
30
Real Networks has announced several improvements to their Rhapsody music service, including a new online music store and integration with Verizon's VCAST mobile phone music service.Taking a cue from competitors such as Amazon and Napster, Rhapsody's new web-based music store sells a catalog of universally compatible (DRM-free) MP3 files from
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Jun
30
Inline Google Docs plugin allows the user to embed Google Document/Spreadsheet content in posts and pages using shortcode.
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Jun
30
Imation unveiled an Atom Flash Drive, a 1.5-inch-long portable storage device that is no larger than a paperclip and can store up to 8GB of digital files. Weighing less than one ounce and measuring a half-inch wide, the Atom Flash Drive is the storage vendor's smallest USB flash drive, it said.
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Jun
30
The Chinese Google Rebang site – a listing of hot searches as well as a general info directory – provides a new research tool for prospective university students in China. The tool is called Gaokao Zhuanti, which can be roughly translated to “Special Subject: College Entrance Examinations.”
Aaron Liang from Canada says:
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Jun
30
Last winter 125 Zunes were handed out to students in two U.S. schools – 100 at a New Mexico High School and 25 at a Missouri Junior High. The Zunes were given out in exchange for research data provided by the schools on how helpful the Zunes were in the classroom. Teachers were
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Jun
30
The day June 27, 2008 made a mark into the history, because Bill Gates, retires from his full time job at Microsoft, a company that he co-founded together with Paul Allen in 1975. The ceremony took place in one of the cafeterias on the Redmond campus Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer along with approximately 1,000 Microsoft employees
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Jun
30
With Wordpress Announcement Plugin, you can set your message, so that a new visitor of your blog can see your announcement or news. Announcement will be displayed only once for a particular visitor. You can add HTML contents as your Announcement or News.
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Jun
30
In our previous post, we discussed about the role of Windows Error Reporting (WER) in Essential Business Server (EBS). This topic will be discussing Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) in EBS. Various Microsoft applications ask for everyone's participation during setup or later in the program. A cursory examination of the legalese text sounds somewhat ominous. "Send
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Jun
30
DFS Namespaces or DFSN management command line tools are available on Windows Server 2008 and also on Windows Vista SP1 as part of the Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). The three available tools are Dfsutil.exe, Dfscmd.exe and Dfsdiag.exe. In this posting I will show some exploratory uses of the Dfsutil tool.
If you are working
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Jun
30
Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story. When a digg is first recognized an email is sent to the site’s admin. The detection is based on the referrer URL, which has to come from digg. In case there is more than one digg posts to your page, only the first one will be displayed.
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Jun
30
A new whitepaper was release this week describing how to set up, configure and troubleshoot Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering.
With Windows Server 2003 and earlier versions, organizations had to deploy multiple certification authorities (CAs) to provide redundancy in case a critical network server failed. You can still have multiple
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