Archive for September 23rd, 2008
Sep
23
The EATK makes Microsoft Word 2007 a first class citizen in the architecture description area. As I described in my recent post called "Do Office Tools Still Play a Role in Architecture Design?" There are a series of problems that the EATK is trying to solve by leveraging Microsoft Word 2007. I will not
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Sep
23
Microsoft is now finished 600MB of technical specifications, 500K lines of code, 250 customer based design changes, and 3000 beta downloads. 2 years and 3 months ago we shipped Compute Cluster Server 2003 (yes, a strange name for a product that shipped in 2006). The Redmond company has now announced release to manufacturing version of Windows HPC
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Sep
23
One of the nice things about Microsoft's new Zune is that it can download or stream songs at a hot spot. The downside: the music player won't work at just any hot spot.
The big limit is that the Wi-Fi locale not only has to be free, but also of the variety that doesn't pop
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Sep
23
Paul Thurrott has an interesting article from outlining his thoughts on Windows 7, specifically with regard to Windows Home Server.
Here’s what we do know. Windows 7 can and should be considered Vista Release 2 (R2). In fact, I think Microsoft should market the business versions of the OS under that very name. Beginning
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Sep
23
Firefox has been outperforming IE in every department for years, and version 3 is speedier than ever.But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations.
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Sep
23
This post discusses a case where we fail to log security settings from the Default Domain Policy. In this case, we had a small environment with 2 domain controllers, one holding all of the FSMO roles, the other a replica domain controller.
The issue was noticed during an internal audit, and the customer noticed that certain security
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Sep
23
Microsoft officially opened its San Antonio, Texas, data center, the latest in a string of giant facilities aimed at powering Microsoft consumer and business online services. The company said the data center occupies nearly half a million square feet and cost $550 million to establish.Microsoft touted some of the environmental features of the facility, including
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Sep
23
Zhou from thinknext who posted build 6780 screenshots has come through again and posted some videos of Windows 7 build 6780. Watch the videos after the jump.
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Sep
23
Administrative templates provide Group Policy setting information for the items that appear under Administrative Templates. Group Policy tools use Administrative template files to populate policy settings in the user interface. This allows administrators to manage registry-based policy settings.Administrative template files in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista are divided into ADMX (language-neutral) and ADML
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Sep
23
Anyone interested in a webcast on Windows Vista performance? Mark Russinovich is hosting a roundtable discussion webcast tomorrow morning, part of the Springboard series, at 9 a.m. Pacific time with a panel of IT pro experts: customers, partners, MVPs, etc. It should be a good discussion, focusing on common causes of Windows Vista performance problems and how
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Sep
23
CBS EyeMobile app for the iPhone let aspiring citizen journalists report on news by uploading photos and videos to the CBS site with the popular device, but in order to use the service, you have to have a jailbroken iPhone. Brent Brookler, the CEO of Treemo Labs, the company that developed the EyeMobile application for
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Sep
23
Instapaper iPhone application let you use a bookmarklet to flag articles that you'd like to read later, then gives you a web-based interface to go back and find those articles. The Instapaper iPhone app goes one further - it syncrhronizes offline copies of your saved articles so that you can read them even when you're not online.
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Sep
23
The upcoming Intel Nehalem CPU has been in the spotlight for months now. In contrast and despite the huge die size and 1.9 billion (!) transistors, the 6-core Xeon 74xx is a wallflower for both the public as Intel's marketing.
The Xeon 74xx, formerly known as Dunnington, is indeed a very interesting upgrade path
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Sep
23
Microsoft Research has hired social network researcher danah boyd, probably the most high profile academic in the world focused on the emerging web and its social consequences.Who is danah boyd? (She spells her own name with lower case letters.) You may have seen her when she hit the international spotlight for writing about
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Sep
23
Microsoft continues to be committed to Games for Windows and Games for Windows Live and is ready to boost the volume of titles under the Games for Windows label to approximately 90 items with the addition of “Grand Theft Auto IV” from Rockstar Games, “Fallout 3” from Bethesda Softworks, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
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Random From The Games for Windows and Games for Windows Live Evolves
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