Archive for November 5th, 2008
Nov
5
In Part 2 [Part 1], David Washington and Brandon Paddock show how developers can build federated search applications that enable you to easily search your organization's intranet or the Web and integrate those search results directly into Windows Explorer.
The best part is that instead of needing to install software on Windows 7 to get
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Nov
5
“There's still a lot of stuff we want to do,” Johnson told CVG in an interview. "Half the things we wanted to do in New Xbox Experience (NXE) we cut out of the service.
One of the nice things we did was this architectural change to make things more published and driven from the service.
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Nov
5
Microsoft is set to address that question at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week. Microsoft will speak to both overall support for solid-state drives and Windows 7 support for Netbooks in Los Angeles at WinHEC 2008.
In a conference abstract titled “Windows 7 Enhancements for Solid-State Drives,” Microsoft states that “PC systems that have solid-state drives
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Nov
5
The Google Search Appliance virtual edition provides a free test bed for the Google Search Appliance - a solution for securely searching enterprise content behind the corporate firewall - helping ensure a smooth transition to the production-ready hardware. If your organization is considering adopting an enterprise search solution, the virtual edition platform gives your team
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Nov
5
PolicyPortal is one of the applications being used on Windows Azure, — Danny Kim, CTO of FullArmor give a brief description of PolicyPortal?
With PolicyPortal, organizations can manage their remote end-points by extending their directory-based policies and applications over the Internet. A small piece of software resides on the client PC to communicate with
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Nov
5
With Hyper-V, a virtual device is a software module that provides an I/O path for a partition and are configurable via Hyper-V Manager console. A VDev allows a single physical device attached to the primary partion to be shared across multiple child partitions. Each partition believes it has exclusive access to the device. Virtual devices are
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Nov
5
The Prix Pictet Photography Competition focussing on global sustainability. This years subject matter is water, some of the entries have been captured in a slideshow here on the BBC, and the winner, Benoit Aquin, has just been announced.
These images are stunning and provide a great way to focus our attention on
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Nov
5
Western Digital has officially debuted its WD TV HD Media Player -- a way to expand the reach of its portable hard drives into the DTV realm with the aid of USB. Introduced as a companion to WD's My Passport portable media drives, the WD TV player acts as
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Nov
5
Instead of posting 3 or 4 related YouTube videos, create a playlist and use the code provided by YouTube to add it to your web page and YouTube will play videos one after another: you'll include a single player and the visitors will only need to click on the "play" button once. Creating a playlist is
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Nov
5
Microsoft has extended its Health Users Group to EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). The Redmond company used the World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition in Copenhagen as the stage for the announcement that members of the healthcare industry in EMEA now have at their disposal a new playground for working together
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Nov
5
David Washington and Paul Gusmorino demonstrate the key enhancements in Windows 7 to finding and organizing your files. David and Paul show off the ways that the team has simplified the Windows Explorer, the new libraries feature, which is a virtual collection of your music, photos, and video, wherever they may be, including on multiple machines.
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Nov
5
During my time at PDC, I managed to speak with many people knowledgeable about various aspects of Windows 7. One of these people was Dan Polivy, a lead on the team behind the new Windows 7 sensors framework which was mentioned a number of times during the old days when Windows 7 speculation was rampant. Dan
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Nov
5
Channel 10 released a video interview with Mark Pendergrast, Brendan Grant and Doug Berrett to chat about their PDC sessions and how Live Mesh is being integrated with Windows Home Server including a prototype demo of WebGuide running as a Silverlight application from the Live Mesh desktop.
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Nov
5
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a stand-alone product that will be available via the Microsoft Download Center free of charge. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 does not require CALs for the product itself.
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Nov
5
Google has announced the availability of Street View in Seattle, Washington D.C., and Baltimore to give you even more of a reason to explore Street View, we've hidden another special surprise somewhere in our US imagery so keep your eyes peeled.
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