Archive for November 29th, 2008
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Max Zuckerman at Microsoft’s student Channel8 community currently has an competition “Max Builds an HTPC”, where students from any country can participate. Now in its second year, involves Max putting together a killer PC system (this year a Media Center) with components suggested (and sometimes disputed) by the community. The selfless guy then gives the finished
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Stephen Leonard, Senior Product Manager for Windows Home Server talks about plans to release “basic” and “advanced” versions of the product in the future. Whilst splitting the platform into two SKUs is still under consideration (potentially with more entertainment focused features in the advanced version), Leonard confirmed that the V2 release will be preceded by
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Energy efficiency is improved through reduced background activity and new support for the trigger starting of system services. Windows 7 also offers improvements in the Windows kernel that enable applications and services to scale efficiently between platforms. Performance of many features and APIs is improved in Windows 7 versus Windows Vista. For example, driver performance on
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You probably know about website notification projects like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe, GoingToRain or IsTwitterDown that notifies you, whenever your website / blog goes down. Here’s another one, but sightly different, NotifyMeWhenIt’sUp lets you enter any website or service suffering from downtime and sends you an e-mail notification as soon as it’s back up.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM has become a key product for the company, according to CRM division general manager Brad Wilson--and it's an area the software maker plans to invest in further. According to Wilson, when Microsoft earlier this year committed itself to investing $1 billion annually in the construction of new data centers to support the Microsoft
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Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday falls on 28th of this year and it’s
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Microsoft has made available for download the Media Pack update for the N variants of Windows XP SP3. The Media Pack is available through Windows Update, and is designed to integrate exclusively with the Windows XP Home Edition N SP3 and Windows XP Professional N. The other editions of Windows XP SP3 already contain by default
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Updating environments with Hyper-V can be more of a challenge compared to updating an environment that consists of mere physical servers. Not only the workloads need regular updating, but also the Windows servers and Hyper-V servers underneath them. The challenges
Hyper-V relies on a Parent Partition, whether you're using a Full installation of Windows Server 2008,
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Microsoft is offering support to testers of Windows 7 when it comes down to issues associated with the integration of NTFS external drives with the operating system. In this context, a refresh is now available on Windows Update (WU), designed to smooth out the experience of using a NTFS external drive coupled with Microsoft's next iteration
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Random From The Update for NTFS drive in Windows 7 Pre-Beta – KB958456
- Oct25RealPlayer exploit mystery “hijacked ad server unfolds”
A week after Symantec security researchers traced the elaborate course of a malware exploit -- apparently devised in the Netherlands -- to what may be - Feb21Microsoft Software Plus Services Architecture Center
Microsoft has launched a new Software Plus Services Architecture Center Web page on its Microsoft Developer Network. The site contains resources for architects - Jun07Tsukomo N170J-Series Notebooks
Tsukomo Japan has just announced a new line of budget notebooks, the 301S (Core - Oct01Q&A Webcast: September 2010 MS10-070 Out-of-Band Security Release
Microsoft MSRT published a webcast as part of the MS10-070 Security Update released Out-of-Band. Watch it below:Also, join the next scheduled monthly - Nov09Acresso AdminStudio Virtualization Pack and Microsoft App-V integrates
Steve Schmidt, VP Product Management, Acresso Software provided some information about their recent announcement for AdminStudio Virtualization Pack and App-V. AdminStudio, with expertise in application