Archive for December 2nd, 2008
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Admittedly, its not difficult to imagine a scenario where less CPU cycles result in less power drain and this method isn’t going to magically extend your battery life by much but its nice to see the theory tested to the extreme.SecTheory.com took a notebook PC, a couple of browsers and measured the battery drain
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With financial support and assistance from Microsoft’s U.S. Partners in Learning, students across the nation now have access to CareerForward, a powerful, free online course covering globalization, career planning, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. CareerForward empowers students at any grade level in middle and high school to take charge of their own education, career path and future
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If you’re running Google Desktop for Windows, here’s a new Gmail Gadget called “Gmail on your desktop”, that once installed lets you read, search, and send messages from your Gmail account. You can star messages, use the same keyboard shortcuts, and contact auto-complete. It doesn't take up much space in your
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Microsoft unveiled for the first time new capabilities of the next version of the Microsoft ESP visual simulation software development platform at I/ITSEC 2008. Show attendees can preview new ground-vehicle operations capabilities and multi-channel display support that will be available in ESP version 2.0. For a firsthand experience of the current version of Microsoft ESP, a range
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Dec
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EBS is activated the same as Windows Server. To enter in the key all you need to do is;
Make sure you have the keys for EBS. You should have one for each Server role, Management, Messaging and Security. You’ll also need CALs either device or user CALs to suit your organization.
Ensure you have
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Dec
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For the Black Friday weekend, Microsoft offered Office Home and Student 2007 edition at a discounted price of over 50%. The offer is valid until December 1, with the price of Office 2007 Home and Student edition down to just $69.99 from $149.95.
However, Microsoft delivered a wake-up call to all potential customers, especially businesses, indicating that although the deal
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Dec
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Blockbuster announced a collaboration with Microosft to deliver new mobile services, thereby allowing users to “watch even more movies on more devices.” This vision is being driven by the Live Mesh platform and the many opportunities it offers 3rd party developers.
“Eventually, we'll give customers instant access to any movie on any device
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Dec
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The Anderson Analytics 2008 fall survey via Advertising Age has the Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld marketing endeavor voted off as the top choice in a ranking of bad commercials. Adding insult to injury, not only did college students select the Gates and Seinfeld ads as the number 1 choice for
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Dec
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Ed Bott posted an analysis of “how Microsoft releases service packs and other major Windows updates,” after reading several reports suggesting that Microsoft was “rushing” Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista.
They all need to dust off their Windows history books to see that
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Dec
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A new Live Search Instant Cashback feature is announced that’ll now deposit your cashback amount immediately into your Paypal account when you purchase at eBay. This feature will be eligible for some, but not all users. Eligible shoppers will be notified online after completing a purchase on eBay.
Here's how it works? When you search for a product on
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Dec
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Both Yahoo! and Ask.com revealed the hottest searches for 2008 on their respective engines. Check out the breakdown of top searches for Yahoo! here and Ask.com top 10 search list includes:
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App-V team released a guidance for sequencing Visual Studio 2008 in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5. The prescriptive guidance describes one method that you can use to sequence Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for use with Microsoft Application Virtualization, including prerequisites, background information, and step-by-step instructions.
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Dec
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Apple has quietly posted its own recommendation for similar security with its own operating system. The knowledge base article, posted roughly a week and a half ago, doesn't go so far as to say the software is necessary but still advocates "widespread use" of more than one antivirus package to minimize security risks.
Apple currently
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Dec
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In these days of ever-increasing mobile computing, laptop power consumption is ever more important. But paying attention to laptop power consumption is not important just for the user; increased use of battery-powered laptops results in lower IT power consumption costs. Computer usage is responsible for 7% to 18% of the electricity bill for a medium-sized company.
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Dec
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Microsoft Detours 2.1 is now available as a free download. According to the company, as long as the solution is deployed exclusively on 32-bit platforms, and into research, non-commercial, and non-production environments, Detours is up for grabs under a no-fee, click-through license. The download is aimed at developers that feel the full pain of not being able
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Random From The Microsoft Detours: The closest thing to the Windows Source Code
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Microsoft uploaded three new videos on TechNet Edge demonstrating various Windows Server 2012 (formerly Windows Server "8") features:In the first - Jul09Q&A with Matt Cutts Video
Danny Sullivan did an interview with Google Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced where Google's Matt Cutts took questions from the audience on a wide variety of topics. The issues they talked about: - Apr08Hyper-V Server 2008 Local Management Scripts/UI – codeplex
There are numerous places on Internet with lots of PowerShell scripts to manage VMs from command-line. However, Hyper-V Server 2008 or Server Core OS lacks - Mar20Yahoo Mail Allows Creation of Mail Alias
Yahoo has started allowing creation of Mail Alias. This allows an existing Yahoo Mail user to create a new Yahoo Mail ID and then use it from their existing mail account. - Aug15Microsoft To Phase out GotDotNet Site
Microsoft has decided to phase out its GotDotNet Web site for developing .Net communities. Billed on a Google search as "The Microsoft .Net Framework