Archive for January 29th, 2009
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If you’re currently running Windows Service Pack Blocker on Windows XP or Windows Vista will expire as follows. The toolkit prevents automatic the installation of a service pack through Windows Update, typically for one year after general availability of the service pack.
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Here’re some tools for data encryption & security and password management to mark the second "celebration" of Data Privacy Day 2009.
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BitLocker in Windows 7, however, has significantly improved, since its implementation in Windows Vista. In Vista, BitLocker was too complicated to set up,as it requires to shrink the system partition to make space for the BitLocker partition. Microsoft acknowledged and released the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool.
In Windows 7, BitLocker drive preperation is now integrated
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For many of us getting legal when having non-genuine copies of Windows Desktop Operating System can sometimes be difficult, should I buy Full Packaged Product? what if I have a lot of machines affected? will I need to reinstall? will I need to reactivate all my copies? Microsoft introduced Get Genuine Windows Agreement (GGWA), for small to large-sized organisations
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More than 1400 buildings in Vancouver became visible in Google Earth's "3D Buildings" layer. With the 2010 Winter Olympics just a year away, you can see places like Moishe Safdie's colosseum-like Library Square, the waterfront Canada Place (with its "Five Sails"), and Olympic venues such as the
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If you’re thinking about installing SP1 for DPM 2007 to your DPM environment. There are a few things you that you need to be aware of before you install this Service Pack to any DPM servers. To begin with, DPM 2007 SP1 includes a lot of new functionality as well as numerous fixes that
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This post discusses some of the platform innovations in Windows 7 (download link) and how Windows 7 applications have adopted and showcased these innovations, and is organized by each subsystem, and how Windows applets are using that particular subsystem.
The Windows Ribbon User Interface is the next generation rich, new user interface for Windows development that brings
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Gartner warns about the impact on software of the rapid growth of multicore chips and the number of threads each processor can handle. In a research note, the analysts argued that software is struggling to keep pace with the fast growth of multicore processors, first from two and four cores per processor, and now to eight and even
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The most recent version RC1 of Internet Explorer 8 was recently released. Microsoft has made it easier upgrading to IE8 new builds with Automati Upgrades. If you are running earlier build of IE8, Microsoft will offer IE8 RC1 via Windows Update in 25 languages. For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the IE language that gets
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Microsoft has sent out an e-mail to testers announcing that the RC-Escrow build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is available for download. The company is letting testers grab it via Windows Update (available this Thursday in available languages of Vista and Server 2008), as a standalone installer package, or as
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This post explain how you can include additional files in your package when packaging for the Development Fabric and for the cspkg you upload to the cloud. When using the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio, there are two times that you end up creating a Windows Azure Service Package:
-When you build and run on the
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Jan
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If you want to control which content gets indexedm you block them in your robots.txt file, or add a meta tag exclusion within the <head> tag of your HTML page for exclusion:
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Google Knol recently completed its 100,000th publication. If you are contributing to Know, you can now earn awards. Knols with the highest number of page views are awarded “Top Viewed” status as signified by the Top Viewed award icon, listed both by Knol and by author. In second category “Top Pick” awards are
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With Hyper-V live migration, you can move running VMs from one Hyper-V physical host to another without any disruption of service or perceived downtime. Live migration is integrated with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Since Hyper-V live migration can move running virtual machines without downtime, it
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Microsoft is working on including Windows Live web messenger in the next update to Hotmail, that will allow you to sign in whenever you choose, or automatically whenever you sign into Hotmail. This will be considered yet another location for signing in; the latest version of Messenger allows you to sign in from multiple locations and receive
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