Archive for April 1st, 2009
Apr
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Vista Logon Changer enables you to change the background image and sound clip that plays at logon. In addition, it comes with 10 photographic images, 8 original drawings, and 12 original sound files. You can also use your own images and sound clips.
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Apr
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DoubleTake announced the availability of Double-Take for Hyper-V. This is a new version Double-Take for Windows dedicated to protecting Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Double-Take for Hyper-V is the one of the first real-time replication and failover solutions specifically designed for the Microsoft hypervisor, supporting both LAN and WAN.
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Apr
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Microsoft and AT&T announced a collaborative effort to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across AT&T’s TV, broadband and wireless services. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft intends to add support for PlayReady into its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, enabling access to PlayReady-based content through AT&T U-verse
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Apr
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The configuration file for the SBS 2003 BPA has been updated with new rules. You can check to ensure that you have the latest version of the configuration file by clicking on the About the Best Practices Analyzer link on the left. This should show the Configuration File Version as 2.1.26.0. (as of 3/31/2009). Some of
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Apr
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New to Windows 7, is the ability to leverage an existing VHD file and boot to the environment contained in it natively. This post walks you through booting Vista. Note: Replace with your drive, path, and filename.
First, you’ll need to add an entry for the Windows Vista option to boot from VHD. To do this, I’ll
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Apr
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In this interview, Tim Meinhardt, Colin Ploscaru, and Juan Calcagno at TTSS discuss with Zhiming Xue why they became interested in adopting new technologies like Silverlight, and what they had to do to re-architect and migrate one of their existing digital signage solutions.
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Apr
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Microsoft released an update for the Image Delivery server that runs the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 or of Windows Server 2003 stops delivering images when you deploy an operating system by using an image-based installation method. “Assume that you deploy an operating system by using an image-based installation method. However, the Image Delivery server that
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Apr
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The Windows Demo Toolkit (WDT) is a collection of resources that makes demoing the Windows operating system as easy as possible. You can use WDT to create engaging and reliable demos in a fraction of the time. WDT is available exclusively for Certified and Gold Certified Partners. It’s currently available at the Microsoft Partner Portal, and
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Apr
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Hyper-V supports isolation in terms of a partition. A partition is a logical unit of isolation, supported by the hypervisor, in which operating systems execute. A hypervisor instance has to have at least one parent partition. The virtualization stack runs in the parent partition and has direct access to the hardware devices. The parent partition then
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Apr
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 became the most popular web browser in Europe last week, overtaking Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 for the first time on a weekly basis according to web analytics firm StatCounter (http://gs.statcounter.com). Firefox 3.0 took 35.05% of the European web browser market followed by 34.54% for IE 7.0.
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Apr
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If you’re wondering what documentation exists for the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 products and where to find this on Technet, read on. In addition, on the Application Virtualization TechCenter home page you’ll find links to other information resources including the “Upgrading to 4.5 FAQ”, White Papers and blogs. The core documentation set includes:
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Apr
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Windows Live team integrated several instant messaging networks “ICQ, Skype, AIM, Facebook Chat and Google Talk” to work together with Windows Live. Adding support for all major instant messaging networks would make Windows Live Messenger the unquestionable no. 1, and it seems that Microsoft is finally realizing exactly this – if things are implemented the way they are
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Apr
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Yahoo! has launched an open source desktop application “Sideline,” built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI), and Adobe AIR. It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest. Sideline is a Twitter monitoring tool, giving you the opportunity to stay on top of the latest trends on the microsharing service and/or keywords you feed into
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Apr
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CNET’s Webware, a tech site about “cool web 2.0 apps for everyone,” has announced its annual Webware 100 Nominees, and 13 Microsoft Products have been nominated, including: Live Search Maps (along with Live Search, Live Search 411, and Live Search Farecast Beta),
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Apr
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Sony announced that PlayStation 2 will be offered at a price point under $100 (that’s $99.99 MSRP, to be exact), starting April 1! PlayStation 2’s unmatched gaming library will grow to nearly 1,900 titles from both our first-party studios and publishing partners this year, with a particular focus on the social and sports genres.This
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