Archive for May 12th, 2009
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The Manhattan-based real estate professionals, on May 1 launched, “REonomy” leveraging Microsoft Virtual Earth as the first online information provider to integrated parcel data and comprehensive property research tools with a MLS and advanced marketing tools in one location. The new site, which will cost users $500 to $560 a year depending on
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May
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Microsoft announced some preliminary system requirements for SharePoint Server 2010: SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only; SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2; SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005. Also announced preliminary detail about SharePoint Server 2010 browser compatibility: “To ensure the
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May
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The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009) was recently held in Madrid, where Larry and Sergey introduced the "Google" search engine back in 1998. As one of the major sponsors this year, Google contributed significantly in various scientific and social forums. Here's a quick list of those activities: Google
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May
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Thanks to the “Microsoft Translator Widget,” which was announced at Microsoft’s MIX09 conference, diTii.com is now available in 13 languages. We just got the invite-code to try out on this blog, it’s a 3–steps easy to implementation, with an Ajax-based faster, convenient and without disruption end-user experience -
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May
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Google is offering live webcast of its Searchology press event at Mountain View, Calif. headquarters on May 12th, 10:00am – 11:30am PDT, which’ll offer “an insider's perspective on Search including recent search innovations. Speakers will include VP of Search Engineering, Udi Manber, and VP of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer,” Google Press.
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May
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Developers can now register to participate in Windows Marketplace for Mobile to develop, test, certify and distribute their Windows Mobile applications via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Mobile team blog.
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At Tech•Ed North America 2009, Microsoft announced that the company is anticipating that the next version of its client operating system, “With early Release Candiate testing and extensive partner feedback we’ve received, Windows 7 is tracking well for holiday availability,” said Bill Veghte. If the telemetry we receive from the Windows 7 RC meets our expectations in
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May
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Microsoft announced the pricing of its offering of $3.75 billion of senior unsecured notes. The notes consist of the following tranches: 2 billion of 2.95 percent notes due June 1, 2014; $1 billion of 4.20 percent notes due June 1, 2019; [and] $750 million of 5.20 percent notes due June 1, 2039,” Microsoft stated. On all notes,
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May
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Microsoft shares that from the initial planning of Windows 7 through to delivery of the Release Candidate, “we have been deeply engaged with partners and early adopter customers to ensure we are listening to your needs and delivering a high quality product. We are working with early adopters that represent a range
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May
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Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It’s a language that builds upon the architecture of the web and the principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts
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May
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Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables customers to increase their operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server 2010, which is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. SP2 is available at no additional cost to customers that have purchased Exchange Server 2007. SP2 is slated
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May
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With Google Analytics, you can schedule your reports to be emailed daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly. To start emailing your reports in PDF, CSV, XML, and TSV format, just click the 'Email' icon above all your reports. If after scheduling reports you want to delete them, you can do so at
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May
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The QnA beta test ends, and the team is closing the QnA site on May 21, 2009. “At this time, we are closing the QnA site, but the experience of running QnA and gathering all of the great feedback you’ve shared with us will certainly influence future product direction. In the meantime, you can continue to get
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May
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The June edition of TechNet Magazine is now available online or, the capital letters of the cover, “IT’S ALL GOTTA WORK”, take us to the main subject of this issue: application compatibility and how to deal with those critical applications that can prevent the upgrade to the latest and greatest operating system provided by Microsoft. You
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May
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In addition to “ live migration, clustered shared volumes, hot add/remove of storage and improved networking support,” Microsoft announced “64 logical processor support and processor compatibility mode for live migration!” for Hyper-V (download) in Windows Server 2008 R2 (download). “We have seen processors grow from 1, 2, 4, and now 6 cores
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Random From The Hyper-V in WS08 R2 RC gets 64LP support and processor compatibility mode for live migration!
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