Archive for July 22nd, 2009
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At Microsoft, the deployment of Windows 7 led to an improved end user support experience, resulting in decreased Helpdesk costs. New diagnostic features, improved software and hardware compatibility, and an investment in self service support content supported an accelerated adoption rate. “Internally, the satisfaction level with the operating system rose to over 90% during the dogfood
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Jul
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The projects listed in the Google Wave API Hackathon at Googleplex, also include source code, here’s a few: -Groupy-the-bot: A Python-based robot enables users to create groups and manage their own subscriptions. -Floodit Game: where users take turns capturing as many squares as possible. -Waves in WordPress API makes it easy to embed waves in a post or page. Google already rolled out 6,000
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Jul
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Mcrosoft announced V2 of MMPC Portal, that contains several new features including stream-lined sample submission and tracking, which’s made possible by creating an MMPC profile. When you log in, the information saved in your MMPC profile auto-populates the sample submission form, thereby expediting the submission process. You can then monitor the status of your submission online –
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Jul
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Microsoft launched “Clubhouse Choice Awards” in celebration of one year anniversary of the Clubhouse. The Best Clubhouse contributions in 7 categories based on ratings, views and comments have been selected. You can click here to see the nominees and vote. Voting ends on 31st July 2009. Winners will
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Jul
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Intel is announcing a new generation of Solid State Drives (SSDs) using 34nm NAND flash memory from IM Flash Technologies, its joint venture with chipmaker Micron Technologies. IMFT had previously announced production of 34nm NAND flash in November of last year, but various problems had led to a delay in the scale of mass production that
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Jul
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Google Code now allows documenting duties to each member's; Just click the People sub-tab and start to document what you and your project team’re supposed to be doing. Project members can now place restrictions on individual issues to control who can view, update, or comment on them. Here's some of what new permission system allows:
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Jul
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Microsoft said it’ll shut down its Soapbox user-generated video service in stages in the coming weeks, launched in 2006 as challenge to YouTube, but it never became a credible rival. “Beginning today, July 21, we will be notifying both our customers and our internal and external partners that on July 29th, people will no longer be able to upload
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Jul
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Google Docs new interface brings the service one step closer to an online storage service. The "items by type" menu replaced "PDFs" with "Files", suggesting that Docs‘ll allow users to upload any type of files. It’ll be interesting to see how Google Drive (GDrive) integrates with other Google services that store files
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Jul
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Microsoft Research recently announced the availability, under Academic Licensing, of Dryad. Simply, how does Dryad work? In the video below, Erik and Michael Isard answer this question.
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Jul
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Your keywords determine when your ad shows to potential customers, but it's the content of your ads that determines if users’ll actually click and visit your website. The video below share some best practices for creating winning ad text.
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Jul
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Moodle is a free, open-source, Web-based course management system that teachers use to create Web sites for their classes. Typical Moodle sites include class resources, homework assignments and quizzes. With nearly 30 million users in 207 countries, Moodle has clearly developed a loyal following among teachers and students. At the same time, millions
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Jul
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Windows mutex is a synchronization object. Mutexes ensure mutually exclusive (hence the term) access. In other words, while one thread has the mutex, all other threads are prevented from using it. Essentially any lock that grants mutually exclusive access is a mutex. There’re different types of mutexes – and determining which one will be used is
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Jul
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Microsoft announced of de-investing in the Interactive Media Manager (IMM) solution. There’ll be no further development of the solution, nor any official support of this Microsoft IP beyond a custom support agreement from the Microsoft Premier organization. The final IP is only accessible to the Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) field; there’ll not be external access
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Jul
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Microsoft Education Labs launched two new “Collaborative Learning & Classroom of the Future” vision videos, focused on education in the next five to ten years.
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Jul
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This guide describes Microsoft® Volume Activation deployment concepts. Volume Activation consists of two technologies—Key Management Service (KMS) and Multiple Activation Key (MAK)—that allow Volume Licensing customers to activate Volume License editions of the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems. The Volume Licensing Service Center at https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/ provides more information about Volume Licensing.
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