Archive for August 7th, 2009
Aug
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This video walk through the configuration of a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster, configuring networking, servers, and the SAN integration.
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Aug
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Microsoft released Windows 7 RTM for MSDN & TechNet customers, and now starting August 7th, Software Assurance/Volume License customers’ll be able to download the Windows 7 Enterprise Edition as well. In addition, Microsoft also planning an Enterprise Edition Evaluation version to be released in the near future. To ensure there’s no confusion, here’s few points to clarify:
-While you may
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Aug
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Starting October 1st, “domain name renewals” service – part Microsoft’s free “website, domain-name and web-hosting services for small businesses (Office Live Small Business (OLSB))” will become paid. In this regard, Microsoft sent email to their customers notifying: “We wanted to inform you of a policy change to your domain service. As of October 1, 2009, we will no longer offer free domain name
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Aug
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Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers for the RTM is designed with a new look and better functionality. You can still find all existing topics such as: Taskbar, Sensor and Location, Libraries and Shell, DirectX, Multi-touch, Ribbon, etc. No dev was left behind! The kit is built for both native Win32 C++ developers and .NET developers, so now
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Microsoft porvided an “Official Windows 7 Upgrade chart” to Walt Mossberg, which provides at a glance view of, which existing Windows version can be upgraded to which version of Windows 7. The green box says ‘In-place Upgrade’ will upgrade keeping all your files, settings, programs as it’s been in the current Windows
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Aug
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Cloud Sherpas (Google partner) that helps mid-size and large enterprises, switching from Lotus Notes to Google Apps, and get the most out of Google Apps, will co-host a morning workshop – Leaving Lotus: Making the Switch from Lotus Notes/Domino to Google Apps – on Thursday, August 13 in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're an
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Aug
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With the combination of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Translator, you can easily’ve an entire document translated into one of many different languages.
Start Word 2010 application and either open a document or type some text.
Click Review tab, and then the Translate Button in the ribbon.
Click Translate Document option.
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Aug
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Microsoft hardware group unveiled a prototype of a pressure-sensitive keyboard that can detect precisely how hard each key is being pressed. The company describes the potential uses as "limitless," saying it has tested concepts including pressing a letter harder to get a capital letter or
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Aug
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Digg rolling out Digg Ads beta to a small set of users to test the product, “over the next few days, some of you’ll see Digg Ads appear in rotation in various placements throughout Digg. The ads’ll look and feel similar to the Digg content you see everyday - stories, video trailers, independent product reviews –
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Aug
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A Georgian blogger with account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia), with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites, according to a Facebook executive.
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Aug
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Back in June, Google invited users to take the Chrome icon and actually build it in a new, creative way. Many people around the world accepted the challenge and submitted fun and surprising videos of their process, build using some interesting materials: cups, dominos, food,
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Aug
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Prior to Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2) the Windows kernel dispatcher employed a single lock, the dispatcher lock, which worked well for a relatively small numbers of processors (like 64). However, now that we find ourselves in the midst of the ManyCore era, well, 64 processors aren’t that many... A new strategy was required
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Aug
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Smooth animations are fundamental to many graphical UI applications. Windows 7 introduces a native animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of animations. The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and lets developers provide their own behavior functions. In this video, Paul Kwiatkowski and Paul
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Aug
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Google released a new mobile website specifically designed to access YouTube on smartphones with capable browsers; phones like the iPhone, G1 and Palm Pre. Just visit youtube.com from your mobile phone, and you'll be taken to a new website specially designed for your device. You can log into your account, view your favorites,
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Aug
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App-V 4.6 allow you to keep all of your existing sequencing investments and be able to leverage 64-bit moving forward, in a simple and straight forward manner. With that in mind, the following’re some general guidelines about what’s supported:
-Existing packages: All pre-4.6 packages’re valid and can continue to be used on the 4.6 client – just modify
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Random From The App-V 4.6: Understanding different mixes of 32-bit & 64-bit supported apps and platform
- Feb18Google Glossary Search Engine
Google Glossary Search Engine is a simple way to look up a word or a group of words in many of the glossaries available online. - Aug04Stable/Dev Channel Updates for Chromebooks – Dev Channel Update for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
Today, saw flood of Chrome's updates including dev channels and stable channels on desktop and Chrommoks. Here's what has been changed: First, the Chrome team - Mar18MIX10 Session ‘Building Windows Azure Applications’ – Video
If you want to get solid understanding of what a developer needs to know in order to successfully build Windows Azure applications using Visual Studio - Apr29John Lewis TV Advertisement
UK TV released an advert of John Lewis…Very nicely done and great selection of music: - Jul21Halo on Apple Mac – Video
Prior to Bungie Studios' acquisition by Microsoft, "Halo" was originally intended for the Mac, and it was unveiled by Apple's Steve Jobs ten years ago this week at Macworld Expo New York. Marking the anniversary, Kotaku dug up this video of Halo's public debut. Enjoy.