Archive for August 11th, 2009
Aug
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Microsoft, in response to complaints that Internet Explorer 8 was being designated as the default browser during some installations, will change the express installation process starting this week, the software giant told a U.S. district judge. Options presented to Windows users were "unclear," the U.S. Department of Justice said in the antitrust status report. "The Express option is
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Aug
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Facebook announced of acquiring FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders’ll hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams. “Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,” said
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Aug
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Sumeeth Evans discusses how a modern Operating System will help overcome many of the obstacles of maintaining an IT infrastructure and explains his plans to solve mobile worker challenges with the adoption of Windows 7 and DirectAccess.
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Aug
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Microsoft rolled out the latest dashboard update to all Xbox LIVE users worldwide. This update has a ton of new functionality – Xbox 360 Games on Demand, Avatar Props and Avatar Marketplace, User Ratings, improved experiences for Parties, Netflix, the Guide, and more! With this update, you can download full Xbox 360® games
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Aug
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Leaked Best Buy's inventory system revealed the price of Zune HD: the 16GB model will go for $220, and the 32GB model will be $290. It also backs up the previously rumored launch date, Sept. 8.
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Aug
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Now that SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP is released, Microsoft announced of launching a string of other CTPs for low latency complex event processing now called StreamInsight, the first CTP for SQL Azure Database, a limited preview of Project “Gemini” Excel and SharePoint add-ins and a private technology preview of Project Madison,
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Aug
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Architect Elliot H Omiya, Principal Software Developer Larry Osterman and Principal Software Developer Frank Yerrace take us through the details of Windows 7 audio, including some history, some design decisions, some hard problems and overall a great conversation about how Windows makes noise (or music - it's all relative, depending on the band or genre ).
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Aug
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If you’ve a distributed application that has to read, write, update and remove many very large (hundreds of megabytes each) files from a set of a file servers. You may intermittently encounter “file not found” error on certain files; even when the files in the same destination directory on that server. As a temporary workaround is to wait a few
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Aug
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Google allows you to customize Google AJAX Search API powered Custom Search Engine (CSE), to create a seamless search experience for your users. You can begin by changing search input box, see this example. Now add CSS rules to change fonts, colors, and more in the search results. And see this example
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Aug
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Trishul Chilimbi, senior researcher and manager of the Runtime Analysis and Design team within Microsoft Research Redmond’s Research in Software Engineering organization, is leading an effort to underscore the importance of energy-efficient computing, as evidenced in the paper Green: A System for Supporting Energy-Conscious Programming Using Principled Approximation. “The Green project,” Chilimbi
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Aug
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Search engines, such as Bing, need to regularly crawl websites not only to index new content, but also to check for content changes and removed content. Larger sites that’ve a great many pages of content may need to be crawled more deeply and/or more often so that their latest content may be added into the index.
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Aug
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Google File System is "a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications". Initially used to store Google's search indexes and the crawling data, GFS is now mostly used to store user generated content. ACM has an interview with Sean Quinlan, who was a GFS tech lead and’s now a principal engineer at Google
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Aug
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Google Maps have created a place “Add Google Maps to your website” to learn all ways you can add a Google map to your website. From plotting only a few locations or embedding driving directions to more advanced custom mapping options. You can shoose between quick & advance; once you select the appropriate level,
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Aug
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Microsoft Windows 7 Professional is now available in MSDN Academic Alliance. In the week of Monday August 10th, Windows 7 will be available through ELMS download for student distribution. Windows 7 Client Retail Professional Edition (English) is included for student distribution in both the x86 and x64 variety. For lab installs, Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
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Aug
11
If you’ve received Office Professional 2010 Technical Preview invitation, but haven’t activated your copy yet, you’ll be greeted with a message (see pic). Microsoft announced that, its “due to the large demand for downloads and installations we’ve already reached the maximum number of key activations originally created for the Technical Preview program.” The Office 2010 Team’s well
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Random From The Office Professional 2010 Technical Preview hit max Key activations; Fix coming soon!
- Mar04Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010 ‘Submit your Windows Azure Platform Partner Solutions’
This year we're showcasing more partner solutions than ever before at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010 to be held in Washington, D.C. July - Mar01Expression Encoder team blog – Video
Charles, welcome's to the new Expression Encoder team blog!, and continues -- we plan on posting a bunch for hints and tips over the - May31New Guidance Available on Using SSL Certificates with Windows Azure
Microsoft recently updated updated and reorganized content in Managing Certificates in Windows Azure to make it easier to find help on certificates. "With these updates, - Aug07Building Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster – Video
This video walk through the configuration of a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster, configuring networking, servers, and the SAN integration. - Feb27Opera Vulnerability. The Company Doesn’t Care about It!
At this time, Opera is one of the browsers that are struggling to attract more users because the two leaders, Internet Explorer and Firefox, are