Archive for September 1st, 2009
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Google added nine new languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. That total to 51 supported languages, and 2550 language pairs — including all 23 official EU languages. Google is also working to integrate Google Translate into some other products; in addition to Gmail, webpages using Google Toolbar, RSS feeds
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Sep
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue affecting the installation of Expression Web 3, in which the process can take as much as an hour and still not be complete. “This odd behavior typically happens on machines running Windows XP without or with limited hardware acceleration. However, this may affect other operating systems as well. The
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Sep
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Microsoft announced a new solution for midsize organizations with limited IT resources that’re looking to efficiently deploy and manage server and desktop technology. Microsoft and its participating original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channel partners’ll offer customers a new software license, Microsoft System Center Essentials Management Suite, that includes Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 and Microsoft System Center Virtual
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Sep
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More and more, people’re relying on devices besides PCs and laptops. Most of these devices can connect to a PC locally or wirelessly, can join networks, and increasingly have their own rich applications, services, and data capabilities. The goal with Windows 7 was to help customers use and manage these devices
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Sep
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Microsoft Office Backstage View provides a first-class surface for a wealth of document information and operations that had been obscured by levels of user interface. In Office 2007, to find out about the license state of your Office product, you would visit resources that click the About button to bring up information, buried several levels deep. With Office 2010, we set
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Sep
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With the Microsoft server platform getting an update in the newly released Windows Server 2008 R2, it only makes sense that Microsoft’s core Web server, Internet Information Services, would also gain some new capabilities. Many of the new features in IIS 7.5 are focused on easing management tasks for administrators, through both the IIS
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Sep
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Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), a core component of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, helps IT teams make PCs safer to use, keeps employees productive, and enables desktops that are easier and less expensive to manage. This has led to a frequent question, which is, “With so many different anti-malware offerings from Microsoft
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Sep
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Gadgets that load quickly and are responsive to user input are more popular and more likely to remain installed on a user page, and a compact properly-cached gadget reduces hosting and bandwidth costs. “Slow gadgets make users unhappy, both with individual gadgets, and with iGoogle. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a way to tell a slow gadget
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Sep
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Microsoft announced that Windows phones will be widely available at retail stores worldwide on Oct. 6, 2009. The new phones’ll be the first to feature Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile phone software, and will deliver new customer experiences through an improved, easy-to-use user interface, better browsing capabilities and access to valuable services, including
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Sep
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Microsoft CMG Events & Studios has selected the high-performance and high-density Wi-Fi solution from Xirrus in order to ensure that thousands of its events participants’ll be able to enjoy quality wireless connections. According to Xirrus, the Redmond company will leverage the Wi-Fi Array at its largest events, including the PDC, Worldwide Partner Conferences, TechEd, etc. John O’Gara,
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Sep
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Bill Gates contended that IBM remains Microsoft's biggest threat. Many others would say it's Google or Apple. Now, the New York Times quotes that “VMware is definitely a threat,” said Gary Chen, an analyst at IDC, a research firm. “After Google, it is the company Microsoft fears most.” The story by Steve Lohr quotes people including
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Sep
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A German court in Hamburg agreed, ruling that Google must eliminate ten clauses that could be interpreted to compromise users' rights to their own data from the terms of service as presented by the federation. The suit filed by the Federation of German Consumer Organizations charged that the terms of service for opening an account through
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Sep
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Open XML is an open ECMA 376 standard and is also approved as the ISO/IEC 29500 standard that defines a set of XML schemas for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and word processing documents. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 all use Open XML as the default file format. The Open XML file formats
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Sep
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Google released a beta version of “Rich Snippets Testing Tool,” that allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. What’s interesting is that you can plug in any URL, not just URLs that you own via the verification process in Google Webmaster Tools, and preview the snippet data,
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Sep
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Google released the version 3.0 of "Documents List Data API," which includes PDF upload/download, and some other features, such as folder sharing, domain and group level ACLs, document revision history, and feed URIs that are more user friendly and RESTful. “Sharing folders is more efficient than sharing a large number of files one
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Random From The DocList API v3 intro ‘Folder Sharing in Google Docs, PDFs, Revisions’
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