Archive for September 9th, 2009


Sep 9

Expression Encoder 3: Editing, presets, Silverlight 3 players

Want your video to play smooth without buffering outages and delays? What about viewing Silverlight offine? Learn the answers to these and more by watching this video on Expression Encoder 3 that provides the power of industry leading encoding, in a simple approachable interface to make it easy to prepare video for use in a
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Sep 9

Microsoft announces IIS Media Services 3.0-powered Live Smooth Streaming and Silverlight tools

Bolstering its ability to provide the richest user experiences to consumers, Microsoft announced plans to release Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services 3.0, which enables delivery of interactive, high-definition-quality Live Smooth Streaming, along with new tools to simplify the process of delivering online experiences with Microsoft Silverlight. IIS Media Services 3.0 and Silverlight 3 together provide
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Sep 9

President Obama’s address to Congress – Live on YouTube

President Obama address a joint session of Congress and the nation tonight at 8 pm ET to lay out the White House's plan for health care reform. Google'll be live-streaming the address on YouTube on the White House channel, so make sure to tune in.
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Sep 9

Russia dropped antitrust probe over Windows XP

The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has dropped its investigation into Microsoft’s decision to stop selling Windows XP in favor of Windows Vista. Russian customers can continue to buy XP, and Microsoft has said that it will kick off an exchange program soon to allow users to downgrade Vista PCs to XP up until the end
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Sep 9

orkut friend suggestions feature

Google added a new “friend suggestions” feature to orkut, that automatically create a list of people, who you might know, and display it right below your birthday reminders. Not only does the friend suggestions feature make it easy to find new friends, it also lets you add them to your friends list and send them a short message
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Sep 9

‘Britain Works’ Microsoft UK’s campaign to get 500k in to jobs

Microsoft UK launched a new initiative called “Britain Works” to help citizens during the recession, and aims to help 500,000 people into work by 2012 through a combination of: “A new job matching service; Targeted skills and employability training with provision of training vouchers, at all levels of IT skills need; A new national apprenticeship scheme
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Sep 9

Migrate Visual Basic 6.0 app to Silverlight 3, Azure using Visual WebGui from ArtinSoft and Gizmox

ArtinSoft and Gizmox allianced to provide migration services for upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 applications to DHTML, Silverlight 3, and Windows Azure platform. This alliance introduces a new alternative for enterprises looking for a way out of legacy VB 6.0 applications, providing both long-term savings by moving to a rapid application development framework provided by Visual WebGui, and a quick upgrade
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Sep 9

Microsoft warns of SMB 2.0 vulnerability affecting Windows 7 RC (Security Advisory 975497)

Microsoft released Security Advisory 975497 that provides information about a new, irresponsibly reported vulnerability in SMB 2.0 and affects Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 RC. Windows 7 RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP and Windows 2000 are not affected by this vulnerability. The Security Advisory outlines steps that Windows
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Sep 9

Microsoft “Redmond Ridge 1″ green server building

Microsoft's engineers’ve always liked to keep their servers for testing and building software close at hand, in the buildings where they work. But the company has begun to change that practice – opening a new facility eight miles from its main campus where it plans to shift much of that computing workload.
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Sep 9

TechEd Australia: Windows 7 Netbook Deployment

At TechEd Australia, John Pritchard explained how “Windows 7 was deployed on 2,500 machines in just a week?”. There was lots of effort in getting a reference image created with all the appropriate drivers, and preloading the machines with apps like Visual Studio 2010 and the Office 2010 Tech Preview. You can see more about the
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Sep 9

End-to-End Monitoring of IT Services in the Datacenter – Microsoft Office Live Meeting

Microsoft is calling people to join Microsoft Office Live Meeting open exclusively to members of the System Center Influencers Program on on 9/15 2009. If you aren't a part of our System Center Influencer program send your bio and Windows Live ID to scnetsup@microsoft.com. “Proactive management of the applications and IT services running in your datacenter
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Sep 9

ShopSavvy ‘Price comparison app’ available for Andriod and Windows Mobile

ShopSavvy bridges the gap between shopping online and shopping at the store. When you’re out and about doing some shopping, you can scan the barcode of any product using their phone’s built-in camera. Once scanned, it will search for all the best prices on the internet. You can also read reviews, save
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Sep 9

“Going Google” at school & with Google Apps & Postini

More than 5 million students in 145 countries have gone Google at school with Google Apps Education Edition. To celebrate this milestone, Google's "EDU" team created a new site highlighting schools that’ve gone Google, as well as tips for students and educators. When you visit the site, you'll also find an interactive map packed with interesting trivia. Schools
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Sep 9

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 – Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) and MDT Archive Released

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 solution accelerator version 5.0.1641.0. A Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment. MDT 2010 supports deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to deployment of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit functionality is
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Sep 9

Google Voice integrates SMS and email

Google Voice users can get auto-transcribed voicemails emailed to them; but text messages were only available in a normal way, online & on phone, and email forwarding option wasn’t available. Now Google Voice allow users to forward inbound text messages to email. And even better, you can reply from email as well.
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