Archive for October 28th, 2009
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Microsoft got some webcasts coming up in next few weeks to discuss recommendations for virtualizing MS server applications and benefits of choosing Hyper-V + System Center as your virtualization solution. Each technical webcast’ll focus on a specific server application- Exchange, SQL and SharePoint.TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for SQL Server (Level
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Steven Leonard (Senior Product Manager) and Jonas Svensson (Community Program Manager) were featured on the “Java with John” Computer Outlook radio show on Sunday, October 25. In case you missed it, you can listen below. “Steven and Jonas kicked off the show by reminding the audience of the great features in Windows Home Server
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Google is interacting with students, and for this the company is running two programs: “for FUSE, 50 college sophomores visited, New York City office for a three-day retreat designed to connect students from groups that’re under-represented in field of computer science. And in annual Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) program, a group
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At World Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress, Microsoft and Bumrungrad International hospital, based in Bangkok, announced a new service using Microsoft HealthVault, an online personal health application platform, with plans to offer the service to more than 1 million Bumrungrad patients beginning in early 2010. By connecting Microsoft HealthVault to its hospital information system (HIS)
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Register for free web cast about Virtual Earth Web Server and how Microsoft Partners like IDV Solutions’re creating offline solutions for secure networks that need geographic data visualization using a plethora of content available from Bing Maps platform. Web cast is on Oct 29, 2009 from 2:00 PM
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This’s part 1 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of deas found in "Prism" or "Composite Application Guidance" from Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.
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Google announced that “Similar Images” features is graduated from Google Labs and is now a permanent feature in Google Images. You can try it out by clicking on "Find similar images" below the most popular images in search results. For e.g., if you search for [Ancient Egypt], Google Images’ll provide you with
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After more than two hours of debate, the Los Angeles City council members voted 12-0 to approve the $7.25-million contract that would move all 30,000 city employees to Google's so-called cloud over the coming year. The vote ended a nearly year-long process during which Google competed furiously with other software vendors, including rival Microsoft to secure
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Eiffel Tower recently celebrated it’s 120th birthday. To mark the occasion the tower’ll display a light show for twelve minutes, four times a night until December 31st 2009. Becuase not all of us’ll be fortunate enough to enjoy light show in person, here’re some pictures and videos for you to Enjoy!
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This post discuss ‘how to convert a standard automatic-start service to a trigger-start service in Windows 7’ that starts up only when a certain event occurs in system. We’ll use a WPF application (obviously managed code) that registers and monitors a service (also implemented using .NET). To bridge
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At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009, Microsoft was helping customers to understand how they can realize the benefits of Windows 7. One of Microsoft sponsored sessions was Windows 7 Early Adopter Customer Panel, featured Gartner Research VP & Distinguished Analyst Michael Silver facilitated panel around Windows 7 planning, deployment and customer experience with Windows 7 Early Adopter Customers: ADP, BMW,
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This post discuss an issue where DFS clients connect to out-of-site targets when IPv6 protocol has been partially disabled using an incorrect method. A DFS link replicated by DFSR was deployed. An in-site DFS namespace (DFSN) target called ContosoFS1 was deployed in branch site. It wasn’t long before branch site users started reporting slow performance access
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Microsoft Store is selling PCs without any "crapware" pre-loaded. Under a new initiative called "Microsoft Signature PCs," Microsoft has removed those programs from computers it's selling, and has fashioned "Signature PCs" out of machines from a variety of PC makers, including Sony, HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo. According to Microsoft
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Google have announced ‘Google Maps Navigation’ Beta for Android 2.0 devices, that comes with everything you'd expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting. But unlike most navigation systems, Google Maps Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of your phone's Internet
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Microsoft offers a number of different mitigation technologies that’re designed to make it more difficult for an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in a given piece of software. To help on this front, Microsoft released a new utility called “Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET),” which’s primarily focused on providing an extensible framework that’ll have future
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