Archive for November 4th, 2009
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Microsoft's Jeff Williams said, there’s a direct correlation between current malware infection rate and software piracy. In this context, he said that countries with high piracy rates’re more likely to be infected by malicious code because they're reluctant to apply updates. His theory is based on Windows and security updates that consumers’re neglecting to install through
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Nov
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Microsoft-backed CodePlex Foundation for open source projects this week’s talking up its project submission guidelines, which were released last week. Guidelines include allowing commercial sponsorship of project "galleries," with foundation focused on being "commercial-friendly." Foundation plans to begin accepting projects this month and has already had some project submissions. Other guidelines include requiring that each project’ve
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Microsoft is slated to show three different versions of Office 2010 in development: Office 2010 client, Office Web Apps, and Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe conference, Berlin, according to a synopsis of “Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 In-Depth” session slated for Nov 12. That session will also cover back-end infrastructure powering new Office Mobile
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Nov
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Digg launched a new homepage voting experiment called “Digg Trends” which identifies and highlights upcoming stories that’ve a high volume of activity (think Diggs, comments, favorites, shares, etc.). When we detect a new trending story, it’ll appear on homepage for ten minutes. Based on Digg and bury activity in those ten minutes story’ll either
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Nov
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Google Dashboard is a new Google service that shows simple view into data associated with your Google Account — easily and concisely in one location: your name, email address, number of contacts, number of conversations in your Gmail inbox, Google profile, most recent entries from web history etc. You'll soon find a link
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Nov
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Sophos has warned that a bare bone Windows 7 is not secured and is prone to malware attacks. To prove this, “SophosLabs loaded a full release copy of Windows 7 on a clean machine, and configured it to follow system defaults for User Account Control (UAC) and didn’t load any anti-virus software. They then feeded 10
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Nov
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Microsoft published scripts to help simplify Remote Desktop Services management including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) management. Here’e some of RDS management scripts that’re available now:Virtual machine management: Configure Guest OS for VDI (can be run as GP start-up script)Virtual machine assignment management: Bulk assign virtual machines to users or pools, List
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Nov
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Microsoft’s launching a solution to help customers implement cost effective, end-to-end site recovery programs. Built on proven capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center management suite, Microsoft’s helping IT Professionals leverage Windows Server Hyper-V and Failover Clustering along with tools like Virtual Machine Manager to deliver cost effective site recovery. Microsoft Site
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Nov
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Google News added a new directory that let you create your ‘custom sections directory’. Now you can click on "Add a section", find your favorite sections or create new ones. “Personalized News enables you to get news tailored specifically to your interests. You can personalize your own Google News homepage by creating
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Nov
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Watch this amazing video, Google embedded Google Maps in an HP printer…software really is the magic sauce:
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Nov
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Microsoft launched world’s largest networks for educators “Partners in Learning Network” at Worldwide Innovative Education Forum (IEF) in English and Ukrainian languages. Partners in Learning Network is next generation of Innovative Teachers Network (ITN), a global network expected to serve more than 2 million teachers and school leaders by next year. The network has
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Nov
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Bill Hilf poses with winner of last year’s sportsmanship award. “My job with High Five Hope is to continue to create an environment for them where they can see that hope,” he said.
Two years ago, Bill
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Nov
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When you use a Virtual Machine (VM) created using Windows Virtual PC (WVPC), following keyboard shortcuts would be very useful to make life simple without using mouse. Check Windows XP Mode RTM Build, and let us know what you think via comments section.
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Nov
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Microsoft plans to spend $9.5 billion in research and development projects in 2010, a considerable portion of which will go to cloud-computing technologies, Steve Ballmer said. Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding with Taiwan's government to jointly set up a research center for cloud computing. The center’ll be a first for Microsoft in Asia. It aims
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Nov
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System Center Essentials 2010 is Microsoft’s IT management solution specifically designed for midsized businesses. From one console, SCE allows you to monitor and manage your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services. With 2010 release, SCE now includes virtualisation management. Think of it as best bits of System Center Operations Manager, Configuration Manager and Virtual Machine
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Random From The System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 Beta – Overview Video
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