Archive for November 20th, 2009
Nov
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Visio 2010 has new features specifically for process diagrams, such as cross-functional flowcharts (swimlane diagrams) and BPMN diagrams. Mark Nelson shows how they work using the Beta version of Visio:
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Nov
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At PDC, a Silverlight 4 application called “SilverFace,” which's developed using Facebook SDK was demonstated, that lets you do update your status, upload photos, view friend’s photos and videos, and much more on Facebook directly from Windows desktop. You can think of this as more of a “technology showcase” and a demo of what technology can
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Nov
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Brad Jones with Marcus Schmidt released a new book entitled “Windows Live Essentials and Services: Using Free Microsoft Applications for Windows 7,” and is a full-colour, step-by-step guide for using Microsoft's new Windows Live Essentials series of free app. Step-by-step instructions
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Nov
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For today's traveler, it isn’t uncommon to pack along three or four gadgets for a trip. Budget Travel has recommendations for best netbooks, cameras and other travel gear. Plus, get scoop on Wi-Fi connections on ground and in air. Finding a Wi-Fi connection’s just a start; it also helps to’ve
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Nov
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Microsoft released an update to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) - hosted service providing anti-malware and anti-spam for both on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online, and can be used as an alternative to Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, or in tandem with it for messaging defense-in-depth. New release FOPE offers enhanced
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Nov
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This post explain how to enable Group Policy Preferences debug logging using RSAT. As a refresher, Group Policy Preferences debug logging’s enabled through Group Policy administrative templates. Many customers experienced a problem when trying to enable logging using RSAT and Windows Vista: policy settings didn’t exist. You’ll experience same behavior when using Windows 7 RSAT. Group
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Nov
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"Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," a company spokeswoman said, reacting to a story that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that agency had worked on operating system. Microsoft’s categorical denial was accompanied
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Nov
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All the new features of Microsoft Bing search engine, we blogged about last week are live for 100%. Many of you may have seen them over past few days, but now everyone can take full advantage as Microsoft has launched a new portal “Behind Bing,” as a way to help people
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Nov
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Search Engine Land reports, that Google is rolling out to some users, a design prototype of search results page, that features a search options pane in the left hand column. The former “All results” area that allowed you to switch between different types of searches (images, news, maps and so on) has been replaced with new
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Nov
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Eariler this month, Microsoft released Office Starter 2010 code to select testers via its Connect site. There’s one new feature in Office Starter 2010 called “Office to GO,” according to a testers, revealed. Office to GO is installed using Click-to-Run setup part of Office 2010 beta. The Office
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Nov
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A Microsoft employee with InteropSystems, put together a project called “Unix to Windows Porting Dictionary for HPC,” which’s designed to streamline the porting of Unix apps on Windows, when it comes down to high performance computing environments. “This dictionary is organized by frequently used HPC Unix calls. Each entry show the Unix function, its Windows equivalent
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Nov
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SQA-5H-3000 Home Server with 2GB memory and a single 2TB Green Power Hard disk, is powerful system. Tranquil PC can add additional low noise, low power HDDs for you, or you can add your own easily and quickly. Tranquil’s are running a limited promo for Christmas on their SQA-5H-3000 home server, you choose either a Leatherman
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Nov
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This post talks about Office Mobile 2010 Beta; Basically, there’re two major offerings provide for mobile information workers to work on their Office documents. Depending on type of phone you’ve, you get to choose best that work for you. One is Office Mobile 2010 and another Office 2010 Mobile Viewers. In short:…If you’re using a Windows
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Nov
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Microsoft released the beta of OneNote 2010 beta; “OneNote 2010 is 3rd release and have come a long way from where it started in Office 2003 to where we’re today. We’re now part of every Office install, we’ve a web client, a mobile client and a desktop client which’s better than ever,”
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Nov
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Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 since the software was released. This update rollup’s highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP2 customers. For a list of changes included in this update rollup, see KB971534. This update rollup doesn’t apply
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