Archive for November 24th, 2009
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Razorfone, is a conceptual retail experience from Razorfish, that’s built on top of Windows 7’s multi-touch support and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), for consumers looking to purchase mobile phones. Razorfone solution is focused around providing an experience where customers can learn about wireless products. Phone and netbook features and associated wireless plans’re
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By default, Quick Launch bar isn’t available in Windows 7. To open programs quickly, you can drag program icons to taskbar. Microsoft has documented steps necessary to bring back Quick Launch for Windows 7 Taskbar in KB975784.
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At TechED EMEA, Microsoft announced the Compliance and Risk Process Management Pack for Service Manager 2010, and let customers automate implementation of control activities and optimize on-going validation and test of their compliance program – making them always ready for their IT audit. Microsoft released the Beta of this process management pack. By integrating desired Configuration
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If you didn’t attend PDC 2009, you missed a chance to see Windows Azure up close and personal. How about being able to actually walk inside an Azure data center container? That’s right – one of cooler displays at PDC was a modular container that was just sitting there on
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In 2nd part (reference Part 1), Boyar Naito walk through how to set up custom channels to track performance of specific ad units. In the video, you'll learn about three most important pieces of information: ad size, ad location, and page content, and how to analyze this information to figure out what
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Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) are files on the physical machine that store the hard disk contents of a Virtual Machine (VM). Each VHD is treated as a separate hard disk by Windows Virtual PC (WVPC), Windows XP Mode, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual PC 2007 and other Microsoft’s virtualization solutions. There’re three types of Virtual Hard Disks:
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SharePoint Workflows's another way of saying process flow; In SharePoint, there’re pre-defined common activities (e.g. Send email) that can be executed together with others, and together this forms a “workflow”. So how can you go from a business flowchart in Visio to a workflow published to SharePoint? In Visio Premium 2010,
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If you want to use ASP.NET Providers (membership, role, personalization, profile, web event provider) with SQL Azure, you'll need to use these scripts or aspnet-regAzure.exe tool to setup database. Currently the only provider which isn’t supported on SQL Azure is session state provider. Its advisable to use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio
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Yahoo! released a new set of features for its Search Assist service. The most innovative is the inclusion of content and information right inside Search Assist dropdown box. When you do a search for a company’s stock symbol, sports, travel, and movies, Yahoo’ll show real-time search results and couple of related links before you
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Microsoft released App-V 4.6 RC; In addition, Office 2010 Beta, is ready to be sequenced with Office 2010 Beta Deployment Kit for App-V. Office 2010 integration delivers key productivity enhancements and a seamless user experience by enabling following: · SharePoint Integration · Outlook Fast Search · MAPI Proxy · Office Document
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Mike Wickstrand, Senior Director of Product Planning for Windows Azure has put together a site where you can post and vote for Windows Azure ideas. The idea came from the success with Silverlight feature suggestions page. “If you’ve something you need from Windows Azure, please tell us what its and vote for other's ideas.
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Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 contains significant fixes and improvements in publishing, SuperPreview, file management, extensibility, and other areas of the program. You can get a more complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 976594: Description of Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer bug caused more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy. Documents stored in Adobe's PDF format display internal disk location where file’s stored, an oversight that can inadvertently expose real-world names and login IDs of users, operating system being used and other information. Google
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Verizon advertisement entitled "iDon't", attacked Apple's iPhone oversights like a real keyboard, running simultaneous applications, being customizable, allowing widgets, open source development, interchangeable batteries, and iPhone's camera, stating that the Android based phone has a 5MP camera and is capable of taking pictures in the dark. Now, Apple has fired back with two new iPhone adverts
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Pamela Passman, CVP, Global Corporate Affairs
President Obama is announcing “Educate to Innovate,” a national initiative aimed at inspiring students to develop science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to help them become problem solvers. “Across
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Random From The Microsoft sponsor Obama’s “Educate to Innovate” STEM education program
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