Archive for February 6th, 2010
Feb
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Microsoft announced three easy, no charge offers to enable you to start using Windows Azure to develop and test cloud applications before deploying them into production: Open to Everyone: Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special Offer, For Microsoft Partners: Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special Offer for Microsoft Partner Network members, and For MSDN
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Feb
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Net Applications released their January browser market share report, that shows that Internet Explorer 8 is not only the most popular browser on Windows with 27.9% usage share, but that it now has 25.6% of market share across all OS’s on a worldwide-weighted usage share basis (data provided by Net Applications). There’re many
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Feb
6
You may have heard about the “space jump” by Felix Baumgartner – the Red Bull Stratos project. Felix will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to 120,000 feet and then attempted a record-breaking freefall jump for the first time in history – supersonic speeds. Watch the whole thing live in HD using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming.
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Feb
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With release of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 operating systems, Remote Desktop Protocol is more feature rich, enabling new presentation and remote-oriented functionality such as accelerated bitmap rendering, multi-media redirection streaming, and network topology awareness. As these features become integrated in the enterprise environment, it’s important to analyze and understand their impact on your
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Feb
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Microsoft released the Office 2010 system requirements “Can I use Office 2010 on the same hardware I’m using to run Office 2007? In most cases, yes! CPU and RAM requirements for Office 2010 are same as for Office 2007: If your current computer can run Office 2007, it can run Office 2010. If you're purchasing a
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Feb
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Microsoft and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced an agreement that’ll offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF’s merit review process free access to advanced cloud computing resources. By extending the capabilities of powerful, easy-to-use PC applications via Microsoft cloud services, the program is designed to help broaden researcher capabilities, foster collaborative
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Feb
6
AMD announced the “ATI Radeon HD 5450” graphics card, that will cost less than $60 (USD) for a 512MB memory configuration and supporting DirectX 11 making it one sweet deal if you’re looking for a DirectX 11 graphics card for your Windows 7 PC. Radeon HD 5450 offers entry level performance and ultra-low power consumption and
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Feb
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Windows Small Business Server 2008 provides built-in protection for the server. When you join computers to the domain, you can run Redirect folders for user accounts to the server wizard from the SBS 2008 administration console to redirect your user’s “My Documents” folders to server. This data can then be backed up according to schedule you
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Feb
6
The following video demonstrates how you can set up a simple Microsoft VDI system on a single physical server, with links and pointers to where you can learn more about Microsoft's VDI platform and solutions.
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Feb
6
Bing will now be the default search engine for Facebook outside the US, bringing the Bing-Facebook search integration to the more than 400 million people using Facebook around the world. Bing will provide Facebook users with a more complete search experience by providing full access to great Bing features beyond a set of links, including richer
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Feb
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Microsoft search engine Bing unveiled a new way for people to search for recipes, pulling those creations and more from sites such as MyRecipes.com and Microsoft's own Delish.com. Search results include photos, ratings and nutritional information. They also allow cooks to search recipes by season or special occasion, allowing someone
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Feb
6
Microsoft Research's prototype 'Peppermill' self-powered device.Researchers from Microsoft's lab in Cambridge, England, have created a media remote control called "Peppermill" that converts the twisting motion required to use it into energy needed to power it. It's a
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Feb
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Here’s a video, Steve Ballmer signs a Mac: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Feb
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When you virtualize one or more applications from Adobe's Creative Suite 4 (CS), such as Acrobat Reader or Adobe Photoshop, you may receive the following error message. Note This error occurs within 15 minutes after you start a virtualized instance on the x64 Application Virtualization (App-V) client:This issue as well as
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Feb
6
Microsoft announced that on April 15, the company will discontinue the Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox v1 games playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals. To be clear, gamers should still be able to play original Xbox titles on the console offline. And for Halo fans, there's always the Live-enabled
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