Archive for February 15th, 2010
Feb
15
Microsoft announced that the next major release of SQL Server is codenamed “Denali”. Here’re a few interesting facts about Denali, the mountain: Located in AlaskaOfficial name is Mount McKinley (per the U.S. Board on Geographic Names)The highest mountain peak in North America @ 20,320 ft or 6,194 m above sea levelDenali means “the great one”Temperatures as
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Feb
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Visio 2010’s Dynamic Grid can help you drag single shape and more easily position it in relation to other shapes on page. Dynamic Grid is turned on by default for most diagram templates. You can turn it on or off by toggling checkbox in View tab. To see Dynamic Grid in action, simply drop a shape
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Feb
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Joe and Heidi Wang. (CBS photo)Microsoft employees will appear in the new season of "The Amazing Race," which debuts Sunday night on CBS. The competitors include Microsoft enterprise sales specialist Joe Wang, 42, based in
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Feb
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Microsoft and Adobe are working together to add support for Adobe Flash 10.1, shortly after the launch of Windows Mobile 7. However, Adobe has confirmed that there’ll be no Adobe Flash support in Windows Mobile 7, at least at the initial launch. Here’s a quote published by Phone Scoop "Microsoft and Adobe are working
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Feb
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Following Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 release candidates, the Visual Studio training kit got a February update to cover the new content. “Training kits are a collection of presentations, hands on labs, and demos related to the new features in a release. There are also videos although I believe these are done through links to
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Feb
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Just hours ahead of its Windows Phone 7 Series unveiling on Feb 15 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft is making public information about some of the new bosses running things there. First up is newly minted CVP Windows Phone Engineering “Terry Myerson”. According to information published on Feb 12, Myerson is the lead of
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Feb
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Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Word 2010 Beta 32-Bit Edition and for Microsoft Word 2010 Beta 64-Bit Edition. This update provides the latest fixes for Microsoft Word 2010 Beta 32-Bit Edition and for Microsoft Word 2010 Beta 64-Bit Edition. Additionally, this update contains stability and performance improvements,” Microsoft informed via KB980028. The
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Feb
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Just few hrs before, Mobile World Congress, learnbemobile managed to get photos of the Windows Mobile 7 interface, during the undergoing last minute minor changes at Microsoft stage. The photos display some of the very welcome changes that Microsoft has made to its mobile operating system. Interestingly, there seems to be support for Xbox
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Feb
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There has been a lot of attention around the Australian Government's mandatory ISP level filtering proposal. Google joined the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), which represents 12 million library users around Australia, Yahoo! and Inspire Foundation in proposing some core principles for a Safer Internet. “We also expand on our views in
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Feb
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Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian Olympic luger died on Friday 12, 2010, in a practice session ahead of the official kick off ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Canada. Footage of the fatal accident was presented by various news outlets around the world and inevitable made it onto online video websites, the most prominent of
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Feb
15
Real world scenarios showing how Microsoft IT uses System Center Virtual Machine Manager are a key component of its management strategy in supporting the virtualized data center:
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Feb
15
Twenty-four leading telecommunications operators have formed the “Wholesale Applications Community,” an alliance to build an open platform that delivers applications that benefits everybody – from applications developers and network operators to mobile phone users themselves. Together, these operators have access to over three billion customers around the world. GSMA and three of the world's largest device
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Feb
15
With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different approach to phone software. Smart design begins with a new, holistic design system that informs every aspect of the phone, from its visually appealing layout and motion to its function and hardware integration. On Start screen, dynamically updated “live tiles” show users real-time content directly, breaking
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Feb
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Image Configuration Editor (ICE) is a main GUI tool for creating answer files in Windows Embedded Standard 2011. The main job of the tool is to add packages and allow settings to be overridden with values you define. However, as developer, you need specific file, or a registry key needs to exist on your system, for
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Feb
15
TED Organizer Chris Anderson isn’t a man to be trifled with. If you criticize his event you don’t get invited back. “I know I shouldn’t say this about one of my own speakers,” he said on Twitter, “but I thought
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