Archive for March 18th, 2010
Mar
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Looking at Hyper-V management console showed that the virtual machine was sitting at “Starting (6%)” under the status column. A bit of investigation revealed that this was the result of a known issue “a problem with Hyper-V finding a valid certificate”. To give a bit more context: When you start a VM, we start a Remote
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Mar
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Dmitri Sotnikov sketches out the architecture, including Windows Azure and Windows Live ID. This’s a rare, early opportunity to learn from someone who has deployed three beta applications on Azure which’re helpful to IT Pros:
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Mar
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VMware upgraded its ThinApp application virtualisation software to enable migration of apps from older versions of Windows to Windows 7. VMware is expecting Windows 7 to drive increasing virtualisation of desktops and apps. Moving legacy apps to new OS will be difficult, and customers "are looking to use app virtualisation to migrate or simplify migration of
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Mar
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Online backup provider Mozy, revealed that they’re working on supporting Windows Home Server on their MozyHome backup service. MozyHome costs $4.95 per month for unlimited backup which would be a competitive proposition compared to other online backup players currently supporting Windows Home Server. According to Jason, Mozy revealed,”Our Research team is working to develop a client
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Mar
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In the video, runs through a demo of the Internet Explorer 9 browser's improved support for web standards, as apparent in the platform preview. When asked ‘Internet Explorer historically isn't at all known for robust standards support, so these types of improvements may come as a surprise to users and developers?’ Hachamovitch explains, the
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Mar
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At MIX10, Microsoft announced new “Windows Azure Command-line Tools” for PHP CTP, to enable developers to easily package and deploy PHP applications to Azure using simple command-line tool, without any Integrated Development Environment (IDE). These tools are available under an open source BSD license, and also allow the creation of new apps or conversion of existing
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On 29th of March Microsoft will be holding a technical day focused on Microsoft Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure platform, aimed at start-ups and members of the Microsoft BizSpark program. “The current economic downturn is putting many entrepreneurs under increasing pressure, making it critical to find new resources and ways to reduce costs and inefficiencies.
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Mar
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Google announced that in just 60 seconds, more than a full day’s content is now uploaded to YouTube. “To put this into context, imagine how much stuff happens in 24 hours: earth rotates 360 degrees as it orbits the sun; second hand on your bedside clock ticks 86,400 times; most skilled climber reaches Mount Everest’s summit;
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Mar
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Mike Harsh show how easy it is to develop a real world application for Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7) using Silverlight. Mike has developed and started running a functional WP7 twitter app that makes cross domain calls. He demons how to design interface using designer and tools in Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, and
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Mar
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Have you been wanting to get some hands-on experience with Windows Small Business Server 2008 but didn’t have the hardware to install hands-on-labs yourself? Here’s a cool announcement from the SBS 2008 and TechNet Teams “three virtual labs now available for you to use on TechNet!: Migration from SBS 2003; Administration Console; Working with Clients. In
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Mar
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If you want to get solid understanding of what a developer needs to know in order to successfully build Windows Azure applications using Visual Studio both in terms of a new application or migrating an existing application (including the use of SQL Azure) watch the embedded video:
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Mar
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BellevueAfter Renton, Bellingham and Portland; now Bellevue -- the Seattle suburb located just a few miles from Microsoft's headquarters announced to bid for Google's high-speed Internet network. To help attract Google, city officials urging residents to
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Mar
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James Cameron, the director of Avatar is appearing on YouTube for an interview, if you've got a question for him; just submit via Official Avatar Channel. Also Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper sat down with YouTube and respond to questions:[
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Mar
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Contrary to report out of Microsoft MIX10 that Windows Phone 7 Series willn’t feature copy & paste functionality, a person close to den explained that copy & paste is definitely a scenario and feature that the team is putting a lot of thought about and hope to bring to the platform soon after initial
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Mar
18
The latest version of the Microsoft web browser “Internet Explorer 8” is now available on the ECE site for installing on a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 database. IE8 helps provide end users with a faster, easier, and more secure user experience. The download for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 consists of a database update that includes supports
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Random From The IE8 for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 available on ECE site
- Dec21Judge Granted Google’s Motion for Summary Judgment to Throw Out Android Trademark Suit
In April 2009, Google's mobile operating system Android faced a challenger, Erich Specht, a man who ran a data company called "Android Data" from 1998 - Apr11Google Street View slammed into a bridge
Google Street View car slammed into a low bridge outside Pittsburgh. It was in the process of driving around and taking pictures for the Street View feature on Google Maps and Google Earth; hence, the crash has been preserved on Google's servers. Just keep clicking the forward arrow to watch as the cameras apparently get bent by the bridge in the embedded map below: - Aug15Where the hell is Matt? Videos
Where the hell is Matt? The truth is that Matt is everywhere he wants to be. "For the past few years, video game designer Matt - Jul24Google App Engine Perl Project
The Google App Engine currently supports Python, Brad Fitzpatrick, an Google employee and creator of blogging community LiveJournal announces that: - Apr13How To: Export and Import mailboxes to PST files in Exchange 2007 SP1
There might be times when an Exchange Administrator will need to export the contents of individual mailboxes to offline files in order to present specific