Archive for June 9th, 2010
Jun
9
Google now makes it "just a single click" to set up "Video chat, voice chat, and group chat" features within Gmail. One of the more subtle benefits to surfacing these chat options is that it's easier for people to get started who don't yet have the voice and video chat plugin. If your chat buddy doesn't
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Jun
9
In this demo, you learn how to customize your workspace. You can add your own group to a tab as well as add commands to your group. You can even add your own tabs or change the names of tabs. Also how to display your groups and tabs exactly where you want:
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Jun
9
Charlie Kaufman, gives us details on how the network communications work and are secure within Azure. Here are the topics we get into: 5:30 – Why don't we use IPSec between the Compute node and store? 6:43 – Breakdown of the virtualization security in Azure 10:50 – How do we protect against malicious users
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Jun
9
Microsoft added a rogue security program "Win32/Fakeinit" to the list of malware families removed by MSRT. David wrote Fakeinit caling itself "Internet Security 2010" and "Security Essentials 2010". Fakeinit uses old one-two punch of first trying to convince you that there's malware all over your system, then offering a scanner that can detect and remove it
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Jun
9
Microsoft announced the official opening of the "Microsoft Software and Services Excellence Center (SSEC)" — "objective of the center is to advance potential of cloud computing across devices, in datacenter and within new industries — all topics Steve Ballmer addressed when he visited Taiwan last year. Via SSEC, Microsoft combines its research and development (R&D) expertise
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Jun
9
Google Search by Voice is now available for German, Italian, Spanish and French. Search by voice is an important feature of the Quick Search Box app for Android, Google Mobile App for iPhone and Blackberry. The nice thing is that you don't have to download an update for none of the applications, as the new languages
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Jun
9
Microsoft and Yahoo! invited search marketers and vendors to an all-day overview of the upcoming Microsoft-Yahoo Alliance. Here're some of the highlights: "Timeline. Representative of both companies assured they're on schedule for a full rollout of Alliance by October. November and December is the "protected holiday period" that's so key to search marketers, and Alliance is
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Jun
9
PowerPoint is one of the most effective business tools ever invented, but we all know PowerPoint presentations can go horribly wrong. This video of "The Office Show," help you use the great design capabilities of PowerPoint, and thus avoid those dreaded presentation sleepfests. And we know that sometimes you've got no time to produce a professional
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Jun
9
The following Channel 9 video demonstrate some of the new features of Access 2010: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Jun
9
Are you 100% geek or only a 50% novitiate? Log into Facebook and check out what folks are saying about our new Geek Quiz and then hit that Go To Application button and take the quiz yourself. Answer 10 questions, check out your score and share with folks not as smart as you are. And
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Jun
9
If you use a smart phone to access Microsoft Online Services, "Microsoft want to hear your thoughts about your experience about how you use your phone with Microsoft Online Services: What type of smart phone do you use? What three things do you most often use it for when connected to Microsoft Online Services? What are
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Jun
9
Microsoft Office 2010 ("Office 14") is due to release for general public, and now Stephen has unearther details of next-generation of Office codenamed "Office 15" a.k.a. "Office 13" – "Additionally, residing on Microsoft's download servers is a PDF document by a company named Basex who makes mention of Office 15. A similar reference from the
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Jun
9
Microsoft may be ready to roll out a beta of Internet Explorer 9 if hints in a recent hotfix are anything to go by. “The Redmond software giant issued a Windows 7 update "Install this update to support features in Internet Explorer 9 Beta". The update (KB2120976) resolves some streaming issues that relate to Media Foundation
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Jun
9
Event-driven processing through declarative, long-standing queries is a fundamentally different paradigm than the request-response model seen in databases, or the store and forward model seen in messaging systems. In order to assist you in your efforts at learning this new paradigm, Microsoft have put together a white paper to help you "think through" stream processing in
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Jun
9
This DirectX SDK release contains updates to tools, utilities, samples, documentation, and runtime debug files for x64 and x86 platforms. For additional information please see Microsoft DirectX Developer Center along with reviewing the Readme for last-minute updates. Users wishing to install the DirectX runtime for the purposes of playing a game should instead install the DirectX
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