http://www.digwin.com/cat/General/hot digWin: Community news sharing for Microsoft Techies. en http://www.digwin.com/avepoint-delivers-advanced-legal-discovery-tools-with-docave-ediscovery Rapidly identify, export, and monitor electronic evidence in Microsoft SharePoint. (PRWeb Jun 13, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1021164.htm http://www.digwin.com/selectable-text-in-silverlight A coworker of mine has posted an issue on Microsoft’s Connect site, which is a gateway to presenting MS software issues directly to the developers of MS products, regarding the Silverlight web development platform. ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-vista-security-impresses-those-hot-for-nac Microsoft's network access control client in Vista and now in Windows X has a lot of IT executives excited, according to an informal poll of about 250 attendees of an Interop Las Vegas NAC seminar who are actively considering deploying ... http://www.digwin.com/did-adobe-just-slay-the-microsoft-office-dragon Just as the rise of email and the web spurred the adoption of portable electronic documents, we believe that the rise of rich internet applications and cloud computing will drive the adoption of online document collaboration. ... http://www.digwin.com/bill-gates-last-microsoft-keynote ... of technology aimed at developers — as well as to look ahead at how Microsoft will provide programmers with some of the new tools Microsoft has coming for cloud computing, modeling and natural-language programming, officials said. ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-to-put-many-millions-of-servers-in-cloud RoughType Bill Gates, in his farewell address at Microsoft’s TechEd developer conference today, sketched out Microsoft’s expansive plan for cloud computing. The company, he said, will have “many millions” of servers in a network of data ... http://www.digwin.com/cloud-computing-and-what-it-means-for-the-grid This has been increasingly realized by all quarters of the industry and hence we see major companies jumping on the bandwagon: Microsoft’s Live Mesh, Google’s App Engine, IBM and SAP’s effort with the EU on Reservoir etc.). ... http://www.digwin.com/missing-from-bill-gates-tech-ed-keynote-live-mesh As I see it, Mesh Silverlight (plus of course things like SSDS) forms Microsoft’s cloud computing development platform. However, I imagine that like modelling vs software factories this is a matter of debate within the company as well ... http://www.digwin.com/my-cloud-computing-apps Google Docs - This service can almost replace your traditional Microsoft Office apps. Unfortunately, it is not as speedy as having a desktop app. Speed and offline portability are the biggest factors in me not completely switching over ... http://www.digwin.com/vmware-finally-joins-the-cloud-computing-race Granted, they will still take the Microsoft modeled approach of an all proprietary suite, but--hey--people still buy Microsoft for production data centers as well, so there is no accounting for taste. What is VMWare's key advantage? ... http://www.digwin.com/interview-how-cloud-computing-changes-trions-game And the company has big cross-platform visions, promising mobile access to the worlds as well as console or PC, on the heels of the Sony partnership. What about the Xbox 360? Is Trion talking to Microsoft, too? http://www.digwin.com/web-services-and-cloud-computing Now Amazon Elastic Compute, Google Apps, Microsoft Mesh are to name from the big players in this area. All these are the phases of widening of our technical advancements and it is going to be a joyful trip as we leap forward. http://www.digwin.com/will-apple-develop-mobileme-as-my-own-personal-cloud A lot is being made of cloud computing these days, especially in light of Microsoft’s Mesh initiative and the various online products and strategies cooked up by Google. With the rumored changes coming to Apple’s . ... http://www.digwin.com/new-rumors-of-microsoftfacebook-purchase New Rumors Of Microsoft-Facebook Purchase:. Microsoft may have Facebook in its sights, according to rumors moving through Silicon Valley this morning. John Furrier first reported the idea on his site. Now former Microsoft man … http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-facebook-yahoo-perfect-ingredients Social networking site Facebook may prove the perfect councillor in the on-again, off-again relationship between Microsoft and Yahoo!. Original post by SiliconRepublic.com. http://www.digwin.com/iphone-microsoft-facebook Microsoft Burns Down Book Search Digitization, websites to be shut down Academic, Microsoft, Book Search... AT http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-in-live-search-deal-with-hp Microsoft announced a major distribution deal with Hewlett Packard (HP) today. From January 2009, Microsoft’s Live Search will be the default search engine on Hewlett Packard PCs manufactured for sale in the US and Canada, ... http://www.digwin.com/microsofts-robbie-bach-thought-about-killing-surface Microsoft's Surface computing is the kind of Buck Rogers' technology that can dazzle consumers and boost a company's "cool" factor. But in an interview last week, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of Entertainment http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-to-sidestep-vista-pitfalls-with-windows-7 Microsoft executives officially maintain that Windows Vista is selling well and that they're happy with the operating system. Behind closed doors, however, Microsoft is working hard to make sure Windows 7 doesn't run into the same ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-launches-task-market-for-office-jocks Because, as the FAQ says, "By focusing on tasks accomplished using applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, Task Market makes it quicker and easier for small businesses to get their job done. ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-silverlight-to-be-installed-on-millions-of-hp-computers Microsoft announced this morning that HP computers will soon be shipped with Live.com as their default search engine. The big news, though, isn't that Live's hit-it-with-a-stick ugly search results will be placed in front of millions of ... http://www.digwin.com/yahoo-to-microsoft-no-no-no Notes by a Yahoo participant from a phone call between CEO Jerry Yang and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Ballmer also appear to indicate that Yang quickly rejected Microsoft’s January 2008 overtures, as his predecessor Terry Semel did a ... http://www.digwin.com/more-microsoft-construction-pictures Just scanning through my normal blog search, I came across some pictures of Microsoft’s soon to open San Antonio Facility. These were found on Michael Manos’ public blog. The pictures are pretty distant and don’t show much other than ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-cant-you-get-anything-right Windows Vista was a major release, and Microsoft is positioning Windows 7 as a major release as well. However, the language Microsoft uses to describe the technical underpinnings of the Windows 7 suggest that this product will in fact ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-hp-will-be-search-partners Microsoft, HP Will be Search Partners... http://www.digwin.com/the-butterfly-effect-takes-microsoft-ooxml-by-storm ... ratified OOXML as an OSI standard) had only 12 days left to appeal the decision. No country seemed to be willing to budge when sudden, a tiny, almost imperceptible breeze started to blow: one of Microsoft butterflies had moved a wing. http://www.digwin.com/pakistan-it-sector-on-verge-of-taking-off-microsoft ISLAMABAD (June 02 2008): The country is on the verge of taking off in the information technology (IT) field, following the telecom revolution, says Microsoft Pakistan Country Manager Kamal Ahmed. "I am very hopeful that the explosion ... http://www.digwin.com/is-silverlight-microsofts-gateway-to-webbased-office Silverlight, Microsoft’s recently debuted web platform, has a whole lot of potential relatively untapped at this time. In fact, Silverlight could be Microsoft’s “in” to the web. If Silverlight really has the potential some believe it to ... http://www.digwin.com/microsofts-xbox-live-arcade-purge-explined There has been a lot of talk about Microsoft removing Xbox Live Arcade games from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Today Microsoft’s Xbox Live product manager Aaron Greenberg clarified the situation. According to Greenberg: ““The reality is ... http://www.digwin.com/exchange-techcenter-got-a-face-lift We've just redesigned the homepage of the Exchange TechCenter to give Exchange administrators a single place to start when they're looking for information about Exchange. We're pretty confident that you're going to find it easier to get ...