Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas can't install Boot Camp 3 drivers in Win 7 on his new iMac: My iMac goes to blue screen and reboots during Boot Camp driver installation. I just got a new iMac 24 inch 3.0 Ghz, 4 Gb RAM. When I want to set up Boot Camp for Windows 7 it crashes and restarts. It crashes during Boot Camp driver installation. It seems that most .. more »

Just days after VMware released Fusion 3, Parallels today released Parallels Desktop 5 (US $80, $50 upgrade), a new version of its Mac OS X virtualization software. New features include support for Windows Aero features, Apple track pad gestures in Windows apps, and a new screen mode called Crystal. A Parallels spokesperson also said that Parallels .. more »

Exam Number/Code: 640-802 Exam Name: Cisco Certified Network Associate(CCNA) Questions and Answers: 156Q&As Updated: 2009-10-06.. more »

EMC E20-001 exam is a qualifying examination for the EMC Proven Professional Associate level. This exam requires the successful candidate to be able to describe information storage technology solutions such as DAS, SAN, NAS and CAS. In addition, a candidate should be able to describe the key business and technical drivers for storage (including .. more »

Resource poverty is a fundamental constraint that severely limits the class of applications that can be run on mobile devices. This constraint is not just a temporary limitation of current technology, but is intrinsic to mobility. In this paper, we put forth a vision of mobile computing that breaks free of this fundamental constraint. In this .. more »

Understanding intents from search queries can improve a user's search experience and boost a site's advertising profits. Query tagging via statistical sequential labeling models has been shown to perform well, but annotating the training set for supervised learning requires substantial human effort. Domain-specific knowledge, such as semantic class .. more »

SixthSense is a platform for RFID-based enterprise intelligence that combines RFID events with information from other enterprise systems and sensors to automatically make inferences about people, objects, workspaces, and their interactions... more »

Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? Butler Lampson of Microsoft Research New England says it's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe... more »

An exec at a large European financial company recently told me his former CEO believed Failure is not an option. Great, I thought. This means they will do whatever it takes to succeed, try five or ten different approaches until it works, get the whole company focused on the goal, etc. No, he told me. What it means is Make a mistake and you are .. more »

MVPs James Gordon and Geetesh Bajaj recently released a new book entitled “Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac All-In-One for Dummies. This new title provides a user-friendly guide on how to master: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Entourage on Apple Mac. This book explores ways to: Use the new galleries to find features, formats, wizards, te.. more »

Client App Dev MVP Jason Rainwater has recently released his Razre Framework on CodePlex. This is a WPF Application Framework intended to provide base functionality for creating robust WPF applications. This project will be on-going adding new features and enhancements. The current version of the framework includes the following functionality: .. more »

A question that has been raised by several people so far after reading my, “Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know” post is, “You mentioned that you have to have a full license for a qualifying version of Windows to be eligible for the Windows 7 Retail Box upgrade.  What are the qualifying version.. more »

Access to technology and cost savings are topics that are very important to customers everywhere and the announcement by Microsoft’s Online Services Team yesterday helps serve up a lot of both of these for Partners and customers!  When we first announced the availability of BPOS as a solution available to bring Microsoft technology to customers in .. more »

Shortly after I published my Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know blog post, there was one particular statement that several people seemed to focus on. The statement in that blog post I am referring to is, “Over the past several days there have been various posts, etc. across a variety of so.. more »

We are pleased to announce the availability of the following Microsoft Project 2010 technical resources, save these bookmarks! TechNet Project 2010 TechCenter At http://technet.microsoft.com/projectserver/default.aspx the following areas are covered for IT Professionals: Planning, Deploying and Operating Project 2010 Environment, including .. more »

More than 4,000 educators, students, and IT professionals in higher education from around the world are descending on the Mile-High City for this years . This year, I am on hand for the MacBU, along with one of our to showcase the latest and best features of Office 2008 for Mac, including: Document Connection for the Mac. Entourage 2008 Web .. more »

Two years ago, Microsoft employee Bill Hilf founded High Five Hope, an organization that uses basketball to help children in the Philippines build their confidence in hopes of giving them a path out of poverty... more »

The newly redesigned MSN.com just might be the best home page on the Web — with easy access to Bing search, favorite social networks, more relevant local content, and the latest news and entertainment information from trusted sources... more »

This is the 3rd post in the SEM Beginner Series, the first introduced . This series of posts is intended for those new to search engine marketing who are looking for some guidance to help identify, monitor and adjust the key performance indicators (KPIs) that determine how successful a PPC campaign is. Ad copy is important because it delivers that .. more »

discussed keyword level and portfolio level analysis. In this post, we will dive into a keyword level strategy called incremental bidding. Utilizing this strategy is a simple way to optimize each individual keyword and achieve a lower cost-per-acquisition (CPA). Tell Me about Incremental Bidding With incremental bidding, you compare each keyword's .. more »