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ISO's OOXML approval confirmed by many sources

The long contentious fight over standardization of Office Open XML has ended with approval of the document standard after nearly 15 months of work by the International Standardization Organization... more »


Heartland Technology Solutions CS

The HTS crew was already familiar with many of the application virtualization and server management conventions of the Windows Server System from its previous deployment of Windows Server 2003 R2. Managing its servers through Remote Desktop and, on occasion, with the HP Integrated Lights-Out technology had become second-nature for a seasoned .. more »


OOXML Vote Tracker and Calculation Guide

Andy Updegrove writes "The vote on Microsoft's OOXML closes today. The final result will not be announced (or leak) before sometime early next week. Meanwhile the votes of individual countries continue to come in, currently with more reported switching in favor of OOXML than against it. For the benefit of those who want to keep track of how the .. more »


Jail-Breaking iPhones at the Apple Store

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article in Xconomy, iPhone hacker and author Jonathan Zdziarski was invited to speak at an Apple Store in Cambridge, MA last week where he talked about the history of iPhone hacking, jail-breaking, and limitations of the official SDK. From the article, "Zdziarski was one of the first software engineers to .. more »


Creative Goes After Driver Modder

FreedomFighter writes "Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being 'Vista Ready'. Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers. Creative insisted that features such as Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS(TM) .. more »


Yahoo Decides to Release a Rosy Forecast

Yahoo’s rosy outlook for the next two years aims to give investors a better understanding of why it is not willing to sell itself to Microsoft for less than $45 billion... more »


Access 2007 Runtime SP1 is now available

You can download the Access runtime from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D9AE78D9-9DC6-4B38-9FA6-2C745A175AED&displaylang=en This version of the Access 2007 Runtime... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »


NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007

PaisteUser tips us to an Ars Technica report discussing how 28.8% of Vista's crashes over a period in 2007 were due to faulty NVIDIA drivers. The information comes out of the 158 pages of Microsoft emails that were handed over at the request of a judge in the Vista-capable lawsuit. NVIDIA has already faced a class-action lawsuit over the drivers. .. more »


Windows Search 4.0 Preview

WS4 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WS4 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer. Please refer to the Knowledge... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »


Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher?

Amy Bennett writes "And the answer is... Microsoft. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analyzed 658 high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738 affecting Apple. They measured how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch available on the day a .. more »


Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2.1 (Beta)

With the Open XML Converter, you can convert Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac. You can choose to convert and open one file, or convert a large number of files. .. more »


BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT SP1

The BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 Service Pack 1 and BizTalk FileAct and InterAct Adapters for SWIFT 2.3 Service Pack 1 provide support of SWIFTReady Financial EAI GOLD Certification requirements for 2007. This release includes processing support for SWIFT XML-formatted messages (“MX”) and updates to the adapters to support .. more »


Philippine school sues Microsoft over copyright

-Microsoft is facing a lawsuit filed by a Manila-based school alleging that the software giant illegally copied and distributed copyrighted material. Southeastern College (SEC) filed a civil case... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »


Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future

Hugh Pickens writes "There is a long article in the NYTimes, well worth reading, about the future of applications and where they will reside — on the Web or on the desktop. Google President Eric Schmidt thinks that 90 percent of computing will eventually reside in the Web-based 'cloud.' Microsoft faces a business quandary as it tries to link .. more »


Ye Olde World Charm

The Solitaire brings us a link to Datamancer, where Richard R. Nagy shows off his Steampunk Laptop. The attention to detail and the creative style, which includes a copper-plated keyboard and speakers shaped like violin f-holes, make this an impressive case mod. From Datamancer: "This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately .. more »


Flight Simulator X Service Pack 2 Now Available

With a week to spare before the Winter Solstice and fall is over!  A lot of people worked hard to get this done before Christmas, kudos to the SP2 team at Aces. My post on Acceleration and SP2... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »


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Strange Xbox signal suspected of jamming wireless LANs

The Microsoft Xbox 360 console emits a strong signal that might pose a problem for a WLAN or Bluetooth device. One college reports on its discovery of the strong and strange Xbox signal... more »


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