http://www.digwin.com/user/hjwin/voted/hot digWin: Community news sharing for Microsoft Techies. en http://www.digwin.com/isos-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. http://www.digwin.com/att-first-to-introduce-microsoft-surface-in-retail-stores-to-enhance-mobile-shopping-experience  AT&T (NYSE: T) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced a collaborative alliance that will transform the way consumers shop for mobile devices. AT&T will become the... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-system-center-mobile-device-manager-2008-resource-kit-best-practices-analyzer System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) 2008 Best Practices Analyzer Tool helps you analyze a group of servers to determine if the prerequisites and best practices are met for MDM deployment. http://www.digwin.com/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 http://www.digwin.com/heroes-happen-here-easy-jet-case-study Heroes Happen Here - Easy Jet Case Study http://www.digwin.com/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 http://www.digwin.com/jailbreaking-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 http://www.digwin.com/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) http://www.digwin.com/china-law-could-impede-microsoft-deal-for-yahoo In August, a Chinese antimonopoly law takes effect that will extend the nation’s economic influence far beyond its borders. http://www.digwin.com/yahoo-decides-to-release-a-rosy-forecast-1 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. http://www.digwin.com/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 http://www.digwin.com/nvidias-drivers-caused-288-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. http://www.digwin.com/windows-search-40-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 http://www.digwin.com/multilingual-user-interface-pack-for-windows-search-40-preview-for-windows-xp-kb940157 Install this update to enable MUI support for Windows Search 4.0. http://www.digwin.com/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 http://www.digwin.com/enterprise-security-analyzer-voted-windowsecuritycom-readers-choice-award-winner-event-log-monitoring-solution Enterprise Security Analyzer was selected the winner in the Event Log Monitoring solution category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. EventTracker and GFI EventsManager were first runner-up and second runner-up. http://www.digwin.com/writing-terminal-service-based-scripts-part-2 How you can use a command line environment to create various scripts that assist with tasks encountered during day to day terminal server operations. http://www.digwin.com/technet-security-series-seminar-13th-dec-2007 Presentation Materials for TechNet Security Series Seminar (13th Dec 2007) http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-office-open-xml-file-format-converter-for-mac-021-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. http://www.digwin.com/exchange-2007-sp1-mailbox-management-features-part-3-mailboxenabling-users-in-bulk-using-the-exchange-management-console How to mailbox-enable users in bulk from within the Exchange Management Console (EMC) with the improved New Mailbox wizard in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. http://www.digwin.com/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 http://www.digwin.com/announcing-the-beta-release-of-the-windows-deployment-services-infrastructure-planning-and-design-guide The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. This series aims to clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu http://www.digwin.com/philippine-school-sues-microsoft-over-copyright-0 -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 http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-and-google-duke-it-out-for-the-future-1 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 http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-starts-public-test-of-rival-to-vmware-0 The release of the trial versions, which come on the heels of Oracle’s unexpected entry last month into the market for virtualization software, is bad news for VMware. http://www.digwin.com/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 http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-starts-public-test-of-rival-to-vmware The release of the trial versions, which come on the heels of Oracle’s unexpected entry last month into the market for virtualization software, is bad news for VMware. http://www.digwin.com/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 http://www.digwin.com/strange-xbox-signal-suspected-of-jamming-wireless-lans-0 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. http://www.digwin.com/ms06069-cumulative-security-update-for-internet-explorer-bulletin-webpage-upload-times On Tuesday we released MS06-069 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. Since then, we have had reports from some customers experiencing difficulties loading the Bulletin webpage. We have... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu