Windows Vista Service Pack beta 1

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Coraz więcej słychać o Service Pack dla Windows Vista. Publiczna beta ma ukazać się pod koniec roku, a finalny build w 1 kwartale 2008. Od kilku dni beta testerzy programów Windows Vista oraz Windows Server 2008 otrzymują zaproszenia do testów beta 1. Program nie będzie dostępny jako oddzielny program Microsoft Connect. Dostęp do bety ..... more »

Strange Xbox signal suspected of jamming wireless LANs

posted by  hjwin (10)  6 months ago (www.networkworld.com)

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 »

Live Documents To Break Microsoft…We’ll See

posted by  hjwin (10)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

New product press releases unencumbered by the complexities of releasing actual software set off alarm bells. And when those press releases are so boastful as to suggest that the (unlaunched) product can hurt a competitor’s $20 billion revenue stream, the alarm bells get much louder. So with alarm fells screaming, Hotmail co-founder Sabeer .. more »

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0 Runtime) (x86)

posted by  hjwin (10)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

This download (VSTOR30.exe) installs the Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 Runtime, which is required to run VSTO solutions for the 2007 Microsoft Office system built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. .. more »

Burger King Customer Story

posted by  hjwin (10)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Online Services Customer Story: Burger King .. more »

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0 Runtime) (x86)

posted by  hjwin (10)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

This download (VSTOR30.exe) installs the Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 Runtime, which is required to run VSTO solutions for the 2007 Microsoft Office system built using Microsoft... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit updated for RTM

posted by  hjwin (10)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

 The Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit has been updated for the RTM and has been released on the Microsoft.com Download Center for anyone to download and use. The Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Microsoft investors don't show much love

posted by  hjwin (10)  7 months ago (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Microsoft is off to the best start to a fiscal year since 1999, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer just gave a rosy outlook for the holidays..... more »

Group Policy Preferences Overview

posted by  hjwin (10)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

This white paper introduces Group Policy preferences, a feature new in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and describes how you can use Group Policy preferences to better deploy and manage operating system and application settings. .. more »

Chad Hower: Silverlight, Flash, VC-1, and H.264

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Good discussion and comparison of the HD video spec supported by Silverlight (VC-1) and the recent announcement that Flash would support HD video (H.264):

Recently Flash announced upcoming better video support in the form of H.264. I welcome this change as it will improve vastly on Flash's and thus the web's video offerings

How to Install a Public 3rd Party SSL Certificate on IIS on SBS 2003

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of James Frederickson, Damian Leibaschoff, and Justin Crosby]

Today we will discuss one method for installing a public certificate on your SBS 2003 Server.  This post describes how to request and install the certificate into IIS.  A future post will cover scenarios with ISA.  Since there can

Music List: What's Hot On The Pod

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (inesvt.spaces.live.com)

What's Hot On The Pod

• K-Maro: Crazy
• 50 Cent: Disco Inferno
• The Game: Hate It Or Love It
• Michael Bublé: Home
• The Game: How We Do It
• Mariah Carey: It's Like That
• Three Doors Down: Let Me Go
• Keshia Chante: Let the Music Take You
• Shawn Desmond: Let's

Forefront Server Security Management Console Beta 2 Released!

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

In addition to centrally managing Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint and Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products, the Beta 2 release will include new features

IIS7 on Server Core

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Server core is a capability included in Server 2008 which installs the bare minimum to have one or more roles function properly.  There were 7 roles available for server core and at

Microsoft Silverlight - just an alternative to Flash? Really?

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

With MIX07 well under way, there's been plenty of talk around the new

ISO's OOXML approval confirmed by many sources

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (www.networkworld.com)

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 »

AT&T First to Introduce Microsoft Surface in Retail Stores to Enhance Mobile Shopping Experience

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

 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.. more »

Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Resource Kit - Best Practices Analyzer

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

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. .. more »

Heartland Technology Solutions CS

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

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 »

Heroes Happen Here - Easy Jet Case Study

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Heroes Happen Here - Easy Jet Case Study .. more »

OOXML Vote Tracker and Calculation Guide

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

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

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

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

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

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 »

China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (www.nytimes.com)

In August, a Chinese antimonopoly law takes effect that will extend the nation’s economic influence far beyond its borders... more »

Yahoo Decides to Release a Rosy Forecast

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (www.nytimes.com)

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

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

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

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

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

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

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 »

Multilingual User Interface Pack for Windows Search 4.0 Preview for Windows XP (KB940157)

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Install this update to enable MUI support for Windows Search 4.0. .. more »

Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher?

posted by  hjwin (10)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

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 »