After a bunch of beers on Thanksgiving Day, and 20% Bing Cashback, I ordered a Zino HD from Dell. Well, I am already a Dell guy so it was not like I drunk-dialed. Anyway, after a month of waiting it finally arrived this week! The cost after Bing was $199. So, what do you get for $200 from the Dell Zino HD? When you buy the Inspiron Zino HD you get .. more »

VMware has officially released VMware View 4.0. VMware View is VMware's desktop virtualization product line. View 4.0 includes the following new features: Software version of PC-over-IP (licensed from Teradici) vShpere 4 support Enhanced Single Image composition (View Composer) Restricted Entitlements User Principal Name (UPN) support Mixed Active .. more »

Did you know you could download a free viewer for Visio files? This free viewer from Microsoft allows you to view Visio .vsd files from Internet Explorer. How cool is that? You can find the download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D88E4542-B174-4198-AE31-6884E9EDD524&displaylang=en After the initial installation, do a .. more »

Our pals at Android Central seem a little stoked that the Swype keyboard is coming to Android. And they should be. They have capacitive screens. (Yeah, we're going there again.) That said, we're still not convinced this is going to revolutionize on-screen keyboards, and we're not too crazy about the side-by-side test you see above. But what we do .. 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 »

Johanna and I were invited to do an interview for the MSNZ podcast at the SharePoint Conference. It just got posted, hope you enjoy it :).. more »

Some of our readers may read the title and say, Flip 3D is already in Windows 7 and this is true, so I am technically not showing you how to add it to Windows, but instead, how to find it and add it to the taskbar. Now that weve sorted through that, I wanted to explain why I am dedicating an article to a small feature such as Flip 3D. Its simple, I .. more »

If there’s one thing that makes a difference in terms of getting your work done, it’s being able to find the information you need. It doesn’t matter how many productivity application you have, it doesn’t matter how power those applications might be, and it doesn’t matter how new they are, if you can’t find that piece of information you need to plug.. more »

You probably already know that you can use Microsoft SharePoint Online to store, share, and manage files as well as build collaboration solutions for your organization. Have you ever wished that you could: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer can help you with these and many other tasks. SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need .. more »

If you are using the Beta of We value your opinion! Your feedback helps us continue to make System Center Essentials everything you need it to be. We have two easy ways for you to provide feedback: online and in person. Please take a moment and If you are having technical issues with the Essentials 2010 Beta, or want to connect with other IT .. more »

We have been receiving questions about our support for Windows Server 2008 R2, so we would like to clarify the information about our support for the release. The following products are designed to be compatible with Windows Server 2008 R2: Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for S.. more »

The radio talk show "Computer Outlook" has Steven Leonard the Senior Product Manager on the Windows Home Server team and Jonas Svensson the Program Manager for Windows Home Server on the show chatting Windows Home Server. From an overview to different builds with lots of questions answered too, including on Windows 7 you can find the show under .. more »

I know this isn’t VMM specific but I figured you might appreciate a heads-up on a new Hyper-V Knowledge Base article we published last week.  This one discusses an issue where you may receive Windows Time Service.. more »

Posted by Pamela Passman Corporate Vice President With the launch of Windows 7 last week, Microsoft also launched a contest, 7 Ways to Change the World ,  which aims to find and fund innovative ways for technology to achieve social change. The seven...(read more).. more »

Lips Number One Hits is now available this month with a themed collection of 40 songs that have reached the number one position on music charts around the world... more »

Over the last couple of months, we've posted about many of the exciting new features of Word 2010 . This week, at SharePoint Conference 2009, we announced one more (and one that I'm especially excited about): framing the Word 2010 release , one of the pillars described is "Word Power in New Contexts". Word Automation Services is a big part of that .. more »

Windows 7 has officially arrived and is available in retail or for download online at the . Weve posted earlier about the in Windows7, and as we stated energy efficiency was a core principle in the design of Windows 7 as designers considered scenarios both when the PC is in use and when it is turned off. All of these improvements will help you save .. more »

Ubisoft's website lists James Cameron's Avatar as launching across all platforms -- Xbox 360, PS3, PC, DS, Wii, PSP, Wifi-enabled Toilets and Toasters that also cook hot dogs -- for December 1. As we're often skeptical with what we read on the Internet, we decided to find out if the listing was accurate. According to Ubisoft, the game will indeed .. more »

Malaysian System Center Operations Manager MVP Raymond Chou delivered a session on ‘Windows 7 Feature Overview’ at the TechNet event held in Malaysia, reaching out to more than 100 IT Professionals. In his presentation, Raymond focused on Windows 7 productivity features, such as Direct Access, Branch Cache, Windows 7 Power and UAC options, Wind.. more »

Bing is excited to be part of annual that kicked off today. This is the annual O'Reilly conference where visionaries and executives across key industries will present their unique perspective on the Web's future-in-flux and how the tools and principles of Web 2.0 are impacting their businesses. Bing's presence will be highlighted by Qi Lus plenary c.. more »