Recently, the folks at TechNet Edge sat down with David Mills and Edwin Yuen for a brief discussion of Microsofts IT management and virtualization solution for midsize businesses. With the release of public betas for System Center Essentials 2010 and Data Protection Manager 2010, customers will have the capability to easily manage, backup and .. more »

by Amy Sorokas /   The winning project, Picture Hope , from the Name Your Dream Assignment contest continues to form into the story Jen Lemen and Stephanie Roberts envisioned. In fact, they are journaling their experience as they work on it.  ...(read more).. more »

You may not have a sweet tooth after Halloween last weekend, but lots of people still do for candy-makers on Facebook. In terms of Facebook pages, most of the big candy brands have vanity URLs and well over 100,000 fans. Of course, three companies make up most of the candy market: . Well break them down that way in our coverage. Overall, Mars .. more »

Many books are being written about Windows 7 at this moment, and many of them have already been written (Windows 7 for Dummies, for example). Today I’’ll give you links to some chapters from Windows 7 books, so you can learn more about it. Microsoft Press has added three more chapters to the Microsoft Learning.. more »

No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherranked documents and click on lower-ranked ones. Although search engines have been aggressively incorporating clickthrough data in their ranking, it is hard to eliminate such .. more »

After putting up my Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know post earlier this week, I have been receiving a lot of great comments and questions being sent in to me, posted in the Blog comments, etc.  If you have more, keep them coming as I always love the feedback from all of you.  Un.. more »

Episode 44 dated October 30th, 2009 of the Zune Insider Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz). Show notes:Matt and Jessica talk about planning and presentations (0:00-1:50). Interview with Bryan Nealer and Jordan Naftolin from the Zune device team (2:20  - 12:40). We discuss what the device team .. more »

(c) 2004 Bertrand Le Roy Ive already posted twice about that little class browser application. The first iteration was mostly declarative and can be found here: The second one was entirely imperative and can be found here: This new version builds on top of the code for the imperative version and adds the jQuery dependency in an attempt to make the .. more »

With all of the competition here in US, it's often easy to forget that even parts of the Western world don't have access to a wide range of quality VOD services. As compared to their brothers in the US edition, who found nothing particularly interesting in the Zune video-on-demand offering for Xbox Live, Gizmodo Australia was excited to report that .. more »

Symantec has updated its Data-Loss Prevention Suite so that if the software finds a data issue that needs fixing, it can apply third-party encryption and digital-rights management controls to the problem. Announced today, Symantec DLP Suite v. 10 adds what’s called the “Flex-Response” capability to find sensitive data that has been left unprot.. more »

Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered a new wave of malicious email attacks claiming to be a password reset confirmation from Facebook. See the rest here: Websense Alert: Malicious Facebook Password Spam.. more »

mputten from ombouwservice-webshop.com reports on our forums he's seen new Xbox 360 consoles without the 2nd-GPU heatsink/heatpipe (like the early Xenon consoles). This European Forza3-pack Xbox 360 Elite has a MFG 2009-08-17, LOT 0942. It seems like Microsoft is now confident enough their HW no longer needs the extra GPU heatsink.The device also .. more »

3 weeks to go until ; sessions are being reviewed, demos are being polished, schedules are being finalized, and the booth machines are being installed and packed up to go down to Los Angeles. Among the WCF, WF, and Dublin group, we have about 15 people who will be down at PDC to chat with you about what is coming out with the release of .NET .. more »

“…Your organization's data seems to be located everywhere, and you need to make sure the data is readily accessible to everyone who needs it but not to anyone else. This isn't an easy task, but Microsoft Forefront business-ready security can help. Attend this webcast to learn about Microsoft information protection solutions and how to best encr.. more »

Windows Mobile podcast number 303 published.. more »

Review of Samsung Intrepid from Sprint USA - published.. more »

The Montreal .NET Community event “Samedi .NET” was a great success with more then 160 attendees.  The event theme was how to build business apps using Silverlight.  We covered SketchFlow, RAI Services, calling WCF services, Expression Blend, Animation and styling with Blend and finally, search engine optimization. Here the pictures taken by Chr.. more »

This is my daughters first year at college.  We were there this weekend for Family Weekend and I saw this great license plate frame.  I just thought that I needed to share this little bit of humor with you.   Until next time! Rob                     Technorati .. more »

Further to my post yesterday about the Sky Player announcement at the UK Windows 7 launch I was at, I just noticed that on my Media Center under TV I now have a Sky Player icon that says Coming Soon. Cool .. more »

Windows phones in the first in the world Microsoft Store - first-hand report.. more »