C4Eva announced he's working on a new firmware on IRC:"[c4eva] new fw in dev/test - ixtreme LT (Lite Touch) - more efficient , minimal patching , all aspects of fw indistinguisable from orig, no more bans, No ETA!"We do not have more details atm.As far as we know the 3 'test boxes' C4Eva has running (see here) are still fine (not banned).So there's .. more »

The Toolkit for PHP with Virtual Earth aka Bing Maps is one of the useful tools that we announced and on our site. The toolkit provides a set of files that allow you to connect your server running PHP to a set of client web browser files in JQuery, Javascript, JSON that in turn access the Virtual Earth or Bing maps services in the cloud via .. more »

Facebook has changed the default News Feed for users back to an engagement-based algorithmic approach from the real-time fire-hose that had been in place since March. How should application developers adapt? One thing developers should consider: how getting users to become a fan of their apps about Page fits into an overall News Feed plan. Now that .. more »

added Bing Maps as its default mapping platform back when it was Microsoft Virtual Earth (and back when I was writing the Virtual Earth and MapPoint B2B blog! ); however, theyve continued to innovate and just recently added the ability to view Futures on the map. Futures are essentially a predictive model overlain and animated over the top of the B.. more »

wallace2Earlier this year, we first covered the news that Facebook had filed a federal lawsuit against famed Spam King Sanford Wallace for crimes under the CAN-SPAM Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the California Anti-Phishing Act. Today, Facebook says the company won the case and was awarded $711 million in damages, the second largest .. more »

When Citrix released XenDesktop 4, a new licensing model was introduced. This new licensing model was moving from concurrent user to named user. A lot of flack was raised about use cases where this type of licensing change made the cost of XenDesktop unreasonable (use cases like education and health care). Citrix received the feedback from the .. more »

Marco Novelli in Italy reported a problem with the new Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition: I recently updated my Entourage 2008 to WSE (Web Services Edition) and my Exchange 2007 Server to SP2. Now most of email that I write are sent as plain text. I've not been able to reproduce 100% the behavior: most of the time the issue appear when replying .. more »

Security Essentials helped there too, a lot. So, today after having the usual slowdown during web browsing caused by McAfee doing yet another ” update ” as I worked, I replaced McAfee on my Dell XPS, and I’m liking it there too. … Read more: Microsoft Security Essentials - My New Anti-Virus Program ….. more »

First, the feedback, excitement, etc. we’ve been seeing since the launch of Windows 7 last week has been phenomenal! Thank you to all of you for providing your feedback to us to let us know how your Windows 7 experience is going. Unfortunately, it looks like it is time to have this conversation again though. Over the past several days there have be.. more »

Im very happy about todays announcements at the Eclipse Summit in Ludwigsburg, Germany . Microsoft,Tasktop and Soyatec announced a series of projects to help developers using the Eclipse platform do two things: take advantage of new features in Microsoft Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2 and reinforce Java and PHP interoperability with Windows .. more »

Windows 7 deployment goals have been exceeded and Helpdesk call volume is below anticipated levels. Microsoft IT delivered on a Windows 7 deployment plan that minimized end user disruption. Investments in communications and productivity materials support a prepared end user population... more »

Security is of paramount concern for all organizations, and it is no different for a virtual solution. In this webcast, we look at the four  main solutions from the previous webcasts and cover some best practices for ensuring your virtual environment is secure. Check it out at: h.. more »

Playlogic Entertainment's Fairytale Fights may have just been released today in North America, but the game's developer is wasting no time at all in kinda, sorta announcing the first downloadable content. We say "kinda, sorta" because the promised four "new playable characters" and three "new PvP arenas" aren't detailed whatsoever in the press .. more »

in Birmingham. For the time first in this event, we are working in partnership with Shireland Learning and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust to bring you what we think will be the best event ever. This one-day conference is FREE of charge for all teachers and educators who wish to attend and will look to address the theme of Keynote .. more »

Site theme and select Windows 7 theme Themes in SP, or Cascading Style Sheets, offer great options to override various aspects of look-and-feel, including layouts to some extent. Of course a SP theme approach to branding is everything but html markup changes, yet it has few manageability benefits over Publishing, like centralized deployment. For .. more »

NEW YORK - Oct. 22, 2009 -Today Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of its new Windows 7 operating system. Windows 7 delivers on a simple premise: make it easier for people to do the things they want on a PC. more..... more »

The folks at the MSRC have posted the questions and answers from the security bulletin webcast we conducted on October 14 at this link . It was clear from all of the questions concerning MS09-062 (the GDI+ update) that there is some confusion on how to...(read more).. more »

Exchange Online now supports POP e-mail, so you can send and receive Exchange Online e-mail using any POP e-mail client. For information about other recently announced features, see Service Update: October 2009 Release Availability, Features Announced POP e-mail does not provide Free/Busy, presence, calendar, tasks, and other rich features normally .. more »

From computerandvideogames.com:[QUOTE]Third party peripheral firm Datel, who make a range of Max Memory storage units for Xbox 360, says it's "disappointed" with MS's decision to stop unofficial memory units working with the 360's upcoming dashboard update."We are following this issue and awaiting the outcome like everyone else," a Datel rep told .. more »

Q: (from John) Wondering if you might be able to provide me a comparison chart between for the features of the windows 7 O/S various types (Enterprise, Professional, and the others) A: Here is a link to the official comparison found online: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare-editions/default.aspx Remember Ultimate and .. more »