Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of how it is adding new features to its development tools to better support parallel processing. But the next release of Windows client and server also are going to incorporate changes designed to improve their parallel-processing support.
While Microsoft execs and those who’ve managed to ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
It’s time to put speculations at rest, software giant Microsoft has confirmed that its next operating system Windows 7, successor to Windows Vista, will be unveiled next month (28 October) at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
Earlier this week, Microsoft technology evangelist Mike Swanson had posted that PDC 2008 attendees will ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Google's new Chrome Web browser is being hailed as a game-changer. It is fast, has a clean interface and some snazzy features that other browsers do not have.
Does that mean you should download it right now and spend the time to learn it? If you like new technology, the answer ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualization leader VMware.
The theme behind Microsoft's push into the virtualization market, as exemplified by guerrilla marketing campaigns ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Microsoft announced the renaming of the next version of its BizTalk business process management server as well as detailed what will be in that product and what to expect in future releases.
Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, said Microsoft has renamed what had ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Windows Server 2003 felt like a refresh of Windows Server 2000. There were few radical changes, and most of the improvements were fairly under the surface. Windows Server 2008, on the other hand, is a full-size helping of “new and improved.” While the overall package is quite good, there are ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
It has always been somewhat tricky to perform maintenance on domain controllers. With Windows Server 2008, administrators now have the ability to stop the Active Directory services for various reasons. This opens up a lot of functionality, as many administrators are weary of issues immediately being replicated through the Active ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
3Tera is expanding platform support for its AppLogic grid software for Web applications, enabling it to run on Windows, a company official said ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
The improved interface of Microsoft's PowerPoint marks a "huge change" in its accessibility, say experts.
Microsoft has claimed that the improvements to the application were focussed on moving towards a user "results-orientated approach" and have made PowerPoint more "user friendly".
Darren Strange, senior product manager for Microsoft Office systems, said: "If you ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
A. To add a disk resource, you must first create a resource group for the disk, then add the disk into the new resource group. As you can see in the following sample command, which creates a resource group, I've called my resource Quorum Disk (you can name the new ...
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