Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta
Microsoft has detailed its plans to release a public beta of its Windows Home Server Power Pack.
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22.5.2008 Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta Released
The Windows Home Server team has announced the availability of a Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate for public beta testing.
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10.6.2008 Connection reset
Remote Desktop Connection 6.0
Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0, KB925876) provides a way to use any new Terminal Services features introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn”.
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29.11.2006 Home Computer - Home Network - Home Server
In the 1960s & 70s the idea of a home computer was unheard of outside of science fiction circles. Before the late 1980s home networks were unheard of.
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2.12.2007 Hotmail users report connection issues
Several users of Microsoft's Hotmail service reported having problems with the free e-mail service on Tuesday. Microsoft late Tuesday confirmed the issue and said it has been fixed.
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19.4.2006 Microsoft HealthVault Connection Center 1.1 Beta
HealthVault Connection Center is a utility you can use with your HealthVault account to add data to your Health Records from health and fitness devices such as heart-rate monitors and blood pressure monitors.
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17.11.2007 Microsoft Releases Universal Remote Desktop Connection
As promised earlier, Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (Mac BU) released the Universal Application beta version of its Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client for Mac OS X, version 2.0.
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1.8.2007 Connect Windows 7 with XP SP3 Vista SP2 via Remote Desktop Connection 7.0
Microsoft is gearing up to release a tool that will permit users of Windows Vista and Windows XP computers to connect to Windows 7 machines, and to take advantage of features that only the latest version of the Windows client brings to the table.
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12.9.2009 Download Windows 7 Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 for XP SP3 and Vista SP1 and SP2
While Windows 7 technologies are, as a general rule, available exclusively with the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft, there also are exceptions.
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4.11.2009 Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Home Premium vs. Business vs. Ultimate
Microsoft applauded shipping in excess of 60 million Windows Vista licenses in the operating system's first six months of general availability. However, the Redmond company is right on track to correct this little slip up.
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20.8.2007 Public Beta of Exchange 2007
Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of the public betas of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the new Forefront Security for Exchange Server.
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24.7.2006 WSUS 3.0 SP1 Public RC Available
Microsoft just announced the public availability of WSUS 3.0 SP1 Release Candidate 1. Improvements include support for Windows Server 2008 and product bug fixes.
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2.11.2007 Microsoft will push IE 8 public beta
Microsoft has surprised watchers by saying that it will shortly make a first beta of Internet Explorer 8 generally available, according to a staffer at IT Week who wishes to remain anonymous.
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26.2.2008 Windows 7 Beta will be available for public on Friday
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, is set to announce at CES that Windows 7 will see its public debut on Friday 9th January. Microsoft is currently readying the beta for MSDN and TechNet subscribers and this will be available during Thursday 8th January (or sooner depending on replication).
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8.1.2009 Unpatched Firefox 1.5 exploit made public
Exploit code for the latest version of open-source browser Firefox was published Wednesday, potentially putting users at risk of a denial-of-service attack.
The exploit code takes advantage of vulnerabilities in the recently released Firefox 1.5, running on Windows XP with Service Pack 2. Firefox, which initially debuted over a year ago, has moved swiftly to capture 8 percent of the browser market.
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11.12.2005 Microsoft IE7 Beta 2 Public Preview
Microsoft is planning to release, to the public, a preview version of Internet Explorer 7.
Dubbed "Public Preview" the release includes tabbed browsing, page zoom, tab groups, RSS support and improved printing support. The release is expected to be available by this evening (GMT).
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31.1.2006 Exchange Server "12" and Public Folders
A frequent topic of discussion with customers is the future of Public Folders, thus I think it would be good to capture that discussion on our blog.
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21.2.2006 Microsoft accidentally lets the public in on WLM8
Oops! Microsoft
A new version of MSN Messenger is one of the projects currently being worked on by the Windows Live team. The beta version, ostensibly called MSN Messenger 8 but referred to in many places as "Windows Live Messenger," has so far been available for use only by invitation. Beta test users could send e-mail invites to their friends, but there was no way for the general public to test the service.
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22.3.2006 Office 2007 Public Beta 2 Available For Download
Today Microsoft released beta 2 of Office 2007. This beta is publicly available for download.
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23.5.2006 Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Download Available Soon
This was posted to the Windows Vista Newsgroups!
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7.6.2006 Windows Vista RC1 Open to Public
Those eager to try out the newest release of Windows Vista, which has received positive reviews from analysts and testers alike, can rest easy: RC1 is now available to the general public.
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15.9.2006 Microsoft Popfly to hit public beta soon
Microsoft’s Popfly mashup tool sounds just about ready to hit public beta. Microsoft rolled out an alpha test version of its Popfly Web-mashup tool in May — a few months after Yahoo rolled out its own mashup editor, Yahoo Pipes.
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6.8.2007 ESET Smart Security Public Beta 2
ESET Smart Security is a fully integrated security solution and includes antivirus, anti-spyware, a personal firewall and antispam. While some competitive solutions purport to have similar functionality, ESET has developed a unique approach that provides true and full integration of point security solutions.
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26.8.2007 New Vista SP1 test build public
After saying it planned to make its latest test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers only, Microsoft has done an about-face and made the code available to the public.
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12.1.2008 Windows Live wave 3 beta goes public
Have you been drooling over the latest screenshots of Windows Live wave 3? Now get yourself in on the action.
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17.9.2008 Windows Live wave 3 beta goes public
Have you been drooling over the latest screenshots of Windows Live wave 3?
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6.10.2008 Microsoft Security Essentials Public Beta
Last year, Microsoft announced that it was halting development of its highly regarded Windows Live OneCare product (see my review of Windows Live OneCare 2.0) and would instead release a free anti-malware solution codenamed Morro by the end of 2009.
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22.6.2009 Microsoft Hohm public beta is now live
Microsoft unveiled a new web service just two weeks ago, designed to help users manage and track power usage of their houses, named Hohm.
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7.7.2009 Windows 7 begins to release to the public across the world
Right now, it's October 22nd in some parts of the world, and Microsoft has begun releasing Windows 7 across the world at various launch parties and events.
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22.10.2009Verizon offers in home personal cell tower
Verizon has introduced a new in home personal cell phone tower that connects to your broadband connection so users can get a full signal within a 5000
square foot area. The unit connects to a broadband connection with a 300 kbps minimum connection to communicate with the closest cell tower if out
of reach in either a dead zone or blacked out area. The unit acts as a cellular base station, also referred to as "femtocell". The Network
Extender is a small unit at 7.8" x 2.1" x 5.8" and weighs roughly 1lb – about the same size as a wireless router.
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28.01.2009Microsoft releases Remote Desktop Connection 2 for Mac
After being in public beta just shy of one year, the official version of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 client for Mac was released yesterday...
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03.07.2008100 Gb/s Internet2 completed
At its Fall 2007 member meeting, the Internet 2 consortium announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial
capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators.
The blazingly fast network connection was demonstrated for the first time when
the organization established a connection between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Fermilab in Batavia, IL and was able to transfer a
third of a terabyte within five minutes over a 10 GB/s connection.
Internet 2 is often confused with a next-generation Internet
infrastructure for the public. However, the Internet 2 is limited to currently 207 connected universities that use the high-speed network as
infrastructure to quickly exchange data and test new technologies that one day could find their way into the public Internet.
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10.10.2007Home opens its doors for the PS3
Sony's PlayStation 3 sales dropped 19% in November, but with the public availability of Home , the console has increased in value...
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13.12.2008Windows Home Server Power Pack Public Beta Coming, Sign up
If you are running a Window Home Server you will want to be sure to get in on the
upcoming public beta of Power Pack 1. This update will include a
fix for the Data Corruption issues that just about everyone has complained about.
Sign up for the public beta now on Connect. Doing so will mean that you will be notified
once it becomes available.
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22.05.2008Windows 7 Home Premium and Server betas available to public
Microsoft released the Windows 7 betas to the public last week. The software company also sent out a hardware newsletter to its ecosystem partners on
Friday January 9th detailing the Windows 7 beta. In the newsletter the spokesperson mentions "If you are a hardware partner but do not have a
Winqual account, you can access the Windows 7 Beta by entering invitation ID Win7-3HQW-RF74 on the Microsoft Connect homepage." By using this ID on
the Connect site you can gain access to Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Server betas. Last week We revealed that Microsoft is currently only
offering the Home Premium bits only to 1000 testers for Windows Any Time Upgrade testing.
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15.01.2009Sign Up for Windows Home Server Public Beta
Good news! Windows Home Server
has reached the Beta 2
milestone! While previous
releases have been tested by
1000+ Microsoft employees and
some of our hardware and
software partners, we are now
starting to invite a broader
group of external testers to
participate in Beta 2.
People that are
interested in participating in
Beta 2 can register
here so
we have their names as we
steadily expand the program.
We can't guarantee you'll be
invited to participate right
away (or at all), but if
you're interested get
yourself registered.
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15.02.2007T-Mobile Service Lets Users Talk at Home Without Using Minutes
T-Mobile USA Inc., encouraging
customers to drop their
home-phone connections,
introduced a mobile-phone
service that allows
subscribers to talk at home
without using up their
allotted minutes.
The
company uses a wireless
Internet technology called
Wi-Fi to offer the service.
When a subscriber brings a
phone into the house, the
device automatically switches
from T-Mobile's voice network
to the Wi-Fi connection in the
home, where phone use no
longer counts against the
customer's calling plan.
T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom
AG's U.S. unit, expects to
win subscribers by convincing
them they don't need
home-phone lines. Larger
rivals AT&T Inc. and Verizon
Wireless, both affiliated with
traditional U.S. phone
companies, have taken the
opposite approach by offering
packages of wireless and
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27.06.2007Windows Media Player: Internet access to home media
By linking your Live ID to your user account in Windows 7 (from build 7048), you can now stream your home media to your another PC/laptop connected to
a work or public network. Both your home network PC and work network PC should be linked to the same Live ID account. The media is streamed always
from home network to work or public network. This feature partially worked in build 7048, but works pretty neat in the recent 7057 build.
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12.03.2009Microsoft HealthVault Connection Center Beta (1.1)
HealthVault Connection Center is a utility you can use with your HealthVault account to add data to your Health Records from health and fitness
devices such as heart-rate monitors and blood pressure monitors. When you use HealthVault Connection Center, data from your device is imported into
your computer and then uploaded to HealthVault. You can view the data in HealthVault Connection Center before and after uploading it. You can also use
HealthVault Connection Center to launch HealthVault programs such as HealthVault Search.
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17.11.2007Wireless Home Networking
Improvements in Windows XP
Service Pack 2
MVP Tony Northrup tells how to
use new features in SP2 for
connecting to a wireless
network at home or at a public
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04.01.2006PS3 'Home' Calls in Late: Sony Delays Virtual World Until Spring
Sony has been demoing its 3D online user community Home a lot recently, ramping up excitement surrounding its release, initially planned for later
this year. Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show, and in his first public appearance as CEO of SCEI, Kazuo Hirai announced that Home would be delayed until
next spring...
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20.09.200775-year-old woman has world's fastest private internet connection
75-year-old Sibritt Löthberg
from Karlstad, Sweden just got
her first computer, but it
didn't take her long to
download all the necessary
patches.
Swedish news
site
The
Local reports that
Löthberg's home has been
tricked-out with a
record-breaking 40 Gb/s
connection - the first time a
private residence has tapped
into the internet at such high
speeds.
The
blazing-fast connection comes
courtesy her son, Peter
Löthberg, a Swedish optical
internet guru working at
Cisco.
Ma
Löthberg's house was
converted into a broadband
dog-and-pony act in an effort
to promote high-speed fibre
connections as a commercially
viable platform...
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13.07.2007Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta Now Available
The Windows Home Server team, in conjunction with all of our partners, MVPs, and "Dogfooders" is extremely happy to announce that a
Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (Build 1771) is now available for public download and testing through
Microsoft Connect!
There has been a huge amount of testing applied to Power Pack 1 already and we have high confidence that Power Pack 1 solves the data
corruption bug that was first identified late last year (
Knowledge Base article #946676). We are running this public beta with the aspiration
that we will get thousands of beta testers to help us
prove that we not only have fixed "the bug", but have significantly improved all
parts of Windows Home Server with new features such as...
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10.06.2008Windows 7 Home Premium beta released to testers
A trusted source has indicated that Microsoft has released Windows 7 Home Premium beta to a select group of 1000 users to get a firsthand look at the
next major release of Windows. The Home Premium beta comes listed with an assortment of features, few less than the public release of Windows 7 due
on Friday to everybody, mentioned in tonight's annual CES keynote. The Home Premium is a perfect suit for home users, with a cheaper price tag,
compared with Vista Home Premium, to Vista Ultimate, and a few less built in programs, that are only available to the full version.
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08.01.2009Norway Loves Windows Home Server
The team over at the
Windows Home Server Team Blog have been
keeping a tally of the uptake of WHS around the globe since February. Theyve come up with a formula to make comparisons across countries relevant -
based on Windows Home Server sales divided by the number of households with a broadband connection in each country.
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06.06.2008Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta Released
The Windows Home Server team has announced the availability of a Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate for public beta testing. The
update package is now available from Microsoft’s
Connect site
(Registration req.)
The most important update in the Power pack is the
data corruption issue:
“When certain programs are used to edit or transfer files that are stored on a Windows
Home Server-based computer that has more than one hard drive, the files may become corrupted”.
According to an Microsoft email sent
to beta testers this has now been fixed:
“While internal testing so far indicates that we have fixed the data corruption bug in the
beta release, the whole point of a beta test is to validate internal testing”
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10.06.2008At last, a bridge between Windows Home Server and Media Center
With this week's release of Power Pack 2 for Home Server, Microsoft is filling a very important gap. Up until recently, the company had been
maintaining that the place for users to store videos and multimedia was on their Media Center computers (generally Windows Vista Ultimate-based
systems), and the place for their "everyday files" was their Home Server. But the biggest and most cumbersome "everyday files" are multimedia
files, including those that deserve to be streamed and accessed by Media Center. While setting up Media Center to include a Home Server folder as one
of its "watch folders" is one option for getting files listed, that's not as rich as setting up a streaming connection...
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25.03.2009T-Mobile Opens Wi-Fi to Katrina Victims
Many residents of the hurricane stricken areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama remain without power and no reliable connection to the outside world. T-Mobile is attempting to alleviate some of that suffering by opening up its hotspots in those three states to the public through Friday...
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31.08.2005Windows Home Server Power Pack to enter public beta after a data bug
It's one of Microsoft's most innovative products, creating a new market for consumer level server management. But Windows Home Server has recently
suffered a few setbacks -- problems which may very well be addressed by a forthcoming beta...
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