Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 (SCCP) beta is now available
SCCP 2007 provides the IT professional with the guidance required to plan new deployments of Exchange Server 2007 and Operations Manager 2007 in the most efficient manner, while also delivering "what-if" analysis to optimize existing implementations.
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14.4.2007 Microsoft to Standardize Office Format
Microsoft intends to submit Office file formats to the European standards body ECMA International, a move the company hopes will allay concerns over the company's level of control over document formats.
The company, which dominates the market for desktop productivity software, plans to hand over the technical specifications of Office 12 file formats to ECMA early next month.
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22.11.2005 Microsoft: Office Format War Over
Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the so-called format war with OpenDocument is officially over. The winner, he says, is both.
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6.3.2007 Microsoft Readies Proprietary Image Format
Microsoft have announced their new image format which is a competitor to standards like JPEG and PNG.
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27.5.2006 Microsoft: Make our HD Photo format a standard
Such is the reasoning behind a step Microsoft plans to announce Thursday: it will submit its HD Photo image format to a standards body.
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8.3.2007 Bureaucracy swamps ISO meeting on Microsoft format
FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A meeting to hammer out a consensus on whether a Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) document format should become an international standard descended into near chaos this week, people close to the meeting told Reuters.
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2.3.2008 Bureaucracy swamps ISO meeting on Microsoft format
A meeting to hammer out a consensus on whether a Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) document format should become an international standard descended into near chaos this week, people close to the meeting told Reuters
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3.3.2008 Microsoft wins document format standards battle
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has won a battle to have a key document format adopted as a global standard, improving its chances of winning government contracts and dealing a blow to supporters of a rival format.
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1.4.2008 Microsoft Takes Heat for Office 2003 SP3 File Format Blocking
CorelDraw .CDR files are one of the formats that have been blocked. Microsoft is facing criticism from a competitor and some customers for its decision to block some older file formats with Office 2003 Service Pack 3, which it released last September
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4.1.2008 Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
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10.2.2007 Windows Vista - Windows Imaging File Format
With the advent of Windows Vista, Microsoft also introduced the Windows Imaging (WIM) file format. According to the Redmodn company, the Windows Imaging format is designed as a file-based disk image specific to Vista, and is an alternative to sector-based image formats because of a range of benefits.
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17.10.2007 Keep Windows XP Until 2009, Analysts Tell Microsoft
Microsoft may have pushed a too-aggressive XP transition schedule because of how long it took to release Vista, an analyst suggests.
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9.2.2008 Microsoft unveils Windows Embedded Standard 2009
Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Community Technology Preview.
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5.6.2008 Microsoft confirms Windows 7 to launch by December 2009
Good news from the kingdom of Redmond, fellow geeks; we've finally been given a more precise (though still not as precise as one could get) release date for Windows 7, the next operating system to come from Microsoft.
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11.5.2009 Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2009: six bulletins
Microsoft will release six security bulletins this Tuesday. Three are rated as "Critical" and the other three are marked "Important."
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5.11.2009 Microsoft to Wrap up New Windows 8 Testing Infrastructure by Mid-2009
With Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 out of the way in the first half of the year, Microsoft is focusing on Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server, the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms.
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2.7.2008 Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009
Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February 2009.
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24.11.2008 Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 - Release Candidate - DVD ISO Image File
Commerce Server 2009 (formerly known as Commerce Server 2007 code name “Mojave”) delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to sell via multiple channels using an out-of-the-box shopping site, SharePoint Commerce Services, and the Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation.
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16.1.2009 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Silverlight 3 in 2009
Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration.
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18.11.2008 Windows 7 - the End of 2009
As much as Microsoft is trying to make the availability date for the next iteration of the Windows client ambiguous, officially pointing to a development process scoped for 2010, Windows 7 is actually dropping at the end of 2009, were we to believe Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
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28.5.2008 Windows 7 Available on September 1, 2009
As Microsoft is making its way to the release to manufacturing milestone of Windows 7, the company confirmed that the gold build of the operating system would be made available to customers months ahead of October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline.
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14.7.2009 Internet Explorer 8? 2008? 2009?
Internet Explorer 8 followed by a question mark and an interrogatory tone is about all that can be said about the successor of Internet Explorer 7 at this point in time.
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1.10.2007 Norton 2009 tackles whitelisting
Symantec has adopted whitelising techniques in an effort to dramatically improve the performance of its upcoming Norton 2009 security suite, according to the company's vice president of consumer engineering, Rowan Trollope.
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12.9.2008 FIFA 2009 Demo Released
Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch the most anticipated soccer related game of the year, FIFA 2009, and they are preparing gamers for the shock by releasing a demo.
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14.9.2008 Windows Live Messenger 2009
Due to a request from Microsoft, this download has been removed temporarily. However, Windows Live Messenger 9 will be available for download here as soon as it is oficially published. Check back often to ensure you don't miss it!
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19.11.2008 Windows 7 RTM in October 2009
Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in 2009, more precisely in the third quarter of this year, with information from a leaked product roadmap pointing to the first half of October 2009.
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25.2.2009 Messenger Plus! Live 2009 contest
Patchou has announced his 2009 Messenger Plus! Live contest with no less than 1,000 prize packages up for grabs.
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12.7.2009 Patch Tuesday for September 2009
Microsoft's Security Bulletin for September contains five critical bulletins for release on Tuesday to block Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems.
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5.9.2009 September 2009 Security Patches
This month MS released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats.
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9.9.2009Yahoo Launches Trip Planner
Beta
Taking advantage of its new
Flickr acquisition, Yahoo is
rolling out a beta test for
its Trip Planner service that
will be offered through Yahoo!
Travel. Visitors will be able
to tag, share and print
personalized trip itineraries,
which can be joined by photos,
maps and driving directions...
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27.10.2005Sony, SanDisk plan to make 2TB Memory Sticks
SDXC format is just not good enough. So, Sony and SanDisk have just announced that they plan to offer a new format for their jointly built memory
stick. The format is tentatively dubbed "Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity".
This new format can reach 2TB and neither
company has released much more information than that.
In addition to the 2TB memory card format announcement; they are working on a new
Memory Stick HG Micro format, which promises to boast a blazing 60MB/s maximum data transfer speed.
There has been no indication of a
release date for either announcement. The companies are only saying that format licensing for both new formats is "scheduled to start in 2009".
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09.01.2009Microsoft ad: It costs $30,000 to fill a 120GB iPod
It seems the ad wars are starting to heat back up, folks. It's been relatively quiet lately, in context of advertisements Microsoft and Apple have
been aiming at each other, but it seems that the Redmond software giant has just unleashed another video into the wild. The ad, which we'll call
'Financial Planner', features a man named Wes Moss, a 'certified financial planner', talking about the differences between iTunes and
the Zune Pass. Moss states that $30,000 is what it takes to fill a iPod with 120GB of storage, whereas the Zune Pass costs you a mere $15
because it's a subscription based service.
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12.05.2009Microsoft talks Windows Media
Photo; JPEG rival
Microsoft detailed the new
image format Wednesday at the
Windows Hardware Engineering
Conference. Windows Media
Photo will be supported in
Windows Vista and also made
available for Windows XP, Bill
Crow, program manager for
Windows Media Photo said in a
presentation.
Compression with better
quality than the jpeg format
is the main key. This will
save space, transfer faster
and conserve battery life with
devices.
Ralf
Mueller an application planner
from Sony Ericsson said
"Considering our development
cycle, I could not see us
supporting Windows Media Photo
before 2008".
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25.05.2006Microsoft: Office Format War Over
Microsoft Office program
manager Brian Jones, whose
work has centered around the
Open XML document format, now
says the so-called format war
with OpenDocument is
officially over. The winner,
he says, is both...
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05.03.2007JPEG XR: Microsoft's HD Photo format is endorsed by JPEG
The Joint Photographic Experts Group decided earlier this week to officially endorse the Microsoft HD Photo file format as the eventual heir apparent
to the JPEG standard. In order to be adopted, the format has lost its vendor-specific name and other Microsoft proprietary controls to ensure
universal compatibility. The new format will hence be known as JPEG XR whereby XR stands for eXtended Range.
Microsoft believes that
wide-spread use of this file format could begin in about a year.
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08.02.2008OpenDocument debate resumes in the Netherlands
While Microsoft's Office Open XML format slowly makes inroads towards acceptance as an international format, the Dutch government debates whether the
software behind that format must also be open-source...
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12.12.2007Microsoft Claims It's Format-Agnostic in Appeal to Chinese Office Users
Microsoft revealed that it had
launched a project with
Beijing's Beihang University
to create an open-source,
two-way translator between
China's Uniform Office Format
and the Office 2007 Open XML
file formats, just two weeks
after Sun's chairman called
for UOF and OpenDocument
Format to be merged...
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21.05.2007Document Format Dispute Spills into the Open
The recent decision by the Open Document Foundation to substitute the World Wide Web Consortium's Compound Document Format in place of the format it
was set up to promote, the Open Document Format, has sparked a contentious debate over what shape the format should take.
Open
document advocates are debating fundamental questions about whether there should be a single document format or multiple formats that interoperate,
and the relative importance of format and applications.
"At the core of our dissatisfaction with the ODF is its supporters'
fundamental view that interoperability is an application thing and not a format thing. Our view is that if there is to be a Universal Document Format,
the format must be the nexus of interoperability," said Sam Hiser, vice president of OpenDocument Foundation, explaining the move away from ODF.
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04.11.2007Calif. Document Format Bill Could Test Microsoft's Openness Claim
A bill introduced last week in
the California state
legislature would make it
state law next year for all
state agencies to create,
preserve, and archive their
digital documents using an
XML-based file format, and to
be able to receive new
documents in XML-based formats
as well. The bill does not
mention any format
specifically, though observers
believe it refers indirectly
to OpenDocument Format (ODF)...
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02.03.2007Sun's McNealy Proposes Merging ODF with Chinese Counterpart
In a trade conference convened
earlier this week by the
Chinese Ministry of Commerce,
Sun Microsystems Chairman
Scott McNealy suggested that
what he described as the
world's #2 and #3 office
document formats -
OpenDocument Format (ODF) and
the Chinese standard Uniform
Office Format (UOF) - could go
up against the #1 format from
Microsoft more effectively if
they were to be merged...
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19.04.2007Microsoft adds OOXML to its promise not to sue
In another carefully timed move to garner support for its document format still under consideration for an international standard, Microsoft today
altered the terms under which use of its Office Open XML format by developers is permitted...
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15.02.2008Record labels to launch new format CMX
What do you do when the market doesn't have what you need? If you're the music industry you create a new digital format that will hopefully
encourage users to purchase entire albums instead of single tracks. The format dubbed CMX will give consumers more for their dollar when they
download albums in the newly created format. Think of current music downloads to be similar to VHS and the CMX format will be more like DVDs in that
they offer bonus content in addition to the music. CMX has a few large backers including Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI but notably it is not being
supported by Apple.
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12.08.2009Microsoft plans to open up Outlook PST data format
Microsoft said today that it plans to open up the PST data format commonly used within Outlook. In a MSDN blog posting, Paul Lorimer, Group Manager
of Microsoft Office Interoperability, confirmed Microsoft want to improve platform-independent access to email, calendar, contacts, and other data
generated by Microsoft Outlook. The PST format is used to store data ranging from email to calendar and contacts and allows for users to export and
import that data within Microsoft Outlook. According to Lorimer: "In order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to access
the data in .pst files on a variety of platforms, we will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format.
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26.10.2009HD DVD Appears to Have Early Edge
The group responsible for
promoting the HD DVD format
said that its discs were
selling three times better
than any other high-definition
format, including Sony's
Blu-ray. Customers of the
format own an average of 8 HD
DVDs, the group said...
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12.10.2006HD VMD: The third format that would not die
Just when you thought the high-def format war was over, the red-laser high-def format HD VMD pops up once again, like a third-tier political
candidate, to start it up all anew...
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08.01.2008Better JPEG standard due in 2009
JPEG XR, an
image format created by Microsoft that
promises a number of advantages over JPEG, has cleared a key standardization hurdle.
The Joint Photographic Experts Group, which
standardized the original and still ubiquitous JPEG format, sent JPEG XR to the "final phases of standardization" after a vote at a January meeting,
the group said Thursday. That means the standard's future is more certain.
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30.01.2009Microsoft's Matusow and Mahugh on Office's move to open format support
"We feel we are achieving parity in how Office treats the format, by making them all part of just one simple list of formats supported by Office,"
said Microsoft Office Product Manager Doug Mahugh, in an interview with BetaNews.
For the history of applications up until now,
the specification of the format used to encode documents was defined largely and almost inescapably by the functionality of the programs which utilize
them. A format represented what an application was designed to do, and that format changed when the application changed.
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22.05.2008Updated: Microsoft clarifies its promise not to sue for OOXML
UPDATED - In another carefully timed move to garner support for its document format still under consideration for an international standard,
Microsoft today clarified the terms under which use of its Office Open XML format by developers is permitted...
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16.02.2008Office 2007 won't support ISO's OOXML
For customers expecting an ISO-conformant Office Open XML (OOXML) in Microsoft Office, the wait will continue: Microsoft will not implement the
standardized version of its own document format until Office 14 ships. Meanwhile, a service pack
due in 2009 is expected to expand the formats supported by
Office 2007.
Today, Microsoft announced that it was making new commitments to document interoperability within its Office product
line for Windows. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add native support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.1, PDF 1.5, PDF/A and XML Paper Specification, an
XML-based fixed-document format created by Microsoft.
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