Another Microsoft team looks to end ‘hot-fix hell’
You've heard of DLL hell. What about hot-fix hell — the case where multiple Microsoft fixes and/or service packs don't play nicely together?
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26.1.2007 Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation
Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
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20.12.2007 New Outlook Team Blog
Hi! You’ve found the new home of the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog, your one-stop-shop for tips, tricks, and rants directly from the Outlook product team here at Microsoft.
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15.6.2007 Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team
When we release a product to market at MS, tradition holds that everyone involved in building it is usually given a small gift in recognition of their efforts.
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12.2.2007 MSN Beta Team Recruiting for Windows Live Products
The MSN Beta team is currently recruiting likely candidates to test an array of new services and products from the Windows Live family.
Successful applicants may be asked to test MSN Messenger 8 (Windows Live Messenger) or future versions of Messenger. The countries range from Afghanistan to Turkey so everyone will be able to get involved.
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22.11.2005 Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Installation Guide
Brief Description - The most current version of the Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server and Team Explorer.
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18.3.2006 Windows Home Server team readies next ‘UR1? release
The first version of Windows Home Server (WHS) is barely out the door, but Microsoft already is readying another set of fixes to launch in November, as well as the next “minor” release, which it is calling “UR1,” for Update Release 1.
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8.10.2007 iPhone dev team confirm 3G iPhone unlocked for all networks
The unofficial iPhone dev team have confirmed moments ago that they have completed an iPhone 3G unlock and are currently packaging a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in other applications from the team like QuickPwn.
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17.12.2008 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 in an enterprise environment. Availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds are built for enterprise-level monitoring. Both local and remote connectivity checks help ensure database availability.
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5.6.2006 Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - September CTP
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.
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24.9.2006 Podcasts: Microsoft IT Showcase: How Microsoft IT Architects and Configures DFS Replication
Edit: Something close to my heart! I sure hope the R2 changes to DFS are as good as they sound in all the marketing documents!
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25.2.2006 Microsoft Showcases Platform Advancements in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Second annual Microsoft Office System Developers Conference highlights opportunity for custom solutions development utilizing innovations in the 2007 release.
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23.3.2006 Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23
Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23.
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18.6.2009 Microsoft is 30 years old today! have a look at the Microsoft Timeline
It's hard to believe that Microsoft is already 30 years old. The company that made Redmond, Washington, a household name was actually founded in 1975 in another city by two young Seattle men, one of whom was a college dropout. From this inauspicious beginning came an equally improbable vision: A personal computer on every desk and in every home. Thirty years later, it seems so obvious. But at the time, when only a handful of people knew what a personal computer was, it was a great leap of faith and daring.
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Microsoft Windows Microsoft Application Verifier 3.2.0038
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing.
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26.7.2006 Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras - Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft has silently released 3 updates for Windows Ultimate users today.
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23.9.2008 Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo
A fortnight ago, detailed plans of the long anticipated Microsoft Store were revealed in all its theoretical glory when Gizmodo published over 50 slides from a Powerpoint presentation prepared by the project’s consultancy firm.
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5.8.2009 Microsoft Launches Microsoft TalentLab in The Netherlands
Demand for ICT specialists is growing; new portal site advertises job vacancies at Microsoft partners – with guaranteed training.
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25.3.2007 Microsoft 4 Patas
Four different wallpapers with those that are considered men best friend. Besides that, icons and sounds give a special touch in this theme, that is already a success in those that love dogs.
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5.1.2006 What Microsoft has that Linux
Microsoft has seven "Microsoft Across America" trucks cruising the country, visiting Microsoft Partners at their request to show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were exactly zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
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15.8.2006 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft?
I'm doing a short project on Microsoft and its impact on society.
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15.12.2006 A word with you, please, Microsoft
If Microsoft's 1976 was all about "hobbyists" and "Altair," then its buzzwords for 2006 were things such as "connected entertainment," "interoperability," "Zune," and "Windows Vista."
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2.1.2007 Microsoft’s IE 8.0: More than just vaporware
When I mentioned in a post yesterday that I had heard there was an alpha build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 circulating inside Microsoft, some were skeptical.
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15.1.2007 Microsoft Feeds Plus
Microsoft Feeds Plus is an
Internet Explorer 7 add-on for Windows XP/2003/Vista that makes your feed reading experience easy and efficient. You can read your feeds in a combined view (aggregate feeds) and get pop-up notifications when there are new items to read.
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27.1.2007 Microsoft Wants Yahoo
Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.
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5.5.2007 Microsoft: Why the Silence about IE 8.0?
Two years ago, Microsoft used the Bill Gates keynote at its MIX conference as the launch pad for Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0, which shipped last year. However, this year at MIX07, news of the next IE version, which Microsoft has confirmed is in development, was not to be had.
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6.5.2007 Microsoft Seadragon
Seadragon is an incubation project resulting from the acquisition of Seadragon Software in February. Its aim is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays to mobile devices, so that visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network.
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6.6.2007Windows Vista To Power Up Indian Railways.
The Centre for Railway Information Systems, the umbrella organization for all computer activities on Indian Railways, along with Microsoft, has come
out with a unique system for effectively monitoring the movement of trains operated by the Indian Railways. Built on Windows Vista, the Control Office
application, will ensure that the 17 million passengers who travel by the Indian Railways every day and users of its freight services will get real
time information on the exact location and arrival and departure times of all trains on their phones.
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19.07.2008Partner Software Ecosystem Continues to Line Up to Support Windows 7
Hi, Mark Rogers here. I run the Software Ecosystem Team here at Microsoft. Building on
Mikes recent post
on overall ecosystem readiness, I wanted give you a quick update on our progress helping developers get ready to serve the hundreds of millions of
users of Windows with our next release...
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31.07.2009Microsoft EULA lands it with $175m Indian tax headache
"The Product is licensed, not sold."
Those six words just cost Microsoft's Indian operation $87.5m (350 crore) in tax payments
and the same again in interest.
Basing its ruling on the terms of Microsoft's own EULA (end-user license agreement), an Indian
court has ordered the company to pay tax on royalty income generated in the country,
Tax India Online (TIOL)
reports.
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01.04.2008When will you get Windows 7 RTM?
When will I get Windows 7 RTM?
Brandon LeBlanc: I recognize this is an important question to have answered. Many of you
have said you want to know exactly when you will be able to get your hands on RTM.
Last Monday, I gave an update on RTM to close
out some myths. In that update, I also gave a broad timeline on when different groups of people “ or śaudiencesť “ would get the final RTM code.
While I have nothing new to add regarding RTM today, I do however have more precise information to give on when you will be able to
get RTM. Again, when you can get RTM depends on who you are.
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22.07.2009Google offers priority reporting to Indian police
Google's Orkut social
networking site has fan clubs
of Indian gangsters; Indian
police are concerned these
could be used to find new
recruits. Google has offered
Indian police a special tool
for priority reporting of
objectionable material on
Orkut. The reporting tool does
not affect the way Google
treats users' data but only
speeds up direct communication
and the police will still be
required to follow an
appropriate legal process in
order to get user-identifying
information. The process for
reporting objectionable
material on Orkut remains the
same, as do Google's own
procedures for deciding
whether or not to remove the
material from the site.
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14.03.2007Update on Windows 7 in Europe
Brandon LeBlanc: I want to provide a couple of updates for my friends in Europe today in regards to Windows 7.
I want to start
off with an update to our plans for the Windows 7 Family Pack.
As I mentioned last
month, starting with the launch of Windows 7 on October 22nd, customers will be able to buy a Family Pack in the US & Canada. This allows users to
install Windows 7 Home Premium on up to 3 existing Windows PCs for a reduced price. Its an easy and cost effective way to get customers entire
household on Windows 7.
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24.08.2009Microsoft, HCL Team on Training and Software Development
Microsoft will work with Indian IT company HCL Infosystems to develop system integration frameworks for the deployment of Microsoft's products for
vertical industries in India.
HCL will set up a dedicated team of 500 staff to target industry verticals such as
telecommunications, banking, financial services and insurance, power, defense, retail, e-Governance, media and entertainment, the companies said
Friday.
The announcement was made during a visit to India by Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner.
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11.04.2008Microsoft to outsource tech services to Indian company
Indian IT services provider HCL Technologies appears to have signed a five-year, $170 million contract with Microsoft that would employ 600 people,
according to a
report in
the Economic Times.
HCL will provide technology services for Microsoft's online services business, the Times reported, citing
"a person familiar with the negotiations."
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09.04.2009OEMs Pick Up Windows 7 RTM Code Today in Redmond
Brandon LeBlanc: When we
announced Windows 7 had
RTMd on Wednesday, I posted that OEMs would receive the RTM code within a few days. Well, its been a few days! Earlier today, a handful of OEMs
arrived in Redmond to pick up their RTM code. In the past when a Windows release reaches RTM, we have traditionally given some/selected OEMs the
opportunity to come to Redmond and pick up the RTM code personally. I thought it would be neat to showcase these OEMs that came to campus today as the
RTM code is handed off to them to begin preparing for General Availability (GA) on October 22, 2009!
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25.07.2009India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop
Forget the one hundred dollar
laptop. India has bigger, but
cheaper, plans. Ten times
cheaper to be exact: India's
Ministry of Human Resource
Development is spearheading
the project, with help from
Semiconductor Complex, a
state-sponsored designer and
manufacturer of integrated
circuits. Officials from those
organizations are presently
weighing system designs
submitted by an engineering
student from India's Vellore
Institute of Technology and a
researcher from the Indian
Institute of Science in
Bangalore. The Times of India
on Friday reported that the
efforts thus far have yielded
designs for a laptop that
would cost about $47,
while a $10 system remains
the ultimate goal.
Last year, Negroponte's One
Laptop Per Child Organization
submitted a proposal to the
Indian government under which
the group would have worked to
produce laptops for Indian
students starting at $100.
Indian officials at the time
criticized the proposal as
insufficiently mature to be
taken seriously and rejected
it.
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05.05.2007Awesome Windows 7 Resources
Microsoft Learning has developed a wide range of training and resources for IT Pros that address the benefits and key technical aspects of Windows 7.
With these resources, IT Pros can prepare for deployments and become Windows 7 experts within in their organization. These resources include...
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30.10.2009Intel signs up vendors for Classmate PC in India
Intel has tied with three
large Indian PC vendors to
assemble the Classmate PC, a
PC specially designed for
schools. The three vendors --
HCL Infosystems, Wipro, and
Zenith Computers -- will start
shipping the product to Indian
schools next month.
The Classmate PC will be
sold only to schools, and not
through retail channels to
consumers, John McClure,
Intel's director for
marketing in South Asia said
on Monday. The Classmate PC
has been specially designed to
work in a networked classroom
environment, and comes with
software and features that
give the teacher in the
classroom control over the
dissemination of content to
students' PCs, he said.
The Classmate PC, for
example, does not have a hard
disk. Instead it contains up
to 2GB of NAND flash memory.
Most of the content will
reside on the teacher's PC,
McClure said. ..
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23.07.2007Windows 7 Enterprise Edition; Understanding Software Assurance/Volume Licensing
As Brandon
just posted about, MSDN and TechNet Plus Subscribers can now download Windows 7.
Starting tomorrow August
7th, our Software Assurance/Volume License customers will be able to download the Windows 7 Enterprise Edition as well.
We are
also planning an Enterprise Edition Evaluation version to be released in the near future. Watch for more details on that here in this blog.
(Evaluation version was mentioned in Brandons previous post
here)
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07.08.2009India Developing US$10 Laptop
India is developing a laptop to be sold at US$10, that will target higher education applications, a minister of the federal government said
Tuesday in Delhi. Research on the new low-cost laptop is being carried out at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of
Technology in Chennai, said D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Higher Education, at a conference in Delhi. This measure will help raise the
quality of higher education in India, she added.
The Minister did not however give the specifications of the $10 laptop, nor is it
clear if the rock-bottom price will be achieved with the help of a government subsidy. The Indian government is planning to use information and
communications technology (ICT) to strengthen its current programs for distance learning by making them accessible online, Purandeswari said.
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30.07.2008Indian media company acquires MovieBeam assets
Mumbai-based Valuable Group acquired the video-on-demand service last week for what could be considered pennies on the dollar, according to reports...
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15.07.2008Microsoft to Invest $1.7
Billion in India
With plans to double its
workforce in India over the
next four years to 3,000,
Microsoft on Wednesday said it
would pump $1.7 billion into
the country to develop new
facilities for research and
development. A special version
of Windows for India will also
be released in nine Indian
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08.12.2005Update on Windows 7 RTM
Brandon LeBlanc: Over the past week, there have been many rumors surrounding RTM.
We are close, but have not yet signed off on
Windows 7. When we RTM you will most certainly hear it here. As weve said all along, we will RTM Windows 7 when its ready. As previously stated, we
expect Windows 7 to RTM in the 2nd half of July.
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14.07.2009RIM faces obstacles in building BlackBerry service in India
Research in Motion and the Indian Ministry of Telecommunications have yet to reach a decision upon the security concerns raised by the BlackBerry's
system of communication...
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16.04.2008Open XML stumbles in India
A technical committee in India unanimously rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard, ahead of a vote on Sept. 2 by the ISO on
whether to approve Open XML as an international standard.
However, the rejection may be temporary should Microsoft meet some of
the objections to Open XML raised by committee members.
The technical committee was set up by the Bureau of Indian Standards
(BIS), India's national standards body, which is a founder member of International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and represents India at
the international standards organization.
"There were a large number of technical objections raised about Open XML, and many of
which Microsoft was not able to address at this point," said D.B. Phatak, professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai. One of the
objections was that Open XML was not fully compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), a rival existing ISO standard, he added. IIT Mumbai is a member
of the technical committee...
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24.08.2007Clarification on the Date for Bi-hourly Shutdowns for the Windows 7 Beta
Brandon LeBlanc: Bi-hourly shutdowns for the Windows 7 Beta will begin July 1st, 2009 as weve stated both here in
this blog post on May 5th
and also in the
Windows 7 RC FAQ...
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