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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6.6.2007 Microsoft Got Hacked!
The official Microsoft U.K. Domain was attacked and defaced by a hacker identified as rEmOtEr. Microsoft confirmed that the hack has been successful. rEmOtEr altered a webpage in the Microsoft.co.uk domain with two images and multiple references to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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1.7.2007 Microsoft Gives Up on Antitrust
Microsoft has long been a landmark of monopoly worldwide. But this detail is about to change as the Redmond company has evolved, following the various antitrust rulings against it both at home and abroad. In this context, Microsoft has suffered antitrust scrutinies not only in the U.S. but also in the European Union as well as in South Korea.
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16.10.2007 Microsoft ThinSight
A computer screen that also acts as a two-handed touch interface and a crude infrared camera has been developed by researchers at Microsoft's labs in the UK.
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23.10.2007 Microsoft is in Danger (Inc.)
Microsoft has signed a deal to purchase Danger, the makers of the T-Mobile Sidekick product but otherwise known as the Danger Hiptop to those within the industry.
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11.2.2008 Microsoft Sphere
As you all know about Microsoft Surface....Microsoft Sphere is the current R&D product that Microsoft is developing.
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1.8.2008 Where Should Microsoft Partner Next?
DEMOfall 08 is an autumn harvest of companies Microsoft should be partnering with.
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10.9.2008 I Still Believe in a Microsoft Phone
Michael Gartenberg says I'm wrong about the Microsoft phone. Not so fast, Michael.
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27.11.2008 Microsoft: We can Fix that for you
Microsoft Windows operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Vista provide troubleshooting options for errors that occur in your PC and sometimes provide a link which can have a solution for that error.
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3.1.2009MySQL co-founder quits job at Sun, as open source database frays
Feeling hemmed in by the boundaries of Sun's corporate structure, MySQL co-founder David Axmark shot off a resignation letter telling Sun that he
'hates rules,' and he also 'hates breaking them.'..
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08.10.2008Microsoft Exchange 2007 hates leap years
Sean O'Sullivan: Ill get straight to the point; the 29th of February caused a lot of worry for many system and network administrators this year
thanks to a ridiculous bug in Microsoft Exchange 2007. I know because, well, I experienced this for myself as I maintain an Exchange environment.
One of the first things I went to do on Friday morning, (being the 29th February), was to add a couple of new mailboxes for new
starters. However when I went to apply the changes I constantly got the following error...
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03.03.2008UPN Screens TV Show on Google
Video
UPN and Google have teamed up
to screen the first episode of
its new show "Everybody
Hates Chris" on Google
Video for the next four days.
Viewers can stream the entire
pilot episode, which premiered
September 22 to record ratings
for UPN, directly from Google...
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26.09.2005Sony charges $50 to remove laptop bloatware; Retracts Later
Sony is
offering to remove
some of the trial software it crams onto the hard disks of new laptops, for a fee. Buyers of the configure-to-order versions of its Vaio TZ2000 and
Vaio TZ2500 laptops can opt to have Sony remove the some of its own applications, in addition to trial software and games.
The "Fresh
Start" option, billed as a software optimization, costs $49.99, and is only available to customers choosing to pay an additional $100 to
upgrade the operating system to Windows Vista Business from the Windows Vista Home Premium edition offered as standard.
Blogs erupted
with outrage at the planned charge, with Engadget opening a headline with "
Sony Hates You."
Responding to a tidal wave of outrage, Sony has reversed a plan to charge $50 to remove all the pre-installed applications — often
derided as "bloatware" or "craplets" — from its high-end TZ-series notebooks. "
There will be no charge for Fresh Start" said the company
spokesman.
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22.03.2008Google to announce video deal
Google Inc. will let
consumers buy video over the
Internet from CBS, the NBA and
other providers, becoming the
latest company to explore the
new method of distributing TV
content, according to a report
Thursday.
The
Wall Street Journal, citing
unnamed people familiar with
the matter, said Google plans
to make the announcement
Friday at the International
Consumer Electronics Show in
Las Vegas.
Google
began making video available
for free last year, offering
everything from amateur
footage of a kid falling off a
roof to the premiere episode
of the television show
"Everybody Hates Chris,"
which broadcasts on UPN, a CBS
Corp. network...
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06.01.2006What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?
By the end of today if TechCrunch’s sources are right we may know
whether Yahoo is going to accept or fight
Microsoft’s bid to buy out Yahoo.
Whether or not the final word comes down today and launches the
antitrust-investigation phase of the proposed MicroHoo combination my question remains: Why are Yahoo management and many Yahoo employees so dead-set
against becoming part of Microsoft?
Sure, Yahoos may believe they (somehow?) can make more money, in the long run, as an
independent entity. But why has CEO Jerry Yang and the Yahoo board continually rebuffed not just Microsoft buyout offers, but seemingly even
partnership arrangements with which the Redmondians have approached Yahoo over the past year-plus?
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08.02.2008"Google is a bummer of a place to work at" says internal Microsoft email
An interesting view inside
Google as a workplace has
surfaced on the net. This
could be either a look at the
actual reality of Google or
just a desperate attempt by
Microsoft HR to boost employee
morales and keep its employees
within the fortress that is
Redmond. Either that or a
prankster who hates both
companies just as much.
"The following has
been making the rounds on just
about every internal email
list I belong to in Microsoft.
Here it is to share a little
insight with the rest of the
world. Microsoft is an
amazingly transparent company.
Google is not. Any peek is a
good peek."
An
anonymous Microsoft employee
has
posted on a fresh
Wordpress.com blog of what
appears to be the full
contents of an email
circulating Microsofts
internal mailing lists.
Patriotically enough, he or
she wanted to share this with
the rest of the world just to
show what a great workplace
Microsoft is and Google is
not.
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27.06.2007Linux Foundation Launches Killer Development Tool
Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he'll tell you that it's having to develop for SUSE and for
Red Hat and for Ubuntu and ... you get the idea. The
Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new
program,
Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make ISVs and
other programmers start to love developing for Linux.
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08.08.2008Dell talks netbooks, diversifying, and Windows 7
At a sponsored dinner on Tuesday night, Dell Founder and CEO, Michael Dell, told of his dislike for netbooks and admitted that the "biggest mistake"
of his career was not diversifying the company sooner. When asked about the growing netbook market, Dell said that "a fair amount of customers"
were unsatisfied with the poor performance parts and the smaller screen size when compared to traditional laptop computers. "Take a user who's
used to a 15 inch notebook and then give him a 10 inch netbook. He'll say 'Oh, this is so cool, it's so lightweight'. Then 36 hours
later he'll say the screen's not big enough, give me my 15 inch back".
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16.10.2009Internal Apple Stevenote: iPhone, iPods with OS X, and "off the charts" Macs in the ...
Apple held a somewhat rare,
company-wide virtual meeting
with Steve Jobs this morning
(11am Pacific Time), wherein
Steve Jobs discussed the
gravity of the iPhone on
Apple's business as well as
how he perceives the parts
played by the rest of the
company. The following is a
series of notes produced by
combining details from several
of Ars Technica's internal
sources.
Steve opened
up with how he believes that
the iPhone will change the
mobile space forever. He said
that when the Mac first came
out, people talked about how
some day, every computer would
work that way, and the same
would be true of the iPhone.
The iPhone was driven by the
fact that everyone hates their
phones, and it's all about
"core competence"--making
all of the features
easy-to-use and
self-discoverable.
He then talked about
iPhone in relation to the rest
of Apple's business. Steve
described it as trying to put
the third leg onto a chair
with only two legs. The first
leg is the Mac business, which
Steve addressed by saying that
they have the "best Macs" in
the new product pipeline ever
right now, and that the stuff
coming out in the next year is
"off the charts." Wow,
sounds juicy. ..
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29.06.2007Time labels iPhone as Invention of the Year
Stop. I mean, dont stop reading this, but stop thinking what youre about to think. Or, O.K., Ill think it for you:
The thing is hard to
type on. Its too slow. Its too big. It doesnt have instant messaging. Its too expensive. (Or, no, wait, its too cheap!) It doesnt support my work
e-mail. Its locked to AT&T. Steve Jobs secretly hates puppies. And—all together now—were sick of hearing about it! Yes, theres been a lot
of hype written about the iPhone, and a lot of guff too. So much so that it seems weird to add more, after Danny Fanboy and Bobby McBlogger have had
their day. But when that day is over, Apples iPhone is still the best thing invented this year. Why? Five reasons:
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02.11.2007Only 80,000 PS3's At Japanese Launch?
I know everyone hates
it when I post negative stuff
about Sony and the PS3, so
accept this apology in
advance, sorry Sony fans!
Thanks to
IGN for
the evil story!
What's worse than
100,000 units at launch? How
about 80,000? The Nikkei
Keizai Shimbun morning edition
reports today that due to
component shortages, Sony will
have only 80,000 units ready
for the PS3's 11/11 Japanese
launch. This cuts back by a
fifth the initial launch
target of 100,000.
The lack of digits
in that number is even more
staggering when you consider
that the PS2 sold out of
nearly a million units when it
launched back in March of
2000.
Having lived through a few
weeks of attempting to obtain
a PS3 pre-order, we're not
too surprised by the lowered
shipping numbers. Allocations
disappeared quickly at online
retailers that were brave
enough to start pre-order
programs. The online arm of
media retailer Tsutaya ran out
of units in 6 minutes
according to Nikkei (it felt
more like 1 minute to us).
Major
electronics chains like
Yodobashi Camera won't be
taking pre-orders, Nikkei
reports, so there's only one
option left: line up the day
before launch. Although with
fewer units to go around,
we're considering getting in
line starting from the week
prior.
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31.10.2006Microsoft Mediaroom - Entertainment When and Where You Want It
Q&A: Enrique Rodriguez,
corporate vice president,
Microsoft TV Business,
discusses Microsoft Mediaroom
and what it means to service
provider customers, consumers
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18.06.2007Microsoft launches their own online "Microsoft Store"
Microsoft has launched their first online store - Microsoft Store. Users can now buy directly from the store, straight from the source! The Microsoft
Store offers the largest selection of Microsoft software, devices and hardware in one place It is currently available to US, UK, Germany and Korea.
Japan, France, Spain and the Netherlands are in the pipeline and more countries will be added throughout the year.
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14.11.2008Microsoft Mulls Web Based
Works Suite
Microsoft is considering
giving away its basic
Microsoft Works word
processing and spreadsheet
software, aimed at preventing
a possible challenge in the
space from Google. But can it
do so without hurting sales of
Microsoft Office?..
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22.09.2006End of the road for Microsoft Money
According to CNet, Microsoft will soon be bringing to an end its Money line of personal finance management software. From Microsoft's Money FAQ,
the products affected include Microsoft Money Essentials, Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe, Microsoft Money Plus Premium and Microsoft Money Plus Home &
Business. For Microsoft Money Essentials, online services (online stock/share quotations and bill-paying) will stop one year after activation or 31
January 2011, whichever comes first.
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11.06.2009A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes
Microsoft is not going to introduce a Microsoft-branded phone at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona later this month. Not a Microsoft-branded
Zune phone. Not any kind of Microsoft-branded phone. Period.
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06.02.2009Microsoft Unveils JPEG
Alternative
Microsoft has plans to take on
JPEG with Windows Media Photo,
Microsoft Watch reports. The
format will be able to save
higher quality images in half
the space, Microsoft claims,
and would supplement
Microsoft's XPS document
standard...
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26.05.2006Microsoft Online Services extends SaaS to SMB users
At the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference on Monday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled plans to provide a software-as-a-service offering not
just to the large enterprises already eligible for such a service from Microsoft, but to companies of all sizes...
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04.03.2008Inside Microsoft - Running the IT Infrastructure at Microsoft
A look at the examples of recent steps that Microsoft has taken to advance its infrastructure.
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