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Posts Tagged ‘News’
Bing is (almost) here
29 May 2009Simple, organized and consistent… that’s Bing. Bing will be the new name of the Microsoft Search Engine (launch Wednesday, June 3rd). Not Kumo, not Sift and not Hook. Bing was introduced on May, 28th on the D7 conference, here is the video of the interview with Steve Balmer (damn that commercial, in the first few [...]
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- Tags: Bing, News, Search
Microsoft My Phone (Beta)
19 May 2009Currently My Phone (Beta) is live (only for windows mobile v6). You can install an app on your Mobile Phone by going to http://myphone.microsoft.com/install. You will then be offered to download the installation file. After install you will get an application named “My Phone”. You will need an live id to sign up. After filling [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, News
Inside Microsoft’s Future Home
15 May 2009Impressive: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8046659.stm thx to @stoneford
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Windows 7: RDP Platform Improvements
17 Apr 2009Some things in RDP that will be improved in Windows 7: Aero Experience like translucent effects, previews Direct 2D & Direct 3d 10.1 True MultiMon Support RDP Core Performance Improvements Multimedia: Media Foundation Running Audio and Video smoothly Multimedia: DirectShow 40% gain in bandwidth reduction I’ve seen a demo where they played a video (1080p), [...]
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- Tags: News, Windows, Windows 7
UCVUG live
17 Apr 2009Yesterday a new website went live: The Unified Communications Virtual User Group. Unified Communications will be the main focus of this user group. How to implement UC, discussions about it and sessions with external experts by use of Live Meeting and Communicator. One thing I found really interesting to see is the demonstration of Unified [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, News, OCS, UC
Sharepoint 2007 & WSS ServicePack 2 release date
In: News|SharePoint
16 Apr 2009According to this site, servicepack 2 for Sharepoint 2007 and WSS 3 should be available on april 28th. Some changes / improvements: An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current [...]
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- Tags: News, SharePoint, WSS
Sharepoint Designer as a free tool?
In: News|SharePoint
1 Apr 2009Ssssssstttttt… keep it to yourself but I just heared a little mouse saying that Sharepoint Designer will be a free tool in the near future. Update: April 2nd The little mouse was right: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx
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Microsoft Surface as a necklace
In: News
20 Mar 2009Something I received from a colleague of mine (@BasKroes thanks), who saw it @peterdehaas. really really impressive
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- Tags: Microsoft, News