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On September 28, Microsoft will hold its annual company meeting at Safeco field in downtown Seattle. Other than arranging for comedian Amy Sedaris to play host, what do CEO Steve Ballmer and company have planned? View the full article
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In this week's mailbag, configuring Handbrake DVD rips for Zune and other Microsoft solutions, which headsets I use for the podcast, how to consolidate multiple Windows Live IDs, converting the audio from YouTube videos into MP3 files, and the secret behind the people seen in the poster behind me while I'm recording Windows Weekly. View the full article
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and Paul discuss Paul's first week with a DROID X smart phone, some thoughts on Android's place in the market, a big Zune services expansion, an coming Xbox Live software update, Microsoft's opening of Security Essentials to very small businesses, and the Small Business Server 7 public preview. View the full article
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In this week's Internet Explorer 9 Feature Focus, I take a look at the new Notification Bar, a quieter, less disruptive replacement for the Information Bar from previous IE versions. View the full article
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As part of its Lync family — the new and improved name for Office Communications Server starting with the 2010 release — is getting a new Mac client. View the full article
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Less than a week ago, Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott mention a supposed TechNet bug, via which subscribers to Microsoft’s TechNet service were missing some of their product-license keys. It turns out this wasn’t a bug it’s a “feature,” according to Microsoft. View the full article
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In Companyweb on Win SBS 2k8 you are able to sent a mail with the URL from a file. But this opens in the local mail application. Is it possible to sent through OWA? (Companyweb > Shared Documents > Options > Send to...)
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i have win 2008 32bit sp2 but when i game games give message directx 9 not installed i installed dx9 and 11 still give same message
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So many Microsoft-related tidbits today, and so little time to write them all up. Here are a few that caught my eye during my daily content-consumption rounds, including updates on BizTalk Server 2010, IE 9 requirements, Google’s Chrome Frame IE impersonator and more…. View the full article
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The Hotmail Wave 4 refresh, which Microsoft execs said was completed in early August, is turning into more of a rolling rollout. View the full article
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Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2010 this past summer, I’ve been hearing from small-business users who were dismayed with Microsoft’s new licensing restrictions on its updated Business Contact Manager (BCM) component. Microsoft has heard the gripes, too, and on September 23, said they were addressing them. View the full article
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Until today, Microsoft’s advice to developers interested in writing Windows Phone 7 applications was to use C#, Silverlight or XNA. But on September 23, Microsoft officials said they’d be adding another requested tool to the Windows Phone 7 arsenal: Visual Basic. View the full article
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On the heels of canceling its Bing Search Cashback program, Microsoft is trying its hand at another attempt to increase search share using rewards, known as Bing Rewards. View the full article
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Microsoft officials confirmed today what I reported last month: Its Oslo data-modeling platform has been almost completely obliterated. View the full article
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In an about-face, Microsoft is now planning to offer its free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus/antimalware suite to small businesses, and not just consumers. View the full article
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Hi Guys..... I have been looking for a software that can do a Bare Metal Recovery. I have 2 dell R710 with same specs. I imaged and try to recover to another and just wont work. It will POST and starts windows 2008 and after 5 secs it goes to a blue screen for a sec and restarts as if I imaged it in a different system. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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A long-time member of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team, Chris Wilson, has left Microsoft and is joining Google in November. View the full article
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So i fixed my issues(in previous thread) however a new problem occurred. Security Vulnerabilities Protocol Port Program Risk Summary TCP 80 http 10 Synopsis : The remote web server is affected by a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability. Description : The remote web server appears to be running a version of Apache that is older than version 1.3.32. This version is reportedly vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow in proxy_util.c for mod_proxy. This issue may lead remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code on the server. See also : http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/f ulldisclosure/2004-06/0276.html http://archiv…
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I have Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation running on my laptop (dual core 64 bit AMD). I have three similar registry entries HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\microsoft\Windows\Run value = SilNotify.exe_1001 data = SilNotify.exe -s 12780 -t 1001 -m 2 value = SilNotify.exe_1006 data = SilNotify.exe -s 0 -t 1006 -m 70 value = SilNotify.exe_1006 data = SilNotify.exe -s 12780 -t 1007 -m 50 Windows Server 2008 Foundation, once having been joined to a domain, spits the dummy and pops up THREE messages if it is disconnected from the domain. It does it on startup and then regularly thereafter. If it can't talk to the domain controller within 9 days, it REALLY has a hissy fit …
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With growing speculation that Microsoft is pushing to deliver the final version of its Internet Explorer (IE) 9 browser as early as spring 2011, company officials issued official guidance, advising business users against postponing their Windows 7 deployments to wait for the coming browser release. View the full article
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It looks like Microsoft is continuing to incubate its stealth Midori operating system project. On September 18, a thinly-veiled Midori reference appeared on a blog of one of its team members who noted that the OS incubation project on which he works is actively hiring. View the full article
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Microsoft is releasing to interested testers a preview test version of the next version of its Small Business Server, known as “SBS 7,” on September 21. View the full article
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Google's Android smart phone OS is lacking in two areas--its online apps marketplace and digital media acquistion and syncing--but is otherwise dramatically superior to the iPhone. It's no wonder that Android has already surpassed the Apple offering. View the full article
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Back in February of this year, word was that 24-year Microsoft veteran Brian Arbogast had decided to leave the company — right around the time that Terry Myerson took control of Windows Phone Engineering, including both software and services. It turns out Arbogast has flown the coop, as of August, after a multi-month sabbatical. View the full article
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In this week's mailbag, how to remove Windows XP from a dual-boot with Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 doesn't load add-ons in pinned web sites, 64-bit IE 9 and pinned web sites, a TechNet Standard subscription service scale-back, GOG.com goes dark, and Ed Bott's guide to installing iTunes 10 without the bloat. View the full article
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