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Microsoft Russia’s press site, on August 25, posted information and a photo that seem to be connected to the coming IE 9 beta. (The site has since pulled their post, but I grabbed the information and screen shot in the nick of time.) View the full article
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I am able to use ipv4 with no issue. rsh < windows ipv4 > hostname it WORKS !! but , bash-3.00# rsh < windows ipv6 : fd20:8b1e:b255:40fa:bd1a:314f:abb4:48d9 > hostname fd20:8b1e:b255:40fa:bd1a:314f:abb4:48d9: Connection refused I used netstat -ano and found that the ipv6 port is black and not showing as listening or established. i am using Cygwin in this windows machine to accept rsh/ssh/telnet request from any unix machine. After few trial and error - I was able to ssh to the windows client using ipv6 address. but rsh using the ipv6 address is still not working. Please note [ I am trying to rsh to the windows using windows ipv6 address fr…
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Microsoft has added some of missing and requested features to its Webified version of Office, known as Office Web Apps. View the full article
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On the surface, Intel's blockbuster $7.86 billion purchase of security firm McAfee seems crazy. But if you dig a bit deeper, an interesting possibility for the future emerges. Assuming, of course, that Intel doesn't screw it up. View the full article
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Another week, another Windows 7 slate is cut from the list of those slated (pun intended) to ship in time for this holiday season. View the full article
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It was 15 years ago today, August 24, that Microsoft launched Windows 95. Since then, a lot has changed, to put it mildly. View the full article
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Microsoft officials announced August 23 said there have been 300,000-plus downloads of the beta of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools to date. View the full article
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Hello im new to the forum and require help. I do not mean to give you a life story but im an ill experianced person require knowledge. Recently i installed windows server 2008 R2 and would like to setup a FTP server and host websites, i have installed roles such as IIS and ftp sever role, when i type in my ip in the browser or localhost.com i see the default website. Now i am trying to link a domain name from the website www.co.cc which is free, but i am unaware of how its done, I was confused when it asked for my server name. if you can help me please do.
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Xbox Live games on Windows Phone 7, new SBS "Aurora" and WHS "Vail" preview releases, Steve Ballmer the overachiever, and why Microsoft's Arc Touch Mouse is no Tragic Macpad. View the full article
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Anyone can use Windows 7's libraries feature, but if you want to really master libaries, you need to know how to customize them, use custom library view styles, create your own custom libraries, and, if you've gone too far, how to get back the default library configurations. View the full article
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My extensive, multi-part review of Windows Live Essentials 2011 has been completely overhauled to cover new features in the near-final beta refresh release. View the full article
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In what might be my most exhaustive Feature Focus article yet, I cover one of the most eagerly-awaited features in Windows 7 yet. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Sticky Notes. :) View the full article
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There are reports that a new early build of Microsoft’s Office 15 have escaped the Redmond halls. More interesting than the mere existence of these pre-alpha build, however, is another mention of a new application that will become part of Microsoft’s next-generation Office suite. View the full article
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This week, Microsoft unveiled its secret weapon in the war against iPhone and Android: Xbox Live support on Windows Phone 7 with a launch day lineup of over 60 games. Move over boys, there's a new mobile gaming king in town. View the full article
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What’s this ‘personal cloud’ that Microsoft execs are promising will be all the rage later this year? Here’s my attempt to figure out whether it’s just rhetoric, rather than reality. View the full article
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Microsoft is making the first beta of its LightSwitch development tool available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers today, according to an August 19 Microsoft blog post. View the full article
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We're swapping homes with a family from Germany this month. Here's a quick look at the must-have technology products I can't live without when away from home for an extended time. View the full article
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I have setup a VPN on windows 2008 SBS 64. Problem is after connection of VPN from my computer to SBS serve, server loose all connections. Can't use RDP anymore, can't access server through network. even if not connected on VPN server loose all connections after fev minutes. Have no idea what can cause this. If I disable VPN server works ok.
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Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft’s Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to customers by 2011. View the full article
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One of Microsoft’s biggest selling points for its cloud platform is that developers can use .Net, Visual Studio and other programming tools they already know to write Azure applications. But that’s not the end of the story. View the full article
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When Microsoft and Yahoo announced their search partnership plans just over a year ago, there were a number of unanswered questions about Yahoo’s future search-development efforts. On August 17, Yahoo answered a number of those questions via a blog post on the Yahoo Developer Network site View the full article
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As expected, Microsoft is making a new beta of its Windows Live Essentials 2011 (known currently as “Wave 4″) available for download on Tuesday, August 17. View the full article
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Microsoft is splitting the Small Business Server product line in half, and one of those products, codenamed "Aurora," provides a cross-premise solution that combines the best of on-premise Windows Home Server services with the cloud. View the full article
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Microsoft is reconfirming, on the eve of GamesCon 2010, that it is making sure the Windows Phone 7 platform will be a game-centric one. View the full article
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Microsoft volume-license customers and partners are voicing concerns — and more — about the fact the company’s Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) has been down for a few days with little explanation. View the full article
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