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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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It’s not just a new preview build of Windows Home Server Vail that is going to testers this month. The promised test builds of Microsoft’s “Aurora” small-business server also is available for download by anyone who wants to kick its tires. View the full article
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Microsoft has released an updated preview build of its Windows Home Server “Vail” product to selected testers. View the full article
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Windows Azure Appliances aren’t the only ways for Microsoft customers to create private clouds. They also can assemble a number of on-premises components, including the just-finalized Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self Service Portal 2.0. View the full article
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In this week's mailbag, how to access US-based web services while in other countries, what happened to Windows Weekly episode 13, whether Microsoft has given up on Windows Gadgets, Windows Phone 7 support for instant messaging and Bluetooth, and spelling and grammar issues on the SuperSite. View the full article
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss news stories that didn't make the cut this week, Windows Phone's cloud sync requirements, the Dell Streak mini-tablet, Mark Hurd's abrupt exit from HP, Google and Verizon vs. the world, and Netflix's $1 billion content deal. View the full article
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Microsoft Windows - Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Prevent Windows Update from Automatically Rebooting
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When Windows Update installs certain types of updates, a reboot is required so that certain software components can be updated while they're not running. Unfortunately, this means that many people will leave their PCs running, with open applications and unsaved data, and in many cases, they'll wake up the next day to discover the PC was automatically rebooted by Windows Update. Here's how to stay secure, but prevent the computer from rebooting automatically. View the full article
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On August 12, Microsoft made available the first version of a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure. View the full article
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I’d think there could be a whole lot of celebrating going on in Redmond today, the day after Oracle announced it is suing Google over alleged patent infringements involving Java in the Android mobile operating system. View the full article
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The Windows 7 Start Menu is an enhanced version of the Start Menu that debuted in Windows Vista, and features Jump Lists and an improved Start Menu Search. But the single biggest feature, perhaps, is that the Start Menu is being deemphasized as an application launcher because of the new taskbar. View the full article
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Microsoft is inviting selected members of the press and “VIPs” to a September 15 event in San Francisco where it will launch the beta of Internet Explorer (IE) 9. View the full article
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Windows Phone will only sync with cloud-based data sources like Exchange, Windows Live, and Google/Gmail, so those who are still using Outlook as a hub for their personal information are going to have to move their data to the cloud. This isn't a bad thing. In fact, it's an opportunity to jump into the 21st century and make your data more resilient and accessible. View the full article
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Microsoft’s Windows Azure development engine is chugging along, following closely the original path the team outlined for its cloud operating environment. But the marketing and positioning of Azure isn’t tracking as smoothly. View the full article
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Hi guys, I have a funny problem here. After i have installed windows 2008 x64 R2 Enterprise, my network adapter don't seems to be able to identify itself. I have joined the server to my domain and i have disabled all firewall rules. Total i have 4 network adapters and only 1 is connected. However, if i made any changes to other unused network adapters, i.e to say i disable and enable any of the unused network adapters, the connected network adapters will be able to identify itself under my domain. If i do a restart of the server again, the connected network adapter will not be able to identify itself again. Not sure whether is it a hardware issue or …
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Microsoft is preparing to deliver a second beta of the next version of its Windows Live Essentials suite next week. View the full article
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