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Microsoft’s Silverlight 5 hit the Release Candidate milestone on September 1. The final delivery of the latest version of the technology is still set for later this year. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Directory, Access and Information Protection, has left the company. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is getting any less active in the digital identity space. Source: All About Microsoft

Google is preparing to turn Google App Engine — its Windows Azure cloud-platform competitor — into a fully supported product in the second half of September. Source: All About Microsoft

Hello, We have the problem in Outlook 2010 (on two workstations) when we wan't to print an email the username of the printjob is changed to an domain administrator. So when the user who prints the job is called "robert" and the domain administrator is called "sysadmin" the username of the printjob is changed from robert to sysadmin. When we print the same email for the second time (when it's still opened on the computer) the username of the printjob is not changed. So when the the user who print the job is called "robert" the printjob still have the username "robert". When we print from other applications or Word 2010 and Excel 2010 we don't have this problem. Also when we do a quickprint of an email in Outlook we don't have this problem. Normally you don't see a problem in this, but because the people are sending password protected jobs they don't see the job under there own username. When they entering there own password for the job (with the wrong username), the job is beginning to print. When we look at the printqueue while sending a printjob the username is the right one, but on the printer we see a domain administrator username. Some information We have two X64 workstations with Windows 7 x64 and Office2010 installed on it. Our printserver is a Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2. There's a printer (xerox machine) with the x86 and x64 driver of the same version installed on it. The people in our company send protected jobs and also unprotected (normal) jobs to the printer. Our Exchange server is a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Exchange 2010. Somebody have an solution for this? Problems don't exist. There's always an solution. View this thread

Microsoft is rounding out its family of Windows Azure toolkits with a near-final test version of the toolkit for Android device developers. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft’s Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky, in a new blog post, reiterated that Microsoft is going to support both new touch-centric apps and existing Windows desktop apps, with its new Windows 8 user interface. Source: All About Microsoft

Simon Witts, Microsoft’s Worldwide Enterprise and Partner Group chief, has resigned from the company, according to a short internal e-mail announcing his departure. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is turning to gamification inside and outside the company to increase employee and user feedback and awareness on a variety of fronts. Source: All About Microsoft

A Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) shows off how Kinect sensor integration with an ERP application might work Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft’s adCenter online advertising platform has been experiencing service problems during the afternoon of August 29, customers are noting via Twitter. Microsoft is working to address the issue. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft’s adCenter online advertising platform has been experiencing service problems during the afternoon of August 29, customers are noting via Twitter. Microsoft is working to address the issue. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite. Source: All About Microsoft

The Microsoft Windows 8 engineering team is sharing yet more information on the file-management app built into the next-generation Windows release. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is launching a new Dynamics CRM Online promotional deal, as well as unleashing a new spoof virtualization video the same week that Salesforce’s Dreamforce and VMware’s VMworld shows are kicking off. Source: All About Microsoft

Our previous post about the new copy experience in Windows 8 generated a lot of questions and comments about the new “Choose Files” dialog for resolving file name collisions. Based on the level of interest, we thought it would be fun to share some of the design iterations and our usability testing that led us to this design. In the implemented design, there are two levels of control when acting on file name collisions (or “conflicts”). The primary experience is a simplified, one-click, bulk management of all conflicts, offering “Replace all” or “Skip all.” We call this the “Simple Conflict Resolution dialog.” There is also an option to enter the secondary experience which offers more information and more fine-grained control. This is the “Detailed Conflict Resolution dialog.” . Source: MSDN Blog

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There are reports that Microsoft is about to hand out an ultra-portable computer running Windows 8 and containing a quad-core processor. If true, it could serve as a very effective way of promoting the new system on portable devices. The rumors center on BUILD, a Microsoft event that takes place in California in September designed to help both hardware and software developers work better with Windows. The event also serves as a source of feedback for Microsoft about how it could improve the operating system (OS), including those still in development. This year's event is going to be built around Windows 8, which appears to be around 12 months from its public release, meaning this is among the last chances to make major design changes. Source: buildwindows.com

Something is running on port 80 causing Apache to fail. Change port to a different port and my bet it will start.

Microsoft uses codenames and acronyms to disguise their products while still in development. Crack these acronyms and you’re well on your way to see what’s in Microsoft’s playbook. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft’s upcoming Build conference for Windows 8 remains mostly shrouded in secrecy. But a few of the Build speakers are bravely revealing themselves via their blogs. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft officials showed off some new devices at this week’s Tech Ed New Zealand show — none more potentially interesting than an unnamed quad-core Windows slate. Could this be its give-away for the upcoming Build conference? Source: All About Microsoft

Hi, (hope my english is ok) i try to deploy templates in our Offoce 2010 fpr all our users, A part of t installation iworks, but in the Company folder is only one template. I create the following entry in the registry: HKEY_Current_UserSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0CommonSpotlightProvidersCompanynameServiceURLpath to the xml file.

The only way to do it is to transfer all the files over manually. There is no alternative for windows easy transfer as far as I know for Windows 2008.

There is a new report about features and markets that will be the target of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Tango, the successor to Mango. Here’s my take. Source: All About Microsoft

Samsung officials are denying rumors that Samsung plans to take over HP’s PC business. This comes as HP, the No. 1 vendor of Windows PCs, contemplates selling its PC business. Source: All About Microsoft