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On the heels of its announcement that it had released to manufacturing the “Mango” Windows Phone update” — Microsoft execs are now updating Mango developers with a near-final build. Source: All About Microsoft

The Microsoft social-media project formerly codenamed Tulalip is just one of many social-media experiments and incubations at Microsoft. Another is Microsoft Nuggets, a presentation about which I found recently thanks to a tip from Francisco Martin Garcia (@fmartin_garcia).(click on image above to enlarge) Nuggets — which is using a tag line of “Civilizing Tribal Knowledge” — is [...] Source: All About Microsoft

On July 26, Microsoft made it official: The “Mango” operating system update for Windows Phones has RTM’d (released to manfucturing). Source: All About Microsoft

I’m here to deliver the bad news to those calling for Microsoft to bong Bing. It’s not happening any time soon. And here’s why. Source: All About Microsoft

Mozilla is working on a new mobile-centric OS via its Boot to Gecko project. How will this end up competing with Microsoft? Source: All About Microsoft

Should be possible if you set the IP in the browser proxy configuration. Haven't tried it, but, I would think it could be done.

This week, Juniper Networks announced that it is adding another former Redmondian to its roster: Former Server and Tools President Bob Muglia Source: All About Microsoft

Might be hard to find one since Windows 8 is still in alpha stages. You should be able to find one for Windows 7.

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Unless you are putting the vm on another box you'll get no benefit at all.

You'll have to use computer management console to make a partition active to install to.

Microsoft rolled out an update to its Windows Azure toolkit for iOS which adds support for identity federation across Google, Yahoo, Live ID, Facebook and ADFS. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft and SUSE announced they are extending the 2006 Microsoft-Novell Linux patent-protection agreement, and that Microsoft is buying $100 million worth of SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates for its customers. Source: All About Microsoft

Over the last couple of weeks, Mozilla has finally stepped up its 64-bit testing process. There are now five slaves dedicated to building Firefox for Windows x64, which means that from Firefox 8 and onwards, you’ll be able to pick up 64-bit builds that are functionally identical to its 32-bit cousins but operating in native 64-bit CPU and memory space. When I first took 64-bit Firefox for a workout last year, it wasn’t the best of experiences: it crashed, JavaScript performance was abysmal, and it was generally sub-par compared to the stable, 32-bit branch. Today, however, Firefox 8 64-bit is stable and it’s fast it’s really, really fast. Even more importantly, though, there are now stable 64-bit browser plug-ins for Flash and Java. In other words, there’s very little reason to not use Firefox 8 x64 you can download a copy from the Nightly site (it won’t interfere with your stable install), grab Flash 11 beta for Windows x64 and Java 6 for Windows x64, and start surfing. It’s that simple. Just how fast is the 64-bit version of Firefox 8? About 10% faster than the 32-bit version — but instead of taking our word for it, take a look at the comparative results from the Peacekeeper suite, the most comprehensive browser benchmark. The following results are from the ExtremeTech test rig which houses an Intel i7 930 with 6GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 460.

I always disable power management as well as "green" features in the bios. I also stay away from any component which has "green" features. They are not made for servers. They throttle down power and affect performance. Of course if you run a server that has constant activity then the power saving features will never kick in so they won't hurt performance.

How did you setup ftp? You have to use IIS 6 manager to manage FTP sites. Install it using server manager and then try to reconfig the ftp site.

Set appropriate permissions for each user. Allow what you want and disallow what you don't want them to access.

Microsoft is getting more active in tweaking Kinect and Avatar Kinect to make them more attractive to business users. Source: All About Microsoft

Given there’s still a year (give or take) until Windows 8 launches, what is Microsoft’s game plan to keep the bottom from dropping out of the Windows PC market? Source: All About Microsoft

It looks like you don't have remote connections set in the mysql configuration.

Microsoft is on its way to becoming a three-headed cash cow, with the Windows, Business (Office) and Server and Tools units all feeding the Redmondian beast. Source: All About Microsoft

I hear from quite a few readers that they think Windows 7 tablets are the cat’s meow. But it looks like more people than not agree with me that those tablets are just not what the majority find palatable. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is allowing developers writing applications targeting the Windows Phone ‘Mango’ operating system update to submit their applications for approval starting in August. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft took a step to make it easier for social gamers to target Azure by releasing an alpha version of a Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. Source: All About Microsoft

It’s Microsoft MGX week. The sales rhetoric is no doubt running thick, but the usual leaked tidbits have been nothing to tweet home about. Source: All About Microsoft