Archive for February 4th, 2010

Deploying Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2009

Learn four ways R2 can help you migrate your organization to Windows 7. Mitch Tulloch If you’re planning to deploy Windows 7 Enterprise edition in the near future, you’ll want to learn about the new capabilities found in Microsoft Desktop

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Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer

theodp writes ‘Give Bill Gates your ‘pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail

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iPad lament from Microsoft’s former e-book boss, in NYT

Dick Brass, who led Microsoft’s efforts to develop e-reader technology a decade ago, couldn’t take it anymore. The now-retired executive wrote a long, thoughtful essay outlining how Microsoft’s culture stifled creative work, including some that was later

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File Association Fixer for Windows 7 & Vista Released

We are pleased to release File Association Fixer v 1.0 for Windows 7 & Vista. A corrupted Registry, caused either by a bad software or malware or any other reason, can lead to your Windows..

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Folder Takes Ages To Load? Try This Fix

I have one folder on my hard drive where I put all the downloads from the Internet on; Videos, photos, documents, music, programs and basically anything that gets downloaded. I noticed lately that it took a long time to open that folder in Windows Explorer

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Windows 7 Bests Apple’s Snow Leopard in Satisfaction?

A few years back we were all anxiously awaiting an operating system codenamed project Longhorn which made many transformations throughout its long testing phase. The ultimate product was 32 flavors of a bloated, poorly reviewed operating system, which was slammed by any and all media outlets, including Apple’s “I’m a Mac” campaigns. Now it’s 2010 and Windows 7 has taken an aggressive hold of the OS market and is rising significantly every week

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IE6 users to be evicted from Gmail, Google Calendar

Late last week , Google announced it will phase out old browser support next month on Google Docs and Google Sites. The search giant also sent out an e-mail to Google Apps administrators to warn them of the date, as well as tell them something it did not disclose publicly last week: Gmail and Calendar are next on the IE6 support kill list. Here’s the relevant snippet: We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010

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Latest Windows Help articles: Windows Media Player Errors (C00D1059 and C00D10DA), XP mode and Windows Mobility Center

Latest Windows Help articles: Windows Media Player Errors (C00D1059 and C00D10DA), XP mode and Windows Mobility Center Just wanted to point out some of the latest Window help content that has recently been added or updated Windows Media Player error

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Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server, Data Domain Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide

Protecting Microsoft Exchange data is now more critical than ever. IT administrators need to exploit modern disk backup technologies to effectively deal with the data growth, retention requirements and recovery service levels that are essential to

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Aurora is a new golden dawn for Windows servers

SOFTWARE MONOCULTURALIST Microsoft is tinkering with its low-end Windows servers by bringing out a new product codenamed Aurora. Aurora appears to be the next version of Windows Small Business Server and is aimed at systems that have no more than 75

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