February 2006 - Posts
Dan Bartels has posted instructions for getting IIS7 and ASP.NET installed properly on Vista 5308.
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Are you curious to know what is newin the February CTP? Find out on the UAC Blog.
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Windows Sidebar is an application that allows the use of Desktop Gadgets, which are in many ways mini-applications. These Gadgets are created by a combination of XML, CSS, and Java Script. In Windows Sidebar, you can use the "Gadget Picker" to add Gadgets
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Shawn states Vista“looks cool at 1920x1200 on a 24” monitor at 85Hz."
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Back in the heyday of Windows XP, the CFD didn’t get much respect. Not that it complains much about it. It just went about it’s job, quietly allowing users a viewport into their storage. But now, the CFD is on the move. Someone at Microsoft
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Windows Vista Build 5308 screenshotsshow the Community Technology Preview. PC Magazine names this CTP “feature complete” … hmm.
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Mary Jo suggests Vista Build 5308 will likely be christened the February Community Technology Preview (CTP). And it's now sounding like testers will be able to start playing with that build on Friday or Saturday. Source: Microsoft Watch
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The Vista operating system has many promises to one great, stable and dynamic operating system. Not only will this operating system have the .Net framework built into the core of the operating system it will also feature some other key communications,
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Brandon LeBlanc wonders … when we can expect to see Windows Media Player 11 and URGE for Windows XP? I guess it won't get me anywhere by asking but I feel that URGE has gone virtually unspoken about since its announcement at CES. From the CES announcement,
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Microsoft Windows Vista developers are trying to play parents to millions of teenagers and children. Lazy parents across the world have refused to learn as much about personal computers as their children, including requesting help from the youths when
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Microsoft’s Windows Anytime Upgrade isone feature that should produce large revenue for Microsoft.Alleditions of Windows Vista are included on the installation disc and therefore a user upgrades by purchasing a license from a website and running
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you probably know that the latest version of Windows--called Vista--is due to hit store shelves later this year (in time for the holidays, Microsoft tells us). The successor to Windows XP
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On the line up are Windows Starter 2007; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista ultimate, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Home Basic N and Windows Vista Business N. The "N" releases are those
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you probably know that the latest version of Windows--called Vista--is due to hit store shelves later this year (in time for the holidays, Microsoft tells us). The successor to Windows XP
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Microsoft still is expected to deliver the next Windows Vista milestone, the February Community Technology Preview release, next week — most likely on Feb. 21, according to testers briefed last month by Microsoft.While beta testers contacted this
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The same throttling functions that customers look for when they expect certain time-sensitive applications to get priority on the network will be making their way into Microsoft's next-generation desktop and server.The company has begun testing a Quality
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Bill Gates discusses MIX06, IE, DHTML, AJAX, Compatibility, Office 12, and where he surfs on the web Source: Channel9
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Loyd Case asks intriguing questions in his latest article starting with the reality that sales for PC Games dropped in 2005. In 2005, PC game sales slumped from $1.1 billion in 2004 to $953 million in 2005, according to market research firm NPD Intellect.
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When it comes to Vista, rumors flourish but hopefully this rumor on names and versionsis wrong. Microsoft should not fracture the Vista product into multiple products because this causes too much confusion. Microsoft should simplify their marketing into
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In the January 2006 issue, Don Box and Dharma Shukla introduced Windows® Workflow Foundation and discussed the overall architecture of the framework and its constituent components (see WinFX Workflow: Simplify Development With The Declarative Model
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Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Services is a new feature set in Microsoft®Windows Vista used to administer the TPM Security Hardware in your computer. TPM Services architecture provides the infrastructure for hardware-based security by providing access
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Ever wonder who creates those cool icons, animations, and the general graphical experiences in our products like Windows Vista? Well, Scoble wanted to meet one of these people and turns out Jenny Lam is the "Experience" Designer at Microsoft. Scoble recently
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Blue Screen of Death suggests: Comming from a few internal people and some people in the ‘know’, A possible build number has come up for the ctp - now im not one for getting my rocks off by telling a build number but this is also speculation
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The new generation of Microsoft Windows and Office is about to be launched. Get in on the act right from the start. Follow the new products as they go through to the finals. As a member of the Beta Experience with Windows Vista and Office"12" you will
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Microsoft has learned that faulty memory has become a major source of system and application crashes in Windows XP. Fixing this problem should significantly improve the reliability of Windows Vista running on ECC-equipped hardware Source: eWeek
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Sidebar is one of a number of features that Microsoft has talked about as part of Vista, but has yet to include in external test versions. The next Community Technology Preview (CTP) release, which is planned for February, is slated to include all of
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PC Advisor publishes an article on Microsoft Windows Vista suggesting Microsoft is a trailblazer with their upcoming OS. With Windows and the rest of its successful stable of software, Microsoft has long been accused of being a non-innovator, preferring
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