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Operating Systems RSS FeedsWindows Blackcomb re(code)named Vienna - Microsoft confirmed Friday that it has changed the codename for the next version of Windows beyond Vista, though it revealed little else. ?The codename for Blackcomb has changed to ?Vienna? . . . [but] this does not reflect a big change for us [because] we have used city code names in the past,? a Microsoft spokeswoman said in an e-mail statement....Feed Source: www.wininsider.com Microsoft to bolster Software Assurance program - Microsoft is planning several major changes to beef up features of Software Assurance, the company's maintenance and upgrade program that has been criticized for its expense and slow follow-up with new products.
The program, started in 2002, streamlined what was often a complex and expensive licensing routine for Microsoft products.... Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 leaks to web - Screenshots and code for the most recent build of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser have leaked to the Internet, several Windows devotee sites reported Friday.
Internet Explorer 7, which is being co-developed for the upcoming Windows Vista and the current flagship Microsoft OS, Windows XP -- has been posted to at least one German Web site -- links are available from JCXP.... Visual Studio Team System 2006 on horizon - Microsoft is working toward the release of the Team Foundation Server component of its lifecycle tools suite and is expected to release it later this quarter as part of the renamed Visual Studio Team System 2006, sources said.
Meanwhile, with the release of the new version of the lifecycle tools suite, Microsoft and some of its partners will provide support for agile development methodologies, including Scrum.... Microsoft hopes to MIX in with Web designers - With a new conference slated for March, Microsoft will attempt to woo a developer segment that's traditionally been a hard sell -- creative types who build and design multimedia Web applications.
The first-ever MIX 06 conference, which will be held in Las Vegas from March 20-22, will provide a forum for showing Web designers and developers how they can use Microsoft technologies to deliver state-of-the-art business Web sites and Web-based applications, according to a Web site about the show (http://www.... Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 Java driver - Microsoft on Wednesday released a JDBC Driver that allows developers to link Java applications to its SQL Server databases.
The driver is available free of charge to all SQL Server users. It hooks into both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 from any Java application, application server or Java-enabled applet.... Microsoft may support Blu-Ray in Vista after all - Internal Microsoft documentation states that the software giant is about to make a surprising addition to the Windows Vista code tree on February 22, about a week after the company is expected to ship a complete version of the OS to testers. On that day, the company will apparently add Blu-ray DVD support to the OS, according to the documentation I've seen.... Microsoft acquires portfolio management firm - In a little-noticed move that promises to change the landscape for project portfolio management software vendors and consultants, Microsoft announced Thursday it has completed its acquisition of New York-based UMT.
Microsoft expects to combine UMT?s technology and expertise with its own Office Enterprise Project Management solution, which is built on Office Project Professional 2003 and Office Project Server 2003.... Microsoft updates retail package, announces new terminals - Microsoft announced yesterday that three manufacturers -- Casio, DigiPoS Systems Group and HP -- will sell point-of-sale terminals pre-loaded with Microsoft Point of Sale software.
The partner announcement coincides with shipment of version 1.3 of Microsoft Retail Management System. The new version brings improved integration between the package's Headquarters module and Microsoft Dynamics GP financial management software.... Microsoft updates software for call centers - Microsoft on Wednesday released an update to its software for call centers that adds new functionality for customers to interact with customer-care agents, according to the company.
Previously, Microsoft's software for call centers was Contact Center Framework, and when it was released in May 2005 it mainly enabled customer care agents to unify the way they access their applications on their desktop, said Vish Thirumurthy, a group manager for Microsoft's communications group.... Cingular debuts Windows 5.0 smartphone - Cingular today introduced a new smartphone, the first such gadget to be powered by the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.
Equipped with Bluetooth wireless support, quad-band international roaming and support for the EDGE wireless data network, the Cingular 2125 Smartphone is being marketed as a business-to-business communications device for mobile employees on the go.... Microsoft to buy Safeco's Redmond campus - Microsoft is significantly boosting its presence in the Seattle region with an agreement to pay $209.5 million for most of Safeco's campus in Redmond.
Safeco disclosed the purchase-and-sale agreement in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday morning. Microsoft had been widely considered a likely buyer of the property since Safeco decided last year to consolidate its operations at its headquarters in Seattle's University District.... Microsoft ships new WinFX preview ? issues 'Go Live' licenses - Microsoft on Wednesday released to developers a previously promised community technology preview -- or CTP -- for a set of key technologies coming in Windows Vista.
WinFX is the moniker for what Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft director of Web services strategy, described in a statement as "an evolution of the .... What will Windows Vista sound like? Ask Robert Fripp - Microsoft recently had King Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp over to Microsoft Studios a few blocks from the company's Redmond, Wash. campus, to record some sounds that may well end up being the startup music when you boot Windows Vista.
Known in recent years for the evocative, highly-textured musical soundscapes that he creates using his guitar in conjunction with various delays, echo units and other audio processors, Fripp recently spent several hours at the studios, as shown in a video posted by Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble on Microsoft's online developer site, Channel 9, last week.... Tutorial: Networking 101: Understanding Spanning Tree - The spanning tree protocol ensures that sensible redundancy in your network doesn't turn into loops run amok. Charlie Schluting explains how it works.... Tutorial: OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks Part III - Eric Geier continues his OpenOffice.org series; today you will learn how to perform a few tasks in OOo that were available in MS Office, just harder to figure out due to the different interface. You'll find out you can still insert WordArt (actually called Fontwork), diagrams, and page numbering in OOo documents.... Tutorial: Manage a Linux RAID 10 Storage Server - Today we'll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We'll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications.... Review: OpenSUSE 11.0: A Solid, Up-to-Date Linux Desktop - Paul Ferrill reports that the newest release of openSUSE offers a polished, complete Linux distribution for both KDE and Gnome users, and it also supports a number of other window managers and visual environments, such as the lightweight LXDE. And it comes with a number of enhancements and features not included in most Linux distributions.... Tutorial: Networking 101: Understanding the Data Link Layer - Layer 2, the Data Link layer, is where Ethernet lives. We'll be talking about bridges, switching and VLANs with the goal of discovering how they interact in this part of Networking 101. ... Tutorial: OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks Part II - Eric Geier continues his series on digging up the many time-saving hidden treasures in Open Office, and how to migrate from Microsoft Office with a minimum of pain. Today's installment covers importing the custom dictionary of MS Office, setting OOo to always save in the MS Office format, and using MS Office templates in OOo.... Tutorial: Linux RAID Smackdown: Crush RAID 5 with RAID 10 - RAID 10 is a worthy RAID level with many advantages. RAID 10 is shorthand for RAID1+0, a mirrored striped array. Linux RAID 10 needs a minimum of two disks, and you don't have to use pairs, but can have odd numbers (Haha! Unlike many commercial implementations, which are less flexible and more annoying).... Tutorial: Networking 101: Understanding Layers - Networking expert Charlie Schluting explains the OSI Reference Model, the famous network layers 1-7, as it relates to real-world networking and networking administration.... Tutorial: Advanced Recoll Setup: Indexing Your Data the Convenient Way - Recoll is a great full-text indexing search engine for Linux/Unix. It has a Qt-based graphical interface, and is designed to be fast, easy to use, and easy on system resources. A. Lizard shows you how to run Recoll when you have time to let it run, and then have it automatically shut down your system when it is finished.... Review: Ubuntu Mobile Edition: Review - Paul Ferrill agilely leaps over several hurdles in order to install and review Ubuntu Mobile Edition on a Samsung Q1 ultra-mobile PC, tests it for hardware compatibility and usability, and takes a look at Canonical's developer resources for UME.... Copyright © 2008, Marketershandbook.com. All Rights Reserved. |