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Selectable Text in Silverlight

A coworker of mine has posted an issue on Microsoft’s Connect site, which is a gateway to presenting MS software issues directly to the developers of MS products, regarding the Silverlight web development platform. ..... more »


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Portable Everest Ultimate Edition 4.50.1380

Everest é um sistema de informações sobre hardware e software. Ele vem com um banco de dados e informações físicas sobre CPU, placa mãe, disco rígido, drives óticos, placas e muito mais. A informação pode ser exibida na tela, impressa ou salva como relatório em formato HTML ou texto.O módulo de diagnóstico pode ajudar para encontrar .. more »


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Microsoft Vista security impresses those hot for NAC

Microsoft's network access control client in Vista and now in Windows X has a lot of IT executives excited, according to an informal poll of about 250 attendees of an Interop Las Vegas NAC seminar who are actively considering deploying ..... more »


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Did Adobe just slay the Microsoft Office dragon?

Just as the rise of email and the web spurred the adoption of portable electronic documents, we believe that the rise of rich internet applications and cloud computing will drive the adoption of online document collaboration. ..... more »


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Bill Gates last Microsoft keynote

... of technology aimed at developers — as well as to look ahead at how Microsoft will provide programmers with some of the new tools Microsoft has coming for cloud computing, modeling and natural-language programming, officials said. ..... more »


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Microsoft to put “many millions” of servers in cloud

RoughType Bill Gates, in his farewell address at Microsoft’s TechEd developer conference today, sketched out Microsoft’s expansive plan for cloud computing. The company, he said, will have “many millions” of servers in a network of data ..... more »


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Cloud Computing, and what it means for the Grid

This has been increasingly realized by all quarters of the industry and hence we see major companies jumping on the bandwagon: Microsoft’s Live Mesh, Google’s App Engine, IBM and SAP’s effort with the EU on Reservoir etc.). ..... more »


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Missing from Bill Gates Tech Ed keynote: Live Mesh

As I see it, Mesh Silverlight (plus of course things like SSDS) forms Microsoft’s cloud computing development platform. However, I imagine that like modelling vs software factories this is a matter of debate within the company as well ..... more »


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My Cloud Computing Apps

Google Docs - This service can almost replace your traditional Microsoft Office apps. Unfortunately, it is not as speedy as having a desktop app. Speed and offline portability are the biggest factors in me not completely switching over ..... more »


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Microsoft TechEd 2008 Developers Conference Keynote

Dave Campbell demonstrated several new features of a SQL Server 2008 including the support for geo-spatial data which is covered by this short blog cast. Within the following entity data model you can see that the latitude and longitude ..... more »


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VMWare (Finally) Joins the Cloud Computing Race

Granted, they will still take the Microsoft modeled approach of an all proprietary suite, but--hey--people still buy Microsoft for production data centers as well, so there is no accounting for taste. What is VMWare's key advantage? ..... more »


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Interview: How Cloud Computing Changes Trion's Game

And the company has big cross-platform visions, promising mobile access to the worlds as well as console or PC, on the heels of the Sony partnership. What about the Xbox 360? Is Trion talking to Microsoft, too?.. more »


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Web Services and Cloud Computing

Now Amazon Elastic Compute, Google Apps, Microsoft Mesh are to name from the big players in this area. All these are the phases of widening of our technical advancements and it is going to be a joyful trip as we leap forward... more »


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Will Apple develop MobileMe as my own personal cloud?

A lot is being made of cloud computing these days, especially in light of Microsoft’s Mesh initiative and the various online products and strategies cooked up by Google. With the rumored changes coming to Apple’s . ..... more »


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Enhancements to the OUTPUT clause in SQL Server 2008

Prior to SQL Server 2008, as you can see from the examples from that post, one could not filter out the records that are returned using the OUTPUT/OUTPUT INTO clauses ie one can choose only the different columns that one wants in those ..... more »


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SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2008. Business Intelligence. Data Warehousing. Performance Improvements for MDX in AS 2008. SQL 2008 CTP, November 2007. Demo: SQL Server 2008 Overview. Videos: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence ..... more »


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Compound Assignment Operators in SQL Server 2008

Compound Assignment Operators in SQL Server 2008: “We have seen and used compound assignment operators in procedural languages like C and C# etc. Now this Compound Assignment Operator feature and enhancement is introduced in SQL ..... more »


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New Rumors Of Microsoft-Facebook Purchase

New Rumors Of Microsoft-Facebook Purchase:. Microsoft may have Facebook in its sights, according to rumors moving through Silicon Valley this morning. John Furrier first reported the idea on his site. Now former Microsoft man ….. more »


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Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo!: perfect ingredients?

Social networking site Facebook may prove the perfect councillor in the on-again, off-again relationship between Microsoft and Yahoo!. Original post by SiliconRepublic.com... more »


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Installing SQL2005 on WinXP SP3

I have a new machine with WinXP SP3 and I'm having trouble installing SQL 2005 Server products (Dev Edition). It lets me install the client products, but not the server. I can't create a Server Instance on my machine. ..... more »


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Microsoft in Live Search deal with HP

Microsoft announced a major distribution deal with Hewlett Packard (HP) today. From January 2009, Microsoft’s Live Search will be the default search engine on Hewlett Packard PCs manufactured for sale in the US and Canada, ..... more »


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Microsoft's Robbie Bach 'thought about killing' Surface

Microsoft's Surface computing is the kind of Buck Rogers' technology that can dazzle consumers and boost a company's "cool" factor. But in an interview last week, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of Entertainment.. more »


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Microsoft to sidestep Vista pitfalls with Windows 7

Microsoft executives officially maintain that Windows Vista is selling well and that they're happy with the operating system. Behind closed doors, however, Microsoft is working hard to make sure Windows 7 doesn't run into the same ..... more »


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Microsoft launches Task Market for Office jocks

Because, as the FAQ says, "By focusing on tasks accomplished using applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, Task Market makes it quicker and easier for small businesses to get their job done. ..... more »


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Microsoft Silverlight to be Installed on Millions of HP Computers

Microsoft announced this morning that HP computers will soon be shipped with Live.com as their default search engine. The big news, though, isn't that Live's hit-it-with-a-stick ugly search results will be placed in front of millions of ..... more »


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Yahoo to Microsoft: No, No, No

Notes by a Yahoo participant from a phone call between CEO Jerry Yang and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Ballmer also appear to indicate that Yang quickly rejected Microsoft’s January 2008 overtures, as his predecessor Terry Semel did a ..... more »


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More Microsoft Construction Pictures

Just scanning through my normal blog search, I came across some pictures of Microsoft’s soon to open San Antonio Facility. These were found on Michael Manos’ public blog. The pictures are pretty distant and don’t show much other than ..... more »


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