Archive for June 1st, 2008
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XB Browser
Er wordt door Den Haag en Brussel al een hele tijd gesteggeld over wetgeving die providers verplicht details over uw internetgebruik vele maanden te bewaren. Uiteraard is angst voor terrorisme de drijfveer, maar ondertussen is wel uw privacy in het geding. Dat is trouwens nu al het geval, want elke site die u bezoekt kan [...]
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Shipping Seven is a Fraud.
Whether or not MinWin is the very same kernel that went into Vista or not is officially unknown at the moment; but what we do know is that Shipping Seven is either one huge fake, or else that the Windows core programmers at Microsoft are so stupid that they don’t know the first thing about [...]
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Windows Live For Nokia Now Available In 33 Different Countries
The Windows Live Services for Nokia has just been made available in 7 new countries. It already was available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, UAE, UK and Vietnam. The new ones are the [...]
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Windows 7 beta testing to be compulsory part of Windows Logo program, effective June 1 2008
Long Zheng: There appears to be a lot going on behind-the-scenes for Windows 7 than meets the eye. Effective next week, June 1 2008, original equipment manufacturers who wish to get their new PCs certified by the Windows Logo Program for the “Certified for Windows Vista” label will have to get their hands dirty with [...]
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Microsoft hands over scanning tech to Printer Working Group
Back in February, Microsoft announced its new interoperability principles. The company has since then published 44,000 pages of documentation for its various software solutions. The company took another step forward today with the announcement that it had contributed its Web services protocol specification for consumer scanning peripherals to the Printer Working Group (PWG).
The PWG, which [...]
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Codename Excalibur: Windows 7 MCE or Fiji codename prequel?
Stephen Chapman: Alright, follow me on this one. Almost 2 years ago, I found and posted about a strange slide in a Dell powerpoint presentation yielding something to do with a Windows “Excalibur.” The way it was presented in the slide, it appeared as though it was a tier above Aero Glass slated to come [...]
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Things We Wish Steve Ballmer Would Say
Wouldn’t it be refreshing to get some honest, feisty answers from a chief executive? With Microsoft’s Partner Conference just around the corner, we wondered what it would be like to have just such a conversation with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.<br><br>
With so many inflammatory topics swirling around the software giant these days — Yahoo, Google, the [...] -
Microsoft rolls out innovation pitch
Microsoft has launched a new initiative designed to streamline the process of bringing new ideas and practices to life.
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The Innovation Process Management scheme aims to help businesses bring potential innovations to fruition, and to bring multiple parties together on an idea.
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The software will be built on top of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and will [...]