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Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2
Microsoft Corp. debuted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2), an update to the award-winning Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Microsoft representatives demonstrated the new release for the first time before an audience of telecom and IT professionals at the VoiceCon tradeshow in Amsterdam. Customers will be able to purchase the release, currently in [...]
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WinHEC 2008 agenda confirms native VHD support
Long Zheng: A couple of months ago in May I wrote about an interesting Microsoft job posting that hinted at the idea of native Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) support in Windows 7 that would allow users to create, mount, unmount and even boot from these disk images without additional software allowing for interesting use-scenarios for [...]
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Microsoft touts Touchless SDK
Microsoft Office Labs released Tuesday its Touchless SDK for developers to experiment with multi-touch technology.
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With the SDK, developers can build multi-touch applications that use a color marker and webcam for input. Utilizing the webcam, applications can track the location and size of the color marker to enable multi-touch functionality without touching a surface, according to [...] -
Microsoft talks multimonitor taskbar support in Windows 7
Windows has supported multiple monitors for as long as graphic cards have had two or more display ports. At the same time though, Windows to this day still does not support multiple monitors when it comes to the taskbar. Multiple-monitor setups are becoming more common, and there are always developers, gamers, and enthusiasts who don’t [...]
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Branch Infrastructure Implementation Solution for Windows Server 2008
The Branch Infrastructure Implementation Solution(BIIS) provides guidance to design and implement Microsoft’s branch infrastructure solution. This solution, previously known as the Branch Office Infrastructure Solution, has been updated to support the features and functionality in Windows Server 2008 that support branch infrastructure.
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Hyper-V failover-cluster hotfix now public
Increased functionality and virtual machine control in the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console for the Hyper-V role
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Microsoft a Leader in Gartner Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant
The ECM MQ, authored by Karen Shegda, evaluates different vendors in the ECM space, and Microsoft moved from Visionary to Leader this year overtaking three other vendors for the best vision score on the MQ.
The report states, “Of all the infrastructure vendors, Microsoft has driven the most change in the ECM market over the past [...] -
Elisa – open Media center, multimedia player for openSUSE Linux
Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. While primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, elisa also currently support Microsoft Windows. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework. In addition to personal video recorder functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, [...]