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  Microsoft pulls 'beta' tag from Windows Live, a free upgrade with new photo, online programs - International Herald Tribune 

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/07/business/NA-TEC-US-Microsoft-Windows-Live.php

  SEATTLE : After a trickle of updates and "betas" bearing the Windows Live moniker, Microsoft Corp. is ready to start promoting its official package of free desktop programs for e-mail, instant messaging, ... blogging and sharing photos. The programs are "essentially a free upgrade for Windows," said Brian Hall, general manager of Windows Live at Microsoft. The package includes Windows Live Mail, which can grab messages from multiple free Web-based e-mail accounts, including Microsoft's Hotmail, Google Inc.'s Gmail and AOL e-mail. The new package, which Microsoft formally announced Tuesday, allows PC users to read and respond to mail even when they're not online, just as Outlook Express, which Microsoft has phased out, did. Its Windows Live Photo Gallery lets users manipulate and organize digital photos and upload them to Flickr, a photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo, and to Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft's own blogging and social networking site. The package also includes Live Writer, for wr   [More...] [Less...]

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  Windows Vista: Compare Editions 

  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

  Windows Vista is designed to dramatically improve the computing experience of every kind of PC user—from people at home who use their PCs for simple web browsing, to business people who must organize and ... act on large volumes of data. Large, global organizations with complex IT infrastructures should consider Windows Vista Enterprise edition. Windows Vista Starter Windows Vista Starter is the most affordable way to enjoy the basic Windows Vista experience. Windows Vista Starter is exclusively* available in emerging markets, and is designed for a beginning PC user with additional tools and tutorials to make it easier to use. Read more . *Note: Windows Vista Starter is not currently scheduled to be available in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, or other high income markets as defined by the World Bank. Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.   [More...] [Less...]

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  Microsoft Excel 2007: A Calculated Change in Excel 

  http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3698621

  September 10, 2007 By Gerry Blackwell Excel 2007 , the second application in our ongoing series reviewing the major components in Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite, is in some ways, a radical re-making ... of the office productivity application used by millions around the world. As with Word 2007 , which we reviewed last month, Excel features the new " Ribbon " Office user interface, which replaces menu and tool bars and vertical text menus with a "ribbon" and tabbed panels that stretch across the screen and graphically depict groups of functions. Also like Word, the new Excel saves data in a new space-saving XML-based file format ? which, however, earlier versions of the program cannot open. And like Word, Excel 2007 isn't quite as customizable as past versions. New Interface, New Issues? Because the new Office user interface is more graphical, making more features and functions visible and accessible at a glance, it may very well be, as Microsoft claims, easier to use for people who a   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 15 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Microsoft Technet: Troubleshooting Network Configuration in ISA Server 2004 

  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/plan/ts_networks.mspx#Multiple

  Introduction Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 introduces a multi-networking model that allows you to control traffic between internal and external networks, and within your ... organization by means of firewall policy rules. You define network objects in ISA Server Management, and configure relationships to specify whether traffic should be routed between them, or have network address translation (NAT) applied. Networks objects you define are used as source and destination elements in access rules you configure to specify what traffic is allowed or denied between networks in your infrastructure. The general process can be summarized as follows: Create network objects, or modify ISA Server predefined network objects. Network objects you can define include networks (a range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses), network sets (set of networks), computers, computer sets, address ranges (set of contiguous IP addresses), subnets, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) sets,   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 27 February 2008, by: Mike Gill  [Report as spam]

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  BBC NEWS | Technology | 15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15bn 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7061398.stm

  Microsoft has invested $240m ( 117m) in social networking site Facebook in exchange for a 1.6% share of the company. That puts a value of $15bn ( 7.3bn) on a firm that has only been in existence three ... and a half years. So why does Microsoft think Facebook is worth $15bn? Here are 15 possible reasons.... 1. The network has gone viral in the last 12 months, with more than 50 million users worldwide and a user base that is growing faster than great rival MySpace. According to Facebook, it adds 200,000 new users each day. 2. The average user spends 3.5 hours a month on Facebook - more than the average user on rival MySpace - which is increasingly attractive to advertisers. 3. Facebook is the current Web 2.0 darling - popular with ordinary users and "tech heads" alike. 4. US research reveals that Facebook users come from wealthier homes and are more likely to attend college than MySpace users - increasing that attraction for advertisers. 5. Microsoft's investment makes them a serious player   [More...] [Less...]

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  Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture 

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480021.aspx

  If the principles summarized in Table 1 are complied with, we get some interesting benefits: There is real synchronization between the business and IT implementation perspective . For many years, business ... people haven't really understood the IT architecture. With well designed services we can radically improve communications with the business, and indeed move beyond alignment and seriously consider convergence of business and IT processes. A well formed service provides us with a unit of management that relates to business usage. Enforced separation of the service provision provides us with basis for understanding the life cycle costs of a service and how it is used in the business. When the service is abstracted from the implementation it is possible to consider various alternative options for delivery and collaboration models. No one expects that, at any stage in the foreseeable future, core enterprise applications will be acquired purely by assembling services from multiple sources.   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 11 October 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Newly asked questions: Why is Microsfot facing a lawsuit over Vista? | Technology | The Guardian 

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/28/microsoft.microsoft

  Because, say the plaintiffs' lawyers, it shouldn't have let PCs that could only run Vista Home Basic, the runt of the litter of Window Vista versions, describe themselves as "Vista Capable". By doing so, ... claim the lawyers, Microsoft "unjustly enriched itself". Now Marsha Pechman, a federal judge, has determined that all the individuals who had this complaint can band together to create a single complaint against Microsoft because, as she put it, "common issues predominate". She elucidated: "These common issues ... are whether Vista Home Basic, in truth, can fairly be called 'Vista' and whether Microsoft's 'Windows Vista Capable' marketing campaign inflated demand market-wide for 'Windows Vista Capable' PCs." Clearly the outcome will be judged on those two questions. So let's see if we can work them out, shall we? First, is Vista Home Basic truly Vista? The comparison chart, handily provided by Microsoft at tinyurl.com/3843r3 , shows Home Basic against its siblings - Home Premium, Busin   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 28 February 2008, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison - ReadWriteWeb 

  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/office_live_workspace_vs_google_docs_feature_by_feature.php

  Today, Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online ... and share your work with others. Some say that the service's launch is a direct response to Google's entry into the web office space with their Google Docs online service. If that's so, then the question now is: did Microsoft just trump Google Docs? Or does Google Docs still rule online office suites? Office Live Workspace: The Basics Before we review the features in detail, let's look at an overview of what Office Live Workspace offers. After signing up for Office Live and signing into the service (and no, you don't have to have an MSN email address to do so) , you are presented with the "Documents" area where you can upload and view files and share them with others. However, the defining feature is of this service are the "workspaces." The "My Workspaces" section is to the left of t   [More...] [Less...]

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  Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis Report | CSO Blogs 

  http://blogs.csoonline.com/internet_explorer_and_firefox_vulnerability_analysis_report

  For most people, their web browser is central to their interaction with the Internet, connecting to global web sites and helping them consume online services providing everything from booking flights to ... banking services to online shopping. This reality makes browsers a key tool when evaluating the security experience of users as the browser interprets Web content and programs delivered from around the world. Over the past few years, there has been much discussion of the need for improvements in browser security, but few hard data studies performed to support assertions concerning the security of available browsers. I've just finished up and posted for download a vulnerability analysis of Internet Explorer and Firefox, including fixed and unfixed vulnerabilities, that covers roughly the past three years since Firefox first released. As usual for these, I want to post one chart as a teaser to get you to go look at the full report. In this case, I'm choosing one that looks at alternative   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 1 December 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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