Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2011

As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised

 

“..The Kindle Fire, Amazon’s heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. The most disgruntled are packing the device up and firing it back to the retailer.

A few of their many complaints: there is no external volume control. The off switch is easy to hit by accident. Web pages take a long time to load. There is no privacy on the device; a spouse or child who picks it up will instantly know everything you have been doing. The touch screen is frequently hesitant and sometimes downright balky…”

“..“In less than two weeks, we’re rolling out an over-the-air update to Kindle Fire,” said Drew Herdener, a company spokesman.

There will be improvements in performance and multitouch navigation, and customers will have the option of editing the list of items that show what they have recently been doing…”

Source

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Is 10/GUI the Future Replacement of the Mouse and Keyboard?

Here, watch the demo, and it'll be much clearer than my explanation:

http://vimeo.com/7408389

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Why was Exchange 2010 sp1 Rollup 4 recalled?

Here are some details on why Exchange 2010 sp1 RU4 was recalled.

An Update on Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Rollup Update 4

I really hope that Microsoft makes some proper changes to avoid this in future. Having a reputation for recalling updates for something as critical as Exchange or anything for that matter is not a good sign. Industry learns and inherits standards from such companies so they have to be very diligent in their offerings.

Well I wish the Exchange Team well for future rollouts. 

Friday, July 29, 2011

Announcing the re-release of Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 4

“….The review completed by the Exchange CXP team determined that the issue identified in 'KB 2581545: The copy or move operation on a folder that contains subfolders does not work as expected after you install Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 dated June 22, 2011’ introduced a serious regression in the original release of Rollup 4. As a result, a new version of Rollup 4 dated July 23, 2011 has been tested and released with the change that caused the regression removed. The re-release of Rollup 4 is tracked by 'KB 2579150: Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1'…”

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Microsoft Says Happy Birthday to Linux

Microsoft wishes Linux kernel happy 20th Birthday!

Microsoft just want to say

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

“Windows Server 8” sneak preview

“….

If you’re in IT you are likely pulled between an almost infinite need for more computing power to deliver business solutions and the ever increasing demands for greater agility, higher efficiency and lower costs.  Fortunately, you can now deliver on these seemingly contradictory demands by leveraging the benefits of cloud computing with our public and private cloud solutions.  And they are only going to get better.

Today we are excited to give you a sneak peek at the next step in private cloud computing by showing you just two of hundreds of new capabilities coming in the next version of Windows Server, internally code-named “Windows Server 8.”…”

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Click here to Watch - go to 36:50

Monday, July 18, 2011

Glad we waited! - Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 Removed from Download Center

“…We have discovered an issue impacting some customers who have installed Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 into their Exchange environment and as a result have removed SP1 RU4 from Download Center and recommend customers do not proceed with any planned deployments of SP1 RU4.

A small number of customers have reported when the Outlook client is used to move or copy a folder that subfolders and content for the moved folder are deleted. After investigation we have determined that the folder and item contents do not appear in the destination folder as expected but may be recovered from the Recoverable Items folder (what was previously known as Dumpster in older versions of Exchange) from the original folder. This behavior occurs due to a customer requested change in SP1 RU4 which allowed deleted Public Folders to be recovered. Outlook and Exchange are not correctly processing the folder move and copy operations causing the folder contents to appear to be deleted. OWA and Exchange Web Services clients are not affected by this change and process the folder move or copy actions correctly….”

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Friday, July 8, 2011

Now available: Co-author documents in the Word Web App

'”…We designed co-authoring in the Word Web App on SkyDrive accordingly:  When you’re co-authoring, you always have a real time view into who is making changes and where these changes are occurring.  As soon as you begin typing, the corresponding section of the document is locked and others are notified, placing you in control and freeing others from distraction.  Contributors can hit “save” at any time to see an updated view of all changes…”

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Coming Soon: PST Capture Tool

Can you believe it! Finally!!!

Well done Exchange Team!

“…We're excited to announce that later this year we'll be adding a new tool to our already rich portfolio of planning and deployment tools. This new tool, PST Capture, will be downloadable and free, and will enable you to discover .pst files on your network and then import them into both Exchange Online (in Office 365) and Exchange Server 2010 on-premises. PST Capture will be available later this year. It doesn’t replace the New-MailboxImportRequest cmdlet that exists already for importing known .pst files into Exchange Server, but instead works in parallel to enable you to embark on a systematic search and destroy mission to rid yourself of the dreaded .pst scourge <*pirate growl*>…”

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Windows 8 Name Becomes Official, Goes Unnoticed

Windows 8 is going to be a truly great operating system is all the rumours are true. We already know a great deal about the tablet interface, which seems to have won universal acclaim, and other announced and leaked features are getting significant interest such as cloud / SkyDrive integration. Not the least of these is Microsoft’s announcement of a “Windows 7 Mode” and the discovery of the company’s Hyper-V virtualisation client in some x64 builds. Together these hint strongly as the final dropping of internal legacy support. read more

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Released: Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2010 SP1

This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU1. See 'KB 2509910: Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1' for more details. In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:

  • 2519359
    Unable to Create a 'Reply With' Rule on Public Folders Even With Owner and Send As Permissions
  • 2394554
    Generating DSN fails if original mail uses non-support encoding charset.
  • 2490134
    Outlook 2007 does not deliver "Delayed Delivery" Messages against an Exchange 2010 Server in Online mode with any additional Transport loaded in the Outlook Profile

Read and Share–28 June 2011

 

Windows 8 to RTM in April 2012
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/not-so-crazy-microsoft-rumors-windows-8-to-rtm-in-april-2012/9823 

Use Group Policy to enforce Office 2010 settings
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179081.aspx

Combine PowerShell Modules to Avoid Writing Scripts
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/06/28/combine-powershell-modules-to-avoid-writing-scripts.aspx

Friday, June 24, 2011

Read and Share 24-June-2011

How Windows 8 could change everything

Clues abound that Hyper-V is a foundation technology for Windows 8, enabling Microsoft to dominate a new era of desktop virtualization – Read More

Windows 8 and Hyper-V 3.0: Revolutionary benefits await admins

Admins may think Hyper-V is not important to the desktop, but it could bring huge advantages for Windows management
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Hacks of the Day

Global hacking group breaks into DPS network link

Hacker pleads guilty to AT&T iPad breach link

Hackers Force Brazilian Officials to Shut Down Presidential Website link

Feds declare victory over notorious Coreflood botnet link

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk–USE BLUETOOTH PEOPLE

Usually I don’t blog about general news but this one I had to. To my fellow world citizens, Please use a headset or Bluetooth for safety. Watch this informative video for more info

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.html?iref=NS1

Friday, May 20, 2011

Announcing Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2

Microsoft bring Exchange 2010 SP2 in the second half of this year, it will include the following

  • OWA Mini - A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices.
  • Cross-Site Silent Redirection for Outlook Web App
  • Address Book Policies: Allows organizations to segment their address books into smaller scoped subsets of users providing a more refined user experience than the previous manual configuration approach.
  • Other Fixes

Read for more details

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/17/announcing-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Microsoft to drop Windows Live Spaces–Changing to WordPress as default blogging option

Microsoft and WordPress maker Automatic have announced that Microsoft will be ditching its Windows Live Spaces blogging technology in favor of using WordPress as the default blogging option for Windows Live. Considering the popularity of WordPress in the blogging scene…… read more from the source

Friday, April 16, 2010

Microsoft TechNet Wiki Beta Launched

TechNet has served Windows Administrators and Users for many years, this Wiki would be a great addition if Microsoft gets its act together in optimizing their search algorithms.

Check out the TechNet Wiki page here