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Advanced Customizable Windows 7 Logon Editor Available!
Windows Logon Editor is an advanced portable yes, portable! Windows 7 Logon Screen Editor which addresses the need of users who want to fully customize the logon screen. Currently in beta, it works flawlessly in Windows 7.Just run the executable to bring up the editor. It will open the logon screen which is currently in [...]
August 11, 2010
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Of Phones, Clouds, Service Packs and Other Essential Things
Windows Phone 7 Ok, I’ve talked a lot recently about Windows Phone 7, but as actual phones are being handed out to reviewers and developers in anticipation of a holiday season release there looks to be a lot to talk about here that may (or as some argue may not) affect the smart phone market. [...]
July 30, 2010
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Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS Issues – Scott Forsyths Blog
It appears that the Internet isn’t fully up to date and ready to use EDns quite yet. The solution for this is to disable EDns and wait another year or two until Akamai and other DNS servers catch up, or Microsoft releases a hot fix to support the failback option I mentioned above.Note that this [...]
June 29, 2010
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What’s Taking So Long? How to Fight Slow Startup Times in Windows 7 « IT Expert Voice
What’s Taking So Long? How to Fight Slow Startup Times in Windows 7 « IT Expert Voice. Excellent writeup of how to speed up boot-times in Windows 7, going much more in depth than running ‘msconfig.exe’.
June 10, 2010
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Why Microsoft : Google Docs does not make Office better
Google is of course doing this now as the business launch of Office 2010 happens tomorrow Wednesday May 12, 2010. I’m not going to focus on the launch in this blog as there already has been a ton of great news about Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010, etc. What I want to do is [...]
May 12, 2010
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Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones | ZDNet
On May 11, Microsoft’s Bing team announced it was introducing tweaks to the Bing application on legacy Windows Phone devices, as well as new turn-by-turn navigation that builds on Bing Maps and Tellme voice technologies. Microsoft delivers new Bing updates for Windows Mobile 6.x phones | ZDNet.
May 11, 2010
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Mozilla: No plans to release Firefox for Windows Phone 7 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Mozilla is ceasing its browser-development work for Windows Mobile phones — no surprise, given Microsoft has no plans to further that platform. But Microsoft’s browser rival also has decided against developing a Windows Phone 7 version of Firefox, officials said via a blog post on March 22. Mozilla: No plans to release Firefox for Windows [...]
March 23, 2010
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First Windows Phone 7 devices won’t run Silverlight in the browser | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
“In its first release, the Windows Phone browser does not support a browser plug-in model. We are evaluating this for future releases of Windows Phone. It is very straightforward to take an existing Silverlight browser based application and re-compile it to target the Windows Phone. Silverlight 4 has not yet been released. We will be [...]
March 19, 2010
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Microsoft removes hardware virtualization barrier to running XP Mode | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Effective immediately, Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology, Microsoft officials said today. XP Mode is a feature of Windows 7 Professional or higher that allows companies to run XP applications that are incompatible with Windows 7 in a virtual environment. Until today, XP Mode would only work on PCs that included CPUs [...]
March 18, 2010
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IE9: Microsofts new browser gets no respect at all | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
Yesterday, influential web designer Jeffrey Zeldman wrote “there is no such thing as a calm discussion of improvements to a Microsoft browser,” and then proceeded to accidentally prove his own case. Zeldman aimed a withering broadside at Microsoft and its “enforced bragging” about Internet Explorer 9. Unfortunately, Zeldman’s entire argument was based on a four-month-old [...]
March 17, 2010
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