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Page Hunt – Improving Bing by playing Games
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Page Hunt is a game where the use tries to determine the search terms used to find a page. You look at the page, then type keywords, if the results you get with those keywords are in the top 5 results, you get points. Interesting concept and made me think...
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viva la Clippy
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Clippy is dead, long live Clippy! From New Scientist via Twine : " Two years since its demise, the spectre of Microsoft's animated paperclip, Clippy, still haunts anyone hoping to develop a virtual assistant to help people get things done. Few have...
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Gimmie a Slice of that Gov’t Cloud?
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According to a story by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb , the US government is planning to offer SaaS and cloud based platforms for agencies to use in the development, testing, and running of new applications, and that this may be announced at the...
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Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 30, 2009
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Joseph Fultz - Dallas Implementing Rotate with Single Contact Point in WPF4 & Windows 7 "By default there is no rotation (or zoom for that matter) behavior for a single touch point. However, working on my laptop I am limited to a single touch point...
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Microsoft, Yahoo! Announce Search Agreement
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" Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the...
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Transparent Aluminum
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This has nothing to do with Microsoft, Software, Cloud Computing, MTCs, New York, or the .Net Framework – but is wicked, wicked cool. According to a post over at Physorg.com named Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter' , they said "Oxford scientists...
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Partner Case Study: Avocent helps Microsoft Technology Center Bangalore
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Avocent helps Microsoft Technology Center Bangalore to improve efficiency in IT operations and IT service levels (PDF) The case study about how Avocent 's technologies help the Bangalore MTC manage their datacenter, which is not only used for internal...
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Win a Surface! Touch First, Microsoft Surface Developer Challenge
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The Touch First, Microsoft Surface Developer Challenge runs from July 13 through October 12 . Qualifying participants can develop applications based on the learning gained in the Surface QuickStart and might walk away with a Surface unit as a prize...
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Windows 7 Incubation Week in Reston
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Brian Hoskins (Senior Business Development Manager on Microsoft's Emerging Business Team) talks about Windows 7 Incubation Week taking place at the Reston MTC : " The Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows 7 will be held at the Microsoft Technology...
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Introduction to Microsoft Office 2010
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The Introduction to Microsoft Office 2010 web site has mini-videos that show aspects of what's to come in Office 2010. Some exciting things in the videos: The Office Mobile Video – note the compatibility with the non-Microsoft smartphones mentioned; The...
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Upcoming Training in the MTCs – July 27, 2009
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Boston 21 Sept 2009 Great SharePoint Adventure – Critical Path Training [ Register ] This 5-day course with extended hours explores the development opportunities with Microsoft's most recent release of SharePoint 2007. The first half of the course...
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Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 24, 2009
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Dean Suzuki - Irvine Lessons learned connecting a Netapp 3170 SAN to an Exchange 2007 / Windows 2008 SP2 Cluster " I have been working on a proof of concept testing an Active/Active/Passive Exchange 2007 cluster running on Windows 2008 SP2. We have...
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Some interesting SharePoint Related Blog Posts
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Stephen from the SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Service Pack 2 prevents an on-change workflow from starting itself http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2009/07/13/service-pack-2-prevents-an-on-change-workflow-from-starting-itself.aspx...
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Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 23, 2009
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Joseph Fultz - Dallas Azure Development Storage Database Deleted " … One day I decide, after an Azure break, that I need to try something out and fire up studio … " Enabling The PUT Verb with Handlers and IIS 7.0 " If you are trying to setup...
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Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 22, 2009
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Dean Suzuki - Irvine Getting Error Replacing Self-Signed Certificate in Exchange 2007 " I was installing Exchange 2007 today for a customer Proof of Concept (POC) and the customer wanted to replace the self-signed certificate used by OWA with a...
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xkoto Press release mentions the Microsoft Technology Centers
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From: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090713005398&newsLang=en " xkoto ( http://www.xkoto.com ), the database virtualization company, today reported record revenues for the second quarter...
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Check out ‘How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com’ on the MS SharePoint Team Blog
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Dave Pae (SharePoint Technical Product Manager) talks about building http://sharepoint.microsoft.com in his recent post titled " How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com ". Some design goals mentioned: Introduce a fresh design to enhance the customer...
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‘Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel’ - NetworkWorld
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Windows / Linux virtualization interoperability released under GPLv2. See the article " Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel ". Some snippets: "The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device...
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Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 21, 2009
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Scott Case – Irvine Mac Office 2008 Updates for SharePoint and Open XML " The Mac Office team released TWO great updates today. The first is the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.9 Update (Service Pack 2) . Along with the standard security and stability...
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Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 20, 2009
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Ed Hild - Reston Microsoft Word Documents Opening in the Browser " … I get asked this question, quite a bit… It usually goes something like: I have a SharePoint site and when the user clicks on a Word document, the file is shown in the Internet Explorer...
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Upcoming Training in the MTCs ...
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Boston 21 Sept 2009 Great SharePoint Adventure – Critical Path Training [ Register ] This 5-day course with extended hours explores the development opportunities with Microsoft’s most recent release of SharePoint 2007...
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Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser
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By way of Jonathan Allen's post on InfoQ : " Microsoft’s Web Browser-Based OS: Gazelle ", I came across this Microsoft Research paper " The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser " [ MSR Page ]. The abstract states: Web browsers...
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Windows Azure Business Model Announcement
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Rick Shahid of the Irvine MTC talking about the Windows Azure business model announcements: http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcirv/archive/2009/07/14/windows-azure-business-model-annoucement.aspx
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Project Tuvo - Microsoft Research
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There is an article on C-Net about Bill Gates' publishing of Richard Feynman lectures [ who is he? ] that he obtained the rights for and apparently has a great passion for. This was done using a Microsoft Research Project called Project Tuvo . Tuvo combines...
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Summer not warm enough? Office 2010 Preview is hot, hot, hot!
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Microsoft Office 2010 Hits Major Milestone and Enters Technical Preview " Today at WPC, Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Office 2010 , Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, and Microsoft Project 2010 have reached the technical...
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