July 2009 - Posts

Page Hunt – Improving Bing by playing Games
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 Read More...
Posted 30 July 09 11:49 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
viva la Clippy
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 tried Read More...
Posted 30 July 09 11:41 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Gimmie a Slice of that Gov’t Cloud?
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 Read More...
Posted 30 July 09 10:16 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 30, 2009
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. Read More...
Posted 30 July 09 09:52 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Microsoft, Yahoo! Announce Search Agreement
" 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 Read More...
Posted 29 July 09 10:06 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Transparent Aluminum
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 Read More...
Posted 29 July 09 09:57 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Partner Case Study: Avocent helps Microsoft Technology Center Bangalore
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 Read More...
Posted 29 July 09 09:39 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Win a Surface! Touch First, Microsoft Surface Developer Challenge
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 (well, Read More...
Posted 28 July 09 03:03 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Windows 7 Incubation Week in Reston
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 Read More...
Posted 27 July 09 10:04 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Introduction to Microsoft Office 2010
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 Read More...
Posted 27 July 09 09:50 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Upcoming Training in the MTCs – July 27, 2009
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 focuses Read More...
Posted 27 July 09 09:28 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 24, 2009
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 been Read More...
Posted 24 July 09 11:42 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Some interesting SharePoint Related Blog Posts
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 " This Read More...
Posted 23 July 09 01:24 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 23, 2009
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 a handler Read More...
Posted 23 July 09 09:39 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 22, 2009
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 certificate Read More...
Posted 22 July 09 10:10 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
xkoto Press release mentions the Microsoft Technology Centers
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 of Read More...
Posted 22 July 09 10:06 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Check out ‘How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com’ on the MS SharePoint Team Blog
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 experience Read More...
Posted 21 July 09 12:06 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
‘Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel’ - NetworkWorld
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 Read More...
Posted 21 July 09 11:41 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 21, 2009
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 Read More...
Posted 21 July 09 11:02 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, July 20, 2009
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 Read More...
Posted 20 July 09 09:44 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Upcoming Training in the MTCs ...
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 focuses Read More...
Posted 20 July 09 09:13 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser
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 originated Read More...
Posted 15 July 09 11:48 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
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Windows Azure Business Model Announcement
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 Read More...
Posted 15 July 09 10:25 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
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Project Tuvo - Microsoft Research
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 Read More...
Posted 15 July 09 10:09 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
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Summer not warm enough? Office 2010 Preview is hot, hot, hot!
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 Read More...
Posted 14 July 09 11:21 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks
· Joseph Fultz - Dallas o WCF Service with SQL Classes vs Entity Framework “ I was creating a simple service to return some data from a Pubs (yes, Pubs) instance on my machine. The service was created to serve data to a SilverLigh client that I am creating. Read More...
Posted 14 July 09 11:14 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
'Sneak Peek' of SharePoint 2010
Microsoft has just published preview videos about SharePoint 2010 - the next version of SharePoint. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx There are Overview, IT Pro, and Developer videos to browse. Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 11:27 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   
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The Irvine MTC is now blogging ...
The MTC in Irvine, CA has started a new blog on MSDN: Welcome! Oracle Forms to .NET Migration with ATX Technologies & SSMA for Oracle Read More...
Posted 10 July 09 11:52 by kkaragan | 0 Comments   

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