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Looks like you can sign up for the public beta for VMWare on Intel MacOSX now. They have a form you can fill out with your name and email address. You will be contacted via email when they are ready for you to start beta testing. If you have never used it before, VMWare is […]
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Microsoft has unleashed their Vista release tour dates and places for the US. They are planning on visiting 15 different cities. The first one will be in New York on the 16th. Key launch events are planned in 7 cities in January: Phoenix (Jan. 17)Tampa, Fla. (Jan. 18)Boston (Jan. 24)Los Angeles (Jan. 26)Washington, D.C. (Jan. […]
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The number of versions Microsoft has for Vista is Maddening. From a users perspective yes, and as a developer it makes our job much harder. It is very difficult to determine the features of each version from Microsoft’s Website After much searching, and looking through Microsoft documents I have determined a good breakdown of the […]
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Microsoft has set November 30th as the offical release date for Vista, and its Office 2007 line (Including Exchange 2007). The November date is for business customers, and the full consumer release of Vista will be January 30th 2007. One interesting factoid is that the build number will jump to 6000 on this final release. […]
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Remote Desktop is a great feature built into Windows. Sometimes it is nice to have it listen on a different port. I like to get my Remote Desktop to listen on port 443. This is because many hotels, and cafe wireless networks block all ports except 80, and 443. These are the two ports used […]
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I was curious about the new licensing terms for Windows Vista. Actually I was looking through it to see what type of terms they had for hardware changes, but I stumbled on something even more interesting: MICROSOFT .NET BENCHMARK TESTING. The software includes one or more components of the .NET Framework 3.0 (“.NET Components”). You […]
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Apple has released a new version of Boot Camp. Boot Camp is the software that allows you to install Windows XP on an Intel based Macintosh computer. The software is still beta, and the previous version was much better, but still had some big issues. If my mac went to sleep it slept forever, I […]
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Just want to remind everyone that IE 7 will be automatically installed on November 1st. Since most of you are running Automatic updates it would be prudent to block the install until you have fully tested it against all of the websites and software your company uses. Microsoft provides a command line blocking tool that […]
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Windows Media Player 11 was released today. Like all new Microsoft software you need to have a valid version of windows to install it. Additionally, it is only available for Windows XP. This is the first edition of Media player to provide integration with the MTV Urge music service. Key features boasted by Microsoft include: […]
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For most windows administrators Vista is still a long way off before they need to deploy it on their networks. Even further off is a 64 bit version of Vista. Still it is important to stay on top of what is going on with these products, so as an administrator you are not blindsided when […]
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