<b>The VAR Guy: </b>"When Red Hat Summit and JBoss World kick off June 22 in Boston, The VAR Guy expects Microsoft, Cisco Systems and IBM to be on hand for conference announcements and presentations."
April marks another historic Patch Tuesday with 11 security bulletins being rolled out today by Microsoft....Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Besides patches for Microsoft Excel and Windows Movie Maker, Patch Tuesday includes a warning about zero-day attacks on some users via Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
On Wednesday 18th May 1Pm –2PM Eastern Time I am going to be helping Attunity deliver a webcast. In it I want to highlight some of the challenges we face in getting data around our environments. I want to highlight the Microsoft products that can help us realise Business Intelligence. It promises to be a good hour. Hope to see you all there. Here is the link Attunity Webcast
Microsoft will no longer sell its Select software licensing after July 1, 2011, with Select Plus taking its place....Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
In a busy 'Patch Tuesday', Microsoft fixed 25 security flaws--mostly in Windows--with its latest patch drop, even fixing a nasty zero-day in the Help system.
The Windows Azure brand has captured mindshare for the buzzword-du-jour, ‘cloud computing’. However, Microsoft certainly isn’t the only option for cranking up virtual machines to meet unexpected or peak demands. For example, I see that OrcsWeb has released its Windows Cloud Servers product , starting at $99.99 a month*. Competition is a good thing - and make sure you do some cost comparisons when researching cloud resources. Some of us were unpleasantly surprised by Azure’s pricing structure...(read more)
Based on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud, Windows Azure Media Services was created to supply content providers and media partners with cloud capabilities to accommodate and transform massive volumes of digital media into desired formats that customers can access on an on-demand basis. The service also simplifies the process of creating, managing, and delivering media to devices through the use of first-party and third-party media technologies. Numerous third-party technologies from media partners have been integrated to fall beneath the Windows Azure Media Services umbrella. For example, Asp...
Microsoft continues to support its aging Windows Mobile phone operating system even as the company hopes to take the market by storm with Windows Mobile 7 which isn't ready yet.
When it comes to troubleshooting in relational databases, there's no better place to start than wait statistics. In a nutshell, a wait statistic is an internal counter that tells you how long the database spent waiting for a particular resource, activity, or process. Since wait statistics are categorized by type, one look will quickly tell the variety of problem that needs your attention, assuming you know meaning for Microsoft's lingo for each wait type....(read more)
<b>Groklaw:</b> "When IBM said that TurboHercules was a member of organizations Microsoft is a member of, it was particularly talking about OpenMainframe.org. It's an organization that seems dedicated to attacking IBM's mainframe business. It describes its purpose like this:"
Despite receiving sharp criticism from U.S. officials Microsoft has remained stout in their stance on continuing to do business with China. At the heart of the entire issue is Internet censorship. Chinese law dictates that search engines that wish to do business in the powerful nation must abide by their laws concerning censorship of Internet search results....
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Microsoft releases two 'critical' patches for Windows and Office in May's Patch Tuesday drop, making things a little easier for IT administrators compared to last month.
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/AbhishekLohani/archive/2013/10/29/point-to-taken-care-while-sql-patching-testing--in.aspx Point to Taken Care while Microsoft SQL Patching Testing in Production It very critical testing like Paching testing 1. Build the Test Environment Parrel to Production Environment i.e Staging Environment2 Check the Version of Application deployed is same as Production Environment if Staging Environment not parrel to production environment then risk of defect in production 3.Check End to End Flow of Appliction 4 Check the Eventlog entries 5 Check the performance of the Application . Thanks & RegardsAbhishek
<b>CBC News:</b> "Quebec's government broke the law by buying software from Microsoft without considering offers from other vendors, the province's Superior Court has ruled."
If your business computers are running on versions of Windows XP or Vista without the latest service packs, it’s time to update, upgrade or go it alone as Microsoft withdraws software support.
Wait? More awesome stuff released. With Microsoft’s acquisition of FAST, the options for content being indexed increased. That’s not all that happens, but for the purpose of this post, since we focus on Business Intelligence content … that is where we see that benefit at this time. Here is the link to the SharePoint Insights: BI In Action blog. You will find guidance and components to download.
Microsoft SQL Database Hosting is reference to the hosting services that are idyllic and most swell suited for ecommerce websites and business websites requiring high profile databases and storage so... [Author: John Anthony - Computers and Internet - May 18, 2010]
When Apple unveiled its iCloud service at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco last week some observers called the huge project game-changing. Few noted the challenges inherent in managing an online storage center of this magnitude. Now it looks like Apple has turned to Microsoft and Amazon for help....
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Microsoft touts 'defense in depth' as an effective deterrent after a white hat hacker last week demonstrated a complete takeover of Windows 7 running Internet Explorer 8.
Nous allons essayer de regrouper un grand nombre des ?v?nements autour des technologies Microsoft que ce soit au niveau global ou local. Nous verrons qu'il existe une certaine logique dans ces organisations m?diatiques et techniques.
Microsoft voiced support for the H.264 video codec in future versions of Internet Explorer, while affirming Adobe Flash....Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
New event from Microsoft about new techonologies which are going to be released during the current year. What can we say about these new technologies? Many advertising without exceptional ideas. Unfortunately it is true for the whole industry - the only idea from the far future is clouding computing which is not relevant to the really new approach in development. I understand that we can provide facilitation to the development community as well as new UI features for the end-users but in fact the...(read more)
Microsoft Small Basic is intended to be fun to use. It is that, and more besides. It has a great potential as a way of flinging together quick and cheerful applications, just like those happy days of childhood. Tetris anyone?