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MARIUS OIAGA
Marius has been writing for Softpedia News since Vista was still in beta, way back in 2006, and intends to stick around for Windows 50 (this will probably take a very long time since Microsoft has only recently reached Windows 7). He believes that reporting on Microsoft events and product launches is like living the high life of IT journalism, because the Redmond company is at the center of the software universe.
He only unveiled one of his hobbies: working with photographs, especially untouched images in RAW format.
Personal motto: "Updated one minute ago", obviously
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Microsoft has already made the first and only Release Candidate milestone of its next generation development platform and tools available for download. MSDN subscribers have been able to grab Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4 RC since February 8th, 2010, with the Redmond company making its way to general ava... |
10 February 2010
03:10 GMT |
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The sixth development snapshot of the next version of Opera released since the start of this month is currently available for download. Opera Software is obviously making headway toward producing the first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of Opera 10.50. And while the Norwegian browser maker is not quite the... |
10 February 2010
02:41 GMT |
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Even before the advent of Windows 7, Microsoft was hard at work planning the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms. But even though the successor of Windows 7, commonly referred to, even by Microsoft’s own employees, under the codename Windows 8, was in planning, the Redmond company is not ... |
9 February 2010
10:50 GMT |
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With Firefox 3.6 Final made available for download in the second half of January 2010, Mozilla has moved onward and is offering a taste of the evolution of its open source browser. And ‘a taste’ is just the way to describe the pre-Alpha version of Firefox 3.7 that is currently up for grabs for early adopt... |
9 February 2010
10:25 GMT |
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Microsoft is permitting a high degree of flexibility when it comes down to building custom Internet Explorer 8 browser packages. By leveraging the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8, the latest version of IE can be personalized in accordance with specific preferences, the resource offering various options, includ... |
9 February 2010
09:44 GMT |
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Windows 7 customers that get the “Consider replacing your battery” message from the operating system, should in fact replace the battery, revealed Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division. Microsoft has been investigating reports of issues associated with the latest iteration of Windo... |
9 February 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Just three days are left until the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver are kicked off, but NBC Universal and Microsoft have already set in place the online Olympic hub designed to brings fans around the world winter games coverage. NBCOlympics.com on MSN is the result of a collaboration b... |
9 February 2010
08:08 GMT |
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Microsoft has expanded the availability of its first example of surface computing product to customers in Australia. The Redmond company indicated that widespread interest in the tabletop computer from companies and organizations down under had been a catalyst for commercial availability of Microsoft Surface on the t... |
9 February 2010
07:35 GMT |
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Get ready to download and test-drive Opera 10.50 Beta. Of course, the first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of Opera 10.50 is not available for download at this point in time. However, the release is literally just around the corner, with all indications pointing to the fact that Opera Software might release... |
9 February 2010
06:25 GMT |
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Bing allows for much more than simply searching for information on the web. In fact, Microsoft is offering developers and API designed to let them leverage the search/decision engine in scenarios beyond the default offered on Bing.com. Devs that do take advantage of the Bing application programming interface can also... |
9 February 2010
05:34 GMT |
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System administrators rarely have it easy when it comes down to managing complex infrastructures with large numbers of computers. However, a small component included by default into both Windows client and Windows Server operating systems is designed specifically to streamline management tasks for admins. With the ad... |
9 February 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Approximately two years ago, Microsoft announced a visceral change in strategy designed to make its products more open and to encourage interoperability. Essentially, the Redmond company provided access through what it referred to as open connections to all its high-volume products including Windows, Windows Server, ... |
9 February 2010
04:21 GMT |
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The first Release Candidate Builds of Microsoft’s next generation development platform and tools are currently available for download. At the start of this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and .Net Framework 4 Release Candidate, but opened access only to subscribers of the Microsoft... |
9 February 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing users of its operating system, including of the latest version of the platform Windows 7, with a free font, in addition to the items shipping by default with the operating system. In this regard, end users running Windows 7, but also Windows Vista and Windows XP can grab the Ibero-American cult... |
8 February 2010
10:57 GMT |
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With the advent of Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems, the company also applauded its most green platforms to date. Over three months after the general availability of Windows 7, the Redmond company revealed that Stephen Berard, a senior program manager for the Windows Kernel Tea... |
8 February 2010
10:37 GMT |
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Microsoft wants to be able to tell whether it’s a human or a dog using the Internet. And the solution is rather simple according to Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. The man that replaced Bill Gates at Microsoft along with Ray Ozzie (now chief software architect) proposed that users have the eq... |
8 February 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download new resources associated with the underlining graphics technology in its Windows operating system, including the latest version of the operating system. Windows 7 brought to the table DirectX 11, a technology which was also backported to Windows Vista SP2 via the Platform Up... |
8 February 2010
09:02 GMT |
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The next iteration of the Office System will deliver a superior user experience compared to its predecessor when it comes to it’s the email client component and the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). The promise from Microsoft is that Office Outlook 2010 will bring to the table the evolution of IMAP acco... |
8 February 2010
07:58 GMT |
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McAfee has releases a major upgrade to its 2010 consumer product lineup boasting expanded threat protection, boosted performance and an overhauled graphical user interface. Today, February 8th, 2010, the Santa Clara-based security outfit has revealed that the upgrades are already available for download in the United ... |
8 February 2010
07:16 GMT |
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The latest iteration of the Windows client and server platforms come with enhancements specifically designed for companies with branch offices. BranchCache is a feature illustrative of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ‘Better Together’ concept, allowing business customers to cut costs associated w... |
8 February 2010
06:18 GMT |
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PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V is a rather self-explanatory label for any project, and to little surprise, it delivers just what it promises, namely a PowerShell management library for Microsoft’s hypervisor role in Windows Server. Put together by Microsoft Evangelist James O’Neill, the new Pow... |
8 February 2010
05:42 GMT |
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In a move which Microsoft described as the enhancement of the collaboration with Facebook, the social network will now be solely responsible for the display advertising served to its users, but also that the actual Bing integration and search experience would evolve. The agreement between the two companies announced... |
8 February 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Business customers that have deployed SharePoint Server in their infrastructure and looking for a security solution to protect the product’s libraries can now download and test drive Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate. The security solution is designed to safeguard SharePoint l... |
8 February 2010
04:06 GMT |
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A new Dev Channel Update for Google’s open source browser is currently available for download for testers interested in running the most advanced development milestone of Chrome. At the end of the past week, Google released Chrome Build 5.0.317.2 for Windows via the Dev channel. The latest testing Build of Goog... |
8 February 2010
11:05 GMT |
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The first Beta development milestone of the next iteration of Opera is just around the corner. At the end of the past week, Opera 10.50 Build 3228 became available for download. According to Opera Software, Build 3228 is extremely close to the Official beta build of Opera 10.50, albeit not the fully-fledged Beta just... |
8 February 2010
02:57 GMT |
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One of the aspects of Microsoft that should come as no surprise is that the company plans ahead not just next year’s product launches, but decades in advance, in terms of the evolution of its technology. Not limited to its own software, this strategy is an integral part of how the company is tackling problems f... |
6 February 2010
06:52 GMT |
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With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Microsoft is helping Windows 7 customers celebrate love right on their desktops. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available for download a new desktop theme designed to integrate seamlessly into the desktop of their Windows 7-power computers. The Lacy Hear... |
5 February 2010
11:28 GMT |
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Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version ... |
5 February 2010
14:51 GMT |
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The latest development milestone of Office 2010 has made it into the wild, even though Microsoft never intended to have the general public get their hands on the release. Earlier this week, the Redmond company revealed that the next iteration of the Office System reached a key milestone in the evolution to RTM, namel... |
5 February 2010
10:18 GMT |
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A new version of the Silverlight open source implementation for Linux has been made available for download this week. Linux users can now access the first preview release of Moonlight 3.0. As the version number implies, with Moonlight 3.0, Novell, which is adapting the Silverlight plug-in for Linux, is working to del... |
5 February 2010
09:44 GMT |
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