http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Microsoft Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2010 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:24:25 GMT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:24:25 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Atlas-Selected-as-Ad-Serving-Platform-by-IPG-134557.shtml Advertising holding company Interpublic Group (IPG) will leverage Microsoft’s ad-serving platform for North America campaigns, per an agreement inked by the duo. Expanding a collaboration dating back to mid-2009 when the Redmond company partnered with IPG’s global media planning and buying unit, Mediabrands, the new deal is focu... (read more)]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:39:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Atlas-Selected-as-Ad-Serving-Platform-by-IPG-134557.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Atlas-Selected-as-Ad-Serving-Platform-by-IPG-134557.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/SAP-Supports-Hyper-V-on-Windows-Server-2008-R2-134542.shtml As of the end of the past week, customers running SAP will be able to leverage the latest iteration of the Windows Server platform along with the associated hypervisor from Microsoft. Starting with February 5th, 2010, SAP allows users to take advantage of Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 in scenarios that also involve guest operating systems Wind... 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(read more)]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/AD-RMS-Must-Have-Update-for-Windows-IE-134527.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/AD-RMS-Must-Have-Update-for-Windows-IE-134527.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Access-NET-Framework-4-RC-WCF-and-WF-Samples-134509.shtml 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 availability for the two releases. At... (read more)]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Access-NET-Framework-4-RC-WCF-and-WF-Samples-134509.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Access-NET-Framework-4-RC-WCF-and-WF-Samples-134509.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-10-50-Beta-RC-Build-3241-Available-for-Download-134501.shtml 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 there, it is indeed getting ... (read more)]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-10-50-Beta-RC-Build-3241-Available-for-Download-134501.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-10-50-Beta-RC-Build-3241-Available-for-Download-134501.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Will-Be-Completely-Different-134487.shtml 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 sharing any details on the release with ... 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(read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:44:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Custom-IE8-Available-from-Microsoft-and-CEOP-134470.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Custom-IE8-Available-from-Microsoft-and-CEOP-134470.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-s-Consider-Replacing-Your-Battery-Warnings-Are-Valid-134459.shtml 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 Windows reporting pot... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:04:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-s-Consider-Replacing-Your-Battery-Warnings-Are-Valid-134459.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-s-Consider-Replacing-Your-Battery-Warnings-Are-Valid-134459.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverlight-MSN-Bing-in-the-Online-Event-the-Winter-Olympics-2010-134450.shtml 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 between NBC Un... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:08:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverlight-MSN-Bing-in-the-Online-Event-the-Winter-Olympics-2010-134450.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverlight-MSN-Bing-in-the-Online-Event-the-Winter-Olympics-2010-134450.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-Goes-Down-Under-134447.shtml 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 third continent since the product was introduc... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:35:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-Goes-Down-Under-134447.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-Goes-Down-Under-134447.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Opera-10-50-pre-Beta-for-Windows-Acid3-100-100-134437.shtml 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 the Beta build by the ... 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(read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:34:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Access-Free-Bing-SourceType-Code-Samples-on-MSDN-134424.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Access-Free-Bing-SourceType-Code-Samples-on-MSDN-134424.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-PowerShell-Cheat-Sheet-Available-134415.shtml 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 advent of the latest iteration of Window... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-PowerShell-Cheat-Sheet-Available-134415.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-PowerShell-Cheat-Sheet-Available-134415.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-Exchange-Server-2010-and-Outlook-Standards-Documentation-134407.shtml 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, SQL Server, the O... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-Exchange-Server-2010-and-Outlook-Standards-Documentation-134407.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-Exchange-Server-2010-and-Outlook-Standards-Documentation-134407.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-Release-Candidate-RC-via-MSDN-134394.shtml 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 ... (read more)]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-Release-Candidate-RC-via-MSDN-134394.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-Release-Candidate-RC-via-MSDN-134394.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Google-Chrome-5-0-317-2-134275.shtml 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 Google Chrome has been made available exclusively ... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:05:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Google-Chrome-5-0-317-2-134275.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Google-Chrome-5-0-317-2-134275.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Free-Windows-7-IbarraReal-Font-134377.shtml 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 cultural font IbarraReal from the Microsoft... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Free-Windows-7-IbarraReal-Font-134377.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Free-Windows-7-IbarraReal-Font-134377.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Behind-Windows-7-s-Energy-Efficiency-Boost-134370.shtml 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 Team, was the man that helmed efforts t... 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(read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:02:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Free-Windows-7-DirectX-11-Resources-134344.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Free-Windows-7-DirectX-11-Resources-134344.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Outlook-2010-the-Evolution-of-IMAP-Accounts-134329.shtml 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 accounts, the second most prevalent Int... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Outlook-2010-the-Evolution-of-IMAP-Accounts-134329.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Outlook-2010-the-Evolution-of-IMAP-Accounts-134329.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/McAfee-2010-Major-Upgrade-Delivers-325-Faster-Scans-134326.shtml 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 States, the United Kingdom ... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:16:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/McAfee-2010-Major-Upgrade-Delivers-325-Faster-Scans-134326.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/McAfee-2010-Major-Upgrade-Delivers-325-Faster-Scans-134326.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Key-to-Cutting-Bandwidth-Utilization-with-BranchCache-134314.shtml 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 with wide area n... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:18:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Key-to-Cutting-Bandwidth-Utilization-with-BranchCache-134314.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Key-to-Cutting-Bandwidth-Utilization-with-BranchCache-134314.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-PowerShell-2-0-Management-Library-for-Hyper-V-R2-134304.shtml 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 PowerShell cmdlets for Hyper... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:42:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-PowerShell-2-0-Management-Library-for-Hyper-V-R2-134304.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-PowerShell-2-0-Management-Library-for-Hyper-V-R2-134304.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-and-Facebook-Marriage-Evolves-134295.shtml 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 at the end of the past week represents the ... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:03:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-and-Facebook-Marriage-Evolves-134295.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-and-Facebook-Marriage-Evolves-134295.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Forefront-Protection-2010-for-SharePoint-Release-Candidate-RC-134283.shtml 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 libraries... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:06:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Forefront-Protection-2010-for-SharePoint-Release-Candidate-RC-134283.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Forefront-Protection-2010-for-SharePoint-Release-Candidate-RC-134283.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-10-50-Beta-for-Windows-Downloads-just-Around-the-Corner-134267.shtml 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 yet. However, ea... (read more)]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-10-50-Beta-for-Windows-Downloads-just-Around-the-Corner-134267.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-10-50-Beta-for-Windows-Downloads-just-Around-the-Corner-134267.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Building-the-Future-for-Your-Children-134240.shtml 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 faced by education systems world... (read more)]]> Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Building-the-Future-for-Your-Children-134240.shtml Microsoft http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Building-the-Future-for-Your-Children-134240.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-4-0-GUI-Evolution-Get-a-Taste-134205.shtml 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 4.0, and various concepts and sketches ha... 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