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, Home Articles How to show file extensions in SharePoint 2007 document lists How to backup Small Business Server 2008 on Hyper-V An Outlook mystery resolved : removing the blue bar from quoted replies Don Syme on F Microsoft’s functional programming language for NET Farewell to the CD Simple CRUD with Silverlight 2.0 Very simple VB 2008 database app with databinding Is high-resolution audio like SACD audibly better than than CD A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate Scott Guthrie on NET futures A simple VB Web Monitor Counting Primes in Flash and Silverlight Reviews Review : Belkin Play Max F7D4301 wireless router Review : LG GW620 Android Smartphone Review : Logitech Squeezebox Touch Logitech Squeezebox Boom review Review : Toshiba NB300
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That may be a little over the top, but it’s a real question. And it is one posed by Microsoft to their employees. Microsoft had a simple fil-os-ofy about its employees. “We Own You.” You work night and day…you get your job done, and you get to say you work for us, the bestest, bigesst, [...]
Many people criticise Apple a lot for being to “locked down” to their own software. However many people aren’t actually aware that Apple does let you choose what you’re preferred operating system is. While this is not a well advertised feature, it is actually there. Boot Camp has been around since 2006 and has been included with OS [...]
HP in a partnership with Microsoft release the first of four appliances based on HP hardware and Microsoft software. The first appliance to ship will be the HP Business Decision Appliance. This product will help companies making business intelligence accessible . Tthis new solution is pre-configured and fine tuned for business users to gain insight into [...]
A new Windows 7 slate tablet is in the works and should be starting in April 2011. Microsoft is looking for a way to rock in the Apple’s iPad and Android market with it’s own product so it is hoping that the new slate will do the trick. So what is the product? It comes [...]
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The TechRepublic Windows Blog member poll question of the week: Is the announced partnership with Nokia a good deal for Microsoft?
Things didn’t go too well for the first Windows Phone 7 Update. Not when as many as 10% of installations failing to install correctly. So why did it Fail? There are two reasons. Of the 10 percent of users who did experience a problem, nearly half failed because a bad Internet connection or insufficient computer [...]
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz tells you to put the Up button on the Command Bar via a little known keyboard shortcut, a short VBScript, and some registry edits.
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You go online and connect to your bank. You do your transactions, and then you logout. Or so you think. There is a new type of financial malware program that has started to make the rounds with the ability to hijack a customers’ online banking sessions in real time using their session ID tokens. This [...]
Jack Wallen shows you how to add desktop icons so that you can quickly enable and disable the Windows 7 firewall.
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The web is moving towards HTML5 with all new browsers supporting the standard including Chrome, Firefox and the forthcoming Internet Explorer 9. This new scripting language. It adds new tags including and the tag that can be used for creating effective animation and text effects. The language now allows you to embed all of this [...]
Tag Technology for mobile devices has a new operator, Turkcell. A new mobile marketing service called MobilKod, built by Turkcell and leveraging Microsoft Tag’s mobile tagging technology allows, the first mobile operator to extend the value of Microsoft Tag to provide a campaign management service for marketers and advertisers. What is Tag Technology? With Tags, [...]
Microsoft have announced that the first Windows Phone update is rolling out to users today. In a post on the Windows Phone blog, they said “Starting today, some of you might see something new on your Windows Phone: A message announcing that a software update is available. Woo hoo!” They go on to explain that [...]
Thin client computing is finally poised to take-off in a meaningful way, according to Microsoft. Thin Client devices will start to appear in more diverse industries and in all types of enterprise settings. Global networking, not just Internet wise, but as organizations become more global, and mobile, the adoption and demand for secure, cost-effective and [...]
Nokia might still be the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, but they need a strong turnaround in their fortunes after a difficult few years. Their strategic alliance with Microsoft, to use exclusively Windows Phone as their primary smartphone OS going forward is supposed to deliver this for the company at a time when they;ve [...]
Microsoft announced the launch of Bing Bar. The new Bing Bar is engineered from the ground up to give you quick access to all the stuff you do online. Whether it is conducting a search, checking Facebook or keeping tabs on email, the Bing Bar centralizes the most common things you do while helping you [...]
I was thinking about updating my “What I Use” article to share with you the hardware and software I choose to use in my own life, but thinking about it soon realised that I’m a complete Microsoft lock-in. Everything is either Microsoft this or Microsoft that and almost exclusively it’s based around Windows 7. So [...]
A zero-day security vulnerability was confirmed by Microsoft for the all versions of Windows. A security researcher has released proof-of-concept code, prompting a warning from Microsoft that remote code execution attacks are theoretically possible. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability was identified in the BROWSER protocol and although all versions of Windows are vulnerable, the issue is [...]
Microsoft have announced and event hosted by the Internet Explorer 9 team to “toast the work of the web developer and designer heroes who make the web beautiful” to be hosted in Austin, Texas on March 14. Could this be the long-awaited launch event for the company’s new browser? Certainly they’ll be showing off some [...]
How does Microsoft feel about Free Software? You’re probably thinking…what free software? Not their OS, office suite, OK, the browser, but anything else it comes with a price. Yes, even if the Free software is not even Microsoft’s. So what’s happened? Well, Microsoft has banned GPLv3 open-source software from Windows Phone and Xbox apps. What [...]
In this week's edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz covers the breadcrumb navigation system in Windows Explorer in order to try to convince you of its benefits.
Dell recently revealed a completely new Windows 7 tablet that’s aimed straight at businesses. The 10-inch tablet hasn’t had any more details or specifications released, just a mere teaser from Dell. But it would look like someone at Dell forget to stick a password on their computer as a full release schedule for the company’s [...]
In an interview with Nokia’s Vice President Niklas Savander at the Mobile World Congress Expo in Barcelona, Phone Scoop has managed to shed more light on the Windows Phone deal the company made with Microsoft. Many people have speculated that in order for Nokia to agree to exclusively use Microsoft’s new smartphone OS, they had [...]
Imagine this. You start up your computer. You connect to the Internet. But instead of your browser going to the home page, you get a request for a certificate assuring that your computer is clean, and can therefore enter the Internet. Sound unlikely? Anyway, that is one proposal being kicked around by Microsoft at the [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has told the crowds at the Mobile World Congress expo that the company “certainly tried” to convince Nokia to choose Android as their smartphone OS of choice going forward. In response to the news last week at the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer would be tying itself to Microsoft’s new Windows [...]
After seeing the TechRepublic How do I blog post about how to disable the Insert key in Word, Frank Reeves asked for information on how to similarly disable the Caps Lock key.
The onward march of Microsoft’s Bing search engine is slow but consistent. While it is not showing any major market-share gains it still grew by 1.1% last month and now sits with 13.1% overall market share. This growth still places Bing in third place behind Yahoo! but as the second-placed search engine only holds a 16.1% [...]
NewWindows Phone 7 Features When anyone asks me what the future of computers will look like, I take out my Verizon phone and say, PC’s are going to be this big. Naturally, we will have monitors and keyboards, but the actual PC will be so small that you can carry it in your own shirt [...]
It can be very frustrating when a program crashes or refuses to close. A free utility called Daphne can relieve some of that frustration with improved process management in Windows.
Microsoft has bowed to pressure and released a fix for Windows XP and Windows Vista that has existed in Windows 7 for some time. This being the ability to prevent USB flash drives from automatically running when plugged into a computer. This behaviour has been used by malware writers for years to exploit users’ and [...]
Thought you had to wait a long time to see the first concept of a Nokia Windows Phone? Think again! It’s been less than a single day since Nokia officially announced it would be making Windows Phones but already a concept device exists and Engadget have managed to obtain a picture. Engadget say that the [...]
At the end of a week of turmoil for Nokia, the company has today confirmed that it will be using Windows Phone as it’s primary smartphone platform going forward. Following a memo that chief executive Stephen Elop sent to all employees this week announcing that the company was in crisis, Nokia will now see its Symbian [...]
However, Autorun has been the basis of malware attacks, and this has concerned Microsoft. With hundreds of thousands users still running Windows XP, despite the security problems by doing so, Microsoft has decided to disable the AutoRun feature on Windows XP. 
Microsoft has decided to modify the way AutoRun works in all Windows systems to increase security and prevent malware. Does this change satisfy your need for security?
Greg Shultz shows you how to modify the Generic registry key to add commands to the Windows Explorer's Command Bar for all the other folders.
It is still a few hours before Microsoft will officially announce the public availability of the first release candidate of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser. We were able to get an early download location for Internet Explorer which we would like to share with all of you. That way you can install Internet [...]
It’s been the most anticipated tablet product of the last year, but finally HP unveiled its WebOS powered TouchPad tablet yesterday along with two new WebOS mobile phones. HP acquired palm last year for $1.2bn at a time when the company was gearing up to launch a Windows 7 tablet. As expected, everything went very silent for a [...]
Let’s face it there is only one Steve Jobs. Even Bill Gates, as smart as he is, was never as creative as Jobs; richer, sure; more domineering, yes. But, more creative? No. And that is why Apple is now considered the most valuable company in the world. Microsoft has brought a lot of innovation, to [...]
CES 2011 was one of the biggest and most bullish shows in years, but it was not a good one for Microsoft. See the four bad trends that conspired against Microsoft at this year's CES.
SysInternals AutoRuns is a great little tool which allows you to manage every single autorun process and application on your Windows 7 machine from a single easy to use window. Yes it’s true that you can manage processes and services from Windows 7 with a combination of the Task Manager and Services manager, but using [...]
Statistics released yesterday by IHS Screen Digest reveal that Microsoft's Music and video service is starting to make a name for itself. 
Microsoft Windows 7 has a built-in utility that will free used hard drive memory increasing available storage space with a click or two of the mouse.
Secure your passwords and online identities for free with LastPass - Tutorial 1 - Installation
On February 3, 2011, Microsoft announced that Windows Home Server 2011 Release Candidate is available for download.
Greg Shultz reveals hidden codes in the Windows 7 Registry that will allow you to add commands to Windows Explorer's context sensitive Command Bar.
If you are still trying to squeeze more speed and performance out of Windows 7, here is a tip that will accelerate the display of menu items.
Change which icons appear in the Windows 7 Notification area and decide how those icons behave when they are display in that area.