The shortage of IPv4 addresses has reached a critical stage, according to the registries that allocate Internet numbers around the world.
The Number Resource Organization (NRO), which represents the registries, said Tuesday that less than 10 percent of all IPv4 addresses remain available, threatening the future network operations of all businesses and organizations unless ISPs and businesses step up their migration to IPv6.
Microsoft has started dropping broad hints that an emergency patch for Internet Explorer will be released very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a “browse and you’re owned†vulnerability in its flagship Web browser.
The out-of-band update will be released once the company is satisfied that it has been properly tested against all affected versions of Windows. This could happen as early as this weekend.
Which is fantastic news. I’m really looking forward to it especially as the UK team are planning to put on a great week for UK developers with the help of the fantastic UK community. More details to follow.
Check out the UK Visual Studio 2010 page – http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/archive/2010/01/14/visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-launch-date-is-monday-12th-april.aspx
DirectAccess, Microsoft’s pairing of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for connect-anywhere access, is possibly the best thing Redmond has produced in a long time. Unfortunately for many, it just may be about five years too early.
Late last year, Microsoft quietly announced a new server operating system called “Windows MultiPoint Server 2010” aimed at the educations market based on the Microsoft Research project MultiMouse. As it nears its release, the more I look at this product the more I see this as a potential multiseat computing solution even for the home.
Late last year, Microsoft quietly announced a new server operating system called “Windows MultiPoint Server 2010†aimed at the educations market based on the Microsoft Research project MultiMouse. As it nears its release, the more I look at this product the more I see this as a potential multiseat computing solution even for the home.
Now you can stay connected to those that matter most with Windows Live™ for Windows® phone. Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail®, Photos and the “What’s New†feed are now all available on your 6.x Windows® phone. Windows Live™ for Windows® phone (Pro) is for use with a touch phone.
Alternatively you can browse to http://wl.windowsmobile.com using Internet Explorer on your device to install using direct download.
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Microsoft and HP have teamed up to introduce a slate computer ahead of Apple’s much rumoured device launch.
The firms unveiled the Windows 7 powered touchscreen machine, also known as a tablet, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
The aim of the device is to bridge the gap between laptops and smartphones.
Apple are also reported to be gearing up to launch a slate device in late January to go on sale in March, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Hotmail was born on July 4th, 1996 – the creation of a Silicon Valley startup founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the very first services to offer free web-based e-mail. Originally, Hotmail was spelled “HoTMaiL,†emphasizing its use of HTML for the web user interface. Hotmail became popular quickly, and by the end of 1997 already had millions of customers. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft late in 1997 and was later integrated with another acquisition – the web-based calendar service, Jump. Hotmail continued to grow very quickly – reaching tens of millions of users in just a few years. Today, Hotmail has provisioned well over a billion inboxes and has several hundred million active users around the world.
Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowslive/archive/2010/01/06/a-short-history-of-hotmail.aspx
Today marks an important step towards our goal of enabling you, our customers and partners, to build and grow your businesses on the Windows Azure platform. We are pleased to announce that starting today you can upgrade your Community Technology Preview (CTP) accounts of the Windows® Azure™ platform (i.e., Windows Azure, SQL Azure and/or Windows Azure platform AppFabric) to paid commercial subscriptions. If you upgrade your CTP accounts during the month of January, 2010, all Windows Azure platform usage incurred during this month will be at no charge. You will also have full visibility during this month to your Windows Azure platform usage. Billing and SLAs for all commercial accounts will begin on February 1st, 2010.
Office 2010 will be offered in four versions: Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student, and Office Professional Academic. See more on the announcement at the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog or click here to download a more detailed guide to each edition.
Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/archive/2010/01/05/office-2010-pricing-announced.aspx
It’s almost been 10 years since Windows 2000 was released. Now several versions later, We have all come to accept the way it looks today. But has that much really changed? Take a look at some screenshots, showing the difference.
Boot Screen 
Login Screen 
Desktop 
Start Menu 
Media Player 
Taskbar 
Using RemoteApp to deploy applications, can save time and effort. RemoteApp, is part of Windows Server 2008 R2, and allows you to publish a single application, and deploy it to end users. The end user will see a seamless window, just as if it was installed locally. This is done using Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services, as it’s know today.
Hi, my name is Arthur de Haan and I am responsible for Test and System Engineering in Windows Live. To kick things off, I’d like to give you a look behind the scenes at Hotmail, and tell you more about what it takes to build, deploy and run the Windows Live Hotmail service on such a massive global scale.
Hosting your mail and data (and our own data!) on our servers is a big responsibility and we take quality, performance, and reliability very seriously. We make significant investments in engineering and infrastructure to help keep Hotmail up and running 24 hours a day, day in and day out, year after year. You will rarely hear about these efforts – you will only read about them on the rare occasion that something goes wrong and our service has run into an issue,.
Virtual machine images for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 are now available for download. Using a virtual machine image allows you to try out software without having a dedicated machine for testing. The machine image is available in a variety of formats. On the download page you’ll see that the image for each format has been broken into multiple chunks. You need to get all of the parts for one of the formats depending on the type of virtual machine you’re using.
The machine images for the Visual Studio 2008 trial have also been updated. If you’ve gotten the trial image in the past, it’s set to expire shortly. These new images will run until January 2011.
