You can almost hear them now — those marketing guys in the Microsoft corner offices — gotta beat the competition…no…gotta squash the competition…How can we do it? Better product? No…cheaper prices…yeah! At least that’s how we think it went when Microsoft was laying out it’s strategy for the release of Microsoft Dynamics Online.
Cops doing computer forensic work already have a ton of tools to choose from, but Microsoft is doing its part to help out as well — the company just revealed that it’s been distributing a special thumb drive to cops in 15 countries to help them identify and extract information from suspects’ computers. The drive,…
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage media format used for high-definition video and data storage having the same dimensions as a standard DVD or CD. The blue-violet laser is used to read and write this type of disc, hence the name. Blue laser rays of 405 nanometer is used for Blu-ray Disc, while red…
WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. It is a telecommunications technology providing wireless data over long distances in a variety of ways, from point-to-point links to full mobile cellular type access. It is based on the WirelessMAN (IEEE 802.16) standard. WiMAX is a highly scalable, long-range system, covering many kilometers using licensed spectrum…
The First Principle: The Reason It All Exists A software system exists for one reason: to provide value to its users. All decisions should be made with this in mind. Before specifying a system requirement, before noting a piece of system functionality, before determining the hardware platforms or development processes, ask yourself questions such as:…
Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail.com, has announced the launch of SabSeBolo.com, the country’s first free, reservation-less audio conferencing facility. To sign-up for the service, you need to log on to SabSebolo.com and enter your email id and password. In return, you’re given a permanent conference id and a pin. To start conferencing, you need to…
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a distributed communication technology that ships as part of the .NET Framework 3.0. This article concentrates on comparing the performance of WCF with existing .NET distributed communication technologies. A prerequisite for this article is sufficient understanding of WCF. For an architectural overview of WCF please read “Windows Communication Foundation Architecture…
If you are looking to build a successful website, here are three basic rules. Fast Speed Limited Contents Easy Navigation 1. Fast Speed First rule is, a website should load faster. When a user comes to your home page, there should be no wait. You can provide this by having only limited code and HTML…
Microsoft Live Labs Volta helps developers who build distributed applications on the .NET platform, using the Microsoft development stack (programming languages, libraries, and Visual Studio). This version of Volta supports applications that run on the Microsoft CLR, a JavaScript-enabled browser, or a combination of the two. First, this document introduces the Volta technology. Then, it…
That’s right folks. Windows Vienna is the new codename for Windows Blackcomb the successor to Windows Vista. Not much is known about Blackcomb officially and Microsoft is not ready to talk about it yet. However, Microsoft’s blogging guru, Robert Scoble confirmed in a thread reply to a channel 9 video, “since this video was shot…
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