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Ghost Town Theme Now Available for Windows 7

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Undoubtedly, you have heard of the town of Bodie, California. If you haven’t you should know from the start that it is a ghost town. In fact, it is the best preserved ghost town in California, located in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County. Bodie was a mining camp established in 1859 ...

Download System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Azure 1.0.1.232 CTP

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A new tool is now available for those in the need of monitoring the performance of software that is running on SQL Azure, namely System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Azure. Through the new pack, all the tools needed for verifying the SQL Azure server and database connectivity and for checking on their health info...

Layerscape Offers a New Perspective on Earth

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Those of you who have found a passion in analyzing various aspects of the Earth and of the Solar System have now a new tool at their disposal to download and install on Windows-based PCs. Dubbed Layerscape, this is a cloud-based tool that relies on the popular WorldWide Telescope. Both of them come from Microsoft Research. T...

Download Sysinternals Suite 1.0 Build 16.02.2012

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The latest release of Mark Russinovich’s Sysinternals Suite arrives as Build 16.02.2012 and brings along updated Coreinfo, DebugView, LiveKd and Process Explorer. The newly updated Windows utilities can be downloaded either as part of the entire Sysinternals Suite, or as stand-alone applications, depending on users’ nee...

Internet Explorer (IE) 9.0.5 Arrives via Windows Update

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On February 14th, Microsoft released a new set of security patches for some of its products, including a Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. The update is now available for download via Windows Update, meant to resolve no less than 5 privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. As part of...

New in the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series: E-Discovery

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When it comes to choosing a specific cloud service or another, organizations are interested in assessing electronic discovery, or e-discovery, in addition to a multitude of other factors. The latest installment of the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series from Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing is meant to shed some light on t...

Stay on Top of Social Media and Web Trends with msnNOW

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Microsoft has just launched a new MSN service to enable users to stay on top of what is happening around them. Dubbed msnNOW, the new service can be accessed today at now.msn.com, enabling users to easily stay informed on the things people are talking about, as well as on what is being searched and shared the most. The service will bring along the most interesting trends from places like Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and BreakingNews.com, so that people will always know...

Windows 8 Designed with Accessibility Improvements

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One thing that Microsoft wanted to ensure with the upcoming Windows 8 platform was that as many people as possible had access to it. The company has already packed a variety of accessibility capabilities to the older flavor of Windows, so that they can be used broadly. Some of the assistive technologies (ATs) that ha...

Microsoft Demoes More IE9/IE10 HTML5 Capabilities

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Before the end of this month, a new flavor of Internet Explorer 10 should arrive included in the upcoming Windows 8 Consumer Preview that Microsoft is preparing for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Before that, however, those who chose to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on their computers can get the browser on their de...

Kinect for Windows-Based Apps Now Commercially Available

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On February 1st, Microsoft made available for download the final release of Kinect for Windows SDK, complemented by the availability of commercially available hardware. The release was meant to open new gates in the development of Windows applications that could take advantage of Hand Gestures and Voice Commands features th...

Bring the Carnival to Windows 7 with Masquerade Theme

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Carnivals are always reasons for joy, especially for those people who managed to take part in the action when all streets have turned into one large masked ball. This applies to some of the largest carnivals in the world, such as the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and the one in Venice. Both of them involve public cel...

Ben E. Keith Adopts Rugged Windows 7 Devices

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Ben E. Keith, one of the largest beer wholesalers in the United States, has just adopted Windows 7 for its mobile workforce. The world’s second largest distributor of Anheuser-Busch products, which sells over 38 million cases of beer a year, has tested a variety of devices to replace older, outdate mobiles, and finally decided tha...

Microsoft Patches Critical Vulnerabilities with February 2012 Security Update

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Today, Microsoft started to deliver a new security update for its users, solving a total of 21 vulnerabilities that have been reported in its products. The new security update includes a number of no less than 9 bulletins, four of which are deemed Critical, while the other five are rated Important....

Hotmail Is Down due to Sign-in Problems [Update: Issues Fixed]

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Microsoft’s Hotmail service is currently down and users cannot sign in into their accounts at the moment. However, Microsoft notes that they are aware of the issue, and that they are working on finding a solution for the outage. “We're aware of sign-in issues - we're investigating and working to get them fixed,&rdq...

Download Bullet Asylum and Chickens Can’t Fly Themes for Windows 7

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Two new games for Windows Phone have just made their debut, namely Bullet Asylum and Chickens Can’t Fly (the latter will go live in a few hours). People who don’t have a Windows Phone to take these games for a spin can still get a taste of the great visuals they have to offer via two new themes availab...