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Office 2010 – The Movie

robcost — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:33:55 GMT

Awesome work MS Marketing!!! This is what all tech ad’s should be like…

Live Mesh for MacOS & Mobile

robcost — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:34:45 GMT

Noticed on Nick’s blog we now have Live Mesh clients for Windows Mobile and MacOSX. Check out his full post here…

Live Mesh: MacOS, Windows Mobile | www.nickhodge.com

Or to get your mobile meshing straight away use your phone browser to go to

http://m.mesh.com

Technorati Tags: Live Mesh

Photosynth is cool

robcost — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:33:25 GMT

How cool is Photosynth!?!?! We come out with some cool technologies sometimes, and this is definitely one of them.

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BlackBerry Client for OCS 2007

robcost — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:53:34 GMT

How cool is this, now there's a OCS mobile client for Blackberry's.

Check it out here...

BlackBerry - BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

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Hyper-V Release Candidate

robcost — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:43:05 GMT

The Windows Virtualization Product Team have announce the Release Candidate of Hyper-V. Check out there post here...

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/03/19/hyper-v-release-candidate-is-here.aspx

From the article updated features include...

· Improved usability:

Partial localization support for Japanese and German.

Hyper-V Release Candidate is partially localized in Japanese & German. This means that when Hyper-V is enabled on Windows Server 2008 Japanese or German many of its text strings will appear properly translated. In other cases, text strings may still appear in English. Hyper-V will be fully localized in numerous languages at Hyper-V RTM...

Ability to enable Hyper-V RC on international locales.

The Hyper-V Release Candidate can now be enabled on international locales. (As opposed to previous versions which could only be enabled on an EN-US locale).

However, Hyper-V Release Candidate is only partially localized for Japanese and German. Thus, if you enable Hyper-V Release Candidate on any other language (such as Spanish, French, or Italian) it will appear in English. Hyper-V will be fully localized in numerous languages at Hyper-V RTM...

· Additional Guest OS support:

Hyper-V RC now includes support for Windows Server 2003 (x86) SMP

Hyper-V RC now includes support and integration components for Windows Vista SP1 (x86) and Windows XP SP3 (x86)

· Improved performance:

Hyper-V RC includes performance fixes for scalability and throughput for workloads

Hyper-V VMs using pass-through disks will see a substantial performance improvement over previous versions

Installing Hyper-V VMs via network (RIS/PXE/WDS) is greatly improved over previous versions

...and lots more...

Technorati Tags: Hyper-V,Windows Virtualization,Windows Server 2008

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Office Live Workspace beta hits Australia

robcost — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:27:37 GMT

Hot on the release of our Office Live Workspaces online services in the US, the beta of the service is now available for us here in Australia. :)

It only takes a couple of minutes to signup at http://workspace.office.live.com/. You can then start creating and sharing documents online.

Then install the Office Live Add-in and you can access and save to your Office Live Workspace directly from your Office Applications.

Cool stuff, check it out.

Technorati Tags: Office Live Workspaces,Office Live,Online Services

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Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM!!!

robcost — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:58:06 GMT

Today we announced that Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 have RTM'd (Released To Manufacturing). Cool hey?

You can get the round up from the respective teams blogs here...

Server 08 - http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/02/04/windows-server-2008-rtm.aspx

Vista SP1 - http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx

I'm really excited about the Windows Server 2008 release, especially with Hyper-V now not far from release too. NAP, TS Gateway, Server Core, this is a very big release!!!

For all the Windows Server 2008 goodness, check out the product site here...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx

Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1, NAP, Server Core