May 2008 - Posts

Up and running on Windows Server 2008
Well I just recently rebuilt my Power Laptop (Dell XPS 1710) on to Windows Server 2008. Why, you may ask? BECAUSE I CAN!!! Not really, I wanted to try and give the Hyper-V components a whirl and try out some of those features. However one problem I did Read More...
Posted 29 May 08 02:27 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Learning to Love UAC...
I know a lot of people get annoyed by the UAC feature in Windows Vista, but here is a reason to inspire new love for this protective prompt. " Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista 's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks Read More...
Posted 27 May 08 10:45 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Expanded Format Support in Office 2007
There is some great news coming out of Redmond today around some of the feature improvements being delivered via Office 2007 Service Pack 2, scheduled for the first half of 2009. Service Pack 2 will incorporate document support for XML Paper Specification Read More...
Posted 22 May 08 12:10 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza
Here is some great news, the first release of Moonlight to the public. Just to ensure that I dont elevate expectations at this point, this is just a source code release, and not a full and final release and Miguel mentions on his blog. But if you are Read More...
Posted 16 May 08 01:28 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Popfly Game Creator
Ok, so I admit it, I can play games, but am pretty lame at creating them... Here is my first attempt ever! This is built using Popfly Game Creator , its not new news by any means, but if you have not seen this then check it out, its very cool for anyone Read More...
Posted 13 May 08 06:19 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft Malware Protection Center - Security Intelligence Report
Microsoft recently released its Security Intelligence Report Version 4 on April 22 at the Infosecurity Europe event in London. This is no light reading folks, its a big report about 104 pages long, but there are some really interesting facts inside... Read More...
Posted 06 May 08 10:38 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog : Operations Manager 2007 goes CROSS Platform!
There is sometimes so much information to digest that you miss these announcements, so I am a bit late to the party, but this is awesome none the less. Announced at the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas was the new functionality for System Read More...
Posted 06 May 08 04:06 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Expression Studio 2 is out... now with PHP support!!!
Lots of things happening today... Got to admit, the branding of the Expression tools is really funky, however the tools themselves are equally awesome. Expression Studio brings together the various Expression products together such as; Expression Web Read More...
Posted 05 May 08 05:08 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Singapore Community Launch 2008
  Home - Community Launch 2008   On the 17th of May, the Singapore Professional's .NET user group, the Singapore Windows User Group and Singapore SQL Server user group are coming together to have their own community launch of Windows Server Read More...
Posted 05 May 08 04:43 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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