Video demonstration of a service Microsoft is working on that basically combines Qik’s cell phone video streaming with Photosynth’s panoramic image stitching together. The new service will take multiple live video streams focusing on the same subject (as you might find at a concert), and stitch them together to create one large panoramic video.
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Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed?
ZDNet Asia By Charles Cooper, CNET News.com commentary Did Microsoft just serve up more fodder for the wits who direct Apple's lacerating series of Mac versus PC commercials? Microsoft should hook up with The Source by Circuit City IT World Canada Blogs Microsoft Retail Strategy Doomed to Fail DaniWeb PC World all 6 news articles |
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guardian.co.uk By Bill Rigby REDMOND, Wash., Feb 24 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp will maintain its massive research budget even as it sheds jobs and cuts costs to cope with a worldwide slump in demand for its software, according to the company's long-term research … Mundie shows off Microsoft’s latest gizmos Reuters UK Research on display at TechFest Seattle Post Intelligencer CNET News – The Associated Press – Wall Street Journal – ITworld.com all 105 news articles |
An anonymous reader writes “Microsoft executives have been telling the tech industry that if hardware supports Windows Vista, it will support Windows 7, but it now looks like that may not entirely be the case. According to CRN: ‘But after a series of tests on older and newer hardware, a number of noteworthy issues emerged: Microsoft’s statement that if hardware works with Windows Vista it will work with Windows 7 appears to be, at best, misleading; hardware that is older, but not near the end of most business life cycles, could be impossible to upgrade; and the addition of an extra step in the upgrade process does add complexity and more time not needed in previous upgrade cycles.’ And here is CRN’s overview of the difficulties Microsoft faces in asking enterprise users to walk this upgrade path: ‘Across the XP-Vista-Windows 7 landscape, Microsoft has fostered an ecosystem that now holds out the prospect of a mind-numbing number of incompatible drivers, unsupported devices, unsupported applications, unsupported data, patches, updates, upgrades, ‘known issues’ and unknown issues. Sound familiar? That’s what people used to say about Linux.'”
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Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed?
ZDNet Asia By Charles Cooper, CNET News.com commentary Did Microsoft just serve up more fodder for the wits who direct Apple's lacerating series of Mac versus PC commercials? Microsoft should hook up with The Source by Circuit City IT World Canada Blogs Microsoft Retail Strategy Doomed to Fail DaniWeb PC World all 6 news articles |
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2 winners in Fit vs. Prius
Windsor Star I must admit I was amazed by the fuel efficiency of the Toyota Prius: After nearly 600 kilometres of mostly city driving, I averaged an incredible 4.1 litres per 100 kilometres, just less fuel efficient than the 4.0 L/100 km city fuel economy Transport … Solar Powered Prius Hits the Red Carpet at the Oscars AZoCleantech The Toyota Prius is Great, Really! The Green p2p Test Drive … Seattle Post Intelligencer Automotive News – Pueblo Chieftain all 6 news articles |
In what can only be called “totally frakking awesome”, someone installed Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95. By using DOSBox, Polish developer Marcin-PRV was able to install the ageing operating system on the Symbian-powered smartphone, allowing both operating systems to run side-by-side.
snydeq writes “Microsoft Excel has a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are exploiting on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec. The problem affects Excel 2007 both without and with Service Pack 1, according to an advisory on SecurityFocus, and other versions going back to Excel 2000. The program’s vulnerability can be exploited if a user opens a maliciously crafted Excel file, allowing a hacker to leave a Trojan horse on the infected system.”
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Glyn Moody writes “The February 2009 Netcraft survey is not the usual ‘Apache continues to trounce Microsoft IIS’ story: there’s a new entrant — from China. ‘This majority of this month’s growth is down to the appearance of 20 million Chinese sites served by QZHTTP. This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain.’ What exactly is this QZHTTP, and what does it all mean for the world of Web servers?”
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christian.einfeldt writes “According to an article in Laptop Magazine on-line, one-third of Dell Inspiron Mini 9s netbooks are sold with the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Dell senior product manager John New attributed the sales volume to the lower price point of the Ubuntu Linux machines. And the return rate of the Ubuntu Linux machines is approximately equal to that of comparable netbooks sold with Microsoft Windows XP. Dell spokesperson Jay Pinkert attriutes the low return rate to Dell’s good communications with its customers, saying ‘We have done a very good job explaining to folks what Linux is.'”
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