Tag: Microsoft
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Microsoft goes WiFi
It looks like MS is following Google by setting up a municipal WiFi (Google News). It seems that (at least to me) Google has really started a push away from the desktop that is bound to a single location and now MS is following. If you think about it, it’s to MS’s advantage to do…
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Photosynth up and running
If you have Vista (already??) or XPSP2 and IE, you can give it a try here. I can only imgine how cool this would be (I know, I’m calling something from the Evil M cool… hey they get things right now and again) if someone could make a mashup of this technology, Local Live/Google Earth…
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Vista won’t need AV?
Not according to Jim Allchin, it seems that there is a “security through obscurity” (nee “Address Space Layout Randomization”) layer in the OS that should help protect the OS and the kernel. This doesn’t mean that there won’t ever be a Norton256 for the OS (or whatever version they are on by then) as people…
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Vista to open Jan 30th
According to what Engadget is saying. Businesses (and BitTorrent) will see it on the 30th of November.
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MS Local Live vs Google Earth
It looks like MS is putting up a bit of a fight when it comes to mapping tools, but classically it’s Windows/IE only. It’s not as nice or as detailed as Google’s take but another solution (even from MS) is always welcome There is also a 3D plugin that while it seems to take forever…