We’ve received great feedback from you on the release on our public beta of Windows Home Server Code Name “Vail” last month. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to give us your feedback and ideas. I’m happy to announce another update for the beta: starting today, German and Japanese editions of the Vail beta are now available for our international friends. Both the server and client components are completely localized into these two languages in this edition of the beta.
To download these versions, please go to http://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver to sign up for the download. You can also provide feedback through the Connect portal, which is used to log ideas and feature suggestions for future versions of Windows Home...
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For those of you who use the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool, we want to let you know that the Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 blockers will expire on August 24th 2010. After the expiration date, Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 will be offered through Windows Update on computers that had previously installed the block.
What is the blocker tool? The Service Pack Blocker Tool is provided for corporate customers and IT administrators. It is used to temporarily prevent a Service Pack from being offered through Windows Update. A Service Pack block typically expires one year after a service pack was released on WU. It is useful when client updating can’t be easily managed through Windows Server Update Services...
I’m very excited to share with this blog community, that our Windows Phone engineering team has hit a very meaningful milestone; one that we’re calling technical preview. We are certainly not done yet – but the craftsmen (and women) of our team have signed off that our software is now ready for the hands-on everyday use of a broad set of consumers around the world – and we’re looking forward to their feedback in the coming weeks, so that we can finish the best Windows Phone release ever together.
Before release of this milestone, the software has undergone extensive testing – in daily use by more than 1000 people at Microsoft who have been using WP7 as their only phone for the past several months, and the more than 10,000 devices in...
Jeremy Chapman who has contributed many pieces to this blog starts a multipart series on the benefits of using package based imaging tools.
Welcome to blog number one in the series of imaging and image composition. Last week, Stephen kicked off the series in the Springboard Series Insider Newsletter and I’ll try to get through this in three or four blog posts, but the nature of this discussion can almost be constituted as a religion. In that sense, there is never a perfectly correct answer. Like any good IT pro, when someone asks a question like what is the best way to do imaging, manage drivers, etc. – you’ll typically want to respond with “it depends.”
Before we get started, we need to define a few terms again around imaging...
As part of our larger effort to provide a safer way for children and families to use the web, we spent a lot of time thinking about how to best balance control with simplicity in the new version of Windows Live Family Safety beta. In particular, we understand that parents are facing new challenges around what information their children access over the internet, who they meet, and what kind of conversations they have.
With that in mind, we designed the new Family Safety to help parents empower their children online, while providing simple controls to monitor and protect their children when needed. We’re doing this by focusing on three core areas:
Safer social networking
Safer searching across all major search engines...
