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  • TechEd 2006: Microsoft creates "Forefront" brand for security software
    June 12, 2006 – 10:09 AM
    The "Day Zero" keynote speeches from Microsoft's Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia on Sunday night were full of promises, including four that may become company mantras as the year progresses. But there was little specific product news besides the introduction of the Forefront brand for security solutions - among the missing items was any mention of "Windows Server 2007."
  • Microsoft details performance of Vista's SuperFetch, ReadyDrive
    June 15, 2006 – 11:46 AM
    Microsoft provided some more details on what may become one of Vista's most popular features - the performance accelerator "SuperFetch." According to first public demonstrations, the technologies can boost application startup times by up to 200% - simply by using Flash memory. Extra: See the demonstration in our Image Gallery
  • TechEd 2006: Microsoft demonstrates first PowerShell release candidate
    June 14, 2006 – 3:24 PM
    Microsoft today demonstrated the first release candidate of the Windows command line shell now called PowerShell. Software architect Jeffrey Snover revealed that it is a design goal for PowerShell to run as the command provider for all Windows administrator tools, including Microsoft Management Console.
  • TechEd 2006: Lonely? Spend some time with Microsoft's bots.
    June 14, 2006 – 11:59 AM
    In perhaps the clearest indication at TechEd 2006 that everything old is new again, yesterday, Microsoft demonstrated a new set of APIs that will be compatible with the company's Windows Live Messenger program, that will enable automated services to communicate to users using natural language.
  • TechEd 2006 Day 1 Slideshow: New features for Office 2007, flash acceleration for Vista
    June 13, 2006 – 12:54 AM
    We are wrapping up day 1 of Microsoft's 2006 TechEd Conference as Microsoft has provided surprisingly few details so far about its packed roadmaps for Windows Vista, its server variant and the upcoming Office 2007.
  • TechEd 2006: Microsoft's Sharepoint team 'LoBI's' for changes to Office 2007
    June 14, 2006 – 3:02 PM in Business
    Microsoft's giving it a try just one more time, this time with a lot of effort, enthusiasm, and, of course, nomenclature: It's making another try at selling the idea of letting enterprises extend the functionality of their Microsoft Office installations for business purposes. Welcome to the "LoBI." Get ready to make your selection.
  • TechEd 2006: Microsoft's high-end Office 2007 gets customization tools
    June 12, 2006 – 10:35 AM in Business
    This morning's key announcement at TechEd 2006 may be Microsoft's introduction of server-based application customization tools for Office Enterprise 2007, the high-end distribution of the company's applications suite.
  • TechEd 2006: New Windows Server minimum installation fits on USB key
    June 15, 2006 – 1:59 PM
    In a session Wednesday afternoon on ten classes of benefits administrators will see from Windows Server "Longhorn," Microsoft technical program manager Ward Ralston revealed that one installation option for Longhorn, entitled Server Core , will enable a command line-driven OS with just the basic services to be installed within a 500 MB footprint.
  • TechEd 2006: Vista will recover applications from shutdown, crashes
    June 13, 2006 – 11:26 PM
    Windows' reliability has improved dramatically with Windows XP and will take another step forward with its successor: Among the new features of Windows Vista is the Restart Manager, which will enable applications to be restored to their last viable state after shutdown - not only after a regular log off, but also following a system crash.
  • TechEd 2006: Windows Live team unveils new SDK, demos 'mashups'
    June 13, 2006 – 10:59 AM
    At an early morning session of TechEd 2006, representatives of the Windows Live development team showed off a new set of open developers' tools and SDKs available now from Microsoft's new Web developers' site, unveiled last Friday. Among the features shown is the ability for Web developers to quickly create "mashups" - aggregate, composite Web sites with very little development effort.
  • TechEd 2006: Longhorn's Terminal Services to run Office, Windows
    June 16, 2006 – 11:14 AM
    At a demonstration of new features in the latest beta edition of Windows Server "Longhorn", Microsoft revealed that the new version of Terminal Services will enable client computers to run full applications such as Word with distributed processing. Just the container application - the window - runs on the client, while the engine of the application runs through the server.
  • TechEd 2006: Office 2007 "ribbon" UI extensibility demonstrated
    June 11, 2006 – 6:38 PM in Build Your Own
    During the first unofficial day of Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference in Boston, we got a first idea how programmers will be able to embed their own .NET functions, such as from Visual C#, directly in the new ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007 - one of Microsoft's first applications ever to completely replace the venerable menu bar.

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