In the video, Jason Zander demos some of the improvements made in the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) —and on quite a modest (in terms of hardware specs) laptop PC:

Did you know you can use your Zune wireless remote, to control your Windows Media Center PC? Here’s a registry hack to get you going: 1. Open registry, scroll down to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da 2. Find REG_DWORD named CodeSetNum0 and change the value to Zero 3. Reboot the PC and enjoy. By default, Windows listens to channel [...]

With opening ceremonies of 2010 Winter Olympic Games scheduled for Friday, Microsoft Silverlight, MSN and Bing teams have worked with NBCOlympics.com to deliver Games to online audience. Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform Web plug-in, and Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming technology, will power interactive online player. “For the first time for an Olympic Winter Games, NBC [...]

If you do want to learn how to build applications using The Bing Maps Platform, here’re few book for you: Nicolas Boonaert’s “Bing Maps - Guide complet de la cartographie interactive (Broché),” Chandu Thota’s book “Programming MapPoint in .NET” or Microsoft Research’s (and former MapPoint Technical Evangelist) B.J. Holtgrewe’s “MapPoint for Dummies.” Boonaert’s book is [...]

Microsoft made improvements in Office Outlook 2010 that will bring to the table the evolution of IMAP accounts. “Outlook 2010 introduces a range of improvements including automatic configuration, better deleting, full message download, and boosted performance. If you’ve an e-mail account that supports IMAP, your account can be automatically configured in Outlook 2010. All you [...]

PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V is a rather self-explanatory label for any project, and to little surprise, it delivers just what it promises, namely a PowerShell management library for Microsoft’s hypervisor role in Windows Server. “This update from the RC version contains more changes than would be normal , hence it is designated as “Gold” [...]

Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters project have put up the sample code for a Hyper-V ActiveX RDP control. What this allows you to do is to create a Remote Desktop connection directly to the virtual machine (not to the guest operating system) in exactly the same manner as when you are using the Virtual [...]

System administrators rarely have it easy when it comes down to managing complex infrastructures with large numbers of computers. However, a small component included by default into both Windows client and Windows Server operating systems is designed specifically to streamline management tasks for admins. With the advent of the latest iteration of Window…

This post aims to simplify your protection tasks by automating the process of adding new VMs that’re added in your primary DPM server, to be protected on the secondary DPM server as well. By using the informationt, you should be able to quickly put together a script that can enable the auto protection of your [...]

The video by Barton Smith, appears to be a prototype UI for a conceptual “Locus OS” – described as a “location-based operating system”. What makes it special is that, it appears to be Microsoft branded. Video itself presents some very interesting concepts, the main focus of which’s a multiple “desktop” arrangement that’s location-aware – giving [...]