This is about to be huge…!
Microsoft Launches New Product Category: Surface Computing Comes to Life in Restaurants, Hotels, Retail Locations and Casino Resorts
First commercially available surface computer from Microsoft breaks down barriers and provides effortless interaction with information using touch, natural gestures and physical objects.
Surface Computing Website: www.surface.com
First look at surface computing: http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/first-look-microsoft-surfacing-computing/
30 May 2007
Surface Computing Comes to Life
25 May 2007
Introducing Windows Server 2008
On the topic of books… The Windows Server Division Weblog has details on the newly released about to be released book called Introducing Windows Server 2008
Here’s the list of chapters:
Introduction
Usage Scenarios
Windows Server Virtualization
Managing Windows Server 2008
Managing Server Roles
Windows Server Core
Active Directory Enhancements
Terminal Services Enhancements
Clustering Enhancements
Implementing Network Access Protection
Internet Information Services 7.0
Other Features and Enhancements
Deploying [...]
23 May 2007
More Step-by-Step Guides to read later
Step-by-Step Guide: Demonstrate DHCP NAP Enforcement in a Test Lab
Step-by-Step Guide: Demonstrate IPsec NAP Enforcement in a Test Lab
NZ charts to include legal download sales
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) announced today that the NZ music charts will include statistics from the various online music stores available in NZ. This includes iTunes Music Store, Digirama, Amplifier, and the Telecom and Vodafone mobile stores. I’d also like to see a separate chart for downloaded music as it would be [...]
¶16 May 2007
XHTML – Is it worth it?
I’ve just read through the validation tests that Pete McVicar put the NetGuide 2007 Web wards finalists through. Just one site passed both the valid HTML and CSS tests – Public Address. Pete criticises TradeMe for their use of tables for layout and Rowan responded with his own comments. I commented on Rowan’s site that [...]
¶WordPress 2.2 just released
Time to upgrade WordPress again as Matt tells us that 2.2 (Getz) has just been released. This seems to be more of just a bug fix release with a few minor features included. No built in tagging support yet as that has been moved to the next version, 2.3.
¶Reduced attack surface area
Jeff Jones (Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit) has written a post about Server Core and how its reduced footprint increases security dramatically. The key here is “reduced attack surface area” as all of the most insecure areas of a server have been removed, such as IIS, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc…
However, [...]
Foreigner’s view on internet access in NZ
I was reading Jon Udell’s latest post this morning who is was in NZ on a speaking engagement as keynote speaker at the Govis conference. He praises the beautiful scenery here, especially the drive down the West Coast from Picton to Greymouth, then crossing Arthurs Pass to Christchurch, which Deb and I did a few [...]
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