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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=0566rRzlOmkJ&imgurl=test.ecanadanow.com/Im_A_PC.jpg width=80 height=64 alt="" border=1> E Canada Now <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' bests Mac Baltimore Sun, United States - 24 minutes ago But the ads do succeed in diffusing the elitism of the Apple ads, says Michael Arrington at the blog TechCrunch. Yes, Apple has been outmaneuvered, ... The Microsoft Saga - Dropping Seinfeld and going back to the old. AdLand all 21 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services ZDNet Blogs - 5 minutes ago From News.com’s latest report: “In a follow-up interview on Monday, Windows Vista general manager Brian Hall said Microsoft made the decision to remove the ... More...

Hi, my name is Jatinder Mann and I work on the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) and Group Policy. Back in June, James Pratt and Jane Maliouta alluded to IEAK improvements for IE8. Today, I will be talking about the work we have done in this area. Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 Beta IEAK8 Beta is now available publically for everyone to try. To give you some background, the IEAK allows you to deploy customized packages and manage IE settings post deployment within corporations and among Internet Content Providers (ICP) and Internet Service Providers (ISP). For instance, Acme Corp could use IEAK to create a custom IE package for their employees that has Acme favorites, search providers, home pages, Web Slices, Accelerators, and more. We simplified creating, deploying and managing branded IE packages. We optimized the IEAK to help you build your customized IE packages more quickly and to allow you to configure and customize new features in Internet Explorer 8, like Accelerators and Web Slices. In this post, I will be talking about how the IEAK: Helps customize new features in IE8 Provides full language and platform support Builds IE8 packages more quickly and is more intuitive. Customize New Features in IE8 The following new features can be now customized via the IEAK8: Accelerators You can easily include custom defaults for Accelerators: simply point to an XML file for the desired Accelerator, or import existing Accelerators from a local machine. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/Acc.png Web Slices In the Favorites, Favorites Bar and Feeds dialog you can now add custom Web Slices by simply clicking on the Web Slice radio button and specifying the Web Slice information. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/FavBar.png http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/Adding_WebSlice2.png Compatibility View Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 introduces Compatibility View which is a significant enhancement over the “Emulate IE7” functionality from IE8 Beta 1. You can customize this feature in the Compatibility view dialog. Search Enhancements IE8 supports search providers which offer rich text and image suggestions; through IEAK 8 you can add search providers with suggestions and configure default search providers. Additional IE8 Features Many other IE8 features, like InPrivate Browsing, Developer Tools and Delete Browsing History, can be customized in the Additional Settings page available in the corporate license mode. For example, in a corporate environment you might want to encourage users to delete saved passwords; you can chose to have the Delete Passwords checkbox in Delete Browsing History checked by default. Similarly, you may want to turn off InPrivate Browsing mode by default. Build Your IE8 Package More Quickly Internet Explorer 8 Customization Wizard has fewer pages than the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard: you’ll be able to build your customized package faster now. Furthermore, we have redesigned some screens to simplify the overall flow of the wizard. Custom Components is a good example of this. Compared to the original screen, this dialog box now displays a list of custom components and allows easy addition and removal of items through a pop-up window. The IEAK7 Custom Components Screen: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/CustomComponents_IEAK7.png The simplified IEAK8 Custom Components Screen: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/CustomComponents.png Full Language and Platform support The IEAK8 Beta can build IE8 packages for all platforms and 24 languages supported by IE8 Beta 2. Please refer to the blog posted titled IE8 Beta 2 Available in 25 Languages for a complete list of supported platforms and languages. How does the IEAK apply branding? Customers have often asked me how the IEAK applies branding to IE. Branding in this case can be defined as any customization of IE, including all the customizations mentioned above. The IEAK generated IE package contains both the IE8 setup files (unless you are using the configuration only package, in which case IE8 would already be installed on your computer and you wouldn’t need the setup files) and customizations. The IE8 setup is used to install IE8. Upon restart, customizations are applied per user to the registry and branding files. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/Branding3.png The customizations are stored in the install.ins file found under the Custom or Signup folders in the Internet Explorer directory. The install.ins file contains all types of branding including IEAK and unattend branding. IEAK branding consists of ISP, ICP and corporate branding, while unattend branding consists of the manufacturer defaults. Branding is also applied when the user chooses to Reset Internet Explorer settings (RIES). This can be done by selecting Reset under the Advanced tab in the internet options dialog. RIES will apply the branding found in the install.ins file. If a user were to remove the install.ins file and reset IE, the branding step would get skipped. In IE8, RIES comes with a Remove Branding option; however, this option only removes ISP, ICP and Corporate branding; unattend branding will not be removed. We refined the IEAK in this release and look forward to your feedback once you’ve had a chance to try it out. Jatinder Mann Program Manager P.S. James discusses what's new in IE8 for IT Pros in his screencast here edit: modified first paragraph under "Build your IE8 Package More Quickly"; added P.S.; trimmed down the Compatiblity View section http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8958262 More...

Extensoft Unveils Artisteer - its Web & Blog Design Software at ... - Mass Media Dist <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Extensoft Unveils Artisteer - its Web & Blog Design Software at ... Mass Media Distribution LLC (press release), FL - 7 hours ago Artisteer runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista, is priced at $49.95 to $99.95 per user, and is available now at http://www.artisteer.com . ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 must appeal to geeks -- or else CNET News, CA - 8 minutes ago Windows Vista has been a tragedy on many levels for Microsoft. First, it was marked with compatibility issues and annoyances with its User Access Control ... More...

I have written about Neville’s post on the Desktop Search and noted that there were problems in his site when clicking on his post.He commented here that he actually had problems with his host. I checked on the site and it is now working fine. The post where you can find his tutorial video is [...] More...

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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=EOv5ku8dG6oJ&imgurl=images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2008/09/19/imapc_wideweb__470x260,2.jpg width=80 height=44 alt="" border=1> The Age <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's Coming Vista Ads Will Feature Other Celebrities Wall Street Journal - Sep 17, 2008 By ROBERT A. GUTH Microsoft Corp. said it will move Thursday into the next phase of its high-profile Windows Vista advertising campaign, in which comedian ... Microsoft drops Seinfield/Gates ad campaign Pocket-lint.co.uk all 446 news articles More...

Apple's latest iPhone 2.1 software update rights the wrongs of previous 2.x releases. Find out more in the SuperSite review! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Leaked screenshots suggest Windows 7 looks like Vista Inquirer, UK - 13 minutes ago A blog, ThinkNext.net posted the screenshots in a series of videos over the weekend. There's not much of any use there, to tell the truth. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Hot skills: Windows Powershell ComputerWeekly.com, UK - 6 minutes ago Powershell 1 for Vista was released alongside Vista in 2007. Jeffery Snover, one of the architects of Powershell, says it drew on the IBM AS/400 and Digital ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A Linux Zealot Examines Microsoft Vista TechRepublic, KY - 20 minutes ago So I thought it would be interesting for the open source crowd to get my initial reaction to my explorations with Windows Vista. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 beta shots leaked Absolute Gadget, UK - 10 minutes ago Blog ThinkNext.net appears to have got hold of some pictures of the Windows 7 beta. The blog doesn't offer much explanation, letting the shots - including ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=IIJS6BIWlIUJ&imgurl=www.itproportal.com/media/images/155/photo-magnifying-glass-.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> ITProPortal <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 beta screenshots leaked VNUNet.com, UK - 2 hours ago Screenshots of what is said to be the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system have been leaked onto the internet. The ThinkNext.net blog posted ... More Windows 7 Pics Appear On The Web with Embellished Paint and ... ITProPortal Windows 7 Leaking Like Crazy IT PRO all 4 news articles More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=IIJS6BIWlIUJ&imgurl=www.itproportal.com/media/images/155/photo-magnifying-glass-.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> ITProPortal <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> More Windows 7 Pics Appear On The Web with Embellished Paint and ... ITProPortal, UK - 3 minutes ago Chinese Blog Thinknext has published pictures of Windows 7 M3 Build 6780 - with videos to come next - which, at least for now, resembles more Windows Vista ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 beta screenshots leaked VNUNet.com, UK - 1 hour ago Screenshots of what is said to be the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system have been leaked onto the internet. The ThinkNext.net blog posted ... Windows 7 Leaking Like Crazy IT PRO all 3 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The New Adventures of Christine’s Old PC ZDNet Blogs - 3 minutes ago While I wouldn’t consider Christine to be completely helpless with PCs, I wouldn’t call a Windows XP to Vista migration a trivial task either, ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=lCtqiajxM88J&imgurl=asia.cnet.com/i/r/2008/crave/pp/63005811/windows7_400x300.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> Cnet Asia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A limited vista on Windows 7 CNET News, CA - 7 hours ago The blog ThinkNext.net has posted a large set of screenshots that it says represent Windows 7 M3 Build 6780, from the start menu and the control panel to ... Windows 7 beta screenshots leaked VNUNet.com New screenshots of Windows 7 emerge engadget all 80 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A limited vista on Windows 7 CNET News, CA - 4 minutes ago The blog ThinkNext.net has posted a large set of screenshots that it says represent Windows 7 M3 Build 6780, from the start menu and the control panel to ... More...

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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=sbhj-luENcsJ&imgurl=www.streem.com.au/s/media/images/articles/48d0376ea6185.jpg width=80 height=67 alt="" border=1> Streem <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Confirmed: Windows 7 coming in November Streem, Australia - 7 minutes ago Microsoft have also announced that they will design the new system so that all programs which currently run on Windows Vista will run on Windows 7. ... More...

I'm starting a reorganization of the site so that navigation will be topic-based. First up, a Zune activity center that aggregates all the content I've created about Microsoft's digital media platform! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 Leaking Like Crazy IT PRO, UK - 7 minutes ago The UX Evangelist blog promises truly unique Microsoft content, and seems to be delivering. While a screen shot of WordPad might not ordinarily be the most ... More...

I have reported about Microsoft’s 3rd Ads before and it was the start of getting away from the Seinfeld concept. It was reported that more celebrities are going to be in future ads of Microsoft namely: Deepak Chopra, actress Eva Longoria and musician Pharrell Williams.It would be an interesting series of ads.Share This More...

Gianfranco Lanci, CEO of Acer, said during the company’s 2008 global press conference that Windows Vista was a pain when it first came out but at this time is already stable — In an excerpt: “I think Vista, when it was introduced, wasn’t 100 percent ready, and wasn’t very stable. It was a pain point [...] More...