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RIM / BlackBerry buyout

#BlackBerry Number of interesting articles in the news over the last couple of days, with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft / Nokia looking at buying RIM. Could be interesting to see where this goes, especially with the fact that RIM licences ActiveSync from Microsoft already and the new BBx devices may or may not

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AVIcode Acquired by #Microsoft

I know it’s a bit late, but Interesting: http://blog.avicode.com/post/2010/10/06/From-the-CEO-AVIcode-Acquired-by-Microsoft.aspx … It is with great pleasure that I announce AVIcode, Inc. has today been acquired by Microsoft. Both AVIcode and Microsoft share a common vision about the evolution of application performance management and monitoring and the ever- growing need for organizations to gain 360-degree visibility into

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A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: June 2010: Part 2

#Exchange2010 ##*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Exchange and OCS Downloads from May 2010 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Documentation The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d1b4ce22-8312-4669-bd59-6b13528a833a Microsoft Outlook Live Connected Campus

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Amazon, Microsoft in cross-licensing deal with Kindle

More interesting news .. not sure about the Linux stuff Source: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/22/microsoft.deal.may.hint.at.courier.plans/ Amazon and Microsoft tonight agreed to a cross-licensing deal for each other’s patents. The deal gives Microsoft special access to technology behind the Kindle reader as well as Amazon’s implementation of Linux on servers. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, including what technology

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Microsoft to ship IE with Windows 7 in Europe

This is good news for us in Europe! Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090803/bs_afp/usitinternetsoftwaremicrosofteu SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft said it would not separate its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser from versions of Windows 7 shipped to the European Union when the new operating system launches worldwide in October. Microsoft said it had abandoned plans to strip IE from

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Exchange 2007 Self Signed Certificate

Couldn’t work out why my Outlook stopped working, then i worked it out .. the damm self signed cert has expired … (has it been a year already!) So my thanks Bharat for this: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/01/exchange-server-2007-renewing-self.html but I had to add some stuff to get it work properly!!! [PS] C:\PS>Get-ExchangeCertificate Thumbprint                                Services   Subject ———-                                ——–   ——-

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Microsoft Virtualization and Licensing Announcements

Interesting Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/19/449621.aspx Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange customers: Microsoft now supports Exchange Server 2007 SP1 running Hyper-V or hypervisors validated under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). Microsoft

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AstraSync – Activesync for Blackberry

I saw this on Jason’s Blog .. AstraSync is scheduled to be released in July 2008 at $49 for a one mailbox 12 month subscription. You can register your interest by filling in the form below. Once you have submitted your details our sales team will contact you to provide further information on the product

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Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines Microsoft Office and Windows Live OneCare

Interesting .. wonder if it will make it over the “pond”? and to the rest of the world.  Looks like a “budget” way of getting office to people .. still not “cloud” computing is it? Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-02EquiptPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases REDMOND, Wash. — July 2, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft Equipt, an all-in-one security and productivity

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