Microsoft has started showing select customers the next version of its flagship office suite, code-named Office 15.

The company said on Monday that the Office 15 technical preview was being shared under non-disclosure agreements, with the customers testing early builds and giving Microsoft feedback on their experiences.

“At this early point in our development cycle, I’m not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division,” Microsoft Office development chief PJ Hough said in a blog post. “With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio.”

Hough’s announcement coincided with Microsoft’s publication of the SharePoint 15 technical preview managed object model software development kit (SDK), for those on the technical preview programme.

Microsoft Office 15 is still something of a mystery though, as very little information has been released so far.

Source: ZDNet

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Microsoft has given further details on how its app and games marketplace, called Windows Store, will work in the upcoming Windows 8 platform.

The tool is designed for downloading Windows 8 apps that use the Metro interface on tablets and PCs. Unlike Apple’s iTunes App Store, it does not handle mobile apps, as these are distributed for Microsoft OS-based handsets via the Windows Marketplace.

Windows Store, which is expected to arrive alongside the Windows 8 beta in late February, has been designed to put content in front of people rather than making them search for titles, according to Jonathan Wang, a program manager at Microsoft. “On the Store landing page, we will continually feature new and exciting content, changing frequently so that customers come to expect there’s always more to explore within the store. The landing page integrates featured content with navigational content — like categories and lists of featured apps,” Wang wrote in a blog post on Friday.

Source: ZDNet

The Resilient File System (ReFS) will make its first appearance as a storage system in Windows Server 8, after which it will evolve into a system for client storage, then ultimately for boot volumes.

On Monday, Microsoft used a post on its Building Windows 8 blog to lay out details on ReFS.

“Along with Storage Spaces, ReFS forms the foundation of storage on Windows for the next decade or more,” Microsoft development manager Surendra Verma wrote. “We believe this significantly advances our state of the art for storage… we expect that we will see ReFS as the next massively deployed file system.”

The “staged evolution” of ReFS, beginning with its use as a file server, is the same approach Microsoft has taken with previous file systems.

According to Verma, ReFS has many of the same features and semantics as NTFS, which was introduced in 1993. These include “BitLocker encryption, access-control lists for security, USN journal, change notifications, symbolic links, junction points, mount points, reparse points, volume snapshots, file IDs and OpLocks”. If a file-access API can access an NTFS volume, it will be able to access data stored on ReFS. What has changed is the on-disk storage engine underneath the reused code.

The ReFS engine exclusively uses the so-called B+ tree structure to represent stored information. Verma indicated this will mean a simpler system, with the choice of structure designed to be as scalable as possible. When ReFS is used alongside mirrored Storage Spaces, corruptions will be “automatically and transparently fixed”, Verma added, noting that ReFS also had a ‘salvage’ feature for making sure that non-repairable corruption does not affect the availability of “good data”.

Responding to readers’ questions about the blogpost, Verma also stressed that Windows 7 users would be able to read ReFS-formatted partitions from a Windows 8 Server, either by using a new file system driver or by sharing a folder out from the server. “Note that support for NTFS is going to be present in Windows for the foreseeable future, so you should always be able to access all your NTFS data across versions without any problems,” he added.

Source: ZDNet

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There are many posts about installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a Windows 7 PC but this is my own personal experience and shows how I had to overcome quite a few hurdles before getting SharePoint installed and running on my own copy of Windows 7.

First up, this installation is for testing purposes only. So keep in mind that this is just a standalone environment for developing SharePoint solutions and is not meant to be a full scale production platform.

This installation requires that you use a 64 bit operating system – either Windows 7 or Windows Vista.

I do not want to regurgitate the many blog posts and sites that breeze through the installation of SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7 or Vista. In fact I found the Microsoft article on installing SharePoint perfectly suitable as long as you know your DOS commands. Check it out for yourself – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869%28office.14%29.aspx.

The Prerequisites

However, before you can even start to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 you must download and install a number of so called prerequisites. You cannot use the built in prerequisite tool because the default installation works only for Windows Server 2008. This means you have no choice but to install the prerequisites manually.

If you are using Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Windows Vista Service Pack 2, you must install the following prerequisites:

1. .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
2. Windows PowerShell 2.0
3. Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable

If you are using Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, or Windows 7, install the following additional prerequisites:

1. Microsoft FilterPack 2.0. This can be installed by opening a command prompt and typing the following: c:\SharePointFiles\PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\FilterPack\FilterPack.msi.

(To open a C: prompt – Click Start and type command into the search programs and files search box. Right click the Command Prompt at the top of the search result and select Run as administrator.)

2. Microsoft Sync Framework
3. SQL Server Native Client
4. Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405)
5. WCF hotfix (KB971831) for Windows 7
6. ADO.NET Data Service Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Required Windows Features

Next enable each of the required Windows Features. The quick way to do this is by copying and running the following command in a Command Prompt window.

start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;^
IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;^
IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;^
IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;^
IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools;^
IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;^
IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;^
IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;^
IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;^
WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation;^
WCF-NonHTTP-Activation

After Running the Code

Once you’ve copied and pasted the above code make sure all prerequisites are met and no critical error is present in your computers event logs.
If you have any problems installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 from here on check that all the required Windows Features are enabled.

The command in the previous step enables all of the required features in the Internet Information Services section of the Windows Features dialog box (which you can access through the Programs section in Control Panel).

The Installation

When all the above downloads are installed download SharePoint Foundation 2010. From the Microsoft website – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595

Place the SharePointFoundation.exe file into a folder on your C drive named SharePointFiles i.e. C:\SharePointFiles

Now you have to extract the SharePointFoundation.exe program files so you can access and amend a single configuration file.

To do this open a C: prompt – Click Start and type command into the search programs and files search box. Right click the Command Prompt at the top of the search result and select Run as administrator.

Here’s where some people have a problem as you are usually dumped at C:\Users\Name and you need to be at C:\. Just type CHDIR.. to move up a rung and CHDIR.. to end up at the C:\ prompt.

Now copy the entry below and paste it immediately after the C:\ prompt.

SharePointFiles\SharePointFoundation /extract:c:\SharePointFiles

This assumes SharePoint Foundation is installed and placed on your C: drive in a folder called SharePointFiles and is named SharePointFoundation.exe, otherwise you need to change paths accordingly.

Once the files are extracted go to the c:\SharePointFiles folder and you will see a list of files.

Open the Files folder and then the first Setup folder and right click on the config.xml file and select Edit. This will open the configuration file in Notepad.

Now add the following setting Id as the last entry before:
</Configuration>

<Setting Id=”AllowWindowsClientInstall” Value=”True”/>

This line of code above gets SharePoint Foundation 2010 to install on a 64 bit edition of Windows.

The entire config.xml file should look something like this:

<Configuration>
<Package Id=”sts”>
<Setting Id=”SETUPTYPE” Value=”CLEAN_INSTALL”/>
</Package>
<DATADIR Value=”%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Data”/>
<Logging Type=”verbose” Path=”%temp%” Template=”Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Setup *.log”/>
<Setting Id=”UsingUIInstallMode” Value=”1″/>
<Setting Id=”SETUP_REBOOT” Value=”Never” />
<Setting Id=”AllowWindowsClientInstall” Value=”True”/>
</Configuration>

Now save and close the Notepad file.

Once you’ve completed all the above steps go back to the SharePointFiles folder and run the setup.exe program to install SharePoint Foundation 2010.

On the Choose the installation you want page, click Standalone to install everything on one developer workstation. After the installation is complete, you are prompted to start the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

Once the installation is complete you should see the Central Administration page.

Blank Pages and the Solution

This is the next potential problem, as I got a blank page at this point. Even after a reboot and going to Start/All Programs/Microsoft 2010 SharePoint Products and clicking on SharePoint 2010 Central Administration I still got a blank page.

After some online research I found that this problem is to do with the setup of host names and/or problems with the loopback check.

According to Microsoft there are two methods to work around this blank page issue and you should use one of the following methods – the one that’s most appropriate for your particular set up.

Method 1: Specify host names (The preferred method if NTLM authentication is desired)

To specify the host names that are mapped to the loopback address and can connect to Web sites on your computer, follow these specific steps:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0

Right-click MSV1_0, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value. Type BackConnectionHostNames, and then press ENTER.

Right-click BackConnectionHostNames, and then click Modify. In the Value data box, type the host name or the host names for the sites that are on the local computer, and then click OK.

Quit Registry Editor and then restart your PC to see if you can log in to SharePoint Central Administration.

Method 2: Disable the loopback check (less-recommended method)

The second method is to disable the loopback check by setting the DisableLoopbackCheck registry key.

To set the DisableLoopbackCheck registry key, follow these steps:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.

Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.

Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.

If you now get a log in page that will not accept your windows password this last step should help.

First go to User accounts and make sure you have a password set for your Administrators account. If not create one and then restart your PC.

Now run the SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard again and try to open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

Password not Accepted

If you now get a log in page that will not accept your windows password this last step should help.

First go to User accounts and make sure you have a password set for your Administrators account. If not create one and then restart your PC.

Now run the SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard again and try to open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

If your password is still not accepted you will need to enable Basic Authentication under the sites section of Internet Information Services (IIS). To do this open Internet Information Services (IIS) and expand the Sites section. If you do not know where to find IIS just copy Internet Information Services and paste it into the Windows Search programs and files box. Click on the resulting link.

In the left hand column of IIS click the arrow to open up Application Pools and the Sites folder. Open the Sites folder and select SharePoint Central Administration and click on Authentication under the IIS Group in the right hand panel. Next on the Authentication screen enable “Basic Authentication” by right clicking and selecting Enabled.

Now restart your PC and see if you can now log in. If not run the SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard again. And then try to open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

By following all these steps I was finally able to get SharePoint Foundation 2010 set up as a testing server on my 64 bit Windows 7 Professional PC.

The only downside is that I now have to log in every time I start up my computer!

P.S. This whole process with pictures and an even fuller explanation is available as a Free eBook.

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Windows 8 will include a smartphone-style reset-to-factory-defaults function, along with a way to reinstall the Operating System without deleting certain apps and settings.

Microsoft said on Wednesday that the Windows 8 reset function would be useful for those decommissioning or recycling PCs, and the refresh function would help people whose PCs are “not working their best” but who do not want to have to back up all their data and reinstall from scratch.

“Today, there are many different approaches and tools to get a PC back to factory condition,” Microsoft program manager Desmond Lee wrote in a blog post, listing manufacturer-provided tools, third-party imaging products, Windows system image backup and a clean reinstallations. “While these tools all provide similar functionalities, they don’t provide a consistent experience from one PC or technique to another,” Lee said.

“As we began planning for Windows 8, we asked ourselves: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if you could just push a button and everything is fixed?’” According to Lee’s post, the bootable Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) in Windows 8 will offer the option of erasing and formatting the Windows and personal data hard-drive partitions, and automatically installing a fresh copy of Windows. The PC will then restart with the newly cleansed system.

There will also be an option to “thoroughly” delete data while performing the factory reset. This option will “write random patterns to every sector of the drive, overwriting any existing data visible to the operating system”, Lee said, while conceding that well-resourced people could theoretically still recover data from the drive afterwards.

Source: ZDNet

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Microsoft’s IE 9 could soon be the third most popular web browser, in spite of the fact that it’s only available on Windows 7 and Vista.

According to NetApplications figures for browser market shares, published on 1st January, IE9 now has 11.48% of the global market, and is closing in on second-placed Firefox 8, which has 12.28%. However, IE8 remains the market leader, with a 27.43% market share, as measured by logging visits to web sites by personal computers.

The December rankings are skewed because Google is currently upgrading users from version 15 (8.71%) to version 16 (7.07%) of its Chrome browser. Since Google more or less forces upgrades, Chrome 16 should soon have a market share of 16+ percent putting it in second place, ahead of both IE9 and Firefox 8.

Microsoft took a big risk by not developing a version of IE9 for the decade-old Windows XP operating system, which still has a large market share. XP users could easily defect to Chrome or Mozilla Firefox instead of upgrading to Windows 7. However, Microsoft decided to bet on the rapid development of IE9, IE10 and future versions rather than invest in XP, which is clearly in terminal decline.

Source: ZDNet

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The UK recession continues taking its toll on businesses and individuals alike. Many computer owners are probably now very cautious about buying a replacement desktop or laptop when their current one is still working, albeit somewhat sluggishly.

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The Kindle is also smaller and lighter than its bigger brother and you will find the display screen to be sharp and natural with no glare or back light. Reading on Kindle is nothing like reading from a computer screen. Kindle can be read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room!

Kindle automatically detects nearby Wi-Fi networks at school, home, or at your favourite café. Arriving at an hotel or café that requires a password? Simply enter the password and connect to the network. Once you have added a Wi-Fi network, Kindle will automatically connect to that network the next time you’re near the hot spot.

Access the Kindle Store wirelessly right from your Kindle – search and shop from the world’s largest selection of books that people want to read, plus magazines, newspapers and blogs. Add annotations to text, just like you might write in the margins of a book, with a virtual keyboard that appears just when you need it. And because it’s digital, you can edit, delete, and export your notes.

You’ll never need to bookmark the last place in the book you were reading, because Kindle remembers where you finished, and will always open to the last page you read.

With the biggest selection of any eBook store in the UK, the Kindle Store lets you shop for more than 900,000 books, including bestsellers and new releases. You will also have access to UK and international newspapers, magazines and blogs, plus more than 1 million free books, such as Pride and Prejudice and Treasure Island. Amazon auto-deliver all your purchases in a matter of seconds – simply search, buy, and you’re ready to read.

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Microsoft has issued its final Patch Tuesday release of 2011, with 14 bulletins, covering 20 vulnerabilities.

After a number of small releases, Microsoft has given IT departments an early Christmas present of three critical and 11 important bulletins.

The critical security holes affect Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, although only one affects the latter. Both Windows Server 2003 and 2008 are vulnerable, although the latter is only affected by one flaw.

“Five of the ‘important’ bulletins affect Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 including all Office versions for Macintosh as well,” explained Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer at Qualys, who described this month’s Patch Tuesday as “significant” in his blog post. “One of the remaining bulletins addresses Internet Explorer 6 through 9 and the remaining bulletins apply to all versions of Windows.”

A total of 10 could allow remote code execution, which will worry any IT departments wary of talented, malicious hackers.

Microsoft will release the bulletins on 13 December. To view the whole advisory, head to Microsoft’s Tech Net.

Source: IT Pro

Google Chrome has now captured some 25.7% of web traffic. Firefox now slightly lags behind with a 25.2% share of the worldwide market.

Measuring such things online is an inexact science, and other analysts offer slightly different assessments. But all agree on the trends, prompting questions over Firefox’s chances of keeping pace with two fiercely competitive commercial rivals.

Google’s only remaining superior in market share terms is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the leader of the browser pack now on 40.6%.

When Google released Chrome in late 2008, Mozilla’s Firefox was the only serious rival to Internet Explorer, and for a year that remained true. Firefox’s market share peaked around November 2009, when more than 32% of web traffic came from its users. Since then the trend has been downwards, at an ever accelerating speed.

The force behind Firefox’s decline is clear enough. Soon after its peak, Google began aggressively promoting Chrome, which had mainly been used by only the early adopters and developers. Its alleged speed advantage was advertised on billboards and television, and crucially, users of Google’s dominant web search engine were encouraged to download and use it.

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Google Chrome has finally overtaken Mozilla Firefox to become the second most popular web browser in the world, according to new statistics.

Chrome has only been available for three years, but now has a 25.7% share of the global market, according to StatCounter, compared to Firefox’s 25.2%.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer remains way out in front with a share of 40.6%, but it’s expected that Chrome will continue to close the gap.

“We can look forward to a fascinating battle between Microsoft and Google as the pace of growth of Chrome suggests that it will become a real rival to Internet Explorer globally,” said Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of StatCounter. “Our stats measure actual browser usage, not downloads, so while Chrome has been highly effective in ensuring downloads our stats show that people are actually using it to access the web also.”

Chrome became the number two browser in Britain in August, although it has a larger gap to close on Internet Explorer than the global average. Some 42.8% of Britons online currently use Microsoft’s browser, according to StatCounter, compared to 45% in August.

The Windows Desktop is an easy place to dump downloads, documents, program links and random folders but the clutter can soon build up.

In fact, the more you clutter your Windows Desktop the harder it gets to find anything you really need, which can lead to frustration. A badly cluttered Desktop could even hamper your computers performance a bit – especially if you are still running Windows XP.

With the likes of Windows 7 its best to sort your files into appropriate Libraries or create a new Library to store specific files and data in. Take a look at my article – Making full use of Windows 7′s Libraries.

Create just one or two folders on your desktop for work or personal files which you can easily browse, sort and move. If you have fewer Desktop items on display you will find it is much easier to locate things and may notice a slight improvement in the responsiveness of your Desktop.

The Samsung 24 inch Widescreen LCD Full HD Monitor has a response time of only 5ms and I should know as I currently own this make and model. The speed is fast enough to allow this monitor to perform perfectly, even in the fastest moving scenes.

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