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Microsoft suffers setback in Open XML approval
Microsoft has lost a key vote in its quest to develop an alternative to the Open Document Format standard, backed by the open-source community. The executive committee of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) fell one vote shy of the nine required to approve Microsoft’s Open XML standard.
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Rand Morimoto – Microsoft behind the scenes: Morimoto has been at the worldwide finals in Seoul as a judge for the IT Challenge portion of the competition. Photos, videos and more tell the story of the networking feats students accomplished, including a no-sleep, 24-hour test. Could you accomplish the same task?
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Microsoft virtualization available today
While lots of attention is being given to Microsoft’s next iteration of virtualization, Obeto discusses the one available now, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
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Microsoft’s new Identity Management platform
Tyson Kopczynski, delves into the mysteries of Microsoft’s Certificate Lifecycle Manager. “Overall, I like CLM,” he reports, though he also has misgivings.
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SharePoint Site Backup Script
Noel’s got the low-down on the best way to create reliable Back and Restore processes – including an automated script you can download free.
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Best Practices of SharePoint design
How do you know how many SQL and SharePoint servers to deploy? Spence reveals best practices.
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