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Skype verschlimmbessert
Was passiert wenn man Leuten die Wahl nimmt und ihnen einfach neue Funktionen auf's Aug drückt, die komplett sinnfrei sind, versucht Microsoft diesmal wieder im Feldversuch, genauer gesagt am Messenger Skype. Mit der...
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A short Hands-on: Microsoft Surface 3 Pro
I have to admit, I'm a proud owner of the MS Surface 3 Pro running an i7 under its hood. It's my first Windows Tablet, so I do not have references to any of the previous devices. So I'm just giving my personal opinion...
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Und nun?
Wie vor etwa 16 Stunden bekannt wurde, wurde Mojang von Microsoft gekauft. Zugegeben, diese Neuigkeiten haben viele von uns mit gemischten Gefühlen aufgenommen und schnell noch eine Sicherung der aktuellen Spieldaten...
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Goodbye Windows 8
I'm fed up with Windows 8 on my Lenovo W530 and the troubles I am facing. To name a few: No support for the color calibration sensor by pantone, VMware vSphere only works with a few hacks (and doesn't show consoles),....
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MSSQL Emergency Mode
There are a few undocumented things about the MSSQL Server 2000 missing in the knowledgebase of Microsoft. That's a way to get a database marked as suspect into emergency mode: use[master] go execute sp_configure 'all...
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MS-SQL Recovery
There are two kinds of customers: The ones who do backups and those who didn't have data loss yet, ignoring all good advice and best practices. However, in the end it's always us, the IT crowd being yelled for to look...
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MSSQL vs Access via JET/ODBC
If you are dealing with a greater amount of records in a Microsoft Access database, it's recommended to use a SQL server as a backend database to handle those and get rid of unpleasant surprises. Usually those servers...
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Who's connected to my MSSQL server?
Today I was trying to restore a backup of our MSSQL server when a user decided to drive me crazy by not disconnecting after telling anyone that we need to do that restore. So I fired up the management studio and had a...
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Office Update helper
Recently I stumbled across a nice usability problem with Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 regarding some users who decided to upgrade from 2003. The main problem was the new ribbon navigation which is a complete new con...
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The second glance at Windows 7
I am running Windows 7 since a little while now and I guess it was my talent of finding all of the problems left on my machine at once. But hey, that's life regarding early adoption of such stuff as I couldn't wait to...
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The darned 7
I admit that I am not a fan of Microsoft at all - especially after struggling with Windows Vista. Honestly, I was quite close to threw out all of their software moving to Linux. But then I got a Beta of Windows 7 whic...
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Finally it arrived!
After one week delay, the third service pack for Microsoft Windows XP arrived. You won't believe it: It's even available via automatic update. But what's inside? First of all, it's a huge file being 313 MB which means...
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Update: Finally it arrived!
After the big download, I kick-started the installer and I couldn't believe my eyes: That service pack wants to have 1475 MB free space while installation - true, that number sounds scary, but it wasn't better with th...
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Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 3
Since Heise announced that Microsoft will release the Windows XP Service Pack 3 on the 29th, I didn't sleep too well, as I really want to grab it as soon as possible. Sure, I use Linux, but this doesn't mean that I am...
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Vista - What now?
Curse or cure? New or recycled? Who really knows... Anyways - I have checked the actual pricing for Vista. For my taste it is too expensive and I do not see any use for it by now - or is there a good reason for an upg...
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Long days
If the own AD crashes and the server is causing problems it gets late for sure - I'm off for today as it really was a longer one...
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Taming the beast
The Microsoft Internet Explorer wants to be nice to webservers and refuses to download more than two files at once, which can be quite annoying. If an alternative browser is not an acceptable alternative, you have to...
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P-Day
Der Microsoft Patch-Day hat uns wieder einmal ereilt. Microsoft selbst kündigte zwölf Security Bulletins an, welche uns auch in der Tat ereilten. Von diesen Updates wurden zehn als "kritisch" eingestuft. Verwunderlich...
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P-Day
Der Microsoft Patch-Day hat uns wieder einmal ereilt. Microsoft selbst kündigte zwölf Security Bulletins an, welche uns auch in der Tat ereilten. Von diesen Updates wurden zehn als "kritisch" eingestuft. Verwunderlich...
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Microsoft auf Einkaufstour
Wenn sich Microsoft auf Einkaufstour geht und sich meinen Lieblings-Tool-Programmiererschuppen schnappt, wie soll man da reagieren? Die Softwareschmiede hat unter Anderem Dinge wie den Process-Explorer, Autoruns oder...
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Microsoft auf Einkaufstour
Wenn sich Microsoft auf Einkaufstour geht und sich meinen Lieblings-Tool-Programmiererschuppen schnappt, wie soll man da reagieren? Die Softwareschmiede hat unter Anderem Dinge wie den Process-Explorer, Autoruns oder...