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If you missed out on Microsoft’s free Windows 7 upgrade for “qualifying” Vista users, there are still other ways to get it for cheap.  One of the ways is through student discounts. By ordering through here with a student email, you may be qualified to order Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade or Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for $30 (MSRB $120 and $200 respectively).  The only caveat is that those are digital copies of the OS, but you can get the disc version shipped for a fee.  Microsoft is sure offering plenty of ways to get the new OS for cheap despite the closing release date of October 22nd.

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I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 and what i found was that it was restarting over and over again. It restarted the server 8 times before i decided to look at the logs, it seems like it was having problems configuing the IIR Roles:

“Multiple Server restarts on Error with Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server”
and
“Application Server Role: Web Server (IIS) Role: configuration error – pending restart of the computer”

Solution:
It seems that you CANNOT have Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 installed before you install SharePoint 2010. I rolled back to a previous VM where i did not install VS2k10 and then ran in prereq install and everything worked.

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Apparent Corporation, makers of the popular Intelliscanner barcode scanners, has announced that their new Doxie document scanner is in private beta-testing and on track for release to the public in November, 2009.
Doxie is a USB-powered 600-dpi photo, document, and receipt scanner designed to integrate with a number of undisclosed Web and Mac apps. While I’m personally disappointed that Apparent didn’t go with the pink and white Good & Plenty candy color scheme, the Doxie is heart-friendly and comes emblazoned with a number of pink hearts. The biggest heart is on the single scan button, which is just visible in the top right of the photo above. I was shocked to find a mistake in the press release, in which they said there were 9 hearts on the device. There are actually 10: one above the “i” in the logo, 8 after the logo, and one on the scan button.A cool thing about Doxie is that it will automatically know when you’re trying to scan a photo, clean up the photo (straighten it and trim if necessary), and then politely offer to put the photo into your iPhoto Library, Flickr pool, or other web apps. As an Apparent spokesperson noted, the company isn’t interested in coming out with yet another piece of software to store your receipts and documents. Instead, they want Doxie to work with as many existing Mac, Windows, and Web apps as possible. One comment from the developers that may point to some rather unique functionality is that they recommend using Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Doxie will retail for $129, and you can sign up for updates and early release information at the new website, which went live today.

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With just a few months to go before launching the Windows Marketplace for mobile applications, Microsoft has published details on porting iPhone apps to its Windows Mobile platform. It’s a case study of the app Amplitude [App Store link], which lets users hear far-off sounds with ease. It’s a detailed writeup that takes readers through the entire process.

Microsoft will have quite a task ahead of them in this market, considering Apple’s considerable lead and foothold. However, there are many (to say the least) Windows Mobile devices out there as well as people for whom “Windows Mobile” means business.

It will be interesting to see if and how iPhone/iPod touch app developers choose to move their products to Windows Mobile. The Windows Marketplace for mobile applications is expected to drop between September and December of this year, as are Snow Leopard and Windows 7. It’s going to be an exciting autumn.

[Via Macworld]

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Activate Windows Server 2008 RTM (MSDN Subscriber Downloads version)
This weekend I downloaded and installed Windows Server 2008 RTM from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I was building a VPC image with that + SQL Server 2005 + TFS 2008 + Team Suite 2008 + Office 2007. Everything installed smoothly, but when I tried to activate Windows Server 2008 I received the following error:

And when I clicked on the “More Information” link, this popped up.

Um, OK. So what’s that supposed to mean? Read more »

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Microsoft is releasing its Vista replacement OS dubbed “Windows 7” today. A few months ago the Windows 7 beta was released for a few hours but hordes of early adopters crashed Microsoft’s servers. To remedy that, they extended the beta download period to two weeks. Rather than make the same mistake twice and force the world’s eager users to download the OS in a small Window, the Windows 7 release candidate will be available to download for three months until July. Not only that, the license is valid for more than a year, expiring on June 1, 2010 with no limit on the number of product keys you can obtain. This is a great way to try out Windows 7 for free and really sink your teeth into it with a year-long trial license. The release candidate is one release after the beta, but one release before the final release some time in 2010.

Get the Windows 7 RC and your free Windows key starting today through July and is available in 32-bit and 64-bit editions.

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Think this is impressive? Want to play StarCraft on your PS3 as well? It’s definitely possible. The requirements? You need to take advantage of your PS3′s little known capability to run Linux. Linux you ask? Yes, because that’s the only way to run Windows. Since StarCraft came out way back in the day when Windows 95 was king, that’s all you need to install on top of Linux through an emulation layer. Fortunately, the PS3 has enough horsepower to run Windows 95, even via software emulation, so StarCraft is actually playable. Just imagine it, playing StarCraft on your big screen TV! Read more »

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Those with messy and unorganized icons on your desktop now have a way to organize them.  Stardock, known for creating games such as Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations, has released a desktop utility named Fences that lets you draw boundries and labels to categorize icons.  The application is free to use, so I recommend all to give it a try.

Though the application explicitly warns you, double clicking on the desktop while Fences is installed will make all icons fade away.  Double clicking again reverses the process, so do not be alarmed if your icons suddenly disappear.

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After hours of zombie killing in Left 4 Dead versus, we are finally ready for valve to release new campaigns for versus.  Not only will this new update add two more campaigns for versus, the update will also introduce a new mode called “survivor.”
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