Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available

Posted by WinBeta on November 20th, 2008
The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to announce the availability of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta, which is ready for you to download through Microsoft Connect today!

As announced and demonstrated by Brad Anderson at TechEd EMEA 2008 earlier this month, Operations Manager 2007 R2 will deliver key new capabilities including cross-platform monitoring, service-level tracking, new and updated monitor templates (including process, OLE DB, NT Service, and Unix/Linux log file), and much more!

View Full Article: The System Center Team Blog

Microsoft’s mobile IE6 will require more powerful handsets

Posted by WinBeta on November 20th, 2008
Microsoft faces a tough sell with its latest mobile browser, Internet Explorer 6, since consumers will need to buy more powerful handsets to run it.

Microsoft, which announced plans earlier this week to launch IE6 with market leader China Mobile, has made no secret of the more stringent requirements. It has indicated the software won't be available to download.

View Full Article: InfoWorld

Xbox 360 Issues the Ultimate Worldwide Casting Call With the Release of You’re in the …

Posted by WinBeta on November 20th, 2008
Today, Xbox 360, Codemasters and Zoë Mode are bringing out the movie star in everyone for the holiday season with the release of “You’re in the Movies,” the first and only game of its kind that transports players into a magical world of cinema and hilarious improvisations. Using the Xbox LIVE Vision camera, friends and families choose a script, act it out and in minutes watch the often hilarious, always entertaining results.

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Mozilla says they’re set for bad times (and an audit)

Posted by BetaNews.Com on November 20th, 2008
Lean, not-mean, and sustainable is the way to take on the current economic climate and the Feds too, say Mozilla reps who posted the project's audited financial statements and tax forms for 2007 and gave a glimpse ahead...to today.

First beta tests of AOL mail synchronization

Posted by BetaNews.Com on November 20th, 2008
AOL has begun open beta testing of AOL Sync, a feature that allows Outlook contact and calendar updates to be synchronized wirelessly with a user's address book and calendar both in his AOL account and on his mobile device.

Will iPhone and G1 owners sit still for full-length TV shows?

Posted by BetaNews.Com on November 20th, 2008
At the "Future of Television Show" in NYC Wednesday night, top brass from NBC and MTV said their companies now plan to stream full-length TV shows to iPhones and G1s. But other speakers argued in favor of shorter clips for phones.

Microsoft’s IP chief: ‘Information wants to be free’ is a ‘disaster’

Posted by BetaNews.Com on November 20th, 2008
Blasting Google as, if not the perpetrator, then certainly the beneficiary of the failure of the online content industry, Microsoft's chief IP attorney called upon British publishers to bring about change they can believe in.

Google axes its Lively metaverse experiment

Posted by BetaNews.Com on November 20th, 2008
Not even five months into the project, Google's Lively Team announced that the gadget-based mini-metaverse will be discontinued at the end of December.

Zune Pass lets users keep some of their downloads

Posted by BetaNews.Com on November 20th, 2008
Microsoft announced today that its subscription music service for the Zune will now allow users to download 10 tracks per month to keep forever.

Europe’s ambitious ’single access point’ for cultural media provides porn

Posted by BetaNews.Com on November 20th, 2008
In an effort to build national and multi-national pride in the cultural, artistic, and literary products of Europe throughout its vast history, the EC this morning cut the red ribbon around Europeana, its central online library.

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