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EZDRM Inc., a global leader in DRM technology delivery, today announced the availability of their hosted Microsoft PlayReady DRM solution in the WindowsAzure.com Marketplace. The EZDRM add-on to Windows Azure Media Services provides customers with a the full feature set of Microsoft PlayReady DRM technology, thus giving customers the ability add DRM encryption and dynamically […]

With Adobe prepping a new release of their Flash development tool, it may be time for the return of the Flash plug-in. That combined with Microsoft preaching about the new ‘plugin-free Web’ for the last couple of years, clearly they do not believe that Flash is dead yet which is why IE 10 on Windows […]

Day 1 â?? Yeepie! We declare war to Technical Debt… Today is a great day. Everyone is now aware of the problem and truly believes that technical debt affects the velocity of teams, by decreasing the applications quality level (performance, ability to add new features, reliability of maintenance tasks, testability, maintainability, etc.). Everyone agrees that […]

Microsoft System Center Advisor, the best-practices checker for Microsoft Windows Servers was originally released back in January 2012 to which access to the suite required the additional purchase of SA, or Software Assurance coverage for each server being checked. Microsoft has broadened the list of servers to which their System Center Advisor is capable of […]

By offering a USB stick with a copy of Parallels Desktop 8 and Windows 8 Microsoft is helping Mac users to get a little closer to Microsoft. The memory stick was “free” after a $25 donation to your favorite charity, however the company stated that there is only a limited supply of how many, it […]

With the hopes of replacing C++ with what could turn out to be the holy grail of programming code, Mozilla and Samsung are now working together to create an all new and cutting edge programming language, currently dubbed RUST. However, Rust and its Servo testbed on GitHub apparently are now far enough along that no […]

The jQuery team is excited about the new environments where jQuery 2.0 can be used. HTML and JavaScript developers want to take their jQuery knowledge with them to streamline the development process wherever they work. jQuery 2.0 gives them the ability to do that in Windows 8 Store applications. We appreciate the help from appendTo […]

Microsoft is scheduled to begin the worldwide migration of the desktop version of Microsoft Messenger to Skype. Beginning with the English-speaking countries and working around to the Portuguese speaking countries with the entire process scheduled to completed by April 30 or about. No word yet on when Microsoft plans to retire Messenger on mobile, Windows […]

Via the Microsoft Support pages, they have announced that they will no longer be supporting Windows Phone 8 on July 8, 2014, followed shortly thereafter by the end of support for Windows 7.8 which will no longer receive support on September 9, 2014. According to Microsoft, Windows 8 platforms started receiving support earlier (December 14) […]

BitTitan, Inc. announced the availability of a redesigned MigrationWiz website, with a more intuitive web interface that streamlines the entire migration process- from configuring mailbox connectors to retrieving migration statistics. The new website provides consumers with detailed planning information to help them with preparation tasks leading up to a migration project. Users can now access […]

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