"Office 15" Begins Technical Preview

Microsoft announce that begin the “Office 15” Technical Preview Program. “Office 15 is the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office products and services, and the Technical Preview is the first time we share our work with a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreements. These customers play a key role in our development process by testing early builds and providing feedback, which we incorporate into the final release.

At this early point in our development cycle, I'm not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division. With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio. Quite simply, Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before.  

While the Technical Preview program is already full, everyone will have the opportunity to try the Office 15 public beta later this summer, and we'll have more to share about the release then. In the meantime, I do want to thank everyone who is participating in the Technical Preview for their contributions and all our customers for their continued support.

PJ Hough
CVP of Development, Microsoft Office Division”

It allows some version will available for any non-official wait. just looking for more news.

Uploading a lot data using single T-SQL query

You need a MS SQL database with a lot of data, and you have those data on separated file as a .csv file, then you could use a bulk insert to make this task using single query like:

bulk insert myDB..myTable from "t:\mydata\mydata.csv" with (FieldTerminator = ',', FirstRow =2)

Then the first part parameter of “bulk insert” should our table that need have a lot of data, the second parameter is the file with our data and the last parameter is the string used to delimitate. Think our data could be:

10,01:50,10,Place010,Room10,Printer0010

In this our sample our table will have six columns: ID,Hour,IDemp,Place,Room,Printer.

A sample file with 10.000 records can be found in: myData.csv

and sample to create the Database and table below:

/*Create myDB*/

CREATE DATABASE [myDB]

CONTAINMENT = NONE

ON PRIMARY

( NAME = N'myDB', FILENAME = N'T:\mySQL2012\DATA\myDB.mdf' , SIZE = 3072KB , FILEGROWTH = 1024KB )

LOG ON

( NAME = N'myDB_log', FILENAME = N'T:\mySQL2012\DATA\myDB_log.ldf' , SIZE = 1024KB , FILEGROWTH = 10%)

GO

/*Create myTable*/

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[myTable](

[ID] [nchar](10) NULL,

[Hour] [time](7) NULL,

[IDemp] [nchar](10) NULL,

[Place] [nchar](10) NULL,

[Room] [nchar](10) NULL,

[Printer] [nchar](15) NULL

) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

VMware Unity Mode

This is not new feature on Virtualization, it was introduced by Parallels on its version for MAC OS some time ago,

Microsoft introduce it on its called Windows XP mode for Windows 7.

And VMware also has this feature Unity Mode, and that is it, when Applications running on Virtual machines are access as transparent form from Real Machine.

This feature is present from VMware Workstation 6.5, look follow screenshot of some apps running on Virtual Machine, they looks a apps running on Real Machine.

17-year-old computer bug was patched for Microsoft

The main feature on software is the reutilization of components and this ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old programs.

Mr Ormandy has found a way to exploit this utility in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7.

You can read more on  BBC article: Microsoft to patch 17-year-old computer bug

Windows Integrated Authentication in Firefox

We are using intensively SharePoint and we are not like use IE (Internet Explore) to access it.

We like access using Firefox, but all time it requests us the Windows Authentication.

Could we integrate Windows Authentication in Firefox? the answer is yes, Firefox has its configuration page some hide. but we will use to it.

In address bar enter about:config

Click I’ll be careful, I promise! in This might void your warranty! page

In filter enter network.automatic

Double click network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

And enter the URL for which you like to enable integrated Authentication. In order to enter multiple URLs, separate them by commas.

Click OK

And that is it

Next time the Firefox will not request your account

Windows 7 will be available in...

The official Windows blog gives the GA (General Availability) date for Windows 7, this OS will be come the successor of Vista.

And the date for it is:

October 22nd.

The most interesting features for this OS is the Virtualization tool with fetures similar to Citrix, when the applications of Virtual machines could be executed as Windows in Real Machine Desktop

Bing.com is live...

Bing the new search engine of Microsoft is now live... and really it will become the substitute of live search...

At the moment the results are very fast and the information more useful, a little more organize that google.

Some nice features are:

• History of search in left panel


• History image in left panel for image search


• The background image will change every day


• It will be define version for USA and beta for rest of world