[HOW TO] Refrain Access From a Drive or Folder in Vista

hi ! this is for those who might not be aware of this already ( in simple words newbies )

today a noob asked me on yahoo that how to simply stop someone from accessing a particular drive or folder ! without setting up parental controls on their User Account !

Well the first thing i said was to have Parental Controls Setup ! he said it might be that my parents access the Drive and they think that i hae some Adult natured Content !

So the Best thing to do is to Go to the Properties of that particular Driver lets say X: or a FOLDER Y , Just click on its properties and go to Security Tab, click on the USER want to set the permission of and click Edit ! Set the permission level as you want like Read only Etc etc..

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These screenshots might help:

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Here ends my small tutorial…

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July 29, 2008 · Filed Under Tutorials

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More than you ever wanted to know about Microsoft

Today, I came across an interesting article about microsoft in Guardian, so thought of blogging it, so it might help few people.

Here are few exerpts:

Getting one of Microsoft’s top managers to talk is achievement, but getting them all together in one room can mean only one thing: it’s Microsoft’s annual Financial Analysts Meeting (FAM). This is attended in the flesh by people from Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and so on, or virtually via streaming on Microsoft Investor Relations Web. And, of course, anyone can read the transcripts and download the slides afterwards.

The participants, a number of whom admitted they had no direct hands-on experience with Vista, said they were jazzed about Mojave and would definitely use it once it was released.

Microsoft Windows Vista WebCasts: On the GO

Microsoft Windows Webcasts are back, we have a season of wecasts Starting in AUGUST , Learn share and enjoy, webcasts give you a great realm to Learn. here is the schedule :

http://www.microsoft.com/india/webcasts/

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July 21, 2008 · Filed Under Microsoft, Other, Personal

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Microsoft seeks next big idea in Cambridge

Creates new unit aimed at innovation

CAMBRIDGE – Microsoft Corp. is reinventing itself, and it’s looking to One Memorial Drive for a dose of innovation.

That will be the home of Microsoft’s Boston Concept Development Center, a first-of-its-kind research unit that’s assembling dozens of engineers and designers and sniffing out technologies with the aim of incubating new Internet businesses within the company.

The center, more than 3,000 miles from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., is part of a bid to recapture the software company’s cachet in a new technology era increasingly dominated by competitors such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc.

The stakes are high for Microsoft and the Boston area. Boston software legend Ray Ozzie replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect in 2006. Ozzie has been pushing for a transition from the desktop software that accounts for the bulk of its revenue to the Internet services that are the wave of the future.

Now that Gates has logged out as a full-time employee, and Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Yahoo Inc. appears to have collapsed, spawning technology in-house becomes more critical.

If the Boston Concept Development Center can become a wellspring of innovation – in fields ranging from social networking to Internet search – it will spin out new businesses that can grow in the Boston area, where Ozzie, who developed Lotus Notes and still has a home in Cape Ann, spent most of his technology career.

Microsoft already has more than 800 employees in Massachusetts.

“Microsoft is making a big investment in Massachusetts,” said Reed Sturtevant, 51, the director of the Boston Concept Development Center, who worked with Ozzie in the 1980s at Lotus Development Corp. and joined Microsoft last fall. He’s spent most of his time so far recruiting. “There’s a huge amount of talent in Boston,” he said, “and the question is, how do you bring new talent into Microsoft?”

Working on cutting-edge research is one draw. While he talked only in general terms about some of the early projects his team is tackling, Sturtevant said one will involve “family ties,” adapting social software to help families communicate and interact. The software would run on everything from cellphones to screen savers, and keep track of family members through global positioning satellite technology.

Another will address “e-mail overload,” especially organizing and viewing less important messages. The center also will look for ways to improve search and “crowdsourcing,” the same technologies that have been driving the growth of Google and Facebook. Applications that connect people, devices, and software will also be a focus.

“The big question is what’s going to come out of this, and in what time frame,” said Laura DiDio, research fellow for the Yankee Group research firm in Boston. “Microsoft doesn’t have time to waste. You’ve got a very skeptical public right now that’s looking to Google or Apple for technology leadership, not Microsoft. This is sort of an effort to return to Microsoft at its roots, when it was young and edgy.”

That goal is reflected in the space the team will move into this summer at One Memorial Drive, an office tower looming over the Charles River outside Kendall Square. Construction workers are renovating two floors, connected by a bleacher-style staircase and open work area.

Sturtevant, who worked for the IdeaLabs incubator in the 1990s, served as chief technology officer for social networking startup Eons Inc. before joining Microsoft last fall. He reports to Jack Ozzie, Ray’s brother and his general manager for concept development.

“A little bit of distance from headquarters simplifies our lives,” Sturtevant conceded. That’s especially true at a time when Microsoft is seeking to protect its cash cows, the Windows operating system, and the Office suite of business software, while rolling out “live” Internet services supported by ads and targeted to consumers and small businesses.

The concept development center fills a void between Microsoft Research, which works on long-term basic research, and product development labs aligned with the company’s operating businesses, which focus on new features that can be integrated into Microsoft products. Sturtevant’s aim will be to test several concepts a year that can be commercialized whether or not they fit into existing products.

So far, Sturtevant has hired more than a dozen software engineers and designers, and is working to expand his core team to about 30 later this year. If the group is successful, Microsoft executives say it could grow much larger in coming years and serve as a model for concept development centers the company could launch elsewhere.

“We’d love to see the development center double in size in the next two to three years,” said Rupert T. Bader, director of workforce planning at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. “We see the Boston site as a magnet for talent from all over the East Coast. And we’re going to watch [Reed Sturtevant's] efforts closely to see how effective this is as a seed for other concept development centers we might open.”

Sturtevant’s team will be part of a larger, already existing Microsoft office at One Memorial Drive, next door to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that serves as the company’s Boston-area development hub. The office will also house the company’s first Microsoft Research lab in the United State outside Redmond and development offices for its SoftGrid virtualization software. Overall, the company is leasing more than 180,000 square feet on five floors in the 17-story building.

“This is a departure for Microsoft,” said Giles McNamee, founder and managing director of Boston investment bank McNamee Lawrence & Co., who was briefed on the development center. “In an organization that’s gotten as big as Microsoft, this is an attempt to foster entrepreneurial activity and get people excited about the next big thing.”

by : Robert Weisman

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July 3, 2008 · Filed Under Microsoft

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Microsoft to Acquire Powerset

We’re excited to announce officially that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Powerset.

Powerset has always been a small company with big dreams, with the ultimate goal of changing the way humans interact with computers through language. We set out to improve search by indexing Web pages based on the meaning expressed in them rather than just the literal words. Powerset licensed breakthrough technology from PARC, hired world-renowned computational linguists and search engineers, and recently released a search and discovery experience for Wikipedia articles. Our technology helps to improve search results and also makes new features possible, such as Factz, which aggregates information from many articles to summarize a topic.

With any startup, the challenge is to take the seeds of an idea and grow it into a viable company. At Powerset, we transformed our idea into a world-class semantic search platform, demonstrating the future of search with our Wikipedia search experience. But building a large-scale semantic search engine is expensive, requiring an engineering effort and computing resources beyond what most start-ups could ever imagine. Because our goals around improving search align so well, Powerset has decided to team up with Microsoft. We believe that this is the fastest way to bring our technology to market at a large scale.

Microsoft shares our goal to improve search through deeper analysis of queries and documents, and understands that our technology and expertise will play a key role in the evolution of search. With an existing search infrastructure, incredible capital resources, unlimited data, a leading search team, and clear mission to revolutionize the search landscape, Microsoft can rapidly accelerate our progress in building semantic search technology and bringing it to full Web scale. When we launched our first product, we heard: this is great, but when and how will we get Powerset to go beyond Wikpiedia? Microsoft accelerates our ability to move Powerset to the entire Web faster than anyone could have imagined.

Powerset will continue to operate much as we currently do, working in the same building, with the same organizational structure, and with the same uniquely talented and growing team (apply on our jobs page). We’ll continue to tackle the hardest problems in parsing, semantics, ranking, indexing, scalable computing, user experience and all of our other specialties. But now we’ll do it with the support of Microsoft and the vast resources of the entire Live Search team.

Over the past couple of years Powerset has made amazing progress. Starting with just a big idea, we licensed the best linguistic technology, recruited a top-notch team, built out our datacenter, engineered a world-class semantic search platform, tackled deep natural language issues, improved relevance, innovated an interface and launched a great product. So few start-ups ever tackle such deep, scientific problems successfully and create the kind of value we’ve delivered in such short order.

For now, Powerset.com will continue to host our Wikipedia Search & Discovery and we’ll be continuing to experiment with our product, based on user feedback. But, expect many announcements from us in the coming months about how we’re integrating our technology and features into Live Search.

by: Mark Johnson

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July 3, 2008 · Filed Under Microsoft

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