Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft.

www.topix.net | 2/4/12 12:47 PM

Although the Windows Phone platform unquestionably represented a quantum leap forward in Microsoft mobile technology, underneath its slick interface and app support beats the heart of an outdated OS.

www.topix.net | 2/4/12 8:43 AM

The separate Security Update 2012-001 download for Snow Leopard users is breaking apps that depend on Rosetta, according to complaints .

www.topix.net | 2/4/12 6:39 AM

Avoid support costs by allowing users to seamlessly switch between wired and wireless environments, managing security settings, printers, home page and other location-specific settings automatically.

www.topix.net | 2/4/12 2:19 AM

If you're among those who received a free Samsung Windows 8 tablet from Microsoft at Build and have erroneously gotten a tax bill for it, Microsoft plans to make good on it.

www.topix.net | 2/3/12 10:09 PM

Welcome to the era of gestures via the Microsoft Windows Kinect. Talking with your hands is about to take on a whole new meaning.

www.topix.net | 2/3/12 5:55 PM

The Cocoon add-on for Firefox rounded up a bunch of highly useful security features and presented them to you in one tight package.

www.topix.net | 2/3/12 1:50 PM

You may need to delete all cookies and temporary internet files, and delete all sites from your Flash cache by using the Flash Player Settings Manager I've been having a terrible time today updating one of my virtual machines ready for the next round of testing that I need to do.

www.topix.net | 2/3/12 9:45 AM

Windows Phone 8 Preview - Thanks to a recent leak which has revealed some interesting information about the next major Windows Phone version, I can now publicly discuss Windows Phone 8 for the first time.

www.topix.net | 2/3/12 6:46 AM

We have a great deal on refurbished computers, presently two are ready to go out the door for only $199 each.

www.topix.net | 2/3/12 2:36 AM

EMAC announced a SODIMM-sized computer-on-module that runs Linux 2.6 or Windows CE 6.0 on a 600MHz TI ARM Cortex-A8 processor and can be purchased with a carrier board.

www.topix.net | 2/3/12 1:37 AM

I am working with the SQL Server Setup team as a Technical Writer. Had been with Microsoft since 2005.

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 10:27 PM

After installing MyODBC in Windows XP successfully there is not any entry for MyODBC driver in drivers list from administrative tools > Manage ODBC After installing MyODBC in Windows XP successfully there is not any entry for MyODBC driver in drivers list from administrative tools > Manage ODBC A problem in driver entry of the registre appears in ... (more)

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 8:22 PM

Despite our love for Windows 7, the latest Microsoft OS still isn't the #1 platform on the market.

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 7:22 PM

The news hit this week : "As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion objects in Amazon S3 .

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 3:17 PM

ViGlance is a nice utility that was designed in order to bring you the beautiful effects and the enhanced functionality of Windows 7 taskbar.

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 2:12 PM

This interoperability patch enables your SCDPM 2010 servers to be centrally managed using the Central Console feature available with SCDPM 2012.

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 10:03 AM

Viewers are a 3rd party component for Windows Embedded Compact 7. This release provides viewing capabilities for documents created using PowerPoint, Word, and Excel in Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007.

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 5:53 AM

Intermec announced a pair of Windows computers "designed to integrate with any forklift" and compatible with the company's "Vocollect" voice-directed work software.

www.topix.net | 2/2/12 1:29 AM

Is your shop burdened with old hardware, expired support contracts, an arthritic network, and pre-Columbian software? Sooner or later, something's gotta give.

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 9:19 PM

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www.topix.net | 2/1/12 5:14 PM

The decade-old OS has slowly been losing more users to Windows 7 , but January marked a small resurgence in its grip on the market, according to stats out today from NetApplications.

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 4:09 PM

The decade-old OS has slowly been losing more users to Windows 7 , but January marked a small resurgence in its grip on the market, according to stats out today from NetApplications.

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 4:09 PM

Dragging files or folders into the command prompt window automatically inserts the correct path of that object.

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 3:04 PM

Browsium has a new version of its 'get off IE6' tool that is no longer based on Microsoft's IE6 browser engine.

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 11:00 AM

Do you have a smartphone with endless fancy apps, widgets and special features? Or maybe you yearn for the good old days when things were simpler? If so, one developer has managed to bring operating systems of yore to HTC's Evo 3D .

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 6:55 AM

Good news. If you need support for Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows on AWS, Amazon is now offering support for setup, configuration and troubleshooting of system software.

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 3:50 AM

I am an IT nerd by hobby and these days by profession. What money doesn't go to my teeth and other living expenses inevitably goes into my computer.

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 2:51 AM

Those of us here at LockerGnome have all heard this story before. One of our relatives, friends, neighbors, associates, co-workers, or acquaintances tells us they saw an advertisement on TV - or maybe an advertisement on the Internet - claiming that [fill in the name of shyster company here] software will make their PC run faster, smoother, like ... (more)

www.topix.net | 2/1/12 12:46 AM

Linux is succeeding on many platforms other than computing desktops, but it's still true that many Microsoft Windows users are either switching to Linux or choosing to run it as a secondary operating system.A In many cases, Windows users are unaware of the benefits they can get from Linux, or don't know where to start in experimenting.A However, ... (more)

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 10:41 PM

Release Notes: A bug in the listPath() method that caused directory listings for sub-directories to return an empty list was fixed.

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 6:42 PM

The Windows 8 Developer Preview is just that: a preview of what the OS is expected to look and feel like once development is complete.

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 2:37 PM

Every developer knows how important a good bug report is, and every developer wants as much details about the issue as the user can provide.

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 10:27 AM

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL is a tool to automate migration from MySQL database to SQL Server.

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 6:18 AM

And here you thought Microsoft bringing Windows 8 to ARM was big news. Turns out, a member of the xda-developers forum has managed to make an APK that puts a variety of Redmond's x86 operating systems on the HTC EVO 3D and its 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon silicon -- Windows 95, 98, XP and even your favorite flavor of Linux are all available for the ... (more)

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 2:04 AM

And here you thought Microsoft bringing Windows 8 to ARM was big news. Turns out, a member of XDA-Developers forum has managed to make an APK that puts a variety of Redmond's x86 operating systems on the HTC EVO 3D and its 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon silicon -- Windows 95, 98, XP and even your favorite flavor of Linux are all available for the ... (more)

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 2:04 AM

Microsoft today announced it has kicked off a "technical preview" of the next version of its money-making Office suite and promised a public beta will ship this summer.

www.topix.net | 1/31/12 12:58 AM

If you've recently switched to Windows Vista or 7 from Windows XP, you may have noticed that the Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard is missing.

www.topix.net | 1/30/12 8:44 PM

At the same time that Microsoft is reminding users that time is ticking on to the end of XP support in April 2014, Mozilla has announced that in future it won't be able to support those on really old XP versions either.

www.topix.net | 1/30/12 4:34 PM

Built on an extended hardware platform that includes a PCI express expansion slot, this extremely secure, powerful new member of the Wyse Z class family is based on Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7. Like other Wyse Z90 family thin clients, the Z90DE7 combines the raw power of dual-core AMD G-series processors with Wyse's industry-leading ... (more)

www.topix.net | 1/30/12 2:24 PM

You have a web page in the root directory of the website, and you try to post a request to the Web/WCF Service through AJAX/Silverlight. You will possibly get "400 bad request" error for this Web Service or WCF Service call.

www.topix.net | 1/30/12 10:14 AM

This new 2D Graph ActiveX control, named DMGraph, is based on NTGraph drawing engine but eliminates the MFC dependency.

www.topix.net | 1/30/12 4:10 AM

If you're a Windows 7 user of a certain age, with cheap reading glasses stashed all over your home and office, this tip's for you.

www.topix.net | 1/30/12 12:00 AM

We can completely wipe and reinstall Windows 7, update, install antivirus, antispyware and other necessary utilities all for $130 . You can trust us as we have over 20 years experience and a very knowledgeable and trained staff.

www.topix.net | 1/30/12 12:00 AM

Emerge Desktop is a replacement windows "shell" for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray , called emergeTray.

www.topix.net | 1/29/12 5:46 PM

UniCurses is a wrapper for Python 2.x/3.x that provides a unified set of Curses functions on all platforms with syntax close to that of the original NCurses.

www.topix.net | 1/29/12 1:31 PM