Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Google Scholar beta
- The Google Scholar beta is a terrific search tool for students, teachers, scientists, librarians, and journalists seeking articles within established academic journals. In our tests, we found that the Google Scholar beta sifts through more publications than does the Windows Live Academic Search beta (though Microsoft plans to add more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Scholar, Google Scholar beta, Windows Live Academic, Windows Live Academic Search, beta, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows
- Product reviews 2006-04-27
- Windows Live Academic Search beta
- Windows Live Academic Search beta is designed to aid researchers seeking current paper abstracts who might otherwise turn to Google Scholar or other sites. This service retrieves finds from journals in the areas of computer science, medicine, electrical engineering, and physics. Microsoft says it will add more biomedical sources soon,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live Academic Search beta, Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Academic, beta
- Product reviews 2006-04-14
Additional Resources
- Time to ditch Windows for online banking and shopping
- Instead of a live CDWould I be able to install Linux in Windows and do the same?Amen! Happened today to a gov't computerhttp://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/computer_hacker_steals_479000.htmlYet another infected computer stealing OUR money.Absolutely ridiculous and irresponsible article!Show me an instance where a flaw in Vista/7 has led to a user being compromised? ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, exploit, phishing, Linux, operating system, Adrian, online banking
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Will Windows Vista live to die another day?
- Will Windows Vista live to die another day?Honestly...who really cares about Vista, the lamentable agglomeration of software junk?Vista has been a great OS.However if Windows 7 is right around the corner and one doesn't absolutely need to buy new systems then my recommendation would be to wait for Windows 7.This...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offline
- Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offlineNot Outlook but...Outlook is a niche product. Gmail going offline is hardly any reason for Outlook to be concerned about. Clients like Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird will feel the heat for sure.RE: Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offlineI don't have...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Mozilla Thunderbird, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0
- Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters
- I received an email this morning about the opportunity to participate in sending questions to the speakers at the Microsoft Student Technology Day tomorrow (that's Wednesday, for those who have yet to understand the Gregorian calendar). Whilst I'm not allowed to publish the number to text in your questions for...
- Tags: Speaker, Microsoft Corp., Question, Keyboards, Internet, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- The end of the world?
- Probably not. Today (Wednesday, well it is for me anyway), we see the first beam test of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, in the CERN's labs in Switzerland. The point of this, quite frankly, bloody huge experiment is to try and recreate the Big Bang on...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Big Bang, Computer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions
- You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Students and the browser war
- Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband won't be set up for a while, so had to resort to dial-up which is proving troublesome. I'll do my best, considering this is essentially my income,...
- Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Firefox Library, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live familyIll-informed as usualWide-of-the-mark comment as usual from you Mary-Jo.The tools that you mentioned are not the core set of live services that you think they are. Those are the software bits of the Windows Live software+services model.The services that they are complement are...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft is slowly but surely whittling back the unwieldy family of Windows Live services that the company fielded over the past couple of years. The latest candidate set to get the ax is Windows Live Expo, Microsoft's attempt to take on Craig's List in the classified ads...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Service, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programs
- Two weeks ago, I published a list of my 10 favorite Windows programs of all time. The response was overwhelming and refreshingly enthusiastic. As the title made clear, that list reflected my personal preferences; I certainly don’t expect all my choices to be essential for every Windows...
- Tags: Program, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, List, Requirement, System, Screen Shot, Quick Macros, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- The mind of a Mac fan
- The mind of a Mac fanThe mind of a Mac FanApple has not made things like an internet browser an integrated part of the OS. A little while back if you broke IE in Windows you broke the OS because of how tied together they are.I am in teh...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Desktops, John Carroll, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Mac-fan, operating system, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Microsoft prunes its Windows Live line-up
- Last summer, there were more than 40 Microsoft services and sites branded as "Windows Live." As of April 13, there are now ten fewer, and some of the existing ones are now known officially as "Live," minus the "Windows." Compare the two Feedback.Live.com lists posted by Microsoft blogger Ken...
- Tags: Windows Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- Live.com pushes the limits of users patience
- In a post entitled Live.com – I don't get it, Rick Strahl noted the poor performance of live.com - Microsoft's beta Ajax homepage. I too have been having performance issues with live.com, so much so that I've stopped using it for now. For one thing, I never got it working...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- Microsoft lanches Academic search beta
- Those exclusive academic journals that cost a fortune to subscibe to in print form, just got a little more accessible now that Microsoft has released a beta-version of Academic, a search tool for scholars, reports Tech News World. Usually hesitant to release a product early, Microsoft made the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Academic Search
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
- The great legacy skills debate
- The great legacy skills debateRelish that?I don't think IT workers are more eager than anyone else to keep training continuously in the expectation of job loss and the subsequent search for re-employment. Particularly knowing that academic qualifications do not always make someone more likely to be retained or hired.This...
- Tags: Workforce management, legacy skill, worker, training
- Discussion threads 2005-07-22
- Microsoft prepares for search assault
- Microsoft prepares for search assaultIt's not quite the same when the industry knows your evilness.The desktop monopoly was a mistake- it won't happen again.The enemy has shown his true face, and is being shunned.This does not sound rightFirst, I doubt any of the large search engines are using simple term...
- Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Paradigm Shift, Microsoft Corp., search engine, sure bet, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2004-06-28
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
The Business Essentials Guide provides you useful tools and templates to help grow your business and save you time with automated shipping solutions.
Read about top issues IT decision-makers face every day, plus get cost-effective solutions to real-life IT problems.
Doc delivers the scoop on today's enterprise content management, printer maintenance, and all other issues related to document management. It's the DocuMentor Blog.
