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Deep zoom composer helps mere mortals take advantage of the deep zoom capabilities in SilverLight 2. Obviously it has more detailed users for developers taking advantage of SilverLight 2, but it's fun for the average user too.
In testing the product I build a really simple deep zoom with two high resolution photos and the posted them to the Microsoft Windows Live PhotoZoom site. You could save them as SilverLight files if you wished to, but in this case I've chosen to publish them online and the link to them off a web page.
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I found out a bit more from the product group. It seems some legacy operating systems, like Windows NT 4.0, bugcheck if they perform a CPUID and have more than three leafs returned. The checkbox is there to allow us to try and get them working. So I was
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In this post I discuss how you can determine:
1. If your operating system is running on a hypervisor,
2. The processor feature differences presented for an operating system running directly on hardware versus a parent partition operating system on a hypervisor,
3. The processor feature differences presented for a child partition operating system running without LPF set versus one that does.
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Recently I became rather intrigued with Hyper-V's Limit Processor Functionality (LPF) function. One little checkbox became such an obsession that I start wasting hours of my time trying to find out exactly what it does. The dialogue says, "Limit processor
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Just a quick post today. Good news! The RC for the Hyper-V MMC has finally been released. It's designed to work on Vista x86 and x64 SP1. SP1 is required. Check out the Windows Virtualization Team Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization for more
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My latest, most favourite tool on the web has to be Office Live Workspace Beta. It's an interesting extension to Microsoft Office and effectively allows one to create a free SharePoint repository for Word, Excel and PowerPoint document. It also provides
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In the many years I've been consulting as a Lead Technical Consultant, Architect and Engagement Manager there are a number of things I've learned from the school of hard knocks. Many things are obvious, and some less so. We can often find methodologies
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So the day finally dawned, and RC0 was released. That same day I got word it would be okay to blog and show screenshots of Windows Server Virtualization. So I went and bought a new laptop first because mine didn't quite make the grade. While I was waiting
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So here it is, my first blog entry, finally! Last week I got certified as a Microsoft Certified Architect: Infrastructure. It's quite an honor, especially considering just how different it is to other exam-based certifications out there. In the case of
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