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Monday, June 16, 2014

3D printing kindles up a new industrial age

3D printing kindles up a new industrial age (via InformationWeek India)

In today’s intense competition and rapidly changing customer preferences, it has become difficult for businesses to sustain for a longer period. Industries are always looking for new ideas in order to innovate continuously, to keep the customers engaged…

Social networks: Balancing identity and privacy

Social networks: Balancing identity and privacy (via InformationWeek India)

With the rapid growth and remarkable adoption rate of social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, we are now more concerned with the growing risks associated with social networks that implicitly give rise to exposure of…

Security as a Service: Evolutionary or revolutionary?

Security as a Service: Evolutionary or revolutionary? (via InformationWeek India)

Cloud computing represents one of the most substantial shifts in the IT industry. This is reaching to the point where computing functions as a utility, encouraging innovations still unimagined. Yet the major roadblock to the adoption of cloud has been…

How your data center is managed - "Designed" or "Grown"? (via InformationWeek India)

Imagine If I'm a new CIO and you are an IT manager. I ask you, “So, have you ever managed a data center or done infrastructure design work?” You would say ‘Yes – for past many years I am working in a role of an IT manager and involved in building…

Which version of Office 2010 should I use 32 bit or 64 bit?

Office 2010 is first version which is shipping in both 32 bit and 64 versions and most of

users and organizations are wondering which one to use?

About half of deployments of Windows 7 are on 64 bit to unleash the processing power and RAM (usually more than 4 GB) and seems obvious that you also install 64 bit version of Office 2010 to get more power. But that doesn't work always as a best approach.

If you are using any ActiveX controls ,COM Addins or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that are 32 bit they will not support 64 bit version.

With 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010 a new version of Microsoft VBA is released

known as VBA 7.0 to work with both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

To get techy details check this article at MSDN - Compatibility Between the 32-bit and 64-bit Versions of Office 2010

Another reason is support of social connectors on 32 bit version – Microsoft introduced Outlook Social connectors for various networks – by using them you can connect to your favorite social networks – and track your contacts activities in People pane.

Currently connectors for 4 social network providers for Outlook
– Facebook , LinkedIn, MySpace and Windows Live Messenger and list will be growing.

But the problem is only two connectors are available of 64 bit versions and the reason might be that the partners are first building social connector for 32 bit version (to tap the market of older versions – Office 2007 and 2003)

Advantages of using Outlook 2010 64 bit version – Because of 64 bit this enables you to work on larger set of data, this is especially true when working with very large Excel spreadsheets (Over 2 GB in size) and Microsoft has introduced PowerPivot for Excel to do powerful analysis on your desktop.

So if there is not a specific need to install 64 bit version of Office 2010, you should stick to 32 bit version even on 64 bit operating system to ensure compatibility by default and to get more social network providers for Outlook.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Funny thing with Internet Explorer 9 beta

I was trying to open this site in IE9 beta and I got this cute message :-)

Trying to convince me that I should upgrade to IE8?

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Released today

Microsoft released beta version of long awaited Internet Explorer 9 today. Check the picture above.

You can download latest version from here :bit.ly/cDOpQS

With this release browser war is again started!

I also ran a test drive of this page - http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishIE%20tank/Default.html
in various browsers and got following results: