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Grueling duels, palace intrigue and vicious tyranny drive the exciting and thoughtful epic fantasy series The Rys Chronicles that has just expanded to its third book with the trade paperback publication of Judgment Rising. (PRWeb May 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U3VtbS1aZXRhLUxvdmUtUHJvZi1NYWduLVplcm8=
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Windows Server 2008 makes hosting debut at Microsoft.com
(InfoWorld) - About 2,600 Web sites are already running Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server 2008, a small but increasing number that indicates rising interest in the OS, according to new statistics from Netcraft.
Microsoft is now using Windows Server 2008 and its Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 for its main Web site, said Colin Phipps, Internet security services developer at Netcraft, which releases a monthly survey on what OSes are being used for Web hosting.
The move means Windows Server 2008 is "production-ready for Microsoft," Phipps said, but "it's different when you have the Microsoft engineering team behind a Web site. They can pick up the phone and immediately get the engineer who worked on it."
A majority of the 2,600 sites, however, are not run by Microsoft, which would indicate developers are exploring the beta versions of Windows Server 2008, Phipps said. Still, the number of sites using the new OS is tiny in proportion to Netcraft's survey, which queried some 122 million Web sites.
The Apache Web server came top, used by 53.7 percent of sites, with Microsoft products following at 31.8 percent, Netcraft's survey said.
Interestingly, Netcraft placed Google in third at 3.9 percent. While Google doesn't have an OS, "Google's services are an increasingly popular alternative platform for running a blog or simple Web site or content that would have formerly been hosted on a desktop or networked file system," according to Netcraft's blog.
Phipps expects use of Windows Server 2008 will rise over the coming months. Microsoft released the latest beta version of the server, formerly code-named Longhorn, on Tuesday, adding the ability to use IIS. Windows Server 2008 is expected to be released by the end of this year.
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Microsoft redesigns Live.com
A redesign of the Live.com home page may not be quite what analysts had in mind last week when they asked Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about how the software giant plans to streamline its online presence .
Starting Wednesday, visitors in the U.S. are being shown a new Live.com page -- although they may not notice it's new. The page looks mostly the same as before, except it now features a background photo that apparently will change periodically.
The photo features a few blurry squares that show up when a mouse passes over them. If the user hovers for an extra second, a box pops up with a message that, when clicked, brings them to a page with additional information, including maps and photos.
The current photo features a man on a long boat on an African river. The information squares point to photos of animals that live in Botswana and other facts about the country's natural features.
The design was well-received among customers trialing it last month, according to a blog post by Chris Rayner, senior product manager, and Zach Gutt, senior program manager, both of Microsoft's Live search user experience team.
Like the previous design, the page predominantly features the search bar and lets users choose to search images and videos. Links point to Web pages for Live maps, news and other Microsoft offerings.
"We think the new design is a great start, but there's more to come, with lots of interesting directions that we'll be exploring in our next releases of the home page," the employees wrote on the blog.
Analysts who asked Ballmer last week how the company might fix its confusing online branding to make it easier for users to find Microsoft's online services might be relieved to hear that there are more changes to come. Microsoft maintains both the MSN and Live online brands, and in some cases the same online services carry both names.
Ballmer said Microsoft has been working on a way to combine its online services under a single Web page. However, the new Live.com page includes links to MSN.com and the Windows Live home page, so the current redesign hasn't addressed that problem.
Indeed, while the pictures might give the Live.com home page more aesthetic appeal, Microsoft is unlikely to gain ground against Google in online search and advertising until it clarifies its online services. In search, Google continues to hold a daunting lead over Microsoft, which runs a distant third even to Yahoo, the company Microsoft failed to acquire after months of negotiations.
(Elizabeth Montalbano in New York contributed to this story.)
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Medium-pacers put Bengal on top
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