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The Blog of Viral Tarpara A Smart 27 year old's thoughts on Windows, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, and Productivity
MacWorld 2008 - Day At The Office
Welcome from MacWorld 2008. Today is a big day! Today is the day that Microsoft...
Author: viralta Date: 01/15/2008
Live at BETT 2008 - Day 2
On the first day, people were very excited about hearing from the various schools that were...
Author: viralta Date: 01/09/2008
How To: Use Google Calendar With Outlook
Before joining the workforce, I never ever used calendaring software. I didn't have a...
Author: viralta Date: 01/09/2008
Live At BETT 2008 - Day 1
Hello Everyone, For the next three days I will be talking with customers at the Microsoft booth. For...
Author: viralta Date: 01/09/2008
Impressive 3G Performance With Orange
I'm currently doing some late night crunching on my machine for work. Since I have Windows...
Author: viralta Date: 01/08/2008
Office 2003 SP3 - The Facts and Fiction
What turned out to be a relatively simple security service pack for an end-of-life version of Office...
Author: viralta Date: 01/07/2008
The Virtualization Mentality
Virtualization this past year has boomed. The VMWare conference, where Microsoft had an...
Author: viralta Date: 01/04/2008
Did You Know: Vista Also Has A 'Run' Command?
While I continue to write part 2 of "Death to the Start Menu," I wanted to give a few more...
Author: viralta Date: 01/03/2008
Online Office 2007 Training Resources
During an internal discussion involving a secret plugin, an email was sent out basically giving a...
Author: viralta Date: 01/02/2008
Office 2003 SP3 Legacy File Formats Disabled
This is a public service announcement that by installing Office 2003 SP3, the ability to open and...
Author: viralta Date: 01/02/2008
Did You Know: Live Photo Gallery Does Panoramic Auto-Stitching?
My cousin decided to get a new place and needed to post pictures of their apartment on...
Author: viralta Date: 12/30/2007
Christmas Webcasts: Clearing Your Inbox of Unread Junk - Step 2
This tip covers how to discover what is eating up all of your inbox quota/disk space via "folder...
Author: viralta Date: 12/27/2007
Christmas Webcast Bugs
I just wanted everyone to know that I've recently become aware of some audio glitches in my first...
Author: viralta Date: 12/26/2007
Christmas Webcasts: Clearing Your Inbox of Unread Junk - Step 1
We all do it. We all let email pile up in our inbox until we have unread emails in the triple...
Author: viralta Date: 12/26/2007
Death to the Start Menu – Part I
So I have been playing around with Vista SP1 RC and so far it has been a much more enjoyable...
Author: viralta Date: 12/26/2007
Microsoft's New Year is Gonna Bring a lot of Change
Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace....
Author: viralta Date: 12/25/2007
Christmas Webcasts:Adding Content to Search Server
Here is the a quick blogcast showing how to index web sites, network file shares, Sharepoint sites,...
Author: viralta Date: 12/25/2007
Christmas Webcasts: Working Across Different Timezones in Outlook
Merry Christamas! Here is a webcast tip that will quickly show you how you can add a second timezone...
Author: viralta Date: 12/25/2007
Outlook and Search Server Christmas Webcasts
I always get into the holiday mood late. While people graciously spend their Novembers shopping,...
Author: viralta Date: 12/24/2007
Internet Explorer 8 Passes Acid2 Test, "HolyShit" says Slashdot
For the non developers out there, you may be wondering what Acid2 is, but in the web developer...
Author: viralta Date: 12/19/2007
Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search
Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti, the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search,...
Author: viralta Date: 12/19/2007
Index PDFs Lightning Fast with Foxit's PDF iFilter
iFilters are like plugins for search products that extend the functionality of the indexing...
Author: viralta Date: 12/17/2007
Office 2008 for Mac Goes Gold
Congratulations to the Office team in the MacBU! I can't wait to get my hands on Office...
Author: viralta Date: 12/17/2007
Windows Task Manager Shortcut
Here's a tip for all of you out there. In Vista, one thing that annoyed me was how disruptive...
Author: viralta Date: 12/17/2007
MOSS 2007: In-depth Look at Search Technology (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology (Level 200) Monday,...
Author: viralta Date: 12/13/2007
Office 2007 SP1 is Out - GoodBye Outlook Problems
My colleague James O'Neill beat me to this one. SP1 for Office is finally here, and none the...
Author: viralta Date: 12/12/2007
Wildcard Search in MOSS 2007 and MSS 2008
I know a few of you who attended my presentation on Search Server 2008 had questions regarding...
Author: viralta Date: 12/07/2007
Windows Server 2008 RC1, ForeFront and System Center Demo Kit, SQL 2008 November CTP, and Service Pack Blocker Tool
Thursday was a busy day at Microsoft. RC1 for Longhorn is now out and available for...
Author: viralta Date: 12/07/2007
London TechNet Event Presentation and Resources
Thank you all who attended the London TechNet event, Beyond SharePoint: Advanced Solutions in...
Author: viralta Date: 12/05/2007
Microsoft Kills Santa and Other Wild Tales of Pizza and Love Making
During my presentation of Search Server 2008 in London in front of a great audience of about 200, I...
Author: viralta Date: 12/05/2007
OpenXML Debate with GNOME Foundation Live at 1pm (GMT -5)
I'm lazy today so I'll just copy an excerpt from Slashdot about something I will definitely be...
Author: viralta Date: 12/05/2007
The History of Five Four
Moving to the UK, some have questioned my motives, many have questioned my sanity, but almost all...
Author: viralta Date: 12/04/2007
Microsoft Buys Video Social Networking Startup, WebFives.com
Last friday, Microsoft took another step in improving its online consumer platform by purchasing...
Author: viralta Date: 12/03/2007
Presentation Deck for Search Server 2008
So anyone who attended our events in Falkirk and Manchester, thank you for attending and here is the...
Author: viralta Date: 11/30/2007
Connectors and Investing in Open Technologies
So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting...
Author: viralta Date: 11/29/2007
Do You Deploy Windows with Floppy Disks?
Of course not, if you do, you're dumb. Please unsubscribe from my RSS feed now please. ...
Author: viralta Date: 11/07/2007
What Idiots Still Fall for These Scams?
With spam reaching almost 90% of all Internet traffic, I am proud to say that I get maybe one...
Author: viralta Date: 11/07/2007
Goodbye Scott Stuart, I Really Bought Your Vision
On a personal note, I'm really sad to see Scott Stuart leave the company. I only know Scott...
Author: viralta Date: 11/07/2007
Meet Microsoft Server Core
The evangelists at Microsoft Across America have just released a great 8-part screencast of Windows...
Author: viralta Date: 11/06/2007
Let Microsoft Search Server 2008 Set You Free
Tacky tag-line, I know and I promise only to do it sparingly in the...
Author: viralta Date: 11/06/2007
FAQ: Microsoft Announces Search Server 2008
Microsoft is excited announce two new product offerings. Search Server 2008 and 2008 Express...
Author: viralta Date: 11/06/2007
BBC Homepage Introduces Adverts, Hell Freezes Over
Being new to the UK, I've learned two valuable lessons; one, when a cab driver talks about the...
Author: viralta Date: 11/06/2007
Mac Office 2008 SKUs Announced with Free Upgrades
I've told a lot of people that Mac Office 2008 is one of the coolest consumer products that...
Author: viralta Date: 11/02/2007
Play Halo 3, Win $1,000,000
The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) is throwing a Halo 3 showdown with the grand prize of one...
Author: viralta Date: 10/30/2007
Ina Fried of ZDNet Interviews Ballmer on Windows Mobile Strategy
My favorite excerpt from this fun interview was the following: "What about full Web browsing? I...
Author: viralta Date: 10/25/2007
HOW TO: Removing Hidden Data From Office Documents
Metadata is information within a document that provides indexing intelligence to other applications...
Author: viralta Date: 10/24/2007