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Facebook offers a convenient way to deactivate Facebook account. However, deactivation of Facebook does not completely and permanently the Facebook profile and accoucnt.
According to Facebook FAQ, deactivate Facebook account will render user’s profile and all information associated with it immediately inaccessible to other Facebook users. In other words, the account is effectively disappear from the Facebook service. However, the Facebook account is not been purged from Facebook’s servers. Instead, the profile information (friends, photos, interests, etc.) is saved, so that the account can be recovered and reactivated in future with the information intact if the user decides to do so, or regret on the deactivation decision.

Permanently delete the Facebook account will completely remove and purge all personally identifiable information associated with the Facebook account from Facebook database. This includes information like name, email address, mailing address, and IM screen name. However, do note that copies of some material (photos, notes, etc.) may remain in Facebook servers for technical reasons, but this material is disassociated from any personal identifiers and completely inaccessible to other users.

Facebook users who want to get rid of Facebook once and for what, and do not think that he or she will use Facebook again, Facebook provides a way to delete the account. Once Facebook account is deleted, it’s impossible to reactivate the account or retrieve any of the content or information previously associated in the account. There is no option for recovery once Facebook account is deleted.

To delete a Facebook account, log in to the Facebook account, and then submit the “Delete My Account” at https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account.

Click on Submit button. Enter the password to confirm it’s your account, and the captcha security spam check. Then click on Okay button. An email will be sent to indicate that the Facebook account will be deleted in 14 days.

During the 14 days account deletion grace period, do not login or sign in to Facebook account, nor perform any action utilizing Facebook, such as Share on Facebook on Like in Facebook, or login and sign up to other websites by using Facebook Connect (Facebook user name and password credentials). Any interaction and usage of the Facebook account during the period will prevent the account from being deleted.

Alternative Method to Delete Facebook Account

If the above official method to delete the Facebook account fails, it’s also possible to email Facebook to request them to delete your Facebook account directly. The email address is:

privacy@facebook.com

Within a few days (allows up to a week), an email response should be sent by Facebook to confirm that the account has been permanently deleted.

If there is no response from Facebook, and you can still access your Facebook account or given an option to reactivate the account, try email Facebook again, with the following three email addresses:

privacy@facebook.com
support@facebook.com
info@facebook.com

The Facebook account is permanently deleted when user cannot login to the account anymore, and there is not message which offers user a chance to reactivate the Facebook account.

Source : mydigitallife

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Build 6.1.7601.16537 v.153 was leaked in the wild a little over a month ago and at that time, the bits came accompanied by documentation detailing the changes associated with the first major upgrade for the operating system.

I did offer an overview of the evolution represented by Windows 7’s first service pack in April, but without going into all the details, reportedly coming from Microsoft. The Redmond company, of course, has yet to officially announce any changes for Windows 7 SP1, with two exceptions, the Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX features, or to confirm the leaked information.
However, the documents that made it outside of Redmond and into the wild alongside Build 6.1.7601.16537 v.153, do deliver an insight into the modifications planned for the service pack. Earlier this week, another early development milestone of Windows 7 SP1 was leaked. Build 7601.16556.100421-1510; Service Pack 1, v.172 is reported to be a candidate for the first fully-fledged Beta for Windows 7 SP1, by third-party sources, including Wzor, which shared the bits with the world.
Users that have jumped the gun and installed the leaked copies of Windows 7 SP1 are noting that they’re unable to notice differences compared to Build 7600 RTM. This is because modifications, when they do exist, are under-the-hood rather than on the surface of the OS. I have included an excerpt from the leaked “Notable Changes in Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2” documentation below in order to help end users understand just what Microsoft has planned for the future of the platform.
There are a few things, however, that must be underlined. First off, according to the leaked info, the details in the documentation have been updated last in March 2010. In this regard, all information needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as the features or changes it is describing might not actually make it into SP1. In addition, just as it was the case for Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, Service Pack 1 will be released as a single package for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This is why the same service pack will impact both platforms differently in some aspects, and in the same manner in others.

Changes specific to Windows 7

Additional support for communication with third-party federation services - Additional support has been added to allow Windows 7 clients to effectively communicate with third-party identity federation services (those supporting the WS-Federation passive profile protocol). This change enhances platform interoperability, and improves the ability to communicate identity and authentication information between organizations.
Improved HDMI audio device performance - A small percentage of users have reported issues in which the connection between a computer running Windows 7 an HDMI audio device is lost after a system reboot. Updates have been incorporated into SP1 to ensure that connections between Windows 7 computers and HDMI audio devices are consistently maintained.
Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents - Prior to the release of SP1, some customers have reported difficulty when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents (documents containing pages in both portrait and landscape orientation) using the XPS Viewer, resulting in all pages being printed entirely in either portrait or landscape mode. This issue has been addressed in SP1, allowing users to correctly print mixed-orientation documents using the XPS Viewer.

source: news.softpedia.com

Le groupe utilisateur CUMULOS et moi même nous vous invitons le 12 mai 2010 de 14h00 à 18h00 dans les locaux de Microsoft France pour une demi-journée d’échanges autour des produits Microsoft Online Services et pour vous présenter les objectifs et les futures actions de la communauté.

Lieu :

• Microsoft France
  41, quai du Président Roosevelt
  92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

Agenda :

• 14h00 – 14h30 – Accueil
• 14h30 – 15h00 – Présentation de l’UG Cumulos
• 15h00 – 15h30 – Intune, nouveautés & roadmap 2010 avec Cyril Sultan 
• 16h00 – 16h20 – Break
• 16h20 – 17h40 – Présentations produits tiers, Expériences partenaires, Retours clients et utilisateurs
• 17h40 – 18h00 – Q&A
• 19h00 – 22h00 – Afterworks “BPOS” (http://www.afterworks-cms.fr) au Charlie Birdy 1, Place Etienne Pernet, 75015 Paris

Réservations et inscriptions : contact@cumulos.fr (Attention, nombre de places limité)

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A small utility offered for free by Microsoft could prove immensely helpful in scenarios in which users are searching for information inside Office documents on certain platforms.

The Office 2010 Filter Packs went live on the Microsoft Download Center last week, and are currently up for grabs, enabling customers to enhance the default search capabilities of products such as SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and Windows client and server platforms. Of course, the Office 2010 Filter Packs integrate with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
“The Microsoft Filter Pack is a single point-of-distribution for Office IFilters. IFilters are components that allow search services to index content of specific file types, letting you search for content in those files. They are intended for use with Microsoft Search Services (Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange, Windows Search),” Microsoft explained.

In certain cases, the Filter Pack will significantly simplify the search process, especially for queries using terms related to the content of documents rather than to the name they were saved under. However, the Office Filter Packs work only in the context of the Microsoft Search Service. As the name of the app implies, content of Office 2010 documents will also be indexed following the installation of the utility. At the same time, additional files, even those of non-Microsoft formats will be indexed.

“Install this product if you want to search for content in the file types listed below. The Filter Pack includes: Legacy Office Filter (97-2003; .doc, .ppt, .xls); Metro Office Filter (2007; .docx, .pptx, .xlsx); Zip Filter; OneNote filter; Visio Filter; Publisher Filter; and Open Document Format Filter,” the company stated.

Microsoft finalized Office 2010 in mid-April 2010. At this point in time, Office 2010 RTM is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, but also to business customers.

Download:
Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs x64
Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs x86

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"Si j'avais la TV sur mon PC" met en jeu chaque jour 10 clés Tuner TNT, lesquelles vous permettront de transformer votre PC en TV grâce à Windows Media Center, et ceci jusqu'au 31 Mai 2010.

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Every new version of Windows brings improvements over its previous versions. Microsoft has made progress in numerous fields of their operating system. These fields include the overall interface, desktop customization options, handling our files, and overall security. But the Welcome Screen and the way users login has remained somewhat unchanged. Users have to enter/select their username and then a password to login. Why has there not been a built-in Windows feature to change the way (for the better) users login to Windows? Suppose an exam was being conducted which required candidates to login with their accounts; anybody could login with anybody’s account as long as they knew their username and password.

Presenting an alternative to traditional Windows login and a solution to problems, such as the one above, is Luxand Blink. It provides its users with a different way to login to Windows: through facial recognition.

Luxand Blink is a free application compatible with 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. The download size of the application is 8MB and installs in a standard way. For it work properly, of course a webcam is required to be installed in the computer.

The application starts running after the computer starts up but before it has logged on to any account. We can then look into the webcam and have our face recognized by the application. It uses its advance image recognition algorithms to recognize our face. Such is the competence of this application, that whether the lighting is different or our hair are different, Luxand Blink will still recognize our face and log us in.

An application increasing the security of the Windows logon procedure, Luxand Blink will serve many.

Source : blogsdna

La manœuvre était prévisible mais cette fois elle se précise. French Data Network vient de déposer un recours devant le Conseil d'Etat sur la loi Hadopi. L'association (et FAI) qui a pour but la promotion, l'utilisation éthique et le développement des réseaux Internet conteste certains décrets de la loi. En particulier, le décret n° 2010-236 du 5 mars 2010 relatif au traitement automatisé de données à caractère personnel.

Sur son blog, FDN fustige un texte pris sans avis de l'ARCEP, alors qu'« il porte sur les activités des opérateurs, et que l'article L. 36-5 du Codes des Postes et Communications Électroniques indique qu'en pareil cas l'avis de l'ARCEP est obligatoire ». Encore une fois, l'Hadopi semble donc avoir du plomb dans l'aile d'autant que la mesure pourrait bien retarder l'envoi des premiers e-mails, prévu pour le 21 juin.
Précisément French Data Network demande au Conseil d'Etat, la plus haute juridiction administrative, de retirer le décret au motif que les FAI devront collaborer à la riposte graduée mais qu'il n'a jamais été question du partage financier de cette traque. A la loupe, French Data Network explique qu' « il n'est pas à démontrer que la mise en place et le fonctionnement de ce système aura des répercussions financières sur lesdits fournisseurs d'accès.  »
Concrètement, FDN se pose en tant que Fournisseur d'accès à Internet et critique ouvertement le fait que l'Arcep n'ait pas été saisie sur cette question. Le débat sur le coût de l'Hadopi ressort encore une fois du chapeau. Un rapport du CGTI (rattaché à Bercy) daté de fin 2008 avait estimé le prix de la loi sur les opérateurs à 70 millions d'euros sur trois ans. Christine Albanel avait alors calculé le montant de l'opération à seulement 20 millions d'euros.
Toujours est-il que ce recours devant le Conseil d'Etat va ralentir la mise en place de l'Hadopi. Pensez qu'en matière de requête devant le Conseil d'État, le délai moyen qui sépare le dépôt d'une requête de son jugement est d'un an… Il semble donc qu'Hadopi va devoir encore attendre.

Source : clubic.com

While Windows 7 Service Pack 1 will not be a major upgrade to the RTM version, the evolution of the operating system is designed to close the gap between physical and virtual desktops, as far as Microsoftis concerned. Service Pack 1, which will be delivered as a single package for both Windows 7 client and Windows Server 2008 R2, will deliver a key, new RDS platform capability to the latter, namely Microsoft RemoteFX. Along with Dynamic Memory, RemoteFX will kick up a notch the company’s virtualization stack.

Specifically, RemoteFX will make possible a media-rich, local-like user experience for virtual and session-based desktops and applications based on Windows Server 2008 R2, according to Max Herrmann, from the Windows Server RDS team at Microsoft. Closing the gap between physical and virtual desktops starts with details such as support for full-fidelity video, rich media and 3D graphics. However, there are additional capabilities that can blur the line between physical and virtual machines.

“I want to introduce another aspect of Microsoft RemoteFX and how it can further help close the user experience gap between physical and virtual desktops: Customers looking to deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) expect their users to be able to plug any peripheral device into their client device and have it ‘just work’ within a virtual desktop as if it was a physical desktop,” Herrmann stated.
With Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is limited when it comes down to supporting high-level redirection. While the OS is capable of dealing with printer redirection, disk drive redirection, and PnP-device redirection, there are a consistent number of devices for which this type of experience is not possible today.Windows 7 SP1 will change this, and deliver a more comprehensive, high-level device-redirection solution through RemoteFX USB redirection.

“A much better solution is to redirect devices at the USB level (or to be more specific, the USB request block, or URB level). With that type of solution, which we have chosen for VDI desktops, no device drivers are needed on the client device, and we can provide a universal interface that works with any USB device on any of our supported platforms. This solution is able to successfully redirect most of the devices users wish to use, including audio in/out devices, storage devices, HID devices (tablets, keyboards, etc.), and printers and scanners,” Herrmann added.

What is important to underline is that Microsoft is not looking to replace the current redirection model available to customers. Herrmann made it clear that RemoteFX USB redirection would be added on top of existing device-redirection capabilities in RDP.

Source : news.softpedia.com