by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: TechEd wraps up, Parallels 3.0 release, and Lewis Black on Google Street View

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Jun 8, 20072 mins

<strong>TechEd 2007 wrap-up:</strong> This year's Microsoft TechEd show certainly had its share of interesting projects and products. Randall Kennedy <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/06/teched_2007_uac.html">explored User Access Control</a> (UAC)(a topic that created much buzz at the conference)...

TechEd 2007 wrap-up: This year’s Microsoft TechEd show certainly had its share of interesting projects and products. Randall Kennedy explored User Access Control (UAC)(a topic that created much buzz at the conference), including a trip to the Microsoft lab to get some tips on fixing his own UAC issues. Silverlight’s multimedia display tech was worth a look, tools to help out with Vista deployment saw the light of day, and the next versions of Visual Studio (see InfoWorld’s preview of Orcas here) and SQL Server got names.

Parallels 3.0 beta released: On the eve of Apple’s developer conferences, Parallels took the wraps off their virtualization software for Macs. InfoWorld IT maven Kevin Railsback has more details on the Inside IT blog, but new features include better 3D support for gaming and SmartSelect, which “allows for virtual OS apps to be set as the default type for a specific filetype,” says Railsback.

Friday funny: Google finds itself in Lewis Black’s ranting crosshairs this week on Comedy Central’s Daily Show. The reason? Google Street View’s “invasive” photos of people caught doing things when they think no one’s watching (Our own man-on-the-street Cringely has the full scoop, Wired’s blog has a collection going, many of which feature the weirdness caused by the image overlap). You’ve got to sit through a short ad to see the video clip of Black’s vent-fest, but it’s chuckle-worthy.