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Immortal Computing
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300636_msftimmortal22.html NOT Immoral computing, IMMORTAL don't forget the 'T' We are working on a way to send email in the future, not tomorrow, or next week, but generations in the future, to make sure...
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GWAVA or GWAVA Nation
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over 6 years ago
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So I have attending this session about Novell and GWAVA called GWAVACON. GWAVA has a community site called www.gwavanation.com I posted there to announce that I have been at the conference and blogging about it here, we will see if anyone replies. Go...
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Novell Religion
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Novell Religion I have met several people here that are religious about Novell. They love Everything RED! I am not going to try to change their minds. It is not worth the time. I am in the keynote here at GWAVACON and a Novell VP of marketing is...
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New BDD (business Desktop Deployment)
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You might not have noticed that last week we released a new version of BDD 2007, free to download. Here you can get more information about it: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopdeployment/bdd/2007/default.mspx If you are planning to roll...
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More Novell
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Here are more observations from my attendance at a Novell conference. I attended a session titled "Defense against Microsoft" The speaker spotted me right away and we had a good conversation. I listened quitely to his argument for Groupwise and against...
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Novell an interesting Competitor perspective
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This week I have been attending a Novell conference hosted by a company called GWAVA. GWAVA is a company that makes sofware to work with Novell servers, Groupwise, and monitoring software. Here at Microsoft we are tasked with going out a couple of...
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Speech Recognition in Vista
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At our launch event on Tuesday in Memphis, Matt Hester ( http://blogs.technet.com/mathewms ) demoed the speech recognition of Vista as our last demo of the day. The crowd went wild. The people I was standing around just couldn't believe that was Windows...
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Windows Vista will be available to buy and download Online.
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Now you don't have to get up at 6AM on January 30th and head to you local computer store! SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. will make its new Windows Vista operating system available for sale and download online, marking a new step for the software company...
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Vista Pricing
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over 6 years ago
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I was reading news.com this morning and came across this quote: Microsoft wants to get your whole house running Windows Vista. In what is being billed as a limited time offer, Microsoft will let those who buy a boxed version of Vista Ultimate Edition...
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Vista Launch Event Slides....
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UPDATE BELOW I have been getting request for the slides that we show at our events. This is only for people that attend our events!! Just kidding. Really, go to the hidden share off our main www.technetevents.com http://www.technetevents.com/resources...
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TechNet Radio Interview with Lee Benjamin goes live! Exchange 2007
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over 6 years ago
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/archive/benjamin.mspx Is the link they put up today, go download and listen to THE EXCHANGEGUY!! it is from an interview I did last week with him. We discussion Exchange 2007 and community and the...
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Launch questions BDD VISTA
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over 6 years ago
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Well yesterday was our first Launch events. Exchange 2007, Vista, and Office 2007. We had great questions from the audience. Our content is technical. It still amazed me how many people haven't seen that much of Vista yet. We showed how to deply it using...
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Coming to a Best Buy near you!
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over 6 years ago
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Yep, Launch is coming!!! Besides all of these launch events, Launch Day January 30th is coming soon. I learned of a new program where we, the MS Employees get to sign up to go demo Vista at local Computer Stores. I have signed up for the Best Buy in...
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travel and Ice
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over 6 years ago
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Yep it's icy in Dallas. I need to get to Memphis today. My flight got cancelled this morning. I hope I make the one at 1PM. I went out to de-ice my car and broke off the handle. My daughter had done that to her car in the last ice storm in November...
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TechNet Radio
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I have now done two TechNet radio recordings. The first one had over 2,000 hits Since it came out last month. Amazing! My second one will go live on the web this coming Tuesday. Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/default.mspx...
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Exchange 2007 Recipients Webcast
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I am getting ready to do a webcast this morning on Exchange 2007 Recipient Management, Policies, and permissions. Come join the fun. If you can't join live the same link should get you to the recording of the session. If I get a bunch of questions...
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Excitement for Launch builds
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over 6 years ago
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January 30th is they day they will be availble to the public. They being Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007. Our team Microsoft Across America does seminars for many different customer segments in the US. We will be doing Launch events in 59 cities...
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Windows Vista Mystery game
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over 6 years ago
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Have you heard about the Mystery game? If you love Vista, you will love this. www.vanishingpointgame.com Mysterys all over. Solve the puzzles and you will be put in the drawing for some great prizes. I wish I could win the trip to almost outerspace.....
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Gaming and Vista and DreamScene
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over 6 years ago
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So the other day I looked at the games on Vista. Chess, that's cool. You have to go experience the interface. My 6 year old loves to play it now. "Daddy can we put that Vista stuff on all the computers in the house?" He asked? I guess I need to go buy...
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Strange weather
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over 6 years ago
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We have been having all kinds of strange weather across the US. 3 major snow storms in Denver, Snow and wind in Seattle, Drought in Texas, and No snow in NYC and 70's in January. What's up with all of this crazy weather? Well I heard a great quote yesterday...
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DreamScene
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Vista ships to customers January 30, we are counting down the hours! At the Consumer Electronics show Bill G. announced a new cool feature. It is know as Vista Ulimate Extras. Sounds like we may ship several of these over time, who knows. He announced...
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Begging and pleading in NYC, Tampa and Phoenix
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over 6 years ago
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I get strange email everyday, but this one topped it yesterday. We got an email from our "corporate" team that says, our launch events start next Tuesday January 16th. All looks good on registration but three cities. I just can't believe that the people...
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The show must go on.
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I am presenting in Memphis, TN on Tuesday of next week. 8 days from now. If you want to come see me www.microsoft.com/business/launch2007 But here is something interesting. It is suppose to be sunny, but cool in Memphis a week from now. The problem is...
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Zune verse IPod
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over 6 years ago
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So I have 4 kids, two of them teenagers. They are the expert on this topic not me. Since I work for Microsoft of course I want them to use MS products. My 16 year old son has had an Ipod for some time. He is allowed to have Itunes on his computer, but...
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Free Office Pro 2007
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I am part of the Microsoft Across America Team. We start on January 16th, 2007 doing Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 Launch events. We were told today that EVERY attendee will get a copy of Office Professional 2007. Please go to our website to sign...
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