Go to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/windowsphone/ at 10am PST.  That’s high noon in the central US.

For those of you anxious to try Office 2013, it’s now available on the download center for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.  I must admit I really like Outlook 2013.  The Office team did an excellent job.  Enjoy!

Want to learn more about the product?  Check out http://office.microsoft.com for the product area.  There is of course http://technet.microsoft.com/office and http://blogs.office.com. 

Man, Lenovo is really proud of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. But look at it this way, if you have the money for a million dollar ThinkPad, you get to go back in time.  Think of all the money you can make going back in time ten weeks. 

This young man is obviously an advanced Windows 8 user.  Brilliant video. What a cute kid. Heard on the internet at http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57536828-71/windows-8-is-easy-ask-this-3-year-old/.  Next up, Windows 8 and Office 2013 automated deployment by a 2 year old?

Time to get your grape on.  Grin.  See the Nokia and HTC phone now available for pre-order.

If you haven’t read the books you might not get what is really going on, but this is still an interesting trailer.  Crank up the volume and go full screen, sissies.

Looking forward to the launch this month!

I can see it now.  Suddenly NASA gets new funding to send probes to the recently discovered diamond planet called “55 Cancri e”.  Here’s an excerpt from the story in Yale News:

“New research led by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet.

“This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth,” said lead researcher Nikku Madhusudhan, a Yale postdoctoral researcher in physics and astronomy. “The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite.”

See the full story at http://news.yale.edu/2012/10/11/nearby-super-earth-likely-diamond-planet.

Over the last two years, we have worked with our MVPs to create and deliver real world training all across the globe via a Roadshow on Windows Server 2012 and supporting products like Windows Small Business Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server Essentials 2011, and Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. From May, 2011 through January 2012, The SMB MVP Community Roadshow hit over 60 cities worldwide and reached more than 3,000 partners and customers. Then, over the spring, we had the first leg of the The Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow where we reached 18 countries, 55 cities and more than 4,000 customers and partners.

Now, we are beginning the second and more in-depth leg of the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow. We already have more than 36 MVPs from 17 countries lined up and on point to deliver in depth real world training on Windows Server 2012.

Want more information?  Head on over to the Windows Server Blog and checkout their post on this.

Lenovo announced several devices including the S230 pictured above.  See the full press release with information and prices at http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1637.  Now things will start to get interesting.

I have never used a fingerprint login.  I was always afraid someone would chop off my finger and use it.  They do that in the movies so it must be true.  Well, a story surfaced today and I am providing a heads up.  I have not verified any portion of the information. 

“The UPEK software has long been marketed as a secure means for logging into Windows computers using an owner's unique fingerprint, instead of a user-memorized password. Last month, Elcomsoft, a Russia-based developer of password-cracking software, warned that the software makes users less secure than they otherwise would be because it stores Windows account passwords to the registry and encrypts them with a key that is easy for hackers to retrieve. It takes only seconds for people with the key to extract a password, company officials said. They withheld technical details to prevent the vulnerability from being widely exploited.”

See the full story at http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/confirmed-fingerprint-reader-owned-by-apple-exposes-windows-passwords/.

Electric motorcycles are starting to get my interest now.  See http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/2013/.

When did America’s Cup change to catamarans? Obviously I haven’t been paying attention but when twitter lit up on this video, I had to check this out.  Reminds me of some motocross endos I’ve done.

For the uninitiated, endo is short for end-over-end.