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Yeah… I had some fun attending this event, and shooting this video on Saturday morning.  A couple of fun things to notice: Ray Ozzie is in the house Not everyone knows how to spell MICROSOFT.

Just saw this on my Windows Media Center… Good for a chuckle, I thought.

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Today, September 24, 2009, in three cities in the U.S. we’re holding our first of what we internally are calling the “trifecta launch” events, launching Windows 7 , Windows Server 2008 R2 , and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 . In fact, this morning I was up bright and early and in front of a movie theater...

RCs = Release Candidates RTW = Released to Web “for some” means “for TechNet and MSDN subscribers” You remember several days ago we announced that the RC for Windows 7 would be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers on April 30th . “Hey, that’s today!” Yep. And of course the first thing...

Okay.. ‘bout time for some shameless self-promotion… Actually, and honestly.. I don’t look like this anymore.  My hair is shorter, and I’ve decided to let the grey just be grey.  This is what I look like now: But that’s not what this post is about.  It’s about you IT Managers.  As...

Breaking news: The browser that you are using right now is quite possibly out of date. Today Microsoft released the new version of the Internet Explorer browser. Internet Explorer 8 , or “IE8”. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx It’s fast . It’s cool . It’s easier...

  Microsoft Corp. :: Microsoft Research Helps Novice Musicians Discover Their Inner Songwriters (Title and first link in this blog post are courtesy of clicking the “Blog This” button in my browser, which launches me into Windows Live Writer .  That’s the first time I’ve tried that.  I...

(Warning: If you only expect serious technology announcements or serious discussion from this blog, you should stop reading this post right now.) Just an observation… If you don’t have a wall, you’ve got no place to put a window.  Why do I need windows if I have no walls?  That’s just stupid...

This is just way too clever.  No guarantees on how long this will be up and running, because I can’t imagine that it’s NOT spreading like wildfire right now.. but it’s worth a look. http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=46832&altf=Lfwjo&altl=Sfnef I appreciate your vote!  (Tattoo is optional...

Just a few minutes ago I sent the following e-mail to the members of the Boy Scout Troop that my two boys belong to. My eldest just completed the work-portion of his Eagle Scout project last weekend… The photographers, or even the more “geeky” among you will appreciate this… Today I took a set...

Zoom in.  Really.. zoom in. http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.html Have a great weekend!

You have to check out my friend John Weston’s Blog post photo… Pictured are: Chris Avis Dan Stolts Yours Truly John Baker Shawn Travers Harold Wong and John Weston . 

MS Live Labs has a fun app called PhotoZoom .  It’s a cool proof-of-concept around how you might handle and navigate through images.  One application of this sort of technology that I thought was really cool was in zooming into very VERY large photos.  Stay out to see the big picture,...

I’m not sure if I’ve said this on my blog before, but I and my family are huge fans of Windows Media Center . I’ve got a dedicated (and actually pretty old and under-powered) Compaq desktop computer that’s running Windows Vista Ultimate edition, and has a TV-tuner card with two analog tuners, plus a...