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Friday, August 21, 2009 9:53 PM

BlizzCon 2009…..

Today I was at BlizzCon. This is a sort of annual convention put on by Blizzard Entertainment and geared toward fans of the Diablo, Starcraft, and World of Warcraft franchises. While I played Diablo 1 and Starcraft 1, I was there for the Warcraft experience.
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Monday, August 17, 2009 6:03 PM

Home Network Upgrade on hold…..

Wow….when things go bad, they go really bad. Late last week you may have seen a few tweets from me about a Terastation I have that lost a drive. I have two of the 1.6 Tb models and they have both been running 24x7 for about 6-7 years now. While sitting
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:30 AM

Windows 7 Date now posted to Press Pass….

Following up on yesterday’s post about the Windows 7 release date . We finally have something on the official press release site .   Cheers!
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:48 PM

Windows 7 general availability announced…..

According to a posting by Sarah Perez , we (Microsoft) announced the general availability of Windows 7 at a conference in Asia today. I could not find anything at our Official Press Release Site not is there anything on the Windows 7 landing page . However,
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:12 AM

Seattle WinNUG Meeting on Wednesday, Jun 3rd…..

Tomorrow the Seattle Windows Networking User Group is meeting in Bellevue at the Microsoft Lincoln Square office. We will have pizza and soft drinks for everyone that attends. For this month’s presentation, I was called upon to fill in and have chosen
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:11 AM

Zune HD – It’s real….

Engadget has a great article on info they picked up on the rumored Zune HD device. We (Microsoft) have also posted an official Zune HD information page .   Briefly - 3.3” OLED Multi-touch screen (take that iPhone!) Integrated HD Radio receiver (take
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:43 AM

How does an IT Pro Thrive during these tough times?

This past week at TechEd, I interviewed an attendee that has leveraged the Microsoft Thrive sight which provides resources for IT Pros. These resources focus on improving your skills through training and certification, identifying career opportunities,
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:50 PM

Guitar Hero with Annie “Ecstacy” Leung at TechEd….

Woo HoO! I am at TechEd in Los Angeles talking face-to-face with IT Pros this week. I am working a couple of areas this week – the Thrive booth where we are talking about resources to help IT Pros with Virtualization, Cost Savings, Certification and lot
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:29 AM

It’s going to be a good day!

Why?   For one, I get to head downtown and hop on a ferry to go over to Poulsbo, WA for a User Group meeting this evening. I wish I had time to make the drive around the sound because I have not driven over into the peninsula area of WA yet
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:50 AM

Good Morning!

Subtitled – A room with a view…. I have been waiting to do this post ALL YEAR! This morning I woke up and started my normal routine – make myself some coffee, start making breakfast (toast, 1 fried egg, cottage cheese), turn on my Sirius satellite radio
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:01 AM

My first Netbook purchase…. Acer Aspire One….

About two weeks ago I made an impulse buy of a netbook PC. Consider it my contribution to stimulating the economy. I was at Fry’s pricing some hardware and getting ideas for a new TV for a Media room I am working on when I saw all the tiny netbooks and
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Monday, March 23, 2009 6:16 AM

Back from Vacation and travel....

Whew!   What a week it has been!  Spent time at the Windows/Exchange conferences last week and then another 4 days on vacation with my kids. Had a blast doing both and have a few stories to share once I get caught up with all of my admin
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:55 AM

Windows 7 Load & Learn event....

This morning I sat down with a couple of folks and we brainstormed up an event that we would like to try out. We are going to try to turn this around on pretty short notice so I am asking for your feedback on what you would like to see. The concept is
Posted by chrisavis | 5 Comments
Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:53 AM

Cleaning up my network.....

I am trying to consolidate my hardware and virtualize as many of my physical machines as I can right now. I am doing this because I want to be green, I want to keep my basement cool in the summer, and I want to simplify things. That last item is top priority
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Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:37 AM

Windows Firestarter event coming up at the Microsoft Campus....

On December the 12 th (Friday) we are going to have a Windows FireStarter event at the Microsoft Conference Center. If you are a Developer or an IT Pro you’d definitely not want to miss this event. Just like all other FireStarter Events, we will
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