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Monday, June 16, 2008 10:04 AM

No TV service for a year.....

I canceled my cable TV service today. Later this afternoon I am going to drop off the HD DVR and since I have consistently overpaid my bill for the last year they actually owe me money when all is said and done. People that know me real well might think
Posted by chrisavis | 8 Comments
Monday, May 19, 2008 9:01 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program - Helping you test/pilot Microsoft Technologies...

Need some help to test/pilot the latest Microsoft infrastructure technologies list here? Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 IIS7 Forefront Edge (ISA) Forefront Client & Server Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 or Windows Server Virtualization Windows Vista
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Friday, May 16, 2008 7:38 AM

Guitar Hero 4....

I am a BIG Guitar Hero fan. I have been playing about a year now ever since I stumbled onto the game at a Microsoft training seminar. I started with Guitar Hero 2 for the XBox 360. It took me about 6 months to get through the whole game on Expert. I never
Posted by chrisavis | 2 Comments
Friday, May 02, 2008 4:42 PM

Rebuilding the home network....

I have spoken about my home network at a  few presentations and during the breaks there have been plenty of "oh yeah!?!?! well I have....." conversations. I think some of the most interesting conversations are around how we name our machines
Posted by chrisavis | 6 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:55 AM

Cutting the wires....

subtitled......Oh Tesla, oh Tesla....where art thou? Trapeze Networks is on stage right now at the Angelbeat conference and he is talking about the 802.11n wireless spec. The promise of super high speed wireless connectivity is finally becoming a reality.
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:46 AM

By your frakkin' command....

Many, many moons ago, when life in the late 70's was simple, disco sucked (it still does, btw....), Apple Computers was a computer company, and people were worried about global cooling , I started watching a science fiction TV series about robots with
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:42 AM

UltimatePC.com

I ran across an announcement in email this morning that we (MS) recently brought a new website online that caters to higher end PC enthusiasts. Particularly those who are running Windows Vista Ultimate. I verified the site came up and started down the
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:37 AM

Launch Time....

Yeah, yeah, yeah..... Chris Henley beat me out by presenting in Los Angeles last week, but nothing is like New York (btw...that is me sinking the putt if you click the previous link). I am sitting in the green room at the Sheraton Towers on 7th Ave, just
Posted by chrisavis | 5 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 8:06 AM

What do you want in a Webcast?

For that matter.....Do you even like Microsoft Webcasts? My team is on a conference call right now and we are discussing webcast attendance and how to get more people to attend. All of us are raising some interesting questions but we are on the inside
Posted by chrisavis | 8 Comments
Monday, January 07, 2008 8:57 AM

Great new Microsoft Spoof video.....

There have been some funny spoof videos over the years, but this is one of the best. It is also the single most star studded video (that I have seen us do). And it is long! Clear the next 7 minutes.....and laugh out loud...it's good for you! Bill Gates’
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:04 PM

Does Chris get it?

If you read my previous post and bothered to go out to the Robert Scoble's post which prompted it, you will see me kind of going toe-to-toe with Robert. In my own opinion, I think Robert just doesn't like being confronted much less being wrong which is
Posted by chrisavis | 16 Comments
Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:17 PM

Does Scoble get it?

Check out one of Robert Scoble's recent posts regarding connecting a MacMini to an HDTV . He runs through a list of cool things he now has because he connected the MacMini to a computer to his HDTV. There isn't a item in his list that we have not been
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:02 PM

Zune 2.0 is here!

Larry Larsen over at on10.net has posted some details regarding the new Zune 2.0 players. You can also head over to the Zune Marketplace for some more information as well. The Cool Features -- Over the air sync (don't need to dock!), WMA Lossless Support,
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:23 AM

Red Zuny Goodness...other Zuny things...

My house now has three Zunes - White Zune for the wife and Black Zune for me. Red is my favorite color. Even though I already have Black Zune, I had to get Red Zune just because. It isn't the red I expected or wanted, but it has already grown on me since
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Friday, July 06, 2007 8:14 AM

Livestation....kind of Orby....

I have been a fan of Orb for years now. Orb is a free service that lets you stream anything you have on your Windows Media Center PC to any device that has a web browser. This includes your recorded TV, ripped music and movies, even pictures. I once used
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
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