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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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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:48 PM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending – 05-08-2009…..

Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate · Windows Server 2008 R2 RC Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V) · Windows Virtual PC Beta · RAIL QFE Beta for Vista SP1 · RAIL QFE Beta
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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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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:56 PM

Uncompressed HDTV....over USB?

Wow!   Imagine a day when you can buy a hard drive or other USB type device that is jam packed with ultra high quality HD programming in full surround sound and all you have to do is plug it into a USB port to view it. According to this article
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:15 PM

I played a Wii for the first time tonight....

Setup - My daughters live in Texas with their mother. They have a Wii. I am visiting my daughters. Tonight, my youngest daughter, Samantha (9), asked me to play a video game with her. She fires up Guitar Hero 3 (awesome!) on her Wii. I watched her put
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:42 PM

Did my mouse just jump a shark?

I just sat down at my laptop and realized I don't have my external mouse plugged in. As I am going for it, it dawns on me that I can't remember the last time I used the external mouse with my laptop. I think it was for my event in Berkeley, CA about three
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Friday, October 03, 2008 8:01 AM

Zune software coming to Windows Mobile?

According to a post over at wmpoweruser.com , Steve Ballmer confirmed the Zune software will be coming to the Windows Mobile platform. More importantly, he notes what everyone should be realizing by now - "At the end of the day, one of the big trends
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:37 AM

Interesting interview with founders of The Pirate Bay...

This article is an interesting read . I really appreciate that these guys don't hide under rocks and are accessible. I would really enjoy seeing them speak at a conference.   Cheers!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:37 PM

Lots of tech news today....

This afternoon I started typing up a post with links to a bunch of interesting tech stuff. Then I ran across this post by Scoble and realized he had already done all the heavy lifting. I scrapped my post and will share a few other tidbits.... WaMu sold
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Monday, September 22, 2008 7:15 AM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 09-19-2008

Infrastructure Development & Operations · Update for Outlook 2003 (KB924423) · Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Drive Extender · Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Home Networking · Windows Home Server Technical Brief
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Friday, September 19, 2008 6:11 AM

The new "I'm a PC" commercials....

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch posted about the new commercials we are showing. I like them because they show the many different kinds of PC users that are out there. It really only scratches the surface though. Think about it.....when you are walking
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:58 AM

Zune 3.0 Update available....

We announced the Zune 3.0 software update today and you can get the software over at Zune.net . I have my 2nd generation Zune with me and just started the download.    Check it out!   Cheers!
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 7:44 PM

Can you sing?

The wife and I are heading out to our usual Saturday night Karaoke hangout - Damon's in Bellevue. It is located just off 148th and HWY 520. It is in the same shopping area as the Safeway. It is not on the Azteca side of the freeway. Swing on by if you
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Friday, September 12, 2008 11:25 AM

Metallica full album "Death Magnetic" released as Guitar Hero 3 Tracks....

Dudes and Dudettes..... I just decided to take a break, grab a bite to eat and bang out a few tracks on Guitar Hero when I noticed there was a new pack to download. Turns out Metallica has released their entire new album as Guitar Hero tracks. I have
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:08 PM

The LHC Rap....

There have been a few news articles on the Large Hadron Collider lately. Plenty of news on TV as well. But my favorite tidbit of information on the LHC comes in the form of the LHC Rap video. if you have kids and you want to try to get them into particle
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