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Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:21 PM

Zune Upgrade & New Games Available

Minor Zune software upgrade available (upgrades you ZuneHD to 4.3) with some new 3D games as well. Log in and check for updates :) Check Engadgets review here Have you tried playing your Zune Pass through a browser yet?
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:09 PM

Windows 7 USB ISO Tool

The Microsoft Store released a tool to allow you to place a Windows 7 ISO on a USB flash drive and boot directly from the usb drive to do your Windows install. Very useful for installing on systems without DVD drives, e.g. Netbook or people like me who
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:40 PM

Launch day !!! Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 released

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 both went to public release today (GA), both operating systems have been available via Volume License, MSDN & Technet previously. You will start to see some very cool hardware coming your way from the various OEMs,
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:49 PM

Free Windows 7 Ebook

Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine Brief Description Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine Download the New eBook: Deploying Windows® 7 Essential
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Monday, October 19, 2009 4:48 PM

Zune software

If you read my blog, you know I'm a Zune user (surprise on a microsoft blog). However I honestly believe that subscription music models do change the way that you listen to your music, instead of carefully deciding (especially in present economic conditions)
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Monday, October 19, 2009 4:34 PM

Security Essentials (Morro)

Microsoft released the free consumer oriented Anti Virus solution (previously code named Morro). Official take -> Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious
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Monday, October 19, 2009 4:16 PM

Windows 7 & XPM

Despite running Windows 7 for almost a year now, and the OS going to RTM sometime ago, Windows 7 only goes GA (general availability, i.e. on the shelf) on Thursday 22nd this week. Hopefully everyone has taken a look at this point, really good improvement,
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Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:48 AM

Zune HD

Hopefully you have heard about Zune HD, the next version of Zune player from Microsoft (see earlier post for some pics), and you know beyond being a great device, it offers a subscription service for music, monthly fee under $15 for all the music you
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Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:30 AM

Home Group

I've been posting some articles about how we share/carry our information around in the new world of multiple devices and form factors. Most of us today have some form of smartphone, probably a laptop/netbook and perhaps one or two more machines at home
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Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:22 AM

Live Mesh

One of the most underated free services ever, if you have not seen or used Live Mesh yet ... go do it ... now! To borrow from the site -> Your work computer. Your home laptop. Your Mac. Your mobile phone. Devices live in multiple places. But the files
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Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:08 AM

Home Server

Windows Home Server has been around for a few years now, and has been improving steadily. For those who don't know it, it is a great product for people who typically have more than one machine at home and provides functionality such as - Automatic backup
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Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:40 AM

Windows Mobile Software

Windows Mobile has been around for a really long time now (debut was in 2000, yes 9 years ago, long before the concept of smartphones got popular). My latest is a Samsung Omnia (yes, I have a Samsung phone, netbook & LCD TV), actually had this one
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Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:28 AM

Windows 7 and form factor choices.

If you've read my blog before, you know I have a Samsung NC10 running Windows 7 since the early betas, I've now upgraded to RTM Ultimate and I am very happy with the results. Netbooks are really a form factor choice, and I've always been facinated with
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:12 PM

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 & Hyper-V R2 RTM'ed !!!

So big news today, 3 major products went RTM all at the same time, there will be lots of news and more authorative blogs out there, so I'll just throw in a few pointers. Windows 7, the next desktop OS (replaces Vista), if you haven't downloaded the beta
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:03 PM

Bing !

So Bing has got a fair amount of press and advertising recently and rightly so, some of us have been using it in it's previous codenamed variant for quite a while and I honestly don't use any other search engine now. But like any tool, you get the most
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