January 2007 - Posts
There is a new Microsoft Partner in Ft. Worth. The owner Greg Kane use to work with me many years ago when I owned a consulting firm in Dallas. Here is his contact information. I hear he is still a great programmer. Greg Kane Nautilus Business Group,
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I had a friend send me this story. It sounds very interesting. I have Charter for my ISP, I hope it doesn't happen to me. http://netsecurity.about.com/od/webbrowsersecurity/ss/charterhijack.htm What do you think about this? Would you be upset?
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My co-worker Chris Henley is getting some great press lately. Here is a big story: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0207730.htm Check out his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/chenley
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I saw this article today on fellow Microsofter and fellow sailor. Very scary. I hope is his OK. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/MISSING.TMP here is a second article http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16577699.htm our
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Thanks to Mr. John Baker for the following information on Readyboost. You can see his blog at http://blogs.technet.com/johnbaker Windows Vista ReadyBoost Requirements Supported Form Factors and Busses ReadyBoost supports USB flash drives, Secure Digital
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http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml Funny!
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117019715069692873.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace We moved up from #7 last year to #1 this year. Cool!
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I am in NYC tonight for an Exchange partner event tomorrow. I had a little time tonight to walk around Time Square. I love the lights and all of the signs. As I thought, Vista is everywhere. Right about the ESPN Zone is there show us your "WOW" Vista
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www.skysurprise.com If you are running Vista, go to this site, you can get free access to T-Mobile hotspots until April 30th. We were passing out sickers with this on it today, now it's on my blog for anyone to find out about. Go enjoy!!
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I blogged about this a couple of weeks ago. MSNBC and news.com had articles back on 1/18 about it. Here is the deal. Buy Vista Ultimate. Then get up to two copies of Home Premium for $49.99 each. here is where you get exact information on how to get this
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I spend 5 hours last night and 12 hours today at the Best Buy by my house. It was lots of fun. I got to train the floor staff on how to demo Vista/Office and all the upgrade options, pricing and the features of it. This morning we handed out t-shirts,
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go check out the videos on http://www.microsoftwowlaunch.com We had an great launch today.
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My friend Michael J. Murphy did a Vista, Exchange 2007 and Office 2007 launch event last week. He is so fun. He got his audience to "Do the WAVE!". Go check it out: http://blogs.technet.com/mjmurphy/ Enjoy!
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I will be at our local Best Buy helping out. Do you have plans to be one of the first to get Vista? if so, let me know I would love to hear your story! Tomorrow is going to be amazing. I have seen Vista everywhere today. Email from Costo, BillG on Today
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You know what a Sunday Drive is right? It is the way to get the family together, nothing to do, the weather is nice, so you go 'drive around' to see the sites. Waste away your Sunday. No football to watch..... Not here in Texas!! When we go for a Sunday
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No not the old Carl Sagan statement about the stars. I am talking Money. Remember when $1 Million was a lot of money? Last night Microsoft released our earnings for the last 90 days. 12 Billion in Sales and some 2-3 Billion in profit depending up on if
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I am just amazed at all of this viral marketing. Here are some more. http://vistatestdrive.com allows you to test drive vista in a virtual machine. www.vistaparty.net if you are in the San Fransisco area, a user group is giving a party in honor of Vista!
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About once every 6 months or so I go MSN search or Google my name. Everyone does it right? Well I put in "John Weston Microsoft" it was amazing how many hits came back. My two blogs, events I have done, webcasts, Radio shows, user groups all kinds of
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http://showusyourwow.msn.com/?id=53648 click on the link and vote for my picture!!
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I keep finding these sites. Here is another one. yes cool, our as my teenagers would say "Tight" it is a way for companies to showcase software they have built around Vista, not too much up there yet, but I love the community nature of it. Make sure you
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www.showusyourwow.com is a new site we just put up. Watch the opening video from Billg. Cool stuff. I just uploaded a picture of kids sailing. 19,000 other people have already uploaded a video or picture, go look around, oops, you will be lost for a while,
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-24ExtendedSupportWindowsMA.mspx is the official press release. Until April 2009 for full support and then Extended support for 5 years after that!
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Apparently the directions to Download/install the Office 2007 that we are giving away at our events isn't very clear. When you download it, you are prompted for a trial key, don't use that one use the key give out in your kit from the event. Also be careful
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Tomorrow is the Vista Product Launch event in Boston. Look at what the Boston Globe is saying: The Vista effect For every $1 spent on Microsoft's new operating system, businesses and consumers will spend $9.33 on hardware $5.35 on software $3.93 on service
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Who would have thought it would happen. Check this story out: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-22MSWalMartPR.mspx Wal-Mart is buying Suse servers, now that Microsoft is in the picture. here is what the press is saying: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300731_msftwalmart23.html
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Go check this out: The first one was last Friday, I helped with questions, man you guys have a bunch of questions about Exchange 2007. Go find out more!! TechNet Webcast Series: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 Get a comprehensive look at Microsoft Exchange
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300636_msftimmortal22.html NOT Immoral computing, IMMORTAL don't forget the 'T' We are working on a way to send email in the future, not tomorrow, or next week, but generations in the future, to make sure you are
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So I have attending this session about Novell and GWAVA called GWAVACON. GWAVA has a community site called www.gwavanation.com I posted there to announce that I have been at the conference and blogging about it here, we will see if anyone replies. Go
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Novell Religion I have met several people here that are religious about Novell. They love Everything RED! I am not going to try to change their minds. It is not worth the time. I am in the keynote here at GWAVACON and a Novell VP of marketing is talking.
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You might not have noticed that last week we released a new version of BDD 2007, free to download. Here you can get more information about it: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopdeployment/bdd/2007/default.mspx If you are planning to roll out Vista
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Here are more observations from my attendance at a Novell conference. I attended a session titled "Defense against Microsoft" The speaker spotted me right away and we had a good conversation. I listened quitely to his argument for Groupwise and against
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This week I have been attending a Novell conference hosted by a company called GWAVA. GWAVA is a company that makes sofware to work with Novell servers, Groupwise, and monitoring software. Here at Microsoft we are tasked with going out a couple of times
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At our launch event on Tuesday in Memphis, Matt Hester ( http://blogs.technet.com/mathewms ) demoed the speech recognition of Vista as our last demo of the day. The crowd went wild. The people I was standing around just couldn't believe that was Windows
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Now you don't have to get up at 6AM on January 30th and head to you local computer store! SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. will make its new Windows Vista operating system available for sale and download online, marking a new step for the software company, which
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I was reading news.com this morning and came across this quote: Microsoft wants to get your whole house running Windows Vista. In what is being billed as a limited time offer, Microsoft will let those who buy a boxed version of Vista Ultimate Edition
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UPDATE BELOW I have been getting request for the slides that we show at our events. This is only for people that attend our events!! Just kidding. Really, go to the hidden share off our main www.technetevents.com http://www.technetevents.com/resources/2007-January-March.aspx
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/archive/benjamin.mspx Is the link they put up today, go download and listen to THE EXCHANGEGUY!! it is from an interview I did last week with him. We discussion Exchange 2007 and community and the Exchange
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Well yesterday was our first Launch events. Exchange 2007, Vista, and Office 2007. We had great questions from the audience. Our content is technical. It still amazed me how many people haven't seen that much of Vista yet. We showed how to deply it using
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Yep, Launch is coming!!! Besides all of these launch events, Launch Day January 30th is coming soon. I learned of a new program where we, the MS Employees get to sign up to go demo Vista at local Computer Stores. I have signed up for the Best Buy in Denton
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Yep it's icy in Dallas. I need to get to Memphis today. My flight got cancelled this morning. I hope I make the one at 1PM. I went out to de-ice my car and broke off the handle. My daughter had done that to her car in the last ice storm in November. Wish
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I have now done two TechNet radio recordings. The first one had over 2,000 hits Since it came out last month. Amazing! My second one will go live on the web this coming Tuesday. Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/default.mspx to
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I am getting ready to do a webcast this morning on Exchange 2007 Recipient Management, Policies, and permissions. Come join the fun. If you can't join live the same link should get you to the recording of the session. If I get a bunch of questions, I
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January 30th is they day they will be availble to the public. They being Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007. Our team Microsoft Across America does seminars for many different customer segments in the US. We will be doing Launch events in 59 cities
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Have you heard about the Mystery game? If you love Vista, you will love this. www.vanishingpointgame.com Mysterys all over. Solve the puzzles and you will be put in the drawing for some great prizes. I wish I could win the trip to almost outerspace....
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So the other day I looked at the games on Vista. Chess, that's cool. You have to go experience the interface. My 6 year old loves to play it now. "Daddy can we put that Vista stuff on all the computers in the house?" He asked? I guess I need to go buy
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We have been having all kinds of strange weather across the US. 3 major snow storms in Denver, Snow and wind in Seattle, Drought in Texas, and No snow in NYC and 70's in January. What's up with all of this crazy weather? Well I heard a great quote yesterday.
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Vista ships to customers January 30, we are counting down the hours! At the Consumer Electronics show Bill G. announced a new cool feature. It is know as Vista Ulimate Extras. Sounds like we may ship several of these over time, who knows. He announced
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I get strange email everyday, but this one topped it yesterday. We got an email from our "corporate" team that says, our launch events start next Tuesday January 16th. All looks good on registration but three cities. I just can't believe that the people
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I am presenting in Memphis, TN on Tuesday of next week. 8 days from now. If you want to come see me www.microsoft.com/business/launch2007 But here is something interesting. It is suppose to be sunny, but cool in Memphis a week from now. The problem is,
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So I have 4 kids, two of them teenagers. They are the expert on this topic not me. Since I work for Microsoft of course I want them to use MS products. My 16 year old son has had an Ipod for some time. He is allowed to have Itunes on his computer, but
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I am part of the Microsoft Across America Team. We start on January 16th, 2007 doing Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 Launch events. We were told today that EVERY attendee will get a copy of Office Professional 2007. Please go to our website to sign
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