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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:14 PM
Using Bing with Firefox 3.5 – default search engine
I run my share of software that isn’t made by Microsoft. Like a number of you, I downloaded and installed Firefox 3.5. I really have to because I need to make sure the Firefox experience is good on my blog and on edge.technet.com. Gotta
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Monday, June 01, 2009 10:06 AM
Bing.com is now live on the World Wide Web
http://bing.com is now available !!!
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Friday, December 12, 2008 1:02 AM
Last cell phone post for a while
I'm sure at this point you're tired of hearing about my trials and tribulations in the world of cell phones. I can't say I blame you. It's time to move on to more important things like Windows 7 Beta 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 betas, and some
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Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:01 AM
Springboard Series – Windows Vista Performance
WARNING – this is a progressive download video. It is not streamed. Therefore the entire 400MB video is downloaded and played if you click the big START button above. What’d you expect for 60 minutes of video? If you want to download the video and play
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:12 AM
Windows vs Walls
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:11 PM
Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides – the list gets longer
File Name: File Size Creating_and_Deploying_Active_Directory_Rights_Management_Services_Templates_Step-by-Step_Guide.doc 158 KB Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services in a Multiple Forest Environment Step-by-Step Guide.doc 314 KB Deploying
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:58 PM
Seen www.live.com lately ???
[UPDATE for 8/11/2008] Apparently the kewl pictures are for the USA based web browsers only. I have no idea why the global dns name for live.com would be implemented in such a manner with the global Oympics taking placing.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:01 AM
My Favorite Windows Vista Runtime Improvements (RTI)
There’s an acronym from the past for you. Run Time Improvements (RTI). I am always looking for ways to squeeze another speed improvement out of Windows Vista . In fact, a few weeks ago I made some changes to my Dell Latitude D820 and it made a very real
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Friday, April 25, 2008 2:53 PM
Matt Makes the Homepage of Edge
Matt Hester is one of the subject matter experts on my team in the Search and Sharepoint product mix. Recently Matt recorded a screencast on installing Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 on Windows Server 2008. Specifically, he
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:44 AM
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 - get it FREE !!!
Everyone likes free stuff. Microsoft Search Server Express is FREE! Go from downloading to searching in minutes with a streamlined installation experience , which makes it easy to quickly get an enterprise search infrastructure running in your environment.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:22 PM
Windows Vista SP1 - the case of the missing Search item
Now that we're starting to open the floodgates to the masses, one thing that will likely become apparent is that there are some subtle user interface changes. For those of you that like to click the Windows Pearl (also known as the Start button),
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Monday, February 11, 2008 10:56 PM
The Book of Longhorn - get it here
As you'll recall, there was a really nice book about Windows Vista and explored all of the features in the desktop operating system. Wouldn't it be nice if such a book existed for Windows Server 2008? Your wish is my command. Unfortunately
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 1:42 PM
Windows Vista SP1 is coming and I'm digging it now
One of the benefits of working for a software company is watching a product release develop then ship. Of course sometimes dogfooding software has pitfalls so some would debate the "benefit" statement. It's pretty rare for our internal MSIT folks to mandate
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:42 AM
Register NOW for Windows Server 2008 launch events !!!
If you have not registered for the Windows Server 2008 launch events in the US, what are you waiting for? REGISTER NOW at http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/register/default.mspx . Let's not forget we'll also be launching SLQ Server
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Friday, December 07, 2007 10:00 PM
The Face of Windows Server 2008
Join in the fun at https://www.microsoft.com/servers/faces/ . This is an interesting new resource area for Windows Server 2008.
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