March 2009 - Posts
Smart, finally, and simple. Microsoft Wants You to Know: PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs - Advertising Age - News
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A quick tip on squeezing about an inch of vertical screen space out of the MS Office ribbon UI (aka Microsoft Fluent User Interface ). Double-click the Ribbon UI heading to collapse it; double-click again to bring it back. Before: After: I was going to
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Maybe Windows 7 adoption will be faster than we think: Gartner: Don't Wait for Windows 7 SP1 - InternetNews.com
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Get this out of the way – Microsoft funded the study. Still interested in the results? Microsoft's IE8 Catches Most 'Social Malware' - News and Analysis by PC Magazine The malware above is “socially engineered malware”. I just got one this morning
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For those of you running IE 8 (thanks), you are by now familiar with Compatibility View. CV makes IE8 handle web pages that were designed for earlier version of IE. Occaisional errors: command buttons don’t work, media objects don’t play, etc. From the
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If you like the Kindle idea of reading books on a portable device, but you don’t want to go the e-book only route, try Adobe Digital Editions . Anything in their library that is not yet in the public domain (50 years after publishing), is limited to just
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Faced with having to redevelop some commercial websites to support Firefox, I tripped over a pretty cool Firefox Add-in – IE Tabs. I’m no Firefox expert, so I’m probably late to the dance on this, but in case you’ve been ALT+TABing between browsers when
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Breaking the rules and publishing multiple blog posts today, but erring on the side of timeliness. Woke this morning to find a new daily paper in my driveway – the Seattle Times . After 10 years of getting the PI, both in print and online, the printed
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Join the Microsoft Learning Community team as we make our way cross-country to find the best community evangelists, who'll each win the chance to travel with us on the Career Express bus to Tech·Ed North America 2009 in Los Angeles, May 11-15. We'll have
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From the March MCP newsletter: Microsoft Elevate America Launch (U.S. only) Microsoft has announced a partnership with government, private, public, and community organizations to launch Elevate America--a set of free and low-cost resources that provide
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Why so quiet lately? I’ve been heads down on a great opportunity to retrain and certify America’s recently unemployed. Now that the project has reached escape velocity, I am happy to share the news. Microsoft E-Learning is a featured benefit in the Microsoft
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