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The story from June 2008: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/ Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system,
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Windows 7 does an excellent job of hiding the various notification icons that vendors (yes, even us) seem heck-bent on using to grab your attention in XP/Vista. However, there may be some icons (perhaps Communicator or Windows Live Messenger) that you’d
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If you do demonstrations or webcasts from your computer, used the desktop screen sharing feature on Office Communicator 2007 R2 , or asked for remote assistance you may have inadvertently shown your desktop to your co-workers, a client, or the world.
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If you are a long term Windows user, you right-click everything. That right-click menu offers a lot of options, and it is comforting to see everything that you can do at any given time. Heck… you can often Shift-right-click and get even MORE
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Just saw this over on The Road to Know Where , and is really quite nice… You can run through a quick wizard over on the Bing Site Owner site, and it will generate some HTML that you can past on your site to add a Bing Search Box that will search both
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Wow, that sounds kind of dirty… I am proud to say that I have managed to make it this far without joining the time sink that is Twitter (although watching CNN, you’d think that it will eventually replace speech as the primary form of human communication).
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Cool Instant Answer on Bing … just visit and search for “<job> salary”
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YAASAFTSAT (AKA Yet Another Awesome Solution Accelerator From the Solution Accelerator Team) :) Check out the new Service Level Dashboard 2.0 Beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC1 This free Solution Accelerator collects and monitors operational
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If you are like me, you haven’t fired up WordPad since somewhere around 1998. It has virtually no functionality at all. Except… now it does. I was listening to Windows Weekly , and Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte mentioned that WordPad is significantly
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Unless you are Uber-l33t, you are probably not working on your Microsoft Certified Master certification. This is where the best-of-the-best come visit the better-of-the-best on the Redmond Campus to learn everything there is to know about
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One thing that we are absolutely doing right in Windows 7 is paying attention to tiny details that may seem trivial, but that add significant polish to the End User experience. In checking the date today, I see that the clock politely informs me that
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If you at all like music, you probably visit Pandora ( http://www.pandora.com ) on a regular basis. Tonight, I noticed that they have a Gadget that will let you play their awesome playlists directly from your sidebar (or if you are on Windows 7,
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SharePoint and Office go together like peanut butter and chocolate, like Captain & Tennille, like bees and honey. Despite using SharePoint to hold and version my documents for the last year or so, I have somehow completely overlooked an AWESOME
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If you have played with the Zune 3.0 software and let it sit for a few minutes, you’ve probably seen the cool new “Now Playing” screens that come up with pictures of the artists, their bios, playcounts, etc. If are impatient and don’t want to wait for
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I know I have fallen woefully behind in my blogging… for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to sign up for 18 college credits while working full time, which has left me precious little time for things I once enjoyed, like blogging, sleep, or
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