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Love Me, Love My OS

There is an interesting IT Pro content development over  in KBs. When I go to a KB that does not apply to my current OS, I get this: This is frequent scenario for IT Pros because security best practice is to NOT browse the web from your server. So,

Duck, Duck, Goose: Can Non_Humans Participate in Community?

There’s an interesting experiment in community just started over at TechNet/MSDN called the Community Machine Translation Pilot . The first member of the community is the machine translation (MT) service (thanks Microsoft research!). The MT service (not

Day in the Life of an IT Pro/Dev Writer/Editor

IO XKCD 1K words…cause his pictures say it all… BTW, among the ultra-coolness of XKCD: Re-use policy: http://xkcd.com/license.html   Searchable! Try searching on organic fuel

Where is the Arrow?

Did you know there is an arrow in the FedEx logo? Now that it has been pointed out, will you ever NOT see it? This is an example used in Ric Merrifield’s Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation to illustrate how changing

How to: Set Bing Images as Your Desktop Wallpaper

CodePlex has a nifty free-as-in-beer app that sets your desktop wallpaper with the Bing daily image. Salty goodness. And Free-as-in-beer.

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

Scientists in Switzerland map the human brain on hallucinogens. Measured this way, all tripper’s brains look the same, yet internally, each drug-takers experience is different and personal… Warning : clicking the link subjects you to a short commercial

Not the Windows 7 Launch Post You Were Expecting

Yesterday I blogged about the awesome new bing search for twitter . You don’t need to follow the tweetstorm to know by now that Windows 7 was released today. I’m with James on this one: today is A uniquely good day to be at Microsoft . Plus, last night

Bing Does Twitter

Bing.com now searches twitter. Interesting way to keep tabs on the twitterverse chatter about *things you care what people are twittering about*. For example:

Devs Lead the Way

In the beginning, there was blogs.msdn.com. IT Pro bloggers posted there, because there was no place for IT Pros to blog. Then there was blogs.technet.com. Looks like the devs are leading the way again with the recent update on mdsn.com of “community

Follow vs Post: What’s the Payback for Time Spent on Twitter?

According to my teenager, “twitter is creepy, its just stalking. I mean the button you push says follow”! Duh!.” Yet, some in the business press in the US say Microsoft should buy Twitter . Hrmm… Microsoft advertises job listings there , Bing integrates

Dunbar’s Number and Wikiality

Dunbar’s number is said to be about 150. The new book Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape our Lives , advocates, among other things, that human nature will correct Wikiality to more closely reflect reality. Now, there

The Future of Digital IT Pro Books = Vooks?

An interesting development in the world of publishing launched yesterday – Vooks . Vooks are described on the website as: “You can read your book, watch videos that enhance the story and connect with authors and your friends through social media all on

There is no “Them” There

Another Pun-tastic blog post title designed to defeat SEO! Seriously though, in talking about Community (notice the capital C there?) with my peers, I encourage them to stop thinking of “us” as opposed “ them”, meaning YOU. “The Community” (another capital

Hyper-V Common Criteria Certification

  Q: Is Hyper-V Common Criteria Certified (Common Criteria level EAL4 augmented by ALC_FLR.3)? A: Heck ya: : http://www.bsi.de/zertifiz/zert/reporte.htm#Midsize_Systems :-) Congrats to the Hyper-V team.

Forum Greatest Hits: Call Now, Operators Are On Duty

Markus, the moderator over on the ILM forum, has created an interesting new content form: Forum Greatest Hit .   GHs are technical articles that are developed to address the following three key areas: Discoverability – For common questions, you should
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