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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:52 PM

Windows Server Content Joins the ‘Sphere

Twitter. IT Pros. Seems like vinegar and oil? Perhaps not. We’ve started a twitter feed to notify you when new stuff publishes into the IT Pro Library on TechNet for Windows Server . Come check it out at http://twitter.com/WinSrv Tell them Professor Windows
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Friday, October 30, 2009 10:23 AM

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.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:59 PM

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
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:20 PM

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
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:27 PM

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
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Friday, October 02, 2009 9:47 AM

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
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Friday, August 21, 2009 11:01 AM

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
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Friday, August 07, 2009 12:00 PM

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.
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Monday, August 03, 2009 2:27 PM

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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Friday, July 24, 2009 11:54 AM

Hyper-V How To: Fall In Love with With Hyper-V

I guess, just follow the jhiggins twitter feed…
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Monday, July 20, 2009 9:03 AM

Magnificent Desolation

Job I would not want – the person who must make the potentially career-limiting-decision each and every day about which image will go on the Bing homepage. Kudos to you, whoever you are. Job well done. Everyday. Keep it up.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:10 PM

Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Gates!

Bill Gates is offering you the Feynman lecture series “The Character of Physical Law” for free-as-in-beer ( Silverlight required, but no sign-in!). In the intro, Gates explains: “More than 20 years after first seeing them, these are still some of the
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Friday, July 10, 2009 2:26 PM

One if by land, two if by sea, three if by wiki…

Most Americans have forgotten, or never learned that Paul Revere’s famous coded signal “one if by land, two if by sea…” referred to lights that were to be posted in the Old North Church , an Anglican church, when the British Army was moving to round up
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Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:41 PM

More Floors Added to the Tower of Babel: Free-as-in-beer Maren Arabic Romanizer

Microsoft recently released a free-as-in-beer Windows extension that allows you to type Arabic in Roman characters and have it converted on the fly to Arabic script.  Maren integrates seamlessly with Windows and works in most Windows applications
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:10 PM

How To: Become a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft

Joe’s Misfit Geek post today gives some good answers to I’m asked, how did you learn what you know ?”, including: “1. Spend your beer money on books. … 3.) Always have two jobs. …and… 4.) Fight with your boss.” Tony’s additional tips: 1. Leave no free-as-in-beer
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