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Hyper-V TV: Martin McClean on the Free-as-in-beer Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster for IT Pros

tonyso — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:23:32 GMT

My colleague Martin McClean recently sat down with me to record a video with some information about his recently released Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster for IT Pros. You can see a bit it of it behind his head… Click on the image to play...(read more)

How Content Planning Works

tonyso — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:44:11 GMT

Once again XKCD proves how much content development for the IT Pro is like software engineering:...(read more)

Love Me, Love My OS

tonyso — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:06:58 GMT

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,...(read more)

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

tonyso — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:09:04 GMT

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...(read more)

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

tonyso — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:09 GMT

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...(read more)

Hats Off to Bing

tonyso — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:02:58 GMT

Like I said in Magnificent Desolation , I would not want the job of selecting the Bing homepage image each day, because it the decision is fraught . Whoever you are, keep up the good work! Here’s how to set the Bing image as your desktop wallpaper...(read more)

Windows Server Content Joins the ‘Sphere

tonyso — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:52:10 GMT

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...(read more)

Where is the Arrow?

tonyso — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:13:46 GMT

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...(read more)

How to: Set Bing Images as Your Desktop Wallpaper

tonyso — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:23:24 GMT

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....(read more)

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

tonyso — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:37:06 GMT

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...(read more)

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

tonyso — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:07:03 GMT

I was a ha-yuge Laurie Anderson fan in the 80s. I’ve seen her perform live more than I’ve seen any other artist, United Sates a couple of times, and Mister Heartbreak twice. Think that defines me as a fan. “Holy smokes, looks like some kind of guest/host...(read more)

Forget the Whopper, Win 7 is Wheedonesque

tonyso — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:50:00 GMT

There is a fascinating new time-waster at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/social/ , including this gem for Firefly fans… I’ll be in my bunk…...(read more)

Not the Windows 7 Launch Post You Were Expecting

tonyso — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:59:03 GMT

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...(read more)

Bing Does Twitter

tonyso — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:00:25 GMT

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:...(read more)

Devs Lead the Way

tonyso — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:44:08 GMT

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...(read more)