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SEP 05

The New Windows Consumer Campaign

Posted by Chris Flores

Tonight is an exciting night for Windows. Head over to the Microsoft PressPass Windows site to check out some of the experiences and changes we are driving online, with OEM, and at retail. While you are there, be sure to check out the video interview

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Tags: Windows, Featured News, Windows Consumer Campaign, Windows Brand, Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld

SEP 03

Update: Windows Vista and the Optimized Desktop

Posted by Chris Flores

A few months ago, first in January , and then again in May , Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the Enterprise, commented on our vision for the Optimized Desktop. Today, he posted on the MDOP Team Blog about the new virtualization

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, IT Pro, Optimized Desktop, MDOP

AUG 28

Tweakguides.com: Breath of Fresh Air

Posted by Chris Flores

I finally got around to reading this juicy, albeit lengthy, Tweakguide.com article, Vista Annoyances Resolved , last night in which Koroush Ghazi takes an objective view of Windows Vista from inception to its current state. You see, like a lot of us,

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Tweakguides.com

AUG 26

Mojave: The Experiment Continues…

Posted by Chris Flores

I'm posting this on behalf of my colleague David Webster: I'm David Webster --the guy "deep in the ranks" who dreamed up the Mojave Experiment. Today we updated the website with a few new videos, including sharing with you the fiercely debated demos that

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Windows Vista SP1, Mojave Experiment

AUG 25

Windows Vista Adoption Keeps Growing

Posted by Chris Flores

There's been a steady amount of buzz around the ‘net recently about Windows Vista adoption, sparked by a blog post last week questioning Windows Vista adoption rates and most recently by some great number crunching by Computerworld . In light of the various

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Adoption

AUG 21

Windows Vista: A better investment for your investments

Posted by Chris Flores

Interesting article in USA Today from Matt Krantz, the publication's financial markets reporter and an expert on online investing. Matt offers up an unbiased answer to a reader's question: What's a better computer for online investing, a PC or a Mac?

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Online Investing, Investment, PC, Matt Krantz, USA Today

AUG 14

Video Demo: Identifying Security Vulnerabilities for Your Desktop Infrastructure

Posted by Baldwin Ng

Whether you are planning to deploy Windows Vista or already did, it is important that you keep security high on your list and make sure that all of your desktops are secured. So, how do you know if your desktops have Windows Firewall settings turned off?

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Tags: Windows Vista, Windows, Announcement, Security, Featured News, Demo, demos, Windows Vista Hardware Assessement Tool, Microsoft Assessment and Planning, MAP, Deployment, IT Pro

JUL 30

Windows Vista 64-bit Today

Posted by Chris Flores

There appears to be a shift taking place in the PC industry: the move from 32-bit to 64-bit PCs. We've been tracking the change by looking at the percentage of 64-bit PCs connecting to Windows Update, and have seen a dramatic increase in recent months.

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Tags: Windows Vista, Hardware, Featured News, 64-bit, x64, Memory, WOW64, Windows SuperFetch

JUL 29

Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts

Posted by Chris Flores

Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the results with the public. For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it's a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago. We

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Windows Mojave, Mojave, Mojave Experiment

JUL 25

Forrester Gets Schizophrenic on Windows Vista

Posted by Chris Flores

This week Forrester Research analyst Thomas Mendel published a report that claims that Windows Vista has been "rejected" in the enterprise and suggests to his customers that they should re-evaluate their Windows Vista deployments and consider waiting

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News

JUN 30

Essential Tool for the Job - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Windows Vista (RTM Announcement)

Posted by Baldwin Ng

RTM Announcement - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 Hello, It's been a few months since I last blogged about the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 - formerly known as WVHA or Windows Vista Hardware Assessment. Today, I'd like

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JUN 13

Behind the Scenes of the Windows Vista Sound Schemes

Posted by Chris Flores

I'm posting this on behalf of my colleague Steve Ball. Hi, my name is Steve Ball and I'm a Principal Program Manager Lead on the Windows Sound Team . I'd like to take a moment and give some background on sound schemes in Windows as well as the new sound

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Tags: Windows Vista, Audio, Featured News, Robert Fripp, Ultimate Extras, Sound Schemes, Steve Ball

JUN 09

IE partners with American Forests for green Carbon Grove campaign

Posted by Chris Flores

Last month, Window's Internet Explorer launched Carbon Grove, a green campaign designed to mobilize internet users to pursue reductions in their personal carbon footprints. Today, we are excited to announce that the campaign is expanding to France, and

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Tags: Windows Vista, Windows, IE7, Featured News, Internet Explorer, IE8, WebSlice, Carbon Grove, American Forest

JUN 09

Need answers about Windows Vista? New Windows Client TechCenter Launches

Posted by Chris Flores

Unfortunately I was unable to make TechEd this year. Today marks the start of a highly eventful week at our yearly conference for IT professionals. Roughly 10,000 attendees will gather at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FLA. This year at TechEd

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Springboard Series, Mark Russinovich, IT Pro, Enterprise, TechNet, TechEd 2008, Windows Client TechCenter

JUN 04

New Whitepaper: The Business Value of Windows Vista

Posted by Chris Flores

This one is for all you IT professionals out there. A lot of you are probably having discussions inside your company about when to deploy Windows Vista, or you've deployed it and want to know which of the new capabilities can have the biggest impact on

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, BitLocker, Enterprise, Whitepaper, Business