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Windows PC are looking better than ever!
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30 days ago
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Edward Ferron
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Here is a great video on some of the Ultrabooks that are out today and some coming out soon.
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Windows Phone - Mango Coming Soon!
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5 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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This release will not disappoint!
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Enterprise social networks ...
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7 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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Enterprise social networks are the same as consumer social networks, it is about connecting people. Connecting people is the business value, you higher employees to work together to accomplish a series of goals. Social networking empowers better than...
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Windows 8 - UI Preview
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8 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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A small taste of things to come in Windows 8. Yes, this is the official video from Microsoft
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Netflix experience
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10 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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I finally tried a subscription to Netflix for the instant watch on Windows Phone 7 and streaming. I must say the implementation, quality and experience surpassed my expectations. The Silverlight player is superb again in quality and in playback features...
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Why Bing is a better search experience
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11 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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Just a few features showing off why Bing is a better search experience. Check out the enchanced movie listing feature video below on the top. Then take a look at the Bing map features demo on the bottom. Bing is a great search engine! Bing...
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Bing and IE9 Enhanced Search Experience
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11 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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Now that IE9 has been released to the world here . Take a look at the video below see the enhanced search experience with IE9, great job and congratulations to the IE team!
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Guinness World Record for XBox Kinect!
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11 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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Microsoft makes Guinness World Record by selling 10 million Kinect units and an additional 10 million stand alone games (this does not count the one that comes with the Kinect). Kinect is the fastest selling consumer electronic device in the world! Read...
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Microsoft Research and Windows Phone 7
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11 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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Here are some neat projects going on in Microsoft research with pictures and Windows Phone 7 by Neil Joshi on Channel9 You view the original video on channel9 here
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New Windows Phone 7 Ad
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11 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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What are you waiting for? You must try the new Windows Phone 7 it is a great phone! I love the Zune integration. Here is a new ad showing how incredible this phone really is, check it out.
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Bing Toolbar!
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11 months ago
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Edward Ferron
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Bing Toolbar has the right idea! Bringing content to me based on what I am doing at the time. I am of the mindset that the computer should help me find information instead of making me dig for it. A friend of mine and fellow Microsoft Architect...
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New Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) to launch in Minneapolis, MN Feb 21st
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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10 more days until we launch the new MTC in Minneapolis! Stay tuned for details and pictures. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mtc/locations/minneapolis.aspx . We recently updated Microsoft.com with the latest MTC location.
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Installing Drivers for a new machine build
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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Driver names are still in the dark ages! What does the filename 6my206ww.exe tell you? I am doing what else tech types do on a regular basis, and that is putting a new OS image on another mahine. I of course have to go to the vendor site to download...
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Online backup providers
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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I was checking out the tech news for the day and came across a posting that that the Mozy ( http://mozy.com/ ) service for online backup will discontinue their unlimited service. This is unfortunate as I was a big fan of the service (I even posted a blog...
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The next big Facebook idea
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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Ok not so big but I think it would be a neat feature. There are so many Facebook users (including me at times), that Facebook is one of the first site they either go to in the morning, or one of the last sites they visit before going to bed. ...
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Rule #1–about public or shared code! Do not break compatibility without screaming to the world you are breaking compatibility!
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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<rant> Better yet just do not break compatibility at all! We have been going over this since the days of COM (and earlier). I am working witih the very popular TweetSharp library and watching a tutorial video trying to follow along...
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The new trend - Get back to simple!
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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The current trend in the technology world calls for things to get back to the bare basics of computing; this trend has actually been taking place for several years but it seems to be actually picking up momentum in both the consumer and enterprise world...
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Windows 7 Slates and Tablets in business
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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Interesting article here on zdnet - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/where-will-those-windows-7-tablets-go-think-verticals/43625?tag=content;feature-roto
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Cool Devices
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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I just got a Dell Duo evaluation device for the Microsoft Technlogy Center in Minneapolis. It is a bit of a neat factor with the swivel type screen for laying it down in tablet mode. The touch interface is very responsive, it does not come with a stylus...
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WebMatrix is here!
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over 1 year ago
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Edward Ferron
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Check out this video on WebMatrix http://mediadl.microsoft.com/mediadl/www/s/silverlight/video/web/getstarted/2/Overview.mp4 . I love the fact we support Joomla, and Umbraco and drupal for content management along with a host of other CMS providers. WebMatrix...
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Microsoft creates great new commercial for Windows Phone 7
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over 2 years ago
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Edward Ferron
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This commercial is both creative and pretty funny! Check it out here
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The iPad Enterprise disruption
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over 2 years ago
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Edward Ferron
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If corporate customers are going to invest in such a disruption, such as the iPad, what are people stating as the benefit for the investment and disruption? I have been working to understand, embrace, compete, and integrate with the amazing iPad for...
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Microsoft Acquires AVICode!
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over 2 years ago
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Edward Ferron
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This is great news from my perspective! Giving .NET developers better access to instrumentation tools and software to improve the ability to monitor deeply into custom applications is very exciting to me! AVICode also has a very good solution for SharePoint...
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A ton of amazing upgrades
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over 2 years ago
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Edward Ferron
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First Windows Live 2011 Essentials from Microsoft is amazing! Windows Live Messenger is fun again with the social network connections and facebook chat feature. Windows Live Writer and Photo Gallery has some amazing new features you must try...
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Bing Search App on Android
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over 2 years ago
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Edward Ferron
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Earlier this week we announced the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers. You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones’ Marketplace. Read the full announcement here ( http:...
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