Firstly, I don’t know why Outlook marked this email as ‘Junk’! Secondly, I think I can retire as soon as I get the money!No?

Here’s an email I just received…(Sorry for ignoring the confidentiality notice!)

-----Original Message-----
From: EURO MILLIONES INTERNATIONAL [mailto:911014845@0187swift.es]
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 4:53 PM
To: Mithun Dhar
Subject: You Have Won €750,000 [ REF: ESP/WIN/808/05/10/MA ]

Attn Web/ Internet user!!!

This is to notify you that this e-mail address [ mithund@microsoft.com ] was entered during

the annual Euro Milliones Lottery selection Draw and have won the sum of 750,000 euros.

For claim please contact the below agent for immediate process of your claim; Remember to

quote these numbers below for verification by the company.

REF: ESP/WIN/808/05/10/MA

BATCH: EURO/1007/444/606/09

WINNER EMAIL: mithund@<edited>

You should include Your Name, Phone numbers, Fax number, Reference and Batch Numbers.

GLOBAL GESTORES S. A.

Mr. Francisco Torres (Claim Officer)

Email: admin-global@gestores.com or globalgestores@luckymail.com

Tel: 0034-634-32-88-96

Fax: 0034-911-82-02-31

Best regards,

Dr. Maria Jose Muyor.

Euro Milliones Lottery

15th August 2009

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This email is confidential and is intended solely for the person or Entity that own this

email address [ mithund@<edited> ]. If you have received this message in error, we

inform you that the content in it is reserved and unauthorized use is prohibited by law,

therefore, please notify us by e-mail.

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Today’s pic on Bing is an amazing shot of Mysore Palace. It’s about 60 miles from Bangalore and is usually a get away for local folks. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been to Mysore or this palace. It’s open to public everyday and it’s lit up every Sunday. If you are in the neck of the woods be sure to check out Mysore aka The City of Palaces.

It’s a perfect way to celebrate India’s 62nd Independence day. And today, she’s younger than ever…

-Mithun Dhar

I wrote about the Zune HD a few months ago and it’s finally available for Pre-Order. You can order either the 16GB or the 32 GB through http://www.zune.net/zunehd and select either Amazon, Walmart, Best buy or Microsoft.

Also, starting Sept. 15, at http://www.ZuneOriginals.net, both 16GB and 32GB capacities of Zune HD will be available in five different colors with the option to customize your player with one of 10 new engravings designed by guest artists.

You can read more about it here:

https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/aug09/08-13preorderzunema.mspx

-Mithun Dhar

I love Bing! And now here’s one more reason to love it more…

Bing is doing double cash back for the rest of this month... there's some pretty sweet deals (up to 50$ cashback). Shopping got a lot more sweeter with Bing!

Bing it on!

-Mithun Dhar

Silverlight-3 FireStarter

This summer’s biggest blockbuster technology event is coming to Redmond, WA on the 17^th of September.

Register to attend the Silverlight-3 FireStarter event on Thursday, the 17^th of September. We have a stellar speaker line up from the Microsoft roster. We will have Scott Guthrie keynote the event followed by presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and others. At this event we will focus on three areas:

§ What’s latest and greatest in with the latest release of Silverlight

§ What’s happening in the world of Expression 3, and

§ Give you a run down on .NET RIA Services, Toolkit, etc.

Registrations:

• In-Person (Redmond, WA) Event: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032422412&Culture=en-US
• If you can't join us for the In-person event, Register for the online experience! (Entire event will be broadcasted online via Live Meeting - Must Register!)

All the updates for this event can be followed right here on my blog.

For other questions: Contact: Mithun Dhar

See you at the event!

-Mithun Dhar

Thanks to a colleague of mine, I just found this link on All things Digital website. (http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/windows-upgrade-chart.png)

I’m loving Windows 7 and this chart hopefully helps you decide the best path to upgrade your machine with the latest and greatest Microsoft OS.

-Mithun Dhar

So PDC registrations are now open. You also get the early bird special - $500 off. If that’s already not compelling enough, follow all the cool stuff at the PDC Blog.

Microsoft PDC

Nov 17 – 19; Workshops – Nov 16
Los Angeles Convention Center

Check out all the Sessions and Speakers here: http://microsoftpdc.com/WorkshopsAndSessions

And if you’d like to be a sponsor or get a sponsor table, contact me for more information.

RSS http://microsoftpdc.com/ for all future updates.

-Mithun Dhar