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Continuing my effort to cover at least one customer and partner challenge or issue per day , today, it's about Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP . (Also, info is available on Duet here on our main website.) Duet is a solution from Microsoft and SAP that...

Heading down to SXSW this year? Long flights? Worried about not finding a power outlet when your devices are running on low? I have to recommend the Energizer XP8000 Rechargeable Power Pack . (And no, I'm just an energizer customer, not shilling for Energizer...

Another interesting find in my effort to cover at least one customer and partner challenge or issue per day … Over the weekend I did a little spring cleaning and came across a number of old application floppies (yes, applications used to come distributed...

From Daniel… timely in my effort to cover at least one customer and partner challenge or issue per day … "I read the news today… EBS2008 [Windows Essential Business Server] was discontinued… what are my options?" The news in question is from...

Today I continue the effort to cover at least one customer and partner challenge or issue per day … Turns out I wasn't far off in my estimate of current supported products. Thanks to Jared I have the current list of in-support products we have today,...

Keith asks today… "I am still running Vista on my home computer. It works well for me. How do I get service packs on it? I want the latest version!" Glad you asked. For our operating systems, every now and then we distribute what we call service...

Diane asks… "Will you answer questions on any Microsoft product? How long do you [I assume she means Microsoft] support the products?"  Sure, I'll try to provide answers and of resources available for the product line. This is not a replacement...

"Beware the Ides of March " Not actually said by Caesar (in Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2) but to Caesar by a soothsayer in the crowd. And though often noted at the beginning of the month, the Ides are the fifteenth of the month. Whatever the...

This week John C. Maxwell   offered this famous QOTD : Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison To end the work week, Dominic Carr offers his own suggestions for weekend...

A reminder that the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) will expire soon . Beginning February 15, users of Windows 7 RC will begin seeing notifications on your computers, with warnings that the OS on the PC will soon expire. Starting on March 1, 2010 your...

Yesterday, Chris Trimmer from WWLP described in a Webcast some of the changes recently made in our Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) with more information on improvements to the site. As you may know (especially if you are a Microsoft Volume License...

Yes, I use lots of different software, including applications from companies of all sizes, from WinZip to Scansoft, to popular applications from Adobe, Intuit, Microsoft (of course) and many more. And yes, I also use software from Apple. We own lots of...

Today's been a busy day, what with work and getting pinged with the press on the new tablet products coming from Silicon Valley, as noted here with an inside look at the HP Slate (the model that made its debut at CES). None other than HP's CTO Phil McKinney...

Adapted from a past post, Staying ahead and Work/Life Balance , revised for 2010… Lauren Cooney noted on Twitter today … "What is the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Check work email, regardless of day. Bad habit or good? Or just...

As noted on Twitter , even Microsoft employees use the MicrosoftStore , especially when there's a sale on some of the latest PCs around. Needing to replace an older model (tried and true) Sony Vaio that is headed to the repair shop, I ordered a new PC...

As I last month , I decided to finally and dive into a new Kindle – namely the Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device . Though it did not offer the global wireless feature of its little (6") brother, I was happy to get the larger reading surface after...

Earlier this week, I posted a link to the Security Advisory 979352 Posted: Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution . As noted on the MSRC blog, there's an advance notification for an out-of-band release for MS10-002… "Today...

Yesterday, Jerry Bryant announced here on the MSRC blog that Security Advisory 979682 Released . Click on the link for the details: essentially Security Advisory 979682 addresses an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows kernel, affecting...

As noted in Mike Reavey's posts on The Microsoft blog and The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog today , we have just released Security Advisory 979352 . Here's the detail from Mike Reavey's post … Based upon our investigations, we have determined...

Yes, I've been neglecting my blog. Although I have a couple of blog posts in the works (on setting up our Windows 7 home network connected to our Media Center), I have been just too busy with (gasp!) real work. So I obviously need to be better at my organization...

CES is off to a great start with plenty of new product news… and we haven't even had the keynote kickoff! As I noted last month (all of a week or so ago) I decided to get on the ebook reader bandwagon and finally ordered a new Amazon Kindle. I was torn...

As you may already know, CES 2010 begins this week in Las Vegas (officially, CES is January 7-10 ). Yes, it's true that researchers have determined that stress may cause the brain to become disconnected , but you don't have to be disconnected at when...

Yes, it's true, Virgina: once again a government has decided on making a last minute change to their daylight saving time . Quite reminiscent of when Argentina made a change to their their daylight saving time back in 2007 and brought me into the office...

Have you seen what's new over the Bellevue, WA skyline? My son, Max, noticed a sight of one of the local Microsoft buildings this evening coming home from the new movie, Avatar: Here's a detail from the mobile phone shot, with a view of the "bing"...