I am Microsoftie 4 ever (18+ years) working in Windows Services and Content team in the UK, my blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.
@Winlivematt has just told me that the Windows Live channel in the UK has gone Wide screen
The Windows Live channel has lots of guides, downloads and discussion around Windows Live including Messenger, Hotmail, photo gallery, skydrive etc
Well worth checking out if you are interested in Windows Live.
Rob
Here is your chance to select the 5 finalists from a list of 10 for the best Windows Website 2009
‘From among the 60+ participants, the individual rankings of each of the judges, viz. Ed Bott, Rafael Rivera, Steve Sinchak, Paul Schottland, Lowell Heddings, Emil Protalinski, Howard Lo, Corrine Chorney, James Fisher & myself, was taken and added together to arrive at the following shortlist of 10 websites, mentioned below in no particular order: winhelponline.com , windows7center.com , 4sysops.com , bhandler.spaces.live.com , intowindows.com , maximumpcguides.com , msigeek.com , windowsvalley.com , sevenforums.com , 7tutorials.com These 10 websites will be put up for open Community Vote, from Aug 11th, 1.30 PM UTC to Aug 26th 2009, 1.30 PM UTC. Please do visit these fine Windows websites, & then cast your vote for and canvas for your favorite Windows website, so that it can move on to the final round. The criteria in short was and should be : Does the website have substantial original quality content of interest & use to a Windows 7 & Vista user ?’
‘From among the 60+ participants, the individual rankings of each of the judges, viz. Ed Bott, Rafael Rivera, Steve Sinchak, Paul Schottland, Lowell Heddings, Emil Protalinski, Howard Lo, Corrine Chorney, James Fisher & myself, was taken and added together to arrive at the following shortlist of 10 websites, mentioned below in no particular order:
winhelponline.com , windows7center.com , 4sysops.com , bhandler.spaces.live.com , intowindows.com , maximumpcguides.com , msigeek.com , windowsvalley.com , sevenforums.com , 7tutorials.com
These 10 websites will be put up for open Community Vote, from Aug 11th, 1.30 PM UTC to Aug 26th 2009, 1.30 PM UTC.
Please do visit these fine Windows websites, & then cast your vote for and canvas for your favorite Windows website, so that it can move on to the final round. The criteria in short was and should be : Does the website have substantial original quality content of interest & use to a Windows 7 & Vista user ?’
Kudos to all those that made the top 10 and good luck.
Poll : Vote for the Best Windows Website 2009. | The Windows Club
http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/D/1/DD1A75DE-18F8-4BBF-8827-AB3C4CBBE690/Ferrari_Win7Theme.themepack
Well worth checking out if you use Windows Live Windows Live's space - Windows Live for tips and tricks on:
Thanks to the Window Live team for this @windowslive
Updated to add this extra link also tweeted by the windows live team Windows live tips – collection of tips and tricks to get the most from Windows Live
In the name of Technet Plus, Stephen Rose (@stephenlrose) apes the Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1.0 classic advert
TechNet Plus Subscription & Steve Rose | Media | TechNet Edge
Rob :)
Just pointing you to some more Windows 7 support resources this time on the Windows 7 Support Centre
The current top 10 issues with Windows 7 are:
However there are plenty of pointers to other resources such as Microsoft Answers Forums and content from other forums.
Channel 9 has now got all the Windows 7 Videos and podcasts in one place Windows | Channel 9. They are all neatly packaged into 3 sections:
For me I am most interested in the using windows 7 section which has over 20 videos on using Windows 7 including the ‘complete guide to Windows Easy Transfer’ video below.
thanks to Bruce on the US ISV developer community blog for the tip
So being a few thousands miles away i didn’t to go to the Windows 7 ship party, but I was sent this picture of someone clearly who loves Windows.
Thanks to Sammi for the picture :)
I have mentioned windows.Microsoft.com couple of times in the past, but wanted to share with you the news that last week another 12 countries / languages sites where launched:
That brings the total number of markets that the new Windows Online site to 38, with more to come…
If you didn’t manage to catch Newsnight last night then you can see a replay on of the highlights of the interview with @ev on the BBC site:
The full interview Newsnight program is available via YouTube via UK tech crunch London is the capital of Twitter, says founder @ev