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April 2004 - Posts

Why executable names are important

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:49 PM by jonathanh
Charlie Kindel kicked off an interesting discussion today amongst Microsoft bloggers about the relationship between blogs, search engines, and more formal support channels such as MSDN. As a side-effect, Raymond Chen kindly pointed me at his .Text referrer-log Read More...
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Religious font wars, part deux

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:36 PM by jonathanh
Tony Schreiner has gotten into the conversation that Scoble and Dudley are having over font aliasing in OS X vs ClearType in Windows XP, and has posted a great test page showing how everyday fonts render for him at various sizes. However, what Tony and Read More...
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That's a LOT of hidden data...

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:39 PM by jonathanh
Or, how you can use the Office Remove Hidden Data tool to compress your Word documents. Recently I've been spending a lot of time editing Word documents with other people. This typically requires a final pass to… harmonize… the different format styles Read More...
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Dipping my toe into the waters of SMS and MOM marketing

Posted Sunday, April 25, 2004 9:48 PM by jonathanh
Ok, I'm going to start a little tradition here… The Management Marketing team sends out a regular Monday-night email to the rest of the division. This email is generally chock-full of (a) useful information, and (b) font choices that only a marketing Read More...
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More Channel9 goodness - a wiki for Visual Studio 2005 users

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:04 AM by jonathanh
Thanks to Brad Abrams I just found out about the new Visual Studio 2005 Community Tech Preview wiki that Philip Rieck has set up. The idea is that Visual Studio 2005 users can easily share hints and contribute to a communal "change log" of differences Read More...
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Give us your feedback on Microsoft products

Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 2:02 PM by jonathanh
So, we had a slightly crazy idea at Channel9 - why not encourage our users to add/edit/refactor their own wiki pages of feedback about Microsoft products? I kicked things off by creating pages for Internet Explorer and Visual Studio, and the wiki has Read More...
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The hype is over, Channel 9 is here

Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:36 AM by jonathanh
http://channel9.msdn.com/ Find out what Scoble 's been spending all his time on recently :) ( via Greg Hughes ) Read More...
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Microsoft laptop gripes - and why we still have to recondition batteries

Posted Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:44 PM by jonathanh
These have been hard days for Microsoft laptops. First Dennis Cheung's Acer doesn't autosuspend , then Omar Shahine gripes about power management on his Toshiba Tablet PC (and about why PC laptops aren't as sexy as PowerBooks), and finally Josh Ledgard Read More...
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