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More Microsoft wikis: Getting Things Done, PatternShare, and a player to be announced later...

Posted Monday, January 31, 2005 11:27 PM by jonathanh
I spent Saturday night setting up a new wiki for an idea that’s been banging around in my head for a while. When I took a break halfway through and fired up FeedDemon, I found Jeff Sandquist stealing my thunder with his announcement of another brilliant Read More...
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Register now for Microsoft Management Summit 2005!

Posted Monday, January 31, 2005 11:53 PM by jonathanh
Ok, I know that I said I’d cut down on the SMS and MOM blogging, but really, these quick posts just write themselves. Registration is now open for MMS 2005, so if you’re at all interested in what Microsoft is doing to make it easier to manage computers, Read More...
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What to try when Office update can't find SKU111.CAB

Posted Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:28 PM by jonathanh
Yesterday I finally diagnosed a problem that a friend’s laptop has had for a while: whenever she tried to install Office 2003 Service Pack 1 , it would throw up an error about not finding a file called SKU111.CAB . A week ago I’d confidently tried to Read More...
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Choosing product names that can be verbed and acronymed

Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:50 PM by jonathanh
If ever I get to work on a product that has its own brand , I’m going to fight long and hard for a verbable product name – something that people can naturally use in everyday conversation to describe the action of using the product. This gives legal team Read More...
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Skype install problems? Try the updated installer

Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 9:11 AM by jonathanh
Like Jeff Sandquist , I couldn’t get Skype v1.1 to install when it was first released two weeks ago – the installer would happily kick off two processes that would then just sit there, doing nothing. Omar Shahine came up with a workaround Read More...
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SMS and MOM bloggers from around the world

Posted Friday, January 21, 2005 10:55 AM by jonathanh
We’re really ramping up some worldwide blog coverage of Microsoft systems management products – as well as Eileen Brown from the UK, we’ve got Jeff Alexander blogging from Australia, and Shitanshu from India. And it sounds like Eileen’s “blogging bootcamp” Read More...
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More on Microsoft project codenames - and how we learn about other jobs at Microsoft

Posted Friday, January 21, 2005 8:15 AM by jonathanh
After I wrote “ How to create a new Microsoft product - first, choose a name... ”, it was rather bizarre to see Hugh Mcleod called a “ determined detractor ” for actually pointing out that we have boring product names. Of course, the context for the comment Read More...
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How to create a new Microsoft product - first, choose a name...

Posted Monday, January 17, 2005 6:48 PM by jonathanh
As I promised a month ago , I’m going to start blogging about the new Microsoft product that I’m working on. What’s prompted me to start today is that Hugh McLeod—of the excellent gapingvoid —and Robert Scoble —of, well, scobleizer —are engaged in a bit Read More...
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MMS 2005 blog and announcements

Posted Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:47 PM by jonathanh
If you’re not reading the myITforum newsletter , you probably missed the announcement of the official MMS 2005 blog . It’s being written by Martin Dey, the overall organizer of the Microsoft Management Summit 2005 , where we talk about all things MOM Read More...
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A reader's hint about offline files

Posted Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:01 PM by jonathanh
Brian Davidson kindly sent in the following note on how he fixed his problem with offline files settings resetting themselves after a reboot : I've been struggling with this issue for awhile and I noticed you had a post about it with other users responding Read More...
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Microsoft wikis just keep multiplying...

Posted Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:07 AM by jonathanh
When Channel 9 started last spring I had the slightly crazy idea of getting direct feedback about Microsoft products by letting anyone add their gripes, workarounds, and wishlists to its wiki pages. The first big hit was the Internet Explorer feedback Read More...
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Reporting false positives from Microsoft Windows Antispyware

Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:16 PM by jonathanh
One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post is what to do when the Microsoft anti-spyware tool incorrectly reports something as being adware or spyware. If you’re just trying to get on with your work, and you’re certain that the file really is innocent, Read More...
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Microsoft anti-virus software to complement today's beta of an anti-spyware tool

Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:49 PM by jonathanh
[Update for people finding this post through web searches: the anti-virus tool has been released as the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830). You can use that link to download it directly, but really you should be using Windows Read More...
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For all you .NET language developers - Don Syme has started an F# blog

Posted Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:00 AM by jonathanh
Back when I worked at Microsoft Research in England, Don Syme already had his hands deep in the guts of .NET – he co-authored the original paper on generics for C# , and fought long and hard to get them accepted into v2.0 of the language. That’s no mean Read More...
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