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Windows 7 Features That Your Mother Should Know About

After working several event booths doing demo’s and hosting a launch party at my house, it’s always interesting to me to see the different reactions to Windows 7. There’s the user who still is a Windows XP user, and there’s the user who’s running Windows Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 4:19 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 Launches Today

  Windows 7 Virtual Presskit Remarks by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, at the launch of Windows 7 , New York, Oct. 22, 2009 Remarks by Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, at the launch of Windows 7 , Tokyo, Oct. 22 2009 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 12:14 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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What a week!

Lots of stuff happening this week… Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was announced. There are multiple announcements inside this effort: New lineup of SKU’s Go Live license New logo / new look Beta 2 of .NET 4 Windows 7 Windows 7 launches this week. PowerPivot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:11 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Interknowlogy’s Multi-Touch Remote Object Manipulation

Tim (IK’s CEO) shows a .NET 4 WPF app running on Windows 7 and Microsoft Surface, and shows a Healthcare / Life Sciences Version. The machines are using WCF for intercommunication.   Read More...
Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 9:58 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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More Press on Windows 7, and a related cool Wikipedia page

From the Great Lakes IT Report , a couple of Detroit office folks were interviewed about Windows 7 in Matt Checks Out Windows 7; He’s Converting Soon . Here are some impressive quotes: I got a good long look at Windows 7 Monday morning, and it looks like Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:15 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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FIRESTARTER – on-demand and live events

Free events to ignite your skills Heat up your skills with the all-new Firestarter event series. Each day tackles a single Microsoft technology, including free sessions presented live by Microsoft developer and IT pro evangelists and technology specialists Read More...
Posted Monday, October 05, 2009 11:21 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Free real-time anti-virus software, Microsoft Security Essentials

I’ve got several friends that will run no anti-virus software, or a non-name brand. They sometimes have loaded one of the bad ones, that just load more bad stuff. And I keep telling folks, a solution is on the way. Finally, the time is here. Microsoft Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:39 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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IE6 No More

Ran across an interesting AUG 4th 2009 article, Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6 . It talks about the growing angst of developers against IE6, and that a group of companies have joined together to tell IE6 users to upgrade Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 1:02 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 Release Candidate Timing

From The Windows Blog, Brandon LeBlanc reports : “ pleased to share that the RC is on track for April 30th for  download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th. ” Also changes to Beta 1 here and here Read More...
Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 9:42 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 Features by Version

  Windows 7 Home site Windows 7 Home Premium In addition to the features of Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic, this edition includes: Aero Glass & advanced Window navigation Windows Touch (Multi-touch and handwriting support) Video demo Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 5:49 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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ESPN’s usage of IE8 is WOW

After the IE8 release and ESPN’s immediate usage, I’ve had the ESPN Headlines web slice on my browser. Most of my friends know that I’m a Cardinals fan, and that I usually have a Cardinals sidebar gadget on my desktop. But, now I have the ESPN’s Cardinal’s Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:11 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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MIX: Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience

This was an interesting presentation at MIX about how some of the Windows 7 features came about. Very cool stuff. Great way to see one of my favorite areas in Windows 7. Title: Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience, (C26f, video ) Presenter: Stephan Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:25 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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Windows Phones: A New Name, and Raising The Game

Yesterday, Microsoft presented at Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona. Steve Ballmer and Andy Lees presented our strategy for our mobile strategy. One of the early points is that we are calling our devices Windows Phones. We also announced officially Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:26 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Announcements on Windows 7

As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m running Windows 7 on my Dell Latitude D820 and the experience is excellent. And yesterday (while I was stuck in the snowy evening traffic of Cincinnati), Microsoft released several announcements on Windows 7. Here’s a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:13 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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Nice Windows 7 Feature – IE8 Download Progress

I’m running Windows 7 on my Dell Latitude D820 and attempting to find out my position on this product. It certainly installs easier, boots faster, seems faster, etc. I also hope to point out a few features that I like, that might not be so mainstream. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 4:30 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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