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Here are a few of my recent favourite tweets from others on Twitter. A quick post between discussions: a few of my recent favourites tweets on Twitter (you can find more and assorted links on my twitter feed ): screwdriver 1 in every 66 computers
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As I noted on Twitter today, writer Mitchell Ashley says that he didn't realize he'd ruffle so many Mac user feathers with his article 5 Reasons Macs Can't Claim They're Better than Windows 7 (also available via http://bit.ly/BeSTp )… I regularly use
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The folks down under are first again. First I read that NZ will be among the first customers to get Windows 7 come October 22. Now today I see (and noted on Twitter ) that Aussie NSW secondary school students were the first in the world to use Microsoft's
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Gosh, has it really been nearly two weeks between blog posts? Given the lack of blog posts, you should surmise that it's been a busy few weeks at the company given we've been closing the end of our fiscal year, going through the last bits of, well, delivering
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As you already know, the big news this week was the announcement of the date for general availability (GA) of Windows from the Windows 7 Team Blog , posted by: Brandon LeBlanc (Jun 02, 2009) – "This is one of those posts where I’m truly excited to
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Lots of news today (as noted in the news today ) on the availability of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) . Remember, only download the Windows 7 RC from a trusted source – via Microsoft – to save yourself the security risk . As noted on MSDN and TechNet,
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Of interest: reminding me of the brief series noted here , I found this article from Nicole Brodeur " Microsoft writer makes documentary on losing hand to cancer ", about the film documentary from Joshua Isaac, a writer at Microsoft. Isaac lost
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A quick post with few interesting links and stories from the reading pile before I head off to my next spate of discussions: As I posted on twitter , when I clean install the next public Windows 7 build on PC at home, I'll use WMIC to grab a list of my
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A few links of interest today… a quick post as I need to get through my email. Busy week. You've no doubt seen the latest Microsoft Windows commercials . Well, BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl has a bone to pick with the math in his article, Mac vs. PC:
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(I've republished this post today due to a server issue that seems to be happening with the link to the original post.) How I Work: M3 Sweatt No matter what anyone tells you, there’s still a bunch of paper in this digital world. M3 Sweatt, Windows Core
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A round up from my article pile which includes a new favourite video from Mix09: Bill Buxton's Keynote followed by Scott Guthrie's announcement of the Silverlight 3 beta, the Expression Blend 3 Preview, and more. As noted in Microsoft Exec: Red Polos,
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This weekend was a busy one for us at home, otherwise I would have found a way to travel to Austin with several of my friends to attend South by Southwest 2009 Conference in Austin, Texas. For those of you who don't know, a good summary is offered here
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A quick update on articles in the reading pile as I upgrade the machines in my office to the latest build of Windows 7 (running one machine on the public beta 7000). I've been bad about blogging as this is a busy time of year… especially with Windows
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Today I saw in John Dvorak's Second Opinion column, John says Microsoft's business model is done and that "the age of expensive office software may be near its end". (Also the story is available via http://tinyurl.com/cm8fzn .) "Until now,
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If you weren't at the TED conference this week, you might've missed Bill Gates' mosquito stunt as noted in TechFlash by Todd Bishop (February 4, 2009)… "Yes, they were real. No, they didn't carry malaria. And they definitely didn't qualify as a swarm.
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