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As I Tweeted today, over the weekend I read Paul Cooke's Windows Security Blog post on Windows 7 Vulnerability Claims. (I've added a few links if the terms are unfamiliar to you.) "…most people don't knowingly have and run known malware on their
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Some of the best products are free, as declared by the editors of PC World in their recent article... two of the top five are free: Hulu and Facebook. The others rounding out the top five are certainly commercial successes: the iPhone, Windows XP and
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Last year I posted an entry on how to choose the best computer which included an article by Mike Himowitz , columnist at the Baltimore Sun. Himowitz wrote the article " Sticker tells shopper key parts of a laptop " which covers "the specific components
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This weekend will mark another interesting milestone in Time and Date, oone that actually doesn't occur for thirty more years, in 2038. Also known as the 'Friday the 13th' bug, the 2038 issue is due to the way 32-bit systems note time in seconds rather
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Lunch time post: check out PCMag.com's CES 2008 Photo Blog , PC Magazine's "slideshow of the sights and technology on display at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. It would be nigh-on impossible to explain the vastness of this year's Consumer Electronics
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As a kickoff to CES, check out the slide show on MSN Tech & Gadgets as they cover CES Innovations 2008 Awards Honorees ... "The Innovations Design and Engineering Awards program recognizes the most innovative consumer electronics (CE) products in
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A few posts on DST and time zones on a few MS blogs... The Groove team covers a couple issues you should know about regarding Groove and DST . "These issues might impact you during the October 28th - November 4th window. The issues are detailed in the
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A quick note of interest... the Windows Home Server team released their release candidate publicly this week (see the blogs entry on this milestone here ). The RC is available broadly to anyone who signs up at http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer
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Stephen H. Wildstrom of BusinessWeek applauds the new SanDisk Sansa Connect in this article , calling it a "slick Wi-Fi music player." This new device integrates Yahoo's subscription music service... "The $250 Sansa Connect is the result of a collaboration
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No sooner do I talk about how Ray Ozzie is connecting with customers that I see this on CNET News today, discussing SilverLight at Mix and "about the company's ongoing transition from the age of desktop software to a new era." Ozzie's quiet revolution
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Microsoft Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool and New Patch Please find attached the documentation for the released Patch for the Microsoft Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool. (The existing tool is available on the Download Center ). Scenarios Addressed
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And the answer? Daylight Saving Time . Let's just say it's been a popular discussion topic around the office this week. For the history of how this came to be -- and to know who you can thank for the extra hour of sleep once a year -- look to none other
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After weeks of considering different phones, including the new T-mobile Dash and latest Samsung BlackJack Windws Mobile Smartphones, we decided on the new Cingular 8525 with Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition. ( CNET has a review of the phone here.
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As Richard posted today, no school in the Puget Sound area today . I'm thankful today for Outlook Web Access and Live Meeting today as it allows us to dial in for broad meetings that we've had on that schedule for months now. Now back to our regularly
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The opening of the Zune. I went through the "out of box experience" ("OOBE" as it's called) tonight on a new retail Zune. It was like opening an origami box, 'though this one was made in China and used four pieces of adhesive tape as I counted. I was
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