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There's been a lot of fuss about the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista. A recent story even made headlines when a Microsoft manager was quoted as saying Microsoft deliberately deigned UAC to "annoy users". I've
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Last year at the AJAX Experience conference in Boston, all of the attendees received an iPod shuffle as part of the swag package. I have four media players I rotate between: a Zune, the iPod shuffle, an iRiver T30, and an old Creative Nomad Zen. I love
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Jeff Jones from the Microsoft Security team just released a six month Security Vulnerability Report for Windows Vista . Not much to add here. The numbers appear to speak for themselves. I'll be quite interested in seeing the 1 & 2 year report cards
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Okay okay... so for all those Windows users with Mac jealousy, now you can have the fancy icon bar with animations too. Check out Rocket Dock. It's free, and it works well. http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock So far, so good. My only complaint is that
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Last month, a critical security bug was found in most versions of Windows. This bug generated a lot of news because it was one of the first to impact Windows Vista. Over on the new Secure Development Lifecycle blog , Michael Howard discusses what the
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I must have missed the final announcement on this one last month? If you're running Visual Studio 2005 SP1, the additional update needed to resolve some of the Vista compatibility issues is now available (it was in beta previously). This is a separate
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Via Scoble ... Check out these cool mashup applications from Thirteen23 that take advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation on Windows Vista. These applications also work on Windows XP, but you'll need to install the .NET 3.0 Framework first. The
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What is AOL doing?! I've long enjoyed listening to AOL's streaming radio service . Their Shuffle and Shuffle Hits channels are great for variety. One minute Frank Sinatra, the next Snoop Dogg. At home, I usually listen to this on my secondary machine
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Yesterday was Jim Alchin's last day at Microsoft. Jim has been one of the executives who has led the Windows team for quite some time now. Now that Vista is out the door, he's looking forward to spending some time off. In a "good-bye" post on the Windows
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Starting next week, if you're running Vista on your laptop, you can get free wi-fi access at any T-Mobile hotspot in North America until April 30th . Personally, I'm a Dunkin' Donuts guy, but that's a nice deal for folks who frequent Starbucks and other
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Wow! What a day yesterday. Yesterday was the launch event for Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. This was my first time participating in one of these large launch events since I joined the Evangelism team at Microsoft last year. It was
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Check out this video of what Yahoo is doing with the Windows Presentation Foundation. They've rebuilt their instant messenger to use the new presentation foundation in Vista. It's an example of the type of next-gen application user experience that is
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Back in October, I wrote about how excited I was to learn that the new Remote Desktop (RDP) client that comes with Windows Vista supports ClearType. With the hack I wrote about, I was able to run the Vista RDP client on my home XP machine to use my work
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Looks like attendees of the upcoming Windows Vista & Office 2007 Key City Launch events will receive a free copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Professional & Microsoft Office Groove 2007. Registration is filling up fast. Go here for links to the launch
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Go get it here . Hopefully I'm not the first one to point this out to you. But better late than never. This service pack addresses issues that have come up with Visual Studio 2005 since it was first released just over a year ago. You can read more about
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