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Friday, May 23, 2008 2:46 PM

Since I’ve had messenger on my mobile...

My French counterpart JP sent me this earlier in the week, I don’t think you need to be able to speak French to understand the funny videos on the web site Depuis que j'ai Messenger sur mon Mobile – Windows Live Messenger Rob Technorati Tags: Windows
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:52 PM

Some Windows Help and How-to ‘Hidden Gems’

Articles that are very highly rated but not read very much are what we call Hidden Gems on the Windows Help and How-to team. What's new for using your mobile PC in meetings? Keeping in touch with friends and family by using Windows Live Spaces The digital
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:22 PM

Something new in IE? Preview the appearance of a printed webpage.

I am not sure if this is something new but if you select Print Preview from the option in Internet Explorer, and then click on the help icon it takes you to a page on the Windows Help and How-to site: Preview the appearance of a printed webpage I ask
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Friday, May 16, 2008 12:05 PM

Windows Live Spaces Vision

Not sure how long this has been live but thought I would give it a little plug as it is quite a cool little app from the UK Windows Live team: http://specials.uk.msn.com/liveSpacesVision/default.aspx “Live Space Vision is a stream of global updates to
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:18 PM

Windows XP3 download information

I was asked yesterday what the best landing page for getting Windows XP SP3 was. So I had a quick hunt around and couldn’t find anything specific, there where lots of downloads and comments and posts on the various forums. The overall advice though is
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:42 AM

Download the demo for LEGO® Indiana Jones™: The Original Adventures

Games for Windows is one of the common search terms we see for people visiting the Windows Help and How-to site, and we have a lots of content available from our Windows Vista: Games page about all the games that come with Vista, such as Minesweeper &
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:16 PM

Viral Windows Live Search Videos

You may be aware of the new Windows Live Search , well there are some viral videos as always to go with it: Rob Technorati Tags: Microsoft Live Search Instant answers , tcetv
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:01 PM

Get Windows Vista SP1 on DVD

You can now order Windows Vista Sp1 on a DVD, it will cost £5.98 for each copy and you can order up to 4. Go to the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 DVD ordering page and follow the on screen instructions. For more information about SP1 please see the following
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:49 PM

Nynorsk Windows Vista LIP now available

If you like your windows in Nynorsk (a dialect of Norwegian, the other being Bokmål apparently) then you can download the new Windows Nynorsk Language Interface Pack (or LIP for short) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e21eb7b-e01a-4fcc-b7f1-30e419da7f5b&displaylang=nn
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:20 PM

April most visited – sort of

When I looked at the data for April for the most visited pages on the Windows Help and How-to site for the UK the top 10 articles where the same as last month ( March most viewed ), although not in the same order so I thought for April I would provide
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Friday, May 02, 2008 12:12 PM

System Configuration and MSConfig

Via Steve Claytons ( a geek in disguise ) blog I happened upon this article by Josh Looking for Windows Vista Performance Issues - Josh's Windows Weblog in which he gives some good tips for doing a few things about improving Windows Vista performance,
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:36 PM

Times Online article on Live Search

Just a quicky linky to an article in today's Times Online about Live Search Microsoft: we'll keep 'chipping away' at Google - Times Online Tomorrow should see the changes going live and it will be good to check out the changes, including the Celebrity
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