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Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:38 AM

Windows Vista Demo: Instant Search

Search is something I use all the time in Vista, but when I show it to friends and colleagues some of them are generally surprised to find it and how great it can be :) So this great demo vide from the Windows Vista team demoing the instant search is
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:51 AM

Georgian Windows Vista LIP now available.

If you like your Windows Vista in Georgian then you can download* the new Windows Georgian Language Interface pack (LIP): Click here to download the Georgian Vista LIP * Please Note A font-enabling package must be installed prior to installing the Vista
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Monday, July 28, 2008 9:18 AM

4 More Windows Vista LIPs: Konkani, Kannada, Malayalam and Punjabi

Over the weekend there where 4 more Windows Vista Language Interface Packs (LIP) launched: Konkani – which is mainly spoken in a region along the southwestern coats of India Kannada – the state language of Karnataka Malayalam – mainly spoken in the state
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Friday, July 25, 2008 11:37 AM

What Vista software could you not live without?

Over at the Windows Vista Magazine they are running a quick survey around what Windows Vista software you cannot live without for a forth coming magazine article. I have voted for mine 1. Windows Live Writer 2. Snipping Tool 3. Windows Mobility Center
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:18 AM

Life beyond the pc on mobile.microsoft.com

So it looks like http://mobile.microsoft.com is now also showing the new updated styling of the Windows homepage and also some nice new content. The little video to download is pretty cool and is worth watching, you might start to see some themes coming
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:42 AM

Windows Work Anywhere Demos

Yesterday i mentioned the Windows Digital Photos Demos now available on Microsoft.com. So i thought today I would highlight 3 more demos around working from anywhere with Windows : 1. Work anywhere 2. Find more with Windows Live Search 3. Stay connected
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:45 AM

Kyrgyz Windows Vista LIP now available to download

If you like your Windows Vista in Kygyz then you can download* the new Windows Kygyz Language Interface pack (LIP): Download Kyrgyz Windows Vista LIP Rob * Please note that the Kyrgyz LIP can only be installed on a system that runs a Russian version of
Posted by robmar | 0 Comments
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:27 AM

Windows Digital Photo Demos

I have been working with the corp team to localise these demos and we should be getting UK ones soon, as well as a host of others :) let me know what you think of them. They are very much focused at the consumer audience who may not be aware of the possibilities
Posted by robmar | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:00 PM

I’ve just created a mini me

No this isn’t a Dr Evil Mini Me post but rather a quick bit of fun to spice up your Windows Live Messenger… Over at http://www.minimise-me.com you can create your own character and download in into your messenger. Not sure about the one I created, I don’t
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:07 PM

100% rated articles on Windows Help and How-to

Of all the 2300+ articles and demos on the Windows Help and How-to site there are 12 that have been given a 100% positive rating*, fro the Was it helpful? at the bottom of every page What is the difference between BitLocker Drive Encryption 128-bit and
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Monday, July 14, 2008 5:18 PM

Using the Windows Vista Disk Cleanup utility

After seeing that Eric gained 17Mb of hard disk space, I decided to see how much disk space I could recover using the Disk clean up utility. After a quick scan I was able to save 3.20 Mb of disk space :) if you are interested in running this utility follow
Posted by robmar | 1 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008 10:47 AM

Want to give feedback on terminology used in Windows Vista

The Microsoft Terminology Community forums have been opened up so that anyone speaking any of the following languages can give feedback, comments and suggestions for the use and expression of technical concepts in Microsoft Products: Arabic Brazilian-Portuguese
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Monday, July 14, 2008 10:31 AM

Windows Update Availability 100%?

Well yes according to the Royal Pingdom . Zero minutes of downtime for Windows Update for April through June 2008. spotted on WinVistaClub.com Rob Technorati Tags: Windows Update
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Monday, July 14, 2008 9:48 AM

New Windows Web Site Design

In the US they have launched the new design for the /windows web site at http://www.microsoft.com/windows It was designed with the principles of being Light, Clean and Fast. In my opinion it hit those three criteria, but what do you think? We will be
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Friday, July 11, 2008 9:27 AM

I am not an Internet Geek apparently.

Just taken the Internet Geek Survey and although I answered 12 yeses for the 16 questions I was given the rating that… “ Unfortunately you have failed to reach the lofty heights of geekdom but a valiant effort nevertheless. You are obviously familiar
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:49 PM

Yes you really can do all of this with Microsoft Software

Your Digital Lifestyle: Girl from Mars spotted in the comments of Kirks blog Rob Technorati Tags: Microsoft
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:21 AM

2nd update on hard to find Windows Vista help and how-to articles.

So last week I posted hyperlinks to 4 more articles following our original test the prior week, in an effort to get all on Windows Help and how-to content indexed on the 3 major search engines. Again as expected we have seen an increase in articles that
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Friday, July 04, 2008 12:23 PM

The Green Button and Microsoft!

I had this passed onto me by my colleague and WMC guru Abid :) “ That's why I'm pleased to share with all of you that we've signed a deal with the Windows Media Center team at Microsoft to own and manage the TGB web site, which will help take our community
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:25 PM

Windows Update to get faster?

Well it looks like starting from the end of this month we could be seeing up to 20% decrease in scan times, which is very good news. More detail and a good overview of Windows Update settings at Microsoft Update Product Team Blog Rob Technorati Tags:
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:58 AM

Language Portal Search Tool - Bidirectional Search Enabled!

Just saw this from Briita on the Microsoft Language Portal Blog , this looks like a great tool to be able to do bi-directional search queries on terminology. http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/search.mspx just follow the instructions 1. In the search
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:45 AM

Update - hard to find Windows Vista help and how-to articles

Just a quick update to my post http://blogs.msdn.com/robmar/archive/2008/06/27/hard-to-find-windows-vista-help-and-how-to-articles.aspx from last week. So we are seeing some changes to what content is now being indexed (see table below) Article Yahoo
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:20 AM

This must be LIP week. 2 More Windows Vista LIPs Oriya and Bengali available

Yesterday I posted about the 2 new Windows Vista LIPs ( Malay and Assamese ) that became available over the weekend. Well last night 2 Indian language LIPs where launched: 1. Oriya - download “Ori ya is one of the official languages of India. About 90
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