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Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:17 PM

It was a dark and stormy night: Microsoft analyst Dan McKay wins Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Microsoft analyst wins bad-writing award Congradulations to Dan McKay for winning the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest! .
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Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:14 PM

After the release the fun begins, or What do you have to say about Vista?

One of my favorite things to do after a release is watch the public reaction to the product. Regardless if its the enthusiast crowd , the non-enthusiasts , the "respectable" mainstream press , or the tabloid press its always interesting to hear what they
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:24 AM

Chris Jones,Corporate VP of Core Os Division talks about Vista

You can catch the video on Channel 9 .
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:56 AM

And now for something completely different

A pretty interesting show has premiered on the Discovery Channel called Dirty Jobs . Hosted by Mike Rowe . Unique name huh?
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:19 PM

Vista Beta 1 Ship party photos

As promised, some beta 1 ship party pictures are here
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:41 PM

Its out the door! Vista Beta 1 ships!

It's party time here on campus! Announcement Screenshots! Maybe I'll post some pictures of the party later.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:13 AM

Going to PDC? Register by July 30 for 15% off!

If you register for the PDC by July 30, you save 15% ($300). See you there!
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:00 PM

Slow news day?

News flash! Mapping service is not realtime! Our tech news tabloid friends( The Register , Slashdot ) have drank a bit too much of the paranoia juice(as normal). Congrads on the MSN Virtual Earth shipping a cool product!
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:59 PM

I want one!

Drool I've been tracking the release of this phone for a long time and I need it to satisfy my geek lust. Motorola, Feel free to let me test this for you!!
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:27 AM

Bribes for Vista

This was floating around the company recently. It worked, and we got chocolate!
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:00 AM

Windows Network Developer Platform has a blog

Part of the team that Collaboration Technologies works for has a team blog located here . Hopefully this will be of interest to networking programmers.
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:52 AM

Mark your calendars, Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1 by August 3

Now that Longhorn has been given a real name Microsoft Windows Vista (isn't that a mouthful) it is time to let the world (or at least official beta testers ;) ) play with it. While beta 1 is not feature complete (it does not contain all of the features
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Friday, July 22, 2005 11:30 AM

Windows Vista

At least it doesnt have X in its name:) http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861734355/vista.html mental picture: a mental picture covering a wide range of objects or a long succession of events in the past or future
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Friday, July 22, 2005 1:23 AM

I've got a secret. Wanna hear it?

Tomorrow, at 6 am PDT , the following Web link will go live with new information. I can’t tell you what we will actually be sharing, but you will learn something new about "Longhorn" J . http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.msp
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