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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:03 AM

Microsoft Acquires Teleo, Innovative VoIP Technology Company

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/aug05/09-30MSNTeleoPR.mspx It appears we have acquired a VoIP provider. I wonder if employees will get a discount;)
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:02 AM

Peer Eventing and you

Now that we are successfully able to enumerate a static snapshot of people online at a particular time, It would be useful to register for when one of the people near you came or went. The Peer Collaboration stack allows you to do this with its eventing
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:01 AM

Enumerating People near me in Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1

Now that we have learned how to Sign in, we can see who else is signed in HRESULT WINAPI PeerCollabEnumEndpointsNearMe( HPEERENUM* phPeerEnum ); (this seems to be missing from the MSDN documentation! Bug filed!) This returns a PeerEnumeration handle on
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:00 AM

Getting Started with the Collaboration API's!

Guess what the first api you have to call is? HRESULT WINAPI PeerCollabStartup ( WORD wVersionRequested ); http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/P2PSDK/p2p/peercollabstartup.asp It's our friend Mr. Startup! The only
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:10 AM

Thin clients thin on experience

Scoble is getting picked on by the thin client "revolutionaries" http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/08/29.html#a10994 They ( http://www.approachingnormal.com/articles/trackback/59 ) point to several neat hacks o http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Demos
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:37 AM

Media Center hits the mainstream

Being an intense Windows Media Center user I’m glad to see this. http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000973.html Media Center hits the mainstream Market research firm Current Analysis says sales of Media Center PCs have skyrocketed since July 9: For
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Friday, August 26, 2005 2:37 AM

PeerCollab API's finally avaliable on MSDN!

I’ve been waiting a long time to be able to post about this, Our new Serverless Collaboration api’s are available on MSDN! I’ll have follow up posts on how to actually use them J Tripp
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Saturday, August 20, 2005 1:20 AM

A fair article on PNRP

Would you believe it’s from the Register ? I suppose I have to give credit where credit is due. PS. PNRP has nothing in common with Bittorrent or Limewire.
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Friday, August 19, 2005 11:48 AM

Funny MSN Virtual Earth Ad

This is a pretty amusing ad for Virtual Earth
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Friday, August 19, 2005 2:12 AM

Microsoft Windows Vista, Pnrp and Chicken Little

Have you ever known something was going to happen, and the anticipation of waiting for it to occur drove you crazy? That’s what happens when you deal with the press. Recently, SANS discovered PNRP was on by default and posted an announcement for network
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 6:10 PM

More Pnrp news

More Pnrp news in which the press gets in to full paranoia mode.
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Friday, August 12, 2005 11:29 AM

Go go Honeymonkies!

This is an interesting story of how Microsoft is trying to find issues in windows, using a combination of Virtual PC and some new system fingerprinting tools( STRIDER ). You have to love the name as well " Strider Honeymonkey Exploit Detection System
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:57 PM

PNRP in Windows Vista Beta 1

Noah has a post about PNRP in Beta 1
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:59 PM

How to make money from spammers.

Settle with them for <drevil>$7 million dollars</drevil> ;) http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/aug05/08-09MSRichterSettlementPR.mspx
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 1:10 AM

Konfabulator

It's pretty well known that Yahoo! bought Konfabulator a few weeks ago and that they released Konfabulator for free. I held off posting because it didn't work on on the Windows XP x64 release(which I use exclusively). Recently they updated to version
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Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:23 PM

What are the new collaboration features in Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1

I'll post more about the API's later From MSDN: Peer-to-Peer Windows Vista provides capabilities for discovering and communicating between applications without the need for centralized servers. The peer-to-peer capabilities of Windows Vista give users
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Sunday, August 07, 2005 5:22 PM

Looking for a credible source of news.

What makes a good news source? For me, it consists of the following Non editorializing Thank you very much I'll form my own opinion. The source of the news has to be non biased as well. Do you think a security researcher that found an issue and makes
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