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Saturday, September 30, 2006 12:52 AM

This Week in Tech: Windows Weekly

Paul Thurrott has begun po^H^H Blog casting on the TwiT network at http://www.twit.tv/ww
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Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:48 PM

Your feedback matters

Originally meant to be analogous to the non-mutable Mac bios chime. The startup sound is now Optional! There was heated internal debate on this issue, but customer feedback made this happen. Your feedback matters! Keep giving feedback on the latest build
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 4:00 AM

Is Bill Clinton commenting on how some AntiVirus companies are treating Vista?

Food for thought: "If you had a business strategy that worked all the time that was premised on scaring the living daylights out of people, you just keep doing it" -Bill Clinton (found on Digg here ) (No, he's not, but an interesting commentary on how
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 3:41 AM

This one goes out to all the Exchange Admins out there

If you want your users running Microsoft Windows Vista to be happy when they use Outlook Web Access (OWA) you should install this Hotfix This also fixes the annoying "Click here to activate" prompting. Users, if your Admin hasnt installed this, and you
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:30 AM

.NET+WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation) Based New York Times Reader Virtual Newspaper

This is a pretty cool application that shows some of the power of .NET and the Windows Presentation Foundation, you can sign up to download it here . Read more here: http://firstlook.nytimes.com/index.php?cat=4 and http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?p=22 Reaffirms
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:17 AM

Latest EDW build of Microsoft Windows Vista posted for public download

This is one of the last EDW (External Developer Workstation) builds that will be posted before RTM. http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/do... Get your feedback in while there is still time!
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:30 PM

Another Handy Microsoft Windows Vista shortcut!

Enjoy the XP Powertoy "Open Command Prompt Here"? Now its part of the OS: Shift+ right click on a folder in Windows Vista and see "Open Command Prompt Here"!
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:42 PM

MSN Soapbox goes live

MSN has released their community video site to beta testing! Now you can watch my kid be tormented by ducks. Probably more interesting than watching Scoble buy meat .
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:30 PM

External developer comments on PatchGuard

AV Companies: Learn to CODE! Technorati Profile
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:23 AM

"Sticky" Alt-tab and Win-Tab (Flip-3d)

Just a quick tidbit. The keyboard shortcut to make flip3d (win-tab) behave like clicking the icon is ctrl+win+tab. The same thing works for the new alt+tab ctrl+alt+tab. The Escape key will return you to the desktop.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:15 PM

Interesting article on the Xbox Live Arcade profit model

Note, I don't work on Xbox so I have no clue if these numbers are real ( but they make sense) How much money can you make on Xbox Live Arcade?
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:36 AM

Windows Vista Internet Computer Name Service

Noah blogs about Internet Computer Names . Think Dynamic DNS, but Peer to Peer.
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