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Microsoft FAM 2010, Part 1: Microsoft’s Consumer Initiatives
If you don't follow Microsoft closely, you may be surprised to discover that its annual one-day meeting with financial analysts, called the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting, or FAM, has traditionally been a day of interesting revelations. This year's event happened yesterday, and while you could pour over all the speech transcripts and videos... »
Dell Water Cooler Chat: Windows 7 Deployment Q&A
I'll be taking part in a live Water Cooler chat session with Dell's End User Computing Solutions Architect, Phil Dakas. This follows a series of Dell Windows 7 deployment web casts that I previously participated in as well »
Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2: Direct Download Links
If you go through Microsoft's Download page for the Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you're going to have to jump through some hoops to get it. In fact, you might even have to lie: If you inform Microsoft that you're not a developer, the site will... »
Windows 7 64-Bit Momentum
Microsoft posts some interesting information about the uptick in 64-bit versions of Windows 7 . As of June 2010, we see that 46 percent of all PCs worldwide running Windows 7 are running a 64-bit edition of Windows 7 . That is, nearly half of all PCs running Windows 7 are running 64-bit »
Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Facts and Figures
As part of the marketing push for the new ("wave 4") Windows Live Essentials, Microsoft has provided some interesting facts and figures that justify, I suppose, the feature push here. They are: Worldwide, Messenger alone has 9 percent of total Internet minutes , compared to Facebook with 7.4 percent. »
Microsoft Announces Long-Awaited Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta
Since posting my review of the new Windows Live Essentials a few weeks back, I've gotten a lot of email from people wondering when they could get their hands on it too. I've been wondering myself, but it's here now, or will be tomorrow »
Today: Essential Planning Steps to a Windows 7 Migration
I'm participating in Dell's enterprise-oriented live web cast about Windows 7 migration today, so if you're considering such a thing, you might want to check it out. Today's webcast is part one of a two-part series (the second happens July 7), and deals with the planning stages of the migration. »
Microsoft: Windows and Embedded, Not Windows Phone 7, on Tablets
At the Computex trade show this week, Microsoft executives firmly stated that Windows Phone 7 is not designed for tablet devices and will not be ported to these PC-like devices. (I was previously told that the company had nothing to say on this topic.) Instead, Microsoft will focus on Windows Embedded 7 for... »
New Windows 7 Offers
Microsoft today is touting its latest round of Windows 7 offers, and this time around the theme is graduation and back-to-school. I guess it's never too early. There are three big deals going on right now »
Is the Windows Copy and Paste Feature Broken?
This has the potential to be one of those "crazy guy" posts I'd probably have fun with if I saw it elsewhere. But after mentioning this issue in passing on the Windows Weekly podcast last week, I've gotten a flood of email from listeners who have experienced the same thing. And all I... »