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Windows 7’s share of the PC market is continuing to grow steadily, while Apple’s, Linux’s and Google’s shares are making slow inroads, according to new worldwide PC usage data from Gartner Inc. Source: All About Microsoft
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Dear All: As I have received a lot of emails from my customers, I want to set up some rules to filter and actions to the email to move them automatically. I want to move the email with specific words in the recipient's address, sender's address, body or subject. But when I selected some of the conditions in the rule condition settings, the rules logic is "AND". I want to use the logic as "OR", which means if any of the recipient's address, sender's address, body or subject match the criteria I have set up, the email will be move to the folder. Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Jason Zhang View this thread
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In War with Google, Microsoft Wins a Decisive Victory
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By Thurrott, Paul Say what you will about Google, but the online giant’s strategy with Android has paid off: By giving away the software that powers its mobile platform, Google has quickly risen to dominance in the smartphone market, easily pushing aside industry darling Apple. But there’s a dark side to Google’s smartphone rise. Source: Win Super Site
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Email Consolidation: How to Consolidate Email Accounts in Windows 7 and Windows Phone
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By Thurrott, Paul My advice is to consolidate email accounts aggressively in the cloud when possible, however, since client consolidation--as you’ll see--requires a lot of configuration, and you’ll need to repeat these configuration changes each time you reinstall Windows or reset your mobile device. Source: Win Super Site
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Windows Weekly 220: SharePinters
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By Thurrott, Paul In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss BUILD, Google’s crazy patent attack against Apple and Microsoft, an study in IE intelligence, new tidbits about Windows 8 and Office 15, Windows Phone news, an MS-DOS anniversary, the truth about Ultrabooks, XP usage share, Paul at Big Nerd Ranch, and Mary Jo’s trip next week to SharePoint Saturday The Conference. Source: Win Super Site
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Email Consolidation: How-To Forward Email to Other Accounts
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By Thurrott, Paul In addition to configuring your primary email account to collect email from other, secondary, accounts, you could alternatively configure your secondary accounts to forward mail, automatically, to your primary account. There are some disadvantages to this approach, but these can be overcome if you know what to look for. Source: Win Super Site
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What The Tech 79: Zipping Along
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By Thurrott, Paul I joined Andrew Zarian again this week on What The Tech to discuss the new Roku 2 players and how they stack up against the competition, Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" and why reviewers suddenly "get" that this platform is excellent, the problem with having too many choices, and why the age of dedicated portable gaming machines has passed. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft: We've Cut Hotmail Spam by 90 Percent
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By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft on Friday provided an update on its ongoing war against spam, claiming that it has cut spam on the Hotmail web-based email services by some 90 percent and, in doing so, has also cut overall spam on the Internet by 15 percent. As important, it’s cut so-called "outgoing spam"--i.e. that spam that is sent from Microsoft’s Hotmail servers--by an impressive 75 percent as well. Source: Win Super Site
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Email Consolidation: How-To Collect Email From Other Accounts
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By Thurrott, Paul In this second article of my email consolidation series, I’ll move beyond abstract ideas and towards a more mechanical how-to, and examine how you can use one email service to collect email from another email service. Source: Win Super Site
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Report: Windows Phone Usage Falls to Under 6 Percent in US
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By Thurrott, Paul The market analysts at comScore this week released their latest US smart phone usage share survey, noting that Microsoft’s Windows Phone was in use on just 5.8 percent of smart phones in the second quarter of 2011. That’s down 1.7 percentage points from its 7.5 percent figure in the first quarter of 2011. Source: Win Super Site
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Dolby: Our technologies are not built into Microsoft's Windows 8
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Dolby Laboratories executives shared some information about Microsoft’s Windows 8 during an earnings call this week. What are the implications of the disclosure? Source: All About Microsoft
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Dolby Laboratories executives shared some information about Microsoft’s Windows 8 during an earnings call this week. What are the implications of the disclosure? Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft's Problem In a Nutshell
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By Thurrott, Paul An XKCD cartoon this week nicely encapsulates the problem Microsoft faces with its traditional desktop versions of Windows: With the world moving to mobile apps and web apps, what’s the future like for native desktop apps? Probable answer: There is no future for native desktop apps. Source: Win Super Site
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WinInfo Short Takes: August 5, 2011
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By Thurrott, Paul An often irreverent look at some of this week’s other news, including Microsoft revelations about Google hypocrisy, a former Microsoftie becomes CIO of the USA, Office 365 trials heading to new PCs, Microsoft’s supposed Android bonanza, Android’s continued mobile dominance in 2012, whether Windows Phone "Tango" is real, Chrome OS gets a security comeuppance, a rumored merger of Mac OS X and iOS, and whether HP’s Palm webOS gambit has already failed. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft announced plans for its Windows 8 developer conference in mid-September, known as Build, back on June 1. As of August 1, the Build Web site now shows the conference to be sold out. Online registration has sold out without Microsoft posting an agenda for the three- four-day event (five, if you include the pre-con day). Early-bird discounted Build registration ended as of August 1, as well. While Microsoft is, no doubt, hiding the agenda to further the corporate mission of keeping Windows 8 features under wraps as long as possible, the “shhh” strategy has been a double-edged sword. I’ve heard from several developers that they were unable to convince their ma…
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According to a new report, there are as many as 6,000 references to MinWin in an internal Windows 8 client build. This may provide more clues and validation of Microsoft’s virtualization plans for the coming operating system release. As the clock ticks down toward the Microsoft Build conference, discoveries about what’s inside Windows 8 are continuing to trickle out. The latest — from ITworld’s Sandro Villinger — has to do with MinWin. Villinger found that there are between 5,000 and 6,000 references to MinWin in a Milestone 2 build of Windows 8 that he examined. He speculated in an August 3 article that MinWin may figure prominently in Microsoft’s virtualization plan…
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Skype continues to go its own way (this time with video codecs)
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Skype, which still is not officially part of Microsoft, is continuing to make its own policy and strategy decisions which may or may not mesh with Microsoft’s own directions. Source: All About Microsoft
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Skype, which still is not officially part of Microsoft, is continuing to make its own policy and strategy decisions which may or may not mesh with Microsoft’s own directions. Source: All About Microsoft
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Steven VanRoekel’s first job at Microsoft was as a premier support and presales technical advisor. On August 4, he became the new U.S. technology officer. Source: All About Microsoft
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Hypocritical Google Lashes Out at Apple and Microsoft
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By Thurrott, Paul Google is upset that Apple and Microsoft are using the legal system to prevent other companies from infringing on their patented technologies. But what’s the argument here, exactly? Source: Win Super Site
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Free Microsoft Press Titles Now Available on Kindle, Other eBook Readers
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By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft Press makes various titles available for free in PDF format, but this week it revealed that it is now making some of these titles available for free via the Amazon Kindle and other eBook platforms as well, thanks to their release in DRM-free EPUB and MOBI formats. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft Touch Mouse
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By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft this year will ship three touch-capable mice. But if you’re looking for a pure, multi-touch mouse, only Microsoft’s latest creation, the Touch Mouse, will do. And while it’s a beautiful device, the question remains: Is it any good? Source: Win Super Site
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Steven VanRoekel’s first job at Microsoft was as a premier support and presales technical advisor. On August 4, he became the new U.S. technology officer. Source: All About Microsoft
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RIM Announces BlackBerry 7 Smart Phones
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By Thurrott, Paul Research In Motion (RIM) announced its first new smart phones based on the BlackBerry 7 OS release, and not the upcoming OS overhaul featuring the QNX system that powers its PlayBook tablet. Still, RIM claims the new product represent its biggest product launch ever, and the new devices are quite attractive and appear to have some interesting new functionality. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft Touch Mouse Photos
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By Thurrott, Paul Here are some initial photos of the new Microsoft Touch Mouse, which brings multi-touch functionality to Windows 7, including one finger scrolling and navigation, two finger window arrangement, and a three-finger Instant Viewer feature that will have Mac OS X users seeing red. But I’ll have a full write-up to explain that one soon. Source: Win Super Site