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I do a clean install. Delete all the partitions, make a new one, format. Then "Copying files" takes approx 1 second. Then it does to "Expand" and gives me the error. Exact message: "Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570" Continue reading...
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Jury Deadlocks in Novell Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
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By Paul Thurrott If you thought there was nothing stranger than Microsoft being the subject of an antitrust lawsuit for actions it allegedly took against a product that is no longer owned by the company that’s suing, then hold on to your seat. Because it just got stranger: A federal jury has deadlocked, effectively ending the case. But the company suing Microsoft says it’s going to try again. And that means a whole new trial. Continue reading...
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Windows Phone 7.5: Over the Air Podcasts
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By Paul Thurrott While many point to the Metro UI as evidence of innovation in Windows Phone, this platform’s cloud-centricity is, I think, the more profound innovation. You can see this in the system’s support for email, PIM, and social networking accounts and in its various integrated hubs. And in Windows Phone 7.5, you can see it in the platform’s first-ever support for over-the-air podcast subscriptions. Continue reading...
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RIP, RIM
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By Paul Thurrott RIM announced this week that its next generation mobile OS, now called Blackberry 10, won’t ship until the end of 2012, a full year from now. This comes on the heels of one of the worst years I’ve ever seen any tech company experience, and I’d remind you that this happened during a time in which both Yahoo and HP were stumbling around blindly. Continue reading...
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Microsoft exec: More multi-platform mobile products coming in 2012
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Watch for Microsoft to continue to roll out more of its productivity wares on non-Microsoft platforms in 2012, an official with the Office 365 team says. Continue reading...
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Watch for Microsoft to continue to roll out more of its productivity wares on non-Microsoft platforms in 2012, an official with the Office 365 team says. Source: All About Microsoft
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The experience of signing in to your PC with touch has traditionally been a cumbersome one. In a world with increasingly strict password requirements—with numbers, symbols, and capitalization—it can take upwards of 30 seconds to enter a long, complex password on a touch keyboard. We have a strong belief that your experience with Windows 8 should be both fast and fluid, and that starts when you sign in. Other touch experiences in the marketplace have tried to tackle this problem, with the canonical example being a numeric PIN. A PIN is a great solution: Almost everyone has seen or used one before, and a keypad is simple to use with touch. We knew though, that there was …
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WinInfo Short Takes: December 16, 2011
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By Paul Thurrott An often irreverent look at this week’s other news, including Bill Gates’ denial about returning to Microsoft, Dell abandons the netbook market, Amazon sells over 1 million Kindles each week, Nokia’s first smart phone for the US, no verdict in the Novell/Microsoft antitrust case, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab lemonade, a Blackberry 10 delay and, finally, an Apple product made in the US. Continue reading...
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Will Bing grow at Google's expense (or Yahoo's) in 2012?
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Will Microsoft’s Bing grow search share at Yahoo’s expense — or Google’s — in 2012? Continue reading...
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Will Microsoft’s Bing grow search share at Yahoo’s expense — or Google’s — in 2012? Source: All About Microsoft
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Heads-Up: European Nokia Lumia 800 Will Not Work in the US
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By Paul Thurrott The Lumia 800, Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone handset, will not work on cellular networks in the United States. So if you were planning on purchasing an unlocked unit overseas and using it here, you need to be aware of this incompatibility. Continue reading...
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Microsoft Touts New Accessibility Add-ins for Office 2010
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft today posted about two new accessibility-oriented add-ins for its Office 2010 productivity suite. They providing video subtitling for PowerPoint and Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) compatibility for Word, respectively. Continue reading...
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New Hotmail Version Now Fully Deployed ... Plus, a Hotmail App for Android
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By Paul Thurrott To say that Microsoft has been on a torrid release schedule when it comes to upgrading its cloud-based services is a bit of an understatement. Today, the company revealed that it has completed deploying the latest version of its Hotmail email service, so all customers are now on the new version. And in celebration of that, the company has provided a list of the top 10 new features in this release ... and a new Hotmail app for Android. Continue reading...
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Meet the Folks Behind Windows Phone's Wonderful User Interface
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By Paul Thurrott I’ve seen a lot of strange complaints in recent days from the Windows Phone crowd, since Microsoft is porting a lot of its mobile apps to iOS and Android now, presumably nixing some of their favorite platform’s key differentiators. But the real advantage of Windows Phone has nothing to do with apps, it’s all about the wonderful Metro user experience, which deemphasizes the need for standalone apps. And today, Microsoft profiled some of the folks responsible for that UI. Continue reading...
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Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project
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Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. Continue reading...
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Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live Messenger, Sort Of
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft this week announced that it has opened up the Messenger network, which powers Windows Live Messenger, to the XMPP open standard. This change gives developers of virtually any platform--mobile, web, PC--the ability to create their own Windows Live Messenger-compatible instant messaging solutions. Continue reading...
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Facebook Unleashes New Timeline UI
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By Paul Thurrott Facebook today released its new Timeline user interface, allowing the hundreds of millions of people who access the social networking service to opt-in to this new, more visual profile type. The feature was first revealed at the company’s F8 developer conference back in September. Continue reading...
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Microsoft to push latest version of IE to users starting in 2012
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Microsoft is going to start automatically upgradingWindows PC users to the latest version of the IE browser available for their PCs, as of January next year. Continue reading...
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Microsoft is going to start automatically upgradingWindows PC users to the latest version of the IE browser available for their PCs, as of January next year. Source: All About Microsoft
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In Major Shift, Microsoft Will Auto-Update Internet Explorer Users
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft announced this morning that it will begin auto-updating Internet Explorer users’ PCs to the latest versions of the browser, a situation that will vary somewhat according to which Windows version they’re using. This is similar to how Google’s Chrome browser works, though Microsoft is of course also providing corporations and end users with workarounds should they wish to remain on their current IE version. Continue reading...
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Paul's Picks: Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash
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By Paul Thurrott Samsung’s large and small smartphones bring Windows Phone 7.5 to life. Continue reading...
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What The Tech 97: Best of 2011
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By Paul Thurrott This week on What The Tech: Andrew and Paul run down what they think was the best in tech this year. Best tablet: Apple iPad 2. Why does the iPad succeed where other tablets fail? Best phone: Windows Phone. Andrew explains why he picked Windows Phone as the best over Android and the iPhone. Andrew and Paul debate whether or not Apple’s Siri is a best of the year. Is 2011 the year of the cloud? Paul gives his thoughts about the cloud. Andrew and Paul discuss whether stand alone point and shoot cameras have been replaced by camera phones. Paul talks about ultra portable computing has really taken off in 2011. Is something like the iPad the way future compu…
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New TV and Entertainment Content Begins Appearing on Xbox LIVE
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By Paul Thurrott I’ll be writing more about this in my ongoing review of the Fall 2011 Dashboard Update for Xbox 360 once there’s more available, but this week, Microsoft’s partners began releasing the previously-promised TV and entertainment content. Finally, this is starting to get interesting. Continue reading...
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Interoperable HTML5 Quirks Mode in IE10
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The fourth IE10 platform preview includes enhanced HTML5 support by using an interoperable quirks mode based on the behavior defined in HTML5. This HTML5-based quirks mode is the default quirks mode in IE10. Users and Web developers want sites to just work across browsers. A key part of this is making HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work in the same way across implementations. HTML5 facilitates cross-browser consistency by defining parts of the Web platform previously left unspecified. This largely involves the HTML5 parsing rules, but also includes parts about how browsers should behave in quirks mode. IE10’s HTML5 quirks mode is used for pages without a DOCTYPE or with a le…