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Windows Media Center will be part of Windows 8, though it won’t be in the first pre-release builds, Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky acknowledged in a new blog post. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft is party to the just-announced deal between Nokia and Mosaid, a Canadian patent licensing firm. The Redmond company has a “passive economic interest,” its officials are saying. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Build Windows 8 confab: What's the latest?
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Microsoft’s Build event for Windows developers is just 10 days away. Here are a few tidbits about agenda changes, an unofficial preconference and more for those following the twists and turns. Source: All About Microsoft
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Photos: HTC's New Windows Phone 7.5 Handsets
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By Paul Thurrott Yesterday, Microsoft announced the first two HTC handsets that will be based on Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango," the HTC TITAN and HTC Radar. Here are some high resolution images of these upcoming devices, both of which feature front-facing cameras and tethering support, as previously expected. Source: Win Super Site
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WinInfo Short Takes, September 2, 2011
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By Paul Thurrott An often irreverent look at some of this week’s other news, including alleged location data collection in Windows Phone, Microsoft’s misguided claims about exceeding analyst expectations with Windows Phone, the evolving Microsoft vs. VMware war, a mini Google antitrust victory that could have Microsoft repercussions, Microsoft’s attempts to ban sales of Motorola handsets in the United States, how HP can earn back its webOS investment, why no one sane would buy HP hardware anymore, a not-so-timely news flash about iCloud and Windows Azure, and a great guest co-host on Windows Weekly. Source: Win Super Site
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Stunning Patent Wars Infographic
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By Paul Thurrott Mashable has published a wonderful infographic describing tech’s biggest topic of 2011: The new age of patent warfare. If you’re confused about patents and why they’re suddenly such a hot button topic, this graphic should clear things up nicely. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft’s Build event for Windows developers is just 10 days away. Here are a few tidbits about agenda changes, an unofficial preconference and more for those following the twists and turns. Source: All About Microsoft
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Google's Windows Azure competitor to finally shed its 'preview' tag
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Google is preparing to turn Google App Engine — its Windows Azure cloud-platform competitor — into a fully supported product in the second half of September. Source: All About Microsoft
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One more Microsoft Corporate Vice President flies the coop
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Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Directory, Access and Information Protection, has left the company. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is getting any less active in the digital identity space. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft delivers near-final test version of Silverlight 5
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Microsoft’s Silverlight 5 hit the Release Candidate milestone on September 1. The final delivery of the latest version of the technology is still set for later this year. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft: IE 9 Hits 20 Percent of All Windows 7 Users
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft today revealed that Internet Explorer 9 is now used by over 20 percent of all Windows 7 users, according to data from Net Applications. In the US, it’s even higher: IE 9 is used by over 28 percent of all Windows 7 users. Source: Win Super Site
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Patent Expert: Google Only Got Motorola's "Crap" Patents
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By Paul Thurrott I’ve argued in the past that stories about Google’s supposed patent strategy--bid up the Nortel patents so that Apple/Microsoft would overpay and then swoop in to get Motorola’s patents instead--were completely fictional. But if this latest development is true, Google’s mobile patents acquisition were even more one-sided than previously thought. And Google didn’t come out on top. Source: Win Super Site
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Google Takes Gmail Offline Again, Brings Its Touch UI to PC
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By Paul Thurrott This week, Google finally began rolling out its new offline solution for Gmail (and for Google Calendar and Docs). And I want to be very clear about this, since part of the change to Gmail that happened this week has almost nothing at all to do with the offline bit. I love it. Source: Win Super Site
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First Decent-Looking "Colorado" Server Appears
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By Paul Thurrott HP has upgraded its interesting-looking ProLiant MicroServer series with a new model that sports Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. (I was previously considering buying one of these things for Windows Home Server 2011, coincidentally. Or as others would say, "ironically.") Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft Announces First Two HTC Phones for Windows Phone 7.5
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft today announced two new HTC handsets that will run Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango," its forthcoming smart phone OS revision. The phones, the HTC TITAN and HTC Radar, will ship in October 2011, exactly when I expected Windows Phone 7.5 to launch. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft’s Silverlight 5 hit the Release Candidate milestone on September 1. The final delivery of the latest version of the technology is still set for later this year. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Directory, Access and Information Protection, has left the company. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is getting any less active in the digital identity space. Source: All About Microsoft
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Google is preparing to turn Google App Engine — its Windows Azure cloud-platform competitor — into a fully supported product in the second half of September. Source: All About Microsoft
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Hello, We have the problem in Outlook 2010 (on two workstations) when we wan't to print an email the username of the printjob is changed to an domain administrator. So when the user who prints the job is called "robert" and the domain administrator is called "sysadmin" the username of the printjob is changed from robert to sysadmin. When we print the same email for the second time (when it's still opened on the computer) the username of the printjob is not changed. So when the the user who print the job is called "robert" the printjob still have the username "robert". When we print from other applications or Word 2010 and Excel 2010 we don't have this problem. Also w…
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Browsing Without Plug-ins
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Because more and more browsing takes place on an ever wider variety of devices, and browsers on them, more and more consumers are browsing without plug-ins. Delivering a great site experience to consumers who browse the Web plug-in free is important work that sites must do to reach the widest audience. With HTML5, modern browsers and sites can deliver a great consumer experience even without plug-ins.
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Simon Witts, Microsoft’s Worldwide Enterprise and Partner Group chief, has resigned from the company, according to a short internal e-mail announcing his departure. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft’s Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky, in a new blog post, reiterated that Microsoft is going to support both new touch-centric apps and existing Windows desktop apps, with its new Windows 8 user interface. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft rolls out Windows Azure toolkit for Android
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Microsoft is rounding out its family of Windows Azure toolkits with a near-final test version of the toolkit for Android device developers. Source: All About Microsoft
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Sinofsky: Why Windows 8 Brings a "No Compromise, Reimagined" Windows
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By Paul Thurrott Today’s post on the Building Windows 8 blog concerns what Steven Sinofsky calls the "Metro style user interface" that Microsoft previously showed off--the new Start Screen--and how that, combined with the classic Windows desktop, provides both "a reimagined Windows" as well as a "no compromises" version of Windows that does it all. Source: Win Super Site
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A Tale of Two UIs: Complex and Full-Featured vs. Simple and Easy
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By Paul Thurrott In the wake of Microsoft’s recent discussion about the newly ribbonized Windows Explorer UI in Windows 8, I’ve received a lot of email from readers who aren’t too thrilled with this direction. (And a few, to be fair, who are.) I’d like to make two points about this. Source: Win Super Site