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DOJ: Google Settles to End Investigation Into Illegal Ads
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By Paul Thurrott Late last week, the US Department of Justice announced that Google has agreed to forfeit $500 million in profits from advertisements for Canadian pharmacies that targeted consumers in the United States. But the DOJ’s criminal investigation also uncovered some unsavory information about the online giant’s CEO, Larry Page: Apparently, Page knew about the illegal ads years ago and did nothing to stop it. Source: Win Super Site
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Windows Weekly 223: Shave Theme For Sharing
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By Paul Thurrott In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss Paul’s visit to Petaluma, an anniversary for Windows 95 and Windows XP, how HP killed webOS and mortally wounded its PC business through miscommunication, Microsoft’s bid for webOS developers, a plan for Amazon, Windows Phone Mango and Tango news, Skype’s purchase of GroupMe, and some Windows 8 tidbits ahead of BUILD. Source: Win Super Site
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Spinning Out of Control, the "Post PC" Crowd Has Got It All Wrong
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By Paul Thurrott Just a heads-up for the partisan bloggers a Wired: If the term "post-PC era" isn’t spin, then neither is "PC Plus era". Both terms come from the school of "when you make hammers, everything looks like a nail." Source: Win Super Site
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Of Quad Core Tablets and Windows 8
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By Paul Thurrott Rarely do Microsoft appearances at TechEd New Zealand generate this much excitement. But this week, when Microsoft principal architect Patrick Hevesi carted out a prototype quad core tablet aimed at next year’s release of Windows 8, the rumor mill went into overdrive. Here’s what’s really happening. Source: Win Super Site
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Market Share Matters
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By Paul Thurrott I’ve been lying to you. In my defense, it was the "good" kind of lie, where I was trying to prevent hurting your feelings. But I’m tired of it. And now I’m just going to tell you what I should have told you all along. And that’s this: When it comes to PCs, tablets, smart phones, whatever market share matters. In fact, it matters more than any other metric you care to name. Source: Win Super Site
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Our previous post about the new copy experience in Windows 8 generated a lot of questions and comments about the new “Choose Files” dialog for resolving file name collisions. Based on the level of interest, we thought it would be fun to share some of the design iterations and our usability testing that led us to this design. In the implemented design, there are two levels of control when acting on file name collisions (or “conflicts”). The primary experience is a simplified, one-click, bulk management of all conflicts, offering “Replace all” or “Skip all.” We call this the “Simple Conflict Resolution dialog.” There is also an option to enter the secondary experience whi…
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There are reports that Microsoft is about to hand out an ultra-portable computer running Windows 8 and containing a quad-core processor. If true, it could serve as a very effective way of promoting the new system on portable devices. The rumors center on BUILD, a Microsoft event that takes place in California in September designed to help both hardware and software developers work better with Windows. The event also serves as a source of feedback for Microsoft about how it could improve the operating system (OS), including those still in development. This year's event is going to be built around Windows 8, which appears to be around 12 months from its public release…
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Microsoft's Build: Who's on the speaker list?
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Microsoft’s upcoming Build conference for Windows 8 remains mostly shrouded in secrecy. But a few of the Build speakers are bravely revealing themselves via their blogs. Source: All About Microsoft
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Quiz: Don't you love Microsoft acronyms?
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Microsoft uses codenames and acronyms to disguise their products while still in development. Crack these acronyms and you’re well on your way to see what’s in Microsoft’s playbook. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft uses codenames and acronyms to disguise their products while still in development. Crack these acronyms and you’re well on your way to see what’s in Microsoft’s playbook. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft’s upcoming Build conference for Windows 8 remains mostly shrouded in secrecy. But a few of the Build speakers are bravely revealing themselves via their blogs. Source: All About Microsoft
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What Microsoft Revealed About Explorer in Windows 8
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By Paul Thurrott This week, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky issued another lengthy Building Windows 8 blog post in which he described upcoming changes to file management operations in Windows 8. But an accompanying video actually reveals a few other interesting Explorer tidbits, so I’m rolling up my sleeves and getting back to work. Source: Win Super Site
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WinInfo Short Takes: August 26, 2011
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By Paul Thurrott An often irreverent look at some of this week’s other news, including a few more thoughts about Steve Jobs, a confirmation of two Windows Phone Mango features we already knew about, Windows Phone Tango is real, whether Microsoft should buy Nokia, Microsoft’s threat to game publishers, a temporary (and very limited) Xbox 360 price cut, RIM’s silly new music service, and an Amazing Facebook stat. Source: Win Super Site
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Report: Microsoft shows off quad-core Windows slate. Could this be its Build give-awa
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Microsoft officials showed off some new devices at this week’s Tech Ed New Zealand show — none more potentially interesting than an unnamed quad-core Windows slate. Could this be its give-away for the upcoming Build conference? Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft officials showed off some new devices at this week’s Tech Ed New Zealand show — none more potentially interesting than an unnamed quad-core Windows slate. Could this be its give-away for the upcoming Build conference? Source: All About Microsoft
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Hi, (hope my english is ok) i try to deploy templates in our Offoce 2010 fpr all our users, A part of t installation iworks, but in the Company folder is only one template. I create the following entry in the registry: HKEY_Current_UserSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0CommonSpotlightProvidersCompanynameServiceURLpath to the xml file.
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News Flash: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
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By Paul Thurrott For years, we
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Detangling the Windows Phone Tango talk
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There is a new report about features and markets that will be the target of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Tango, the successor to Mango. Here’s my take. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Highlights New File Management Functionality in Windows 8
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By Paul Thurrott Continuing its recent "opening the kimono" trend, Microsoft’s Steve Sinofsky last night posted about some changes to file management--i.e. copy, move, rename, and delete--in Windows 8. Source: Win Super Site
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There is a new report about features and markets that will be the target of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Tango, the successor to Mango. Here’s my take. Source: All About Microsoft
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Another Windows 8 tidbit: File management to get an overhaul
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 engineering team is continuing to trickle out information on some of the changes coming with the next version of Windows. Today’s tidbit is about how file management/copying will be getting an overhaul. Source: All About Microsoft
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Samsung denies it will take over HP's Windows PC business
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Samsung officials are denying rumors that Samsung plans to take over HP’s PC business. This comes as HP, the No. 1 vendor of Windows PCs, contemplates selling its PC business. Source: All About Microsoft
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Samsung officials are denying rumors that Samsung plans to take over HP’s PC business. This comes as HP, the No. 1 vendor of Windows PCs, contemplates selling its PC business. Source: All About Microsoft
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I have IIS 7.5 installed on my Windows 2008 R2 Server. the web site using Windows authentication is deployed on the server. Users whose login names contain only letters can access to the web site from Internet or from the same domain IIS 7.5 belongs to without any problem. The problem is users whose login name containes dot charachter(for example firstname.lastname). These users can access only from the machines that resides inside the same domain as IIS 7.5.(but not from Internat). Any solutions?
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