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Windows IT Pro The New Year holiday is barely behind us, but all the major web browser vendors are positioning themselves for another year of market share and mindshare battles. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: Some more rejiggering with the blog, a Hotmail restoration, a Windows Weekly reschedule because of CES, yet another iPhone 4 glitch, Jean-Louis Gassee  cries wolf, an Apple podcast admits iBooks stinks, my own fix for the iTunes Blues, silliness about Kinect's potential, and my vote for headline of the year. ... View the full article

As the guesses and rumors about Microsoft’s planned Consumer Electronics Show (CES) announcements continue to multiply, I’ve decided to throw another into the mix. I’m wondering whether CEO Steve Ballmer and Co. might announce a strategy and/or roadmap for tablet-sized Surface devices this week. View the full article

Over the past weekend, a number of Hotmail users reported that their Hotmail messages in various folders were gone. Microsoft officials said on January 3 that the company had identified the cause of the problem and fixed it. There’s still a lot we don’t know about this outage, however. View the full article

Windows IT Pro This week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will take the stage for a keynote address in which he will largely focus on tablet-based computers that are based on Windows and aimed largely at stemming the success of Apple's iPad. If that seems like déjà vu to you, you're not alone. ... View the full article

Supersite In this week's mailbag: Getting to know your new Zune HD, whether you can upgrade to the next version of Windows Home Server, Play To and Windows Media Center, using a Zune HD with the previous generation Zune Dock, and a very serious and common Windows Phone 7 problem that needs more exposure ... and an immediate fix. ... View the full article

Supersite This week's Windows Phone 7 app of the week is Ilomilo, the stunning (and free) Xbox LIVE game from Microsoft Studios that will soon be ported to the Xbox 360 as well. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: A major Windows copy and paste mystery may have been solved, silly link bait about Google's future, my Google Doodle rant, more silly link bait about the iPad, and why I still can't stand Paul Allen or the US patent system. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: A new year, Hotmail mail goes missing, RIM refutes PlayBook battery life story, Nook Color sells well, Kindle eBook lending is enabled, Verizon iPhone timing. ... View the full article

It’s that time: Time to start plotting the travel schedule and penciling in the Microsoft events (that we know about so far) for the new year. View the full article

Microsoft quietly delivered a promised Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of its server application virtualization technology just before Christmas. View the full article

Supersite In this special retrospective, we present the best bits from Windows Weekly in 2010 as selected by you, the listeners. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: Amazon's Best of 2010 lists for tech products, iPad rumors, a more thorough than intended debunking of a terrible NYT article, a chuckle at Disney's expense, and Samsung's jump the shark moment. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Windows Phone's latest apps milestone, a Windows Phone DRM crack, Facebook more popular than Google in 2010, Paul Allen the patent troll, Mozilla's privacy glitch, and the utter failure of iPad digital magazines. Oh, and Happy New Year! ... View the full article

Supersite Today: Opinions vary on the disaster that is Google TV, cool Google Maps window stickers, Paul Allen the patent troll, ludicrous iPad sales estimates, a Skype explanation, and a RIM PlayBook pre-FAIL. ... View the full article

Supersite Microsoft had a string of important product launches in 2010, and those products will have a big impact on its bottom line and future directions. But 2010 wasn't all peaches and cream for the software giant: It also killed off a number of duds and blew it in some key product areas. Let's take a look back at a pivotal year. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro 2010 wasn't the year that mobile apps first appeared, and it wasn't the year that mobile apps finally took off. But 2010 was indeed the year of the app and the app store. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: An interview with the father of Excel, the winding down of Windows 7 Family Pack sales, Microsoft as the most innovative tech company of 2010 (cough), syncing Zune Pass content with Android, and an iPhone 4 sales bump for Q1 2011. ... View the full article

Supersite In this week's mailbag: The best Windows Phone feature is under-utilized, getting rid of CTRL + ALT + DEL on logon, how to structure the writing of a book, the missing desktop toolbars in Windows 7, Blu-ray support and Windows 7, and the Xbox 360 and third party hard drives. ... View the full article

Supersite Facebook counts more than 500 million members and emerged in 2010 as the single most important online destination in the world. ... View the full article