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Supersite in recent weeks, the fanboy furor of Windows 8 has risen to a crescendo, with screenshots being leaked by the usual Russian and Chinese suspects and reposted without credit on the usual English-speaking blogs. And I'm getting emails wondering why I'm not writing that much about Windows 8 yet. Here's what I can say for now. ... View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft and its partners have done everything they can to prevent customers from getting the first real software update for Windows Phone. But you don't have to put up with this behavior. Here's how you can bypass the restrictions and get your Windows Phone up-to-date today. ... View the full article -
Windows IT Pro In an excerpt from his autobiography published in Vanity Fair today, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lashes out at his friend Bill Gates, describing how the mercurial billionaire took credit for Allen's work and diminished Allen's presumed role in the early successes of the software giant. The book, called "Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft," will be published April 17. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Microsoft this week issued a new filing in its legal challenge of Apple's App Store trademark, and is enlisting the help linguistics to help retort Apple's claims. As before, Microsoft's assertion is that the term App Store is too generic to trademark. And Apple has itself used the term generically in the past, Microsoft says. ... View the full article
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Microsoft has begun to notify users of HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 handsets that the first two WP7 updates are now available for download. Some Orange and Vodafone/SFR users also are reporting the updates are arriving. View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft announces the completion of Windows Home Server 2011 "Vail." ... View the full article
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Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Windows Home Server 2011 product, codenamed “Vail,” company officials said on March 29. View the full article
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Last we heard, even though Microsoft had kinned the Kin — its phone for the teen/20-something hipster set — the Kin Studio concepts were still not completely dead. Could the Kin Studio’s successor be “Mobile Studio”? View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft has a number of reasons it feels that IE 9 is superior to the competition, but here's an unexpected benefit, according to the software giant: It's easier on your PC's battery life than the competition. ... View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft announces an expansion of the Active Views functionality in Hotmail. ... View the full article
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Supersite Today: Some humor and some serious thought about Nokia's adoption of Windows Phone 7, Google Docs is still primitive, Windows Thin PC, Google and antitrust, Firefox 4 is "slaughtering" IE 9 ... for now, more musings on the New York Times pay wall, Android tablets that want to be PCs, and Java's father joins Google. ... View the full article
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It’s no secret that Nokia is expecting, hoping (and probably praying) that all of its Nokia smartphone users will become Windows Phone users in the not-so-distant future. But at least one market-research firm is counting on this happening by 2015. View the full article
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Microsoft is moving full-steam ahead with its healthcare push, while Google may be pulling back — and possibly pulling out all together — from the electronic medical records space. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro While I generally try to just focus on one topic here each week, there's some catching up to do, so please excuse the potpourri of topics. I wasn't able to attend MMS last week, so there's a bit from there, a follow-up about Windows Thin PC, and an update on Windows Phone. Let's jump in. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro The market researchers at IDC today revealed a startling prediction for the future of the smartphone industry: Although Android will continue to dominate the market over the next four years, as expected, Microsoft's Windows Phone—and not Apple's iPhone—will be the number-two player by 2015. And no, it's not April 1. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Online retailing giant Amazon launched its cloud-hosted file storage service, Cloud Drive, well ahead of anticipated competition from Apple. ... View the full article
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Microsoft has made available for download, as of March 28, the first Windows Thin PC Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build. View the full article
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There’s going to be more than one way for customers to take advantage of Microsoft’s server application virtualization (Server App-V) technology when it becomes commercially available later this year. View the full article
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Supersite Today: Nintendo releases the 3DS, Crysis 2 hits Xbox 360, WWDC 2011 rumors, Intel lowers prices on SSDs, New York Times launches confusing new digital subscription plans, Apple and Amazon are both working on digital locker services, and some opinions about AT&T, Microsoft, and Windows Phone software updates. ... View the full article
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Microsoft officials (and some of their defenders) are cautioning that too much is being read into the angry feedback from early users. I disagree. Microsoft needs to get serious about WP7 transparency to keep its loyalists around. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro When Google announced a new version of its Android mobile OS designed specifically for tablet devices, there was some confusion about whether the OS would make its way to Android-based smartphones too. This past week, however, details emerged about Google's plans. ... View the full article
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Supersite ActiveX Filtering is a new IE 9 feature that can block all ActiveX controls from working within the browser via a single switch. Then, users (or corporate administrators) can re-enable controls only on those sites they explicitly trust. You can also to re-enable specific controls globally, so they always work no matter which site you visit. ... View the full article
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Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss the never-ending saga of the first Windows Phone 7 software update, Amazon's Appstore for Android, Microsoft suing Barnes and Noble over the Nook eBook reader, Mozilla Firefox 4, Windows Intune, and AT&ampampampampT's plan to buy T-Mobile. ... View the full article
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Supersite IMDb is the ultimate entertainment-oriented site for fans of movies and TV shows, and now its available in a great Windows Phone 7 app as well. ... View the full article
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