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Supersite Last month, Microsoft unveiled Windows Thin PC, a special locked down version of Windows 7 for thin clients and older PCs that will be used primarily in VDI scenarios in schools and other similar environments. This week, the company is talking up Windows Thin PC again, and providing a bit more information. ... View the full article -
Microsoft has some fancy footwork to do around its tablet/slate positioning. View the full article
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Supersite I'm upgrading many existing PCs from hard drive-based storage to SSD (solid state drive) storage. I'd like to discuss the beginnings of that effort now, with a look at my first desktop conversion. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Smartphones running Google's Android OS have been outselling Apple's iPhone in the United States for some time. ... View the full article
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This could be many things. The dependency your program needs might not be installed on Windows 2008 r2. The program might have been packaged with a 32 bit installer. There are many other things that could be wrong. I would start by looking in the error logs for a more specific error.
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Supersite A blogger has recorded his experiences upgrading from an early version of DOS through every major version of Windows (except Millennium edition for some reason). It's pointless, and his final "complaint" is bizarre, but it's still quite interesting. ... View the full article
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Supersite This one is too funny:  College Humor does it again with , in which many of the most infamous online gooneries are laid bare. Good stuff. ... View the full article -
Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss the Mac OS X Lion preview and what it hints at for Windows 8, a rumored Windows 8 Tablet PC demo by the end of the first half of 2011, the return of the Windows Phone 7 pre-update, Apple's response to Microsoft's App Store trademark complaint, Windows InTune gets a release date, Consumer Reports slags Verizon iPhone 4 too, and Apple's iPad 2 announcement. ... View the full article
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Microsoft announced this week a new partnership with travel-search provider Kayak. Here are a few questions (and fewer answers) about Redmond’s latest Bing-related deal. View the full article
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Supersite This week's app of the week is Basic Spanish for Dummies, and it helped my family and I make our way around Spain on a recent vacation. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including non-news about the lack of a Microsoft Tablet OS until 2012, some others who are unhappy with Apple's cockiness over an evolutionary product update, misreporting about a Microsoft executive's comments about the Mac, Microsoft's attempt to kill IE 6, Microsoft's place on the smart phone map, XP and Vista users get an auto-run update automatically, and how to bring your Xbox LIVE avatar to life. ... View the full article
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Hello and welcome.
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What’s the latest with the Windows Phone 7 update saga? Will NoDo show next week? And has Mango gone soft? View the full article
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Microsoft has launched a new Web site that is aimed at stepping up its campaign to move users off Internet Explorer (IE) 6. View the full article
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Supersite I've been looking at my various desktop and portable PCs and have begun the process of wiping them out and reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows 7 with SP1. There are different ways to do this, but lately I've opted out of the Setup DVD and have instead been using a USB memory key. Here's how it works. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro The first Windows Phone 7 software update could arrive as soon as next week, adding crucial features that were missing when the new mobile OS launched last fall and closing the functional gap between Windows Phone and its more mature competition. ... View the full article
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There are (and have been) a number of different slates and tablets in various phases of test/development by different teams at Microsoft. I discovered yet another today, when searching the Microsoft Research site. View the full article
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Microsoft has rolled out a new incentive to attract and keep more Bing users: Group deals. View the full article
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Supersite I get a lot of silly email from the Apple diehards. Here's how I really feel. ... View the full article
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How do you feel about avatar usage in the workplace? Do you foresee a bunch of your work colleagues in cartoon form holding virtual meetings in the not-so-distant future? View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Apple introduced the iPad 2 as expected on Wednesday, and that's the problem: There were absolutely no surprises at all, at least about the device itself, whose feature set was revealed by rumor sites weeks in advance. ... View the full article
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Yes use the uninstall wizard to remove the CALs.
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There’s been a simmering debate as to whether Microsoft understands the tablet/slate market, and Apple’s announcement of the iPad 2 on March 2 turned up the heat on that subject. View the full article
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The researchers at International Data Corp. (IDC) released their latest worldwide server market share data this week. As was true in the last quarter of 2009, Windows servers are far and away the leader in share as measured by of percentage of revenue, the firm found. View the full article
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Supersite Today: Apple's less-than-humble descriptions of itself, iPad 2 launch day arrives, T-Mobile revives the Sidekick and gives it an Android heart, Call of Duty or sign of weakness, Windows 8 concepts are just that, and Microsoft's call for HTML 5 goodness. ... View the full article