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  1. If and until Microsoft decides to deliver Office on new platforms and devices, the “best” way to get Office on more than just your Windows PC or Mac is via Office Web Apps. But is Office Web Apps really good enough? View the full article
  2. Microsoft has just hit the near-final Release Candidate (RC) 0 milestone with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 and is expecting to deliver the final code to its server OEMs before the end of September, according to information from private testers. View the full article
  3. Cloud hosting provider Rackspace rolled out on September 8 a new toolkit for customers who want to develop and deploy to its Cloud Servers for Windows service. View the full article
  4. Having spent a few weeks with a near-final version of Windows Small Business Server "Aurora," I see the advantages of this starter server product, but also a few bits that will be confusing for the market it targets. View the full article
  5. You can uninstall on the old server and then install on the new. You will have to call Microsoft to transfer the key. If the key is from an OEM install then it is tied to the server it was installed on. If it is a retail key then you can activate on another server as long as you call Microsoft to activate.
  6. The best way to do it is to set file permissions so that only the users you choose can access them. You can do that a couple of ways. Since I am lazy I use windows explorer and set permissions that way.You can also create user roles with appropriate permissions.
  7. When installing in dual boot you always have to install the older version OS first. You could use Windows 2008 to restore the boot record and create the dual boot for you.
  8. Hello, Owen, and welcome to the community.
  9. On September 7, I began receiving notes from several customers of Microsoft’s hosted Online Services — which include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Communications Online, Live Meeting and the BPOS bundle of these services — of new and troubling access problems. View the full article
  10. The third member of Microsoft’s new trio of small business servers, codenamed “Small Business Server 7″ is running behind the other two, and is now set to go to public beta by the end of September. View the full article
  11. In this week's mailbag, reader reaction to my iTunes 10 review and whether it's time to start ignoring Apple's products, a new Windows Phone 7-compatible version of the Zune PC software, whether Microsoft will ever make Zune for the Mac, the Windows Home Server add-ons I use (or, don't use), international Kindle usage, and whether Microsoft's online services will ever provide SSL access. View the full article
  12. Apple's iTunes software has been so bad for so long that it's getting hard to justify using this unwieldy software. But what are the alternatives to Apple's superior iPhone, iPod, and iPad products? And does leaving the company's i-ecosystem even make any sense? View the full article
  13. In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Windows Phone 7 RTM, the return of the Windows 7 Family Pack, Apple's meh music event, a new Xbox 360 controller and an Xbox Live price hike, the Amazon Kindle 3, and Windows Live Mesh. View the full article
  14. Windows 7 brings back a feature from older Windows versions: The ability to add and remove bundled applications and services on the fly. View the full article
  15. Microsoft has significantly updated Windows Explorer yet again in Windows 7, this time with a new toolbar, a resizable search box, and a new navigational pane. View the full article
  16. Apple's latest version of iTunes is like a cruel joke foisted on Windows users. It features some minor UI changes and a new and largely empty social networking service called Ping. View the full article
  17. The October 2010 edition of my print magazine column looks at a Windows Small Business Server "Aurora" update, a Windows Home Server "Vail" update, the great Windows Phone 7 debate, Windows 7 sales and deployment stats, the Slate PC, Internet Explorer on the rebound, and PDC 2010. View the full article
  18. Microsoft’s hosted suite of enterprise applications — the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) went down for 90 minutes on September 3 for a number of customers in North America. View the full article
  19. I appeared on this week's episode of the What The Tech podcast with Tom Davis and Andrew Zarian, and discussed Windows Phone 7, Media Streaming in the home, Apple Event perspectives, thoughts on the upcoming Phone Marketplace interface, Legacy architecture, and why Microsoft is still the most powerful force in the IT world. View the full article
  20. I appeared on this week's episode of the Home Theater Geeks podcast with Scott Wilkinson to discuss the changing face of TV and movie delivery. View the full article
  21. Microsoft execs haven’t been beating the parallel-computing drum as loudly as they were a year or two ago, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening in this space. View the full article
  22. Should Web developers target Internet Explorer 9 or Silverlight when creating new Web and mobile applications? One Microsoft exec takes a new stab at an answer. View the full article
  23. This month’s version of my Microsoft Codename Tracker includes a number of brand-new entries in the high-end server space — including MFx, Dryad, Nectar, Orleans, Quincy and TidyFS — plus lots, lots more. View the full article
  24. Microsoft has released to manufacturing (RTM’d) the Windows Phone OS 7.0, company officials announced on September 1. View the full article
  25. I’m kicking off a new series on my site: (Not So) Crazy Microsoft Rumors. This week’s rumor is all about whether Microsoft may bring to market one more Zune HD before it turns Zune into an audio/video service only. View the full article
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