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On the surface, Intel's blockbuster $7.86 billion purchase of security firm McAfee seems crazy. But if you dig a bit deeper, an interesting possibility for the future emerges. Assuming, of course, that Intel doesn't screw it up. View the full article -
Another week, another Windows 7 slate is cut from the list of those slated (pun intended) to ship in time for this holiday season. View the full article
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It was 15 years ago today, August 24, that Microsoft launched Windows 95. Since then, a lot has changed, to put it mildly. View the full article
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Microsoft officials announced August 23 said there have been 300,000-plus downloads of the beta of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools to date. View the full article
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Xbox Live games on Windows Phone 7, new SBS "Aurora" and WHS "Vail" preview releases, Steve Ballmer the overachiever, and why Microsoft's Arc Touch Mouse is no Tragic Macpad. View the full article
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Anyone can use Windows 7's libraries feature, but if you want to really master libaries, you need to know how to customize them, use custom library view styles, create your own custom libraries, and, if you've gone too far, how to get back the default library configurations. View the full article
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My extensive, multi-part review of Windows Live Essentials 2011 has been completely overhauled to cover new features in the near-final beta refresh release. View the full article
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In what might be my most exhaustive Feature Focus article yet, I cover one of the most eagerly-awaited features in Windows 7 yet. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Sticky Notes. :) View the full article
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There are reports that a new early build of Microsoft’s Office 15 have escaped the Redmond halls. More interesting than the mere existence of these pre-alpha build, however, is another mention of a new application that will become part of Microsoft’s next-generation Office suite. View the full article
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This week, Microsoft unveiled its secret weapon in the war against iPhone and Android: Xbox Live support on Windows Phone 7 with a launch day lineup of over 60 games. Move over boys, there's a new mobile gaming king in town. View the full article
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What’s this ‘personal cloud’ that Microsoft execs are promising will be all the rage later this year? Here’s my attempt to figure out whether it’s just rhetoric, rather than reality. View the full article
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Microsoft is making the first beta of its LightSwitch development tool available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers today, according to an August 19 Microsoft blog post. View the full article
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We're swapping homes with a family from Germany this month. Here's a quick look at the must-have technology products I can't live without when away from home for an extended time. View the full article
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Welcome Richy. Hope you enjoy our little corner of the web.
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Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft’s Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to customers by 2011. View the full article
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One of Microsoft’s biggest selling points for its cloud platform is that developers can use .Net, Visual Studio and other programming tools they already know to write Azure applications. But that’s not the end of the story. View the full article
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When Microsoft and Yahoo announced their search partnership plans just over a year ago, there were a number of unanswered questions about Yahoo’s future search-development efforts. On August 17, Yahoo answered a number of those questions via a blog post on the Yahoo Developer Network site View the full article
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As expected, Microsoft is making a new beta of its Windows Live Essentials 2011 (known currently as “Wave 4″) available for download on Tuesday, August 17. View the full article
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Microsoft is splitting the Small Business Server product line in half, and one of those products, codenamed "Aurora," provides a cross-premise solution that combines the best of on-premise Windows Home Server services with the cloud. View the full article
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Microsoft is reconfirming, on the eve of GamesCon 2010, that it is making sure the Windows Phone 7 platform will be a game-centric one. View the full article
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You need an admin to promote you to the admin group on the server.
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Microsoft volume-license customers and partners are voicing concerns — and more — about the fact the company’s Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) has been down for a few days with little explanation. View the full article
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It’s not just a new preview build of Windows Home Server Vail that is going to testers this month. The promised test builds of Microsoft’s “Aurora” small-business server also is available for download by anyone who wants to kick its tires. View the full article
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Microsoft has released an updated preview build of its Windows Home Server “Vail” product to selected testers. View the full article
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Windows Azure Appliances aren’t the only ways for Microsoft customers to create private clouds. They also can assemble a number of on-premises components, including the just-finalized Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self Service Portal 2.0. View the full article