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Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all
MinWin — the core of the Windows operating system — is, indeed, in Windows 7. It’s just not part of it in the way many people (including yours truly) initially assumed.
Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, who detailed via a Channel 9 Webcast last week how Windows 7 would run on up to 256 processors, tackled yet [...] -
Mike Swanson: Send Me Your PDC Video
In a little over a week, we’ll be holding an all-hands meeting for Microsoft employees who are attending PDC2008. It’ll be a huge meeting with many hundreds of people, including the core team, virtual team, content team, speakers, staff, and anyone else who plans to be at the event. I’ve been asked to lead the [...]
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Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
Mary Jo Foley: Just before retiring from day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft, Chairman Bill Gates said that he expected Microsoft’s 22 Technical Fellows to get a lot more publicly visible — now that they wouldn’t be living in his shadow. While some of the Microsoft fellows already have been active on the public-speaking circuit, many of [...]
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Will current SKU strategy continue for Windows 7?
Yesterday Ed Bott brought up the topic of Windows 7’s moniker, now fellow ZDNET colleague brings up the important issue of Microsoft’s marketing of the product. Will Windows 7 continue to carry the same amount of SKU’s as Windows Vista? The strategy has received a lot of backlash, persons note that it confuses users from [...]
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Newegg Hits Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo Hoo, you crazy Canucks, Newegg is now available in Canada. Hope they bring you the same low prices for computer parts as they do us (along with quick reliable shipping). Wonder how long it will take them to get to our fellow geeks across the water in Europe?
Happy savings folks.
http://www.newegg.ca/ -
Newegg Hits Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo Hoo, you crazy Canucks, Newegg is now available in Canada. Hope they bring you the same low prices for computer parts as they do us (along with quick reliable shipping). Wonder how long it will take them to get to our fellow geeks across the water in Europe?
Happy savings folks.
http://www.newegg.ca/ -
Blogging again
Some of my old readers would have noticed that I’ve stopped blogging for quite a while now. Thing in my personal life, kept me busy and off blogging.
However, I am very much here, and dying to start blogging again. While I was in hibernation, the world has moved ahead leaps and bounds. MOSS is getting [...] -
News – Private Investigators in HP Case to Pay $3,000 Fine
Private Investigators in HP Case to Pay $3,000 Fine
Joseph and Mathew Depante will pay the Federal Trade Commission \$3,000 in “equitable remedies” for their role as private investigators that used illegal pretexting tactics in the infamous 2005 HP spying case, allowing the duo to admit no wrongdoing.
The \$3,000 was originally set at \$67,000, although [...]