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It’s official: No IE 8 until 2009
After one more public test build early next year, Microsoft plans to release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 in calendar 2009.
Microsoft officials shared the updated timetable via a November 19 post on the IE Blog.
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Reflections of a Microsoft shareholder
Michael McDonald, a longtime Microsoft investor, will be attending his first Microsoft shareholders meeting Wednesday morning. In advance of the event, he shared these opinions.
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On election eve, November 2000, I purchased 100,000 shares of MSFT at a split-adjusted, average price of $36 per share for a total cost of $3.6 million.
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Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory
Mark Russinovich: In my first Pushing the Limits of Windows post, I discussed physical memory limits, including the limits imposed by licensing, implementation, and driver compatibility. This time I’m turning my attention to another fundamental resource, virtual memory. Virtual memory separates a program’s view of memory from the system’s physical memory, so an operating system [...]
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IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback. The team is providing detailed information and answering questions about the product in many different places. Now’s a good time to talk about what comes next.
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Windows Search 4.0 Desktop Performance tips and considerations
Matt Hester: Doing a lot of work with Windows Search I have learned how the tool works and I have worked with a lot of great folks at corporate to help put together some fantastic information on performance tips and considerations. Also in this post I wanted to talk about some of the key [...]
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E7: Disk Space
This post is about disk space and the disk space “consumed” by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of thing where everyone wants to use less, but the cost of using a bit more relative to the benefits has generally been a positive tradeoff. Things have changed recently with the availability of solid-state drives [...]
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Is there anyway to obtain a driver for a…
…digital camera for which I lost the install disc? I got a virus a while back and had to reinstall everything on my computer and lost my drivers for my Sony Cybershot DSC-N2. Every time I try to connect my camera to my computer it prompts me for the install disc. Is there any way [...]
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POWERPNT.EXE – No Disk
I have this problem where every time i open up Office 07 PowerPoint this message comes up "POWERPNT.EXE – No Disk"
How do i fix it?