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• Clearing Up Misinformation About the Leaked Windows 7 Build

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Dec 09 2008, 03:32 PM

  Filed under: Windows 7

  I’m starting to see more and more chatter about the Windows 7 build that was “leaked” (I would say stolen) from WinHEC China. I can already see the beginnings of the misinformation campaign that damaged Windows Vista in the Court of Public Opinion, so
  

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• Looks Like The Pentagon Should Have Been Running Windows Vista

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 22 2008, 12:16 AM

  The US government has been leery of upgrading to Windows Vista . Looks like it should have done so a lot sooner : The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware
  

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• My Take on the Vista Capable Fiasco

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 19 2008, 12:20 AM

  Filed under: Windows Vista

  I haven’t said anything about this yet, because I’ve been watching things unfold. I don’t necessarily want to say anything that has an affect on the outcome one way or another, and I didn’t know what was true and what wasn’t. But after the e-mails that
  

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• Microsoft To Replace OneCare With New Free Solution… And a Win7 Hint?

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 18 2008, 09:49 PM

  Filed under: Windows 7, Windows Live OneCare

  Microsoft just sucker-punched McAfee and Symantec right in the stones today with a carefully-worded press release about the future of Windows Security. In a move I’ve been anticipating since the inclusion of Windows Defender into Windows Vista, Microsoft
  

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• Windows Mobile Confusion

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 11 2008, 09:50 PM

  Filed under: Windows Mobile

  First, we were told that Windows Mobile 7 would succeed Windows Mobile 6. Then, Ballmer talked last week about Windows Mobile 6.5 . Then today, at TechEd EMEA, Microsoft announced Internet Explorer Mobile 6 , and released emulator images for Windows Mobile
  

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• Movies on YouTube? Terrible Idea

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 06 2008, 11:24 AM

  CNET just posted a story claiming that Google will start dumping feature-length movies on YouTube. IMHO, this is a terrible idea. As Dan Rayburn pointed out just two days ago, Google has not been able to improve the basic underlying infrastructure of
  

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• Mr. Ballmer, Please Do Not Bailout Yahoo

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 05 2008, 03:17 PM

  An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer. Dear Mr. Ballmer, Congratulations on all the product launches your company has undertaken in the last two weeks. Microsoft is in the midst of rolling out it’s greatest slate of software in its history, and all of your
  

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• Steve Gillmor on The Battle for Microsoft’s Soul

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 02 2008, 08:58 PM

  It’s been a great week to be a journalistic fan of Microsoft. A week ago today, the company began to roll out the first fruits of nearly three years of silent toiling, to near universally positive reviews by most of the tech press. A week later, many
  

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• Enable The SuperBar in Windows 7 Pre-Beta!

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 02 2008, 07:05 PM

  Filed under: Windows 7, PDC 2008

  One of the big disappointments of the Pre-Beta build was the lack of the New Taskbar, which is referred to internally as the SuperBar. We had been told that the feature was not in the build at all. But Raphael, one of our friends from Within Windows,
  

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• Live Mesh for Windows Mobile Broken, New Build Coming

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 30 2008, 09:05 PM

  If you’re like me, and have been waiting all day for the release of Live Mesh for Mobile, so you can sync all your photos wirelessly with all your devices, you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. Apparently, the WiMo build didn’t get tested as well
  

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• Business Model Patents Invalidated, Make Way For Innovation!

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 30 2008, 08:01 PM

  As a software developer, I have always despised patents on business models. They are a ridiculous waste of time, and hamper innovation. A method of buying something online is no more patentable than a new method of tying your shoes, and yet over 1300
  

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• Mark Russinovich Explains MinWin Once and For All

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 30 2008, 06:24 PM

  Filed under: Windows Server Core, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 SP2, MinWin

  A lot of people assume that MinWin is a Microsoft effort to completely rewrite the Windows Kernel from scratch. That may be based on earlier (limited) explanations about what it does, or it may have a lot to do with people assuming, due to people’s efforts
  

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• Live Mesh Offline For Beta Upgrade

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 30 2008, 12:56 PM

  Filed under: Live Mesh

  I was updating my Mesh a minute ago, and was greeted with this: I hope that means the Windows Mobile client is coming today! Update: Looks like LiveSide beat me too it. Also, the Live Mesh blog has extensive details on the upgrade, as well as videos of
  

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• Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Released

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 30 2008, 10:29 AM

  Filed under: Zune, XNA

  Holy Smokin Binaries, Batman! PDC2008 is not over yet, and the bits just keep flowing. Microsoft has released the final version of XNA Game Studio 3.0 , which allows developers to create games for both the Xbox 360 and the Zune. Now I’m hoping they announce
  

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• Service Pack 2 Beta for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Released To Testers

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 30 2008, 02:13 AM

  Filed under: Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista SP2

  Not trying to violate any NDAs here, but in all the hubub around Windows 7 and PDC, it looks like Microsoft tried to slip this under the radar. If you were invited to the SP2 beta program, the downloads have been posted to Connect. So if you can pry yourself
  

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• Apple Should Count Its Own Beans First

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 29 2008, 01:58 PM

  Filed under: Windows Vista, Apple, Windows, Windows 7

  Apple’s latest ad, “ Bean Counter ”, attempts to claim that Microsoft should have spent the $300M it used on its latest marketing campaign on fixing Vista’s issues. Let’s set aside the fact that Windows 7 sticks it to Apple (hard core), or that Apple
  

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• Posting Will Be Light Today

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 28 2008, 12:39 PM

  Filed under: Windows 7, PDC 2008, Office 14

  Unfortunately, my travel arrangements are forcing me to head home today, and I’ll be spending a good portion of the day in the air. So I’ll be missing out on all the cool stuff going on today, but I’ll be wrapping up my in-depth review of Windows 7 on
  

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• Windows 7: First Impressions

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 28 2008, 09:00 AM

  The Sunday before PDC, I was given the opportunity to join about 200 other journalists for a workshop on Windows 7. Lead by the dynamic (as well as unusually candid and often very self-effacing) duo of Mike Nash and Steven Sinofsky (surprisingly enough
  

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• Windows Azure Beta Allocation Stats

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 27 2008, 03:16 PM

  Filed under: Windows Azure

  I just got my invite to Windows Azure (holy crap, that was fast!) and I can now report what you’ll be allocated as a part of the service: Thank you for your interest in Windows© Azure™. This invitation to participate in the Windows Azure Community Technical
  

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• The Official Windows Vista Blog Gets a Makeover

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 27 2008, 12:57 PM

  Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s new obsession with the color blue, The Official Windows Vista Blog underwent a name change and a makeover today. Since there is more than one version of Windows to talk about now, it is known simply as the “Windows Blog
  

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