This is something I think is pretty exciting – especially if you’re looking to score some Microsoft product. We are announcing the Microsoft Store – the first online store where you can purchase Microsoft products straight from the source!
We’re selling all of our products at a one-stop-shop: www.MicrosoftStore.com.
The Microsoft Store offers the largest selection of Microsoft software, devices and hardware in one place. You will find many reasons to visit the store:
Immediate software download option with the largest download catalog of Microsoft titles.
Most up-to-date selection of and information on everyone’s favorite Microsoft products including Windows, Office, Xbox, Zune and more!
Simple and secure purchases with full Microsoft support both before and after purchase.
We’re not just launching the Microsoft Store for US customers. In addition to the US Microsoft Store, there are also online stores for customers in the UK, Germany and Korea. Japan, France, Spain and the Netherlands are coming soon. More countries will be coming onboard throughout the year.
I’ll be picking myself up one of the new Microsoft LifeCam Show webcams from the Microsoft Store as I had been looking to pick one up for a while now.
Written by Brandon LeBlanc on November 13th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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This is something I think is pretty exciting – especially if you’re looking to score some Microsoft product. We are announcing the Microsoft Store – the first online store where you can purchase Microsoft products straight from the source! Read More……(read more)
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From time to time I have accidentally typed in the wrong address in Outlook. To make matters worse the wrong email address comes up every time when I start typing.
I searched for quite some time trying to figure out how to remove items from the list - until finally I discovered the obvious.
To remove an item from auto-complete simply select the address with the cursor keys, and press the delete key. Poof the entry is gone.
Written by Steve Wiseman on November 13th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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If you use “Games for Windows - LIVE” here is how you can keep them up to date.
See the original post at: Games for Windows - LIVE: How to update by using Windows Update
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I mentioned in passing that the maximum delay you can specify
in boot.ini is about 11 million seconds .
I’m disappointed but sadly not surprised that everybody focused on that
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In their quest to compete with the iPhone, Research In Motion has developed the BlackBerry storm. For quite some time BlackBerry has had a grip on the corporate environment. That was starting to fall apart with the iPhone.
We can attest to that from our own informal sampling here. For a long time we would only get requests to create BlackBerry compatible applications. These days it is about 50/50 with the iPhone and BlackBerry.
The new interfaces sports a few unique features that may please iPhone haters. The screen actually indents when you press it - so when you type on the visual keyboard it actually feels like you are pressing buttons. It also has excellent integration with Microsoft Exchange - something the iPhone has, but it is still far from what it should be.
Still, the look is missing that something special that the iPhone has:
And it is lacking in specifications. The stock $199 model (That Verizon will subsidize) Comes with only a 1GB. In contrast the $199 iPhone comes with 8GB.
Still I think in the corporate environment the BlackBerry will win over for now - it has some of the best tools for controlling and monitoring use.
We are starting to toy around with a few test apps on the iPhone here…maybe we will get one of these also and see what type of apps we can come up with 
Written by Steve Wiseman on November 13th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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If you’re particularly fond of the kinetic scrolling functionality that is implemented on the iPhone and Zune 3.0, then you have to get your hands dirty on Windows 7 since kinetic scrolling is now operating-system wide. The feature, officially implemented as “Panning”, was one of the many secrets unearthed by Rafael Rivera and can only [...]
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You would think that gamers could care less of the capacity that their usual PC power supply can handle but apparently, the increase in hardware specifications such as video card requirements and power drain that stems from their everyday playing needs to be addressed.
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Microsoft has recently released patch MS08-068 - Another SMB remote code execution bug. It allows anyone who exploits the flaw to take control of that computer. If you have not gotten the patch yet - I would get it as soon as you can.
The disturbing part is that Microsoft knew about this flaw as far back as 2001. According to Microsoft, they held back on releasing a fix because it would immediately break many applications that require SMB signing. For example, on the MSRC blog, a Microsoft employee states:
…the impact would have been to render many (or nearly all) customers network-based applications then inoperable. For instance, an Outlook 2000 client wouldnt have been able to communicate with an Exchange 2000 server. We did say that customers who were concerned about this issue could use SMB signing as an effective mitigation…
I could buy that. IF IT ONLY AFFECTED WINDOWS XP. But the bug in question also affects Vista, 2008, and 64 bit releases. Many applications were simply broken with the release of Vista. Why not just allow them to break and keep them secure? And why does it take 7 years to figure out this application compatible work around?
In our remote programs, like remote reboot, or remote desktop enabler, we need to use 4 different methods to authenticate via SMB with a remote host…to cover all of the versions of Windows. Now I can understand why this is the case! Because the SMB server in windows is a spegattiezed mess that probably has 10 more security holes the hackers already know about, Microsoft knows about, but still has not found a fix for them yet!
Sorry for the rant, but if you do have an internet facing machine I suggest disabling file and printer sharing, and make double sure these ports are firewalled.
Written by Steve Wiseman on November 13th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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The Windows Live SkyDrive Team has posted a in-depth post offering a overview of what’s coming with their next update. First and foremost: Windows Live SkyDrive will be boosting everyone’s storage from 5GB to 25GB. Secondly, they want to give you more control over your files by offering you new features to do so:
Download photos directed to your to Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Download as a .zip file. Download an entire folder in one compressed file (initially available only in the United States, Denmark, and Ireland).
Move files between folders.
Copy files to multiple folders.
Sharing photos is huge these days. They’ve added almost 20 new features to make the photo experience on Windows Live SkyDrive even better such as supporting People Tags, bigger thumbnails, and a new online slideshow using Microsoft Silverlight.
You will be able to also keep your Internet Explorer favorites synced up with multiple PCs using Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live SkyDrive.
There is a lot coming to Windows Live SkyDrive! Check out their blog post for more details on what’s coming up.
Written by Brandon LeBlanc on November 13th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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