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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=hQzuInZD6EMJ&imgurl=www.techshout.com/images/windows-7.JPG width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> TechShout! <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 details to be released BBC News, UK - Aug 15, 2008 Based on Vista, Windows 7 is expected to be released in January 2010. The announcement about the unveiling was made on a new Windows 7 blog written by ... Microsoft Opens Windows 7 Blog NewsFactor Network Windows 7 details to be revealed in October ZDNet UK More Windows 7 details released VNUNet.com Register - domain-B all 85 news articles More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=hQzuInZD6EMJ&imgurl=www.techshout.com/images/windows-7.JPG width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> TechShout! <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 details to be released BBC News, UK - Aug 15, 2008 Based on Vista, Windows 7 is expected to be released in January 2010. The announcement about the unveiling was made on a new Windows 7 blog written by ... Windows 7 details to be revealed in October ZDNet UK More Windows 7 details released VNUNet.com Microsoft Opens Windows 7 Blog NewsFactor Network Register - domain-B all 85 news articles More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=YkPWgr3DgE8J&imgurl=images.digitalmedianet.com/2008/Week_36/aq0jjwdn/story/digitalconceptsgroup250.jpg width=80 height=66 alt="" border=1> Digital Game Developer <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Just announced, the THX certified.......Door! Digital Video Editing, CA - 1 hour ago The XENA 2K video card is AJAs topoftheline card for Windows Vista 32bit and XP delivering uncompressed SD HD and Dual Link HD and enabling customers to ... iTunes update for Windows Vista addresses BSOD IT Business Net all 270 news articles More...

Apple only released two new iPods this year, but the iPod nano 4G and iPod touch 2G are best-in-class. The only question is whether you need to upgrade! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Just announced, the THX certified.......Door! Digital Video Editing, CA - 1 hour ago The XENA 2K video card is AJAs topoftheline card for Windows Vista 32bit and XP delivering uncompressed SD HD and Dual Link HD and enabling customers to ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> iTunes update for Windows Vista addresses BSOD IT Business Net, CA - 58 minutes ago Read More This article is designed to help you create a custom Blog Theme in Blogger. I like Blogger because it is free, it works with Windows Live Writer ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=hQzuInZD6EMJ&imgurl=www.techshout.com/images/windows-7.JPG width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> TechShout! <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 details to be released BBC News, UK - Aug 15, 2008 Based on Vista, Windows 7 is expected to be released in January 2010. The announcement about the unveiling was made on a new Windows 7 blog written by ... More Windows 7 details released VNUNet.com Windows 7 details to be revealed in October ZDNet UK Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7 Register domain-B - Computerworld all 85 news articles More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=oQdWKug28dYJ&imgurl=commercial-archive.com/d138bfd7bb6f0663dcc71c6b82557c00/2008/septjpgs/microsoftmojave.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> AdLand <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft - Windows Vista - Mojave Experiment (2008) :30 (USA) AdLand, Denmark - 15 minutes ago Read this! To view commercials you need to be upgraded to SUPER ADGRUNT . You are not a super adgrunt. First log in. Then these are your upgrading to super ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=hQzuInZD6EMJ&imgurl=www.techshout.com/images/windows-7.JPG width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> TechShout! <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: More Details Coming On Windows 7 CRN, NY - Aug 14, 2008 ... but has been criticized for removing features later on, particularly with Windows Vista. But a new Windows 7 blog that appeared this week aims to avoid ... Windows 7 details to be released BBC News More Windows 7 details released VNUNet.com Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7 Register domain-B - Computerworld all 85 news articles More...

I have already made two posts (here, here) on the problem of iTunes on Windows Vista and at last, Apple has finally posted a support documentation on the blue screen of death for iTunes 8. Their support post found here has this information. Resolution Solution 1 1. Disconnect your iPhone or iPod from Windows Vista. 2. Uninstall iTunes and [...] More...

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I happen to be browsing for icons which I was looking into putting in my personal website here (MiloRiano.com) when I came across FastIcon and immediately noticed ULTIMATE VISTA - ICON COLLECTION, e-VISTA - ICON COLLECTION and VISTA LAND - ICON COLLECTION in their homepage. As I browsed thru, the set of icons is good [...] More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=r-Wcer_yDAMJ&imgurl=s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-CG767_advert_D_20080907231000.jpg width=80 height=53 alt="" border=1> Wall Street Journal <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Geeky Gates joins deadpan Seinfeld to save Windows Vista from ... Economic Times, India - Sep 6, 2008 The 160 millon-pound campaign is aimed at combating the public's perception that the company's latest PC operating system Windows Vista is hard to use ... Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand? ZDNet Seinfeld's Microsoft ad slammed as 'pathetic' Metro New Seinfeld Ad Draws Negative Reviews Online myFOXlubbock.com DaniWeb - Windows IT Pro all 620 news articles More...

In an earlier post, we introduced the new IE8 Smart Address Bar dropdown functionality. Now we thought we’d spend some time discussing some of its less obvious features in more detail. More about the IE8 Smart Address Bar Autocomplete Suggestion With Windows Search installed, IE8 makes an attempt to determine what site you’re trying to get to. The site that it determines is most likely the one you’re looking for is called the “Autcomplete Suggestion.” This entry is given the SHIFT+ENTER shortcut, so it’s very easy to go to your most recommended site. But how do we determine what’s most relevant? We use a variety of factors to determine what site you’re trying to get to. IE8 takes into consideration what you’re typing in the Address Bar and weighs the results based on how well what you’ve typed matches against a variety of fields. For example: an exact match against the domain is ‘worth more’ than a match against a fragment down in the querystring part of the URL. We’re not going to give the exact rules for our algorithm (to avoid people gaming the system), but basically, some parts of the URL are more important than others. All matches are returned as part of the potential set of results, but “how good” a match helps determine the order. Once IE has narrowed down the set of hits based on what you’ve typed, it uses a bit more data to determine what you’re looking for, including how often you go to a particular site, and whether or not you’ve selected it from the list before. All of these are part of the relevancy model. But what’s most important to any user? Their History, a Favorite, or a Feed? Since your History tends to be a super-set of all your other data (every Favorite you visit, or Feed you read also ends up in History), IE8 gives precedence to the top History item. If no matches are available in your History, the Autocomplete Suggestion will return your top Favorite. If no Favorite matches, it will return your top Feed. This feature was designed as the replacement for Inline Autocomplete, which was removed in IE8 Beta 1. Inline Autocomplete had no smarts: it just completed what you were typing with the first complete match from your history, sorted alphabetically.In IE8 Autocomplete Suggestion is essentially the same thing (only now you use SHIFT+ENTER instead of just ENTER), and because of relevancy, we’ve found that it’s the address users are looking for over 2/3 of the time. Search from the IE8 Smart Address Bar For those of you who may or may not have noticed, whether you type in the Address Bar or Search Box, the dropdown underneath is the same control. Although it looks a little different depending on where it is, it’s all the same code running. One difference in how the dropdown acts is that, for example, under the Address Bar, it shows the keyboard tips section at the bottom, but under the Search Box, it shows the QuickPick menu. But did you know that you can flip the dropdown into Search Box mode, even when typing from the Address Bar? Just type a question mark followed by any word, string, or phrase, and it will act just like you opened the Search Box, with one exception: the keyboard shortcut section is visible and the QuickPick menu is not. Otherwise it’s the same – you get search suggestions (if available) from your default search provider and IE8 only shows you matches from your typed addresses and History. If you don’t rely on the QuickPick menu, it’s a great way to quickly do a search. Here’s a screenshot of Visual Search results coming back from an Amazon search for ‘xbox 360:’ http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/IMG1.png If you typed multiple words in IE7, it would assume you’re searching for something, so it would pass what you typed along to your auto-search provider. To do that in IE8, just type ‘Find,’ ‘Search,’ or ‘Go’ as the first word, type the word or words you’re looking for, and then hit ENTER. Side note: this works in IE7 too. “Find” and “Go” don’t flip the Address Bar dropdown into search mode, it just tells IE to treat your string as a search when you hit ENTER. Files and Folders mode There’s also a Files and Folders mode in IE8. Just type any local or network path, and we’ll enumerate your local (or networked) files and folders. This is a handy way to quickly find and launch a local resource, but remember: IE will probably hand launching the file, directory or executable off to the Windows shell to handle, since IE may not know what to do with, say, a random DLL on your machine. If it’s a file format that IE understands (JPG, text file, etc.), then it’ll likely open in the frame. Note that in Files and Folders mode, IE8 does not do any hit highlighting and there are no keyboard shortcuts: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/IMG2.png Navigating with the keyboard We made sure that the Autcomplete dropdown in IE8 was as accessible to keyboard users as to those of us who use the mouse. It’s very easy to use the keyboard in the dropdown: Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to move between items; the arrow keys will skip over section headers. Use the TAB key to move between section headers; the TAB key will skip over items. If you want to expand or collapse any section with the mouse, just TAB to it, then hit the SPACE or ENTER key. Both the ARROW and TAB keys ‘wrap’ at the top and bottom of the dropdown, so if you keep hitting TAB (or its reverse, SHIFT+TAB), you’ll keep cycling through the group headers. To advance focus to the control immediately after the Address Bar, just hit ESC to close the dropdown, then TAB will advance normally. For users with a screen reader, it should not only announce the name of the group you’ve selected, but also how many items are available. As you select individual items, it will not only announce the item’s Title and URL, but the position of the item in that group as well. The keyboard tip section at the bottom of the dropdown will show you various key combinations for quick navigation with IE8. The arrow beneath the keyboard tip sections is counted as its header row for expanding or collapsing it. Here’s the tip section in its expanded state: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/img3.png We’ve typed ‘microsoft’ in the IE8 Smart Address Bar for this example. IE has supported the CTRL+ENTER keystroke for some time, but it never advertised this keystroke to users before. Now you can easily see what happens, and tune the behavior of IE, just by choosing the right combination of keystrokes. The middle option in the screenshot (the “microsoft.net” option for CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER) only appears if you’ve selected a custom suffix, which can be done via the “Languages” button on the General Tab of IE’s options screen. If that option is left blank, then this line will not appear. The keyboard tip section always defaults to its collapsed state (it won’t ‘stick’ open). We do this because most users don’t need to see all the keyboard tips all the time. Since they don’t change, once you learn them you don’t need to be constantly reminded about them, and the advanced users who user keyboard shortcuts more tend to want the UI to take up as small amount of real estate as possible. Open the dropdown without typing anything The Autocomplete dropdown can be opened even if you don’t type anything – just click the down arrow to the right of the address bar: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/IMG4.png With Windows Search installed, this will show you your ‘top’ sites from each group – the places, sites, and Feeds you read, select, and visit most often. Without Windows Search installed, this will show you your ‘most recently used’ list of History and Favorites. Thanks, Christopher Vaughan & Seth McLaughlin Program Managers http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8948201 More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=nl6iYS7jjroJ&imgurl=news.cnet.com/i/bto/20080912/gates_seinfeld_280x210_270x202.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> CNET News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I’m listening ... ZDNet - 1 hour ago in the official Windows Vista Blog and he presents a good, well thought-out counterpoint that I think offers some valid points, including: When you set out ... Bill Gates Does The Robot In Latest Windows Ad InformationWeek WinInfo Short Takes: Week of September 15, 2008 Windows IT Pro Seinfeld/Gates odd couple ads continue VNUNet.com AdAge.com (subscription) - Electronista all 104 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Bill Gates Does The Robot In Latest Windows Ad InformationWeek, NY - 16 minutes ago Like the first ad in the campaign, which aired last week, the spot does not specifically mention Windows Vista or any other Microsoft product. ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=dVQEITxxz1gJ&imgurl=www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/09/12/seinfeld2_wideweb__470x268,0.jpg width=80 height=46 alt="" border=1> Sydney Morning Herald <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I’m listening ... ZDNet - 47 minutes ago in the official Windows Vista Blog and he presents a good, well thought-out counterpoint that I think offers some valid points, including: When you set out ... WinInfo Short Takes: Week of September 15, 2008 Windows IT Pro Seinfeld/Gates odd couple ads continue VNUNet.com Gates, Seinfeld Funnier Second Time Around AdAge.com (subscription) Electronista - Wired News all 99 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I’m listening ... ZDNet - 12 minutes ago in the official Windows Vista Blog and he presents a good, well thought-out counterpoint that I think offers some valid points, including: When you set out ... More...

Here are some photos of Microsoft's Zune 120 portable digital media player! More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=dVQEITxxz1gJ&imgurl=www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/09/12/seinfeld2_wideweb__470x268,0.jpg width=80 height=46 alt="" border=1> Sydney Morning Herald <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> And wait until they introduce the wacky neighbor! Good Morning Silicon Valley, CA - 36 minutes ago Simply put, this campaign isn’t about Windows Vista. It’s about Windows.” So, patience — remember, even “Seinfeld” took a few seasons to find its audience. ... WinInfo Short Takes: Week of September 15, 2008 Windows IT Pro Seinfeld/Gates odd couple ads continue VNUNet.com Gates, Seinfeld Funnier Second Time Around AdAge.com (subscription) Electronista - Wired News all 91 news articles More...

The video above is an installment of the Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates celebrity tandem. Man, I can’t understand it. Maybe because it’s 2am in the morning and I have been through a grueling day at work. Or maybe it’s a brain teaser. I keep on trying to understand the message as Bill and Jerry [...] More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 Beta delayed until mid-December Electronista, CA - 11 minutes ago The delay suggests a small amount of initial trouble for Microsoft's replacement for Windows Vista, which itself was delayed by three years after security ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=fIOJqgMMkw4J&imgurl=images.dailytech.com/frontpage/fp__fp__fp__vista2bp81.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> It appears testers will have to wait longer to get their hands on ... DailyTech, IL - 34 minutes ago Set to debut in late 2009 or early 2010, Microsoft's latest version of Windows promises to make up ground in areas Windows Vista lacked, by offering a ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=fIOJqgMMkw4J&imgurl=images.dailytech.com/frontpage/fp__fp__fp__vista2bp81.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Report: Windows 7 Beta 1 Slips from October to December DailyTech, IL - 14 minutes ago Set to debut in late 2009 or early 2010, Microsoft's latest version of Windows promises to make up ground in areas Windows Vista lacked, by offering a ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=zgZkuqW88xMJ&imgurl=www.brisbanetimes.com.au/ffximage/2008/09/12/seinfeld2_wideweb__470x268,0.jpg width=80 height=46 alt="" border=1> Digital Life <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WinInfo Short Takes: Week of September 15, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 43 minutes ago And this One is ExcellentWhile I enjoyed the first Windows Vista featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, I was clearly in the ... Seinfeld/Gates odd couple ads continue VNUNet.com New Seinfeld/Gates ad surfaces, campaign costs ~$300m Electronista Gates and Seinfeld 2 -- this one's funny guardian.co.uk Wired News - Management Today all 66 news articles More...