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Microsoft Windows - Mailbag: February 6, 2011
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Supersite In this week's mailbag: Moving from Windows 7 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit, editing Halo: Reach Theater videos on the PC, whether you can upgrade from the Colorado server beta to the RC, why not just provide Drive Extender on Windows Home Server 2011 only, using RAID with WHS 2011, and the only social networking connection I'm willing to make. ... View the full article -
Supersite The release candidate (RC) version of Windows Home Server 2011 (Vail) arrived this week, providing a near-final look at Microsoft's Drive-Extender-less solution for home users. ... View the full article
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Here’s a round-up of Microsoft news from the week, ranging from a coming Windows Phone SDK update, to a rumored Nokia-Microsoft alliance … and more. View the full article
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As much as some may wish for Microsoft to abandon the consumer market and refocus on its enterprise business, that’s not going to happen. Instead, what is increasingly happening is business-focused products and groups at Microsoft are integrating more and more concepts and features that many consider “consumer”-oriented rather than “business”-focused. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Nokia's cry for help, the Colorado RCs, Google's embarrassing copying accusations prove how clueless they really are, Office Web Apps going global, Microsoft's implicit entry in social networking, Hotmail alias support, Verizon Wireless' plan to cut off bandwidth hogs, Google's $20,000 Chrome hack bounty, some seriously bad news for Xbox 360 fan boys, a misguided digital magazine, and yet another delay for Firefox 4. ... View the full article
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There’s a lot of unrest in the Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ community right now, with a number of enthusiasts and testers wondering aloud whether their feedback means anything any more. And they’re not the only ones asking. View the full article
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For those Windows Home Server (WHS) loyalists hoping against hope that Microsoft might reconsider its decision to cut Drive Extender from the coming ‘Vail’ release, your prayers have NOT been answered. But the RCs of Vail and Aurora are out, as of February 3. View the full article
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Microsoft is full of incubators designed to more quickly transfer research projects to the product groups. Thanks to a tipster, I just learned this week of another of these labs: Microsoft’s Healthcare Innovation Lab. View the full article
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Supersite David Pogue slips up in his review of the Verizon iPhone, noting that the antenna redesign doesn't do anything to fix the infamous iPhone "Death Grip" issue, despite the fact that he actually couldn't reproduce this issue at all. So how does he know that? ... View the full article
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Supersite Microsoft's Colorado servers--Windows Home Server 2011 (Vail), Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (Aurora), and Windows Storage Server 2011 Essentials (Breckenridge)--hit the Release Candidate (RC) milestone. Here's a quick peek at what's new, including Microsoft's answer to the cancellation of Drive Extender. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro In the year since Apple introduced its trend-setting iPad device, the company's would-be challengers have bumbled around like Moe, Larry, and Curly in a "Three Stooges" skit, bouncing off of each other and ultimately releasing little in the way of credible competition. This week, however, a legitimately credible challenger emerges. ... View the full article
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I haven’t written much about longer-term Azure futures. Until this week, which just so happens to be the one-year anniversary of Microsoft’s cloud platform. View the full article
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Supersite With Google recently announcing plans to remove support for H.264 video playback in its Chrome web browser, Microsoft has decided to release its own H.264 extension for Chrome. Dubbed the Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, this extension enables Chrome users to play H.264-encoded videos (aka MP4) on HTML5 pages by using the built-in capabilities found in Windows 7. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro At an industry conference on Internet search, Google and Microsoft engaged in a bizarre series of competitive barbs in which each accused the other various indiscretions. But Google's claim was clearly the craziest: It says that Microsoft's Bing service is copying the top search results on Google Search, and it recently underwent a "sting operation" to prove it. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Apple this week revealed that it was willing to prevent competitors from providing apps on its iPhone and iPad devices unless, of course, they're willing to engage in a revenue-sharing scheme with Apple. It's the type of behavior that landed Microsoft in antitrust courts around the world, and one has to think that regulators everywhere are turning their attention to this matter right now. ... View the full article
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To those wondering why Microsoft has become increasingly cautious about acquisitions, here’s another morsel for thought. Microsoft is shuttering its AdECN ad-exchange purchase. View the full article
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On February 1, Google went public (via SearchEngineLand.com) with claims that Microsoft is copying Google search results with Bing. Microsoft is denying the charge, but has yet to provide specifics in its own defense. View the full article
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Supersite Today: Boston preps for another Category 5 Death Storm, Google accuses Bing of copying search results, Apple takes a malicious new stand against the Kindle (and its users), Call of Duty: Black Ops gets a first map pack (only on the Xbox 360), and an inconvenient truth for Windows Phone 7 market share. ... View the full article
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Internet Explorer (IE) is important to Microsoft for a variety of reasons, some obvious and some less so. It turns out that IE — specifically the IE 9 release — is also key to Microsoft’s tablet/slate strategy. View the full article
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Microsoft is confirming officially that — as at least two bloggers reported in January — that Yahoo Mail is causing the data leakage problems that some Windows Phone 7 users have encountered. View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Depending on what matters to you, it's been a tough decade for Microsoft. The company's stock price has stagnated as it matured from a quickly-growing upstart into a slow-moving, comfortable, behemoth. But in recent years, faster-moving companies such as Apple and Google have stolen the limelight, thanks to innovative and exciting consumer products. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro While overall Internet Explorer usage has generally shrunk slowly month-over-month for years, usage in its latest IE version, IE 8, grew faster than the competition. IE 8 now commands 34.17 percent of the market, up from 33 percent the previous month. ... View the full article
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Windows IT Pro Microprocessor giant Intel has uncovered a hardware fault in a supporting chipset for its new CPU lineup and will take a $300 million revenue hit this quarter to fix the problem. The issue involves a design problem that causes its support chipset, the Intel i6 Series (codenamed Cougar Point) to potentially "degrade over time." ... View the full article
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Microsoft Windows - Microsoft Arc Mouse Touch
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Supersite Microsoft's new Arc Mouse Touch combines the fun portability of its predecessor with an innovative new design and some cool touch functionality. ... View the full article -
Supersite Today: A look ahead to back-to-back events in Las Vegas, a zero-day Windows flaw, Angry Birds jumps the shark, Netgear CEO lashes out at Steve Jobs and Apple, a silly look at Word "alternatives," Amazon Prime streaming service rumors, and the New York Times wakes up to why platforms matter (right, because Apple is doing it now too). ... View the full article