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  1. With Microsoft acknowledging this week that it is bringing Windows to the lower-power, tablet/slate-friendly ARM processor, I — like a number of others — also am wondering what Microsoft’s longer-term plans are for Windows Compact Embedded. View the full article
  2. Supersite This week's Windows Phone 7 app pick is Weatherbug, which combines a beautiful Windows Phone presentation with nice customization features and a great dynamic live tile with notifications. ... View the full article
  3. Supersite Microsoft's Director of Policy and Enforcement for the Xbox LIVE service exposes his company's dirty little secret: The people who make product decisions at the software giant suffer from a reality distortion field of their own. Unfortunately, this one is directed internally, and not at customers. And it explains why Microsoft just can't get it right, again and again and again. ... View the full article
  4. Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss some New Year resolutions, a look back at 2010, a look forward to 2011, some CES predictions, Windows Phone data usage issues, and Paul's weekend PC focus group. ... View the full article
  5. Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Steve Ballmer's attempt at being Jobsian, many questions raised by Microsoft's ARM moves, the lack of a Microsoft tablet response at CES, silence finally broken on Windows Phone 7 updates, the new Surface table, Microsoft's Tragic MacPad, some excellent competitive bile for Google, HotFAIL, more Xbox 360 failures, and AT&T finally jumps the shark. ... View the full article
  6. I wish I could help. I don't know how to enable it. I never used the feature so I wouldn't know how to enable it if I did use it. I'll do some looking and see if I can help you.
  7. No you really don't. There are very few apps that need it.
  8. Have you tried selecting properties on the executable and setting it to use the correct framework. My bet is you have 4.0 installed and it is creating the problem.
  9. Microsoft Hotmail hiccuped around the New Year holiday, resulting in approximately 17,000 users finding some or all of their messages missing. At the time, Microsoft officials declined to comment on what happened. But on January 6, they shared more details about the causes of the recent Hotmail outage. View the full article
  10. After a first tip this week on Microsoft’s Jupiter — a new “application model” for Windows 8 — I started nosing around to learn more about this mysterious new Microsoft codename. Here’s a brain dump of what I learned after talking to a couple of sources of mine. View the full article
  11. Microsoft officials showed off “Surface 2.0″ — the new version of the company’s multitouch tabletop — at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) yesterday. There were lots of tweets and relatively few details, but on January 6, Microsoft officials shared more specifics — including the planned retail pricing — $7,600, compared to the Surface 1.0 tabletop price [...] View the full article
  12. Windows IT Pro As expected, Google announced that the next iteration of its Android OS for smart phones would be targeted largely at tablets and other devices with larger screen sizes. Due in the first quarter of 2011, this new release, dubbed "Honeycomb," or Android OS 3.0, features a refined user interface, improved multitasking and notifications, new customization features, and more. ... View the full article
  13. Supersite Apple today released its new Mac App Store, providing Mac users with their own friendly way to easily discover, download, and install apps for their favorite platform.It's an impressive advance, and one that Microsoft should be adding to Windows before Windows 8. ... View the full article
  14. Supersite There's a lot of irrelevant stuff happening at CES this year, but I'll leave it to the kids at the gadget blogs to beat that junk to death. Instead, here's a breakdown of Microsoft's activities at 2011 CES, culled from my WinInfo reports this week, along with some new reporting. ... View the full article
  15. Windows IT Pro Anyone hoping for a blockbuster revelation from Microsoft during CEO Steve Ballmer's annual keynote address last night at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was no doubt disappointed, as the software giant unveiled no major new initiatives. In retrospect, however, this seems to be part of a plan to exude a quiet confidence in the future rather than adopt the Chicken Little stance of many of its followers. The message was simple: Microsoft had a great 2010, and 2011 will be even better. ... View the full article
  16. This isn’t a typical keynote write-up. At the kick-off Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on January 5, the more interesting bits were what Ballmer didn’t say. View the full article
  17. Microsoft officials demonstrated an updated, thinner version of the Surface multi-touch tabletop computer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 5. View the full article
  18. Microsoft demonstrated at a press conference on January 5 the “next version of Windows” running on ARM processors, as many Microsoft watchers had been expecting. View the full article
  19. Microsoft is known to be well into developing Office 15, its next version of its integrated Office suite. (In fact, one Microsoft VP said late last year he was running an early milestone build of it.) But Microsoft is already gearing up to gather developer input for Office 16. View the full article
  20. In early November 2010, Google sued the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), claiming the agency unfairly excluded it from a bid for a new hosted e-mail system contract that Microsoft won. On January 5, the U.S. Federal Claims Court temporarily blocked Microsoft from proceeding with the $49.3 million, five-year DOI contract. View the full article
  21. On the day Microsoft is expected to show off its first public glimpse of Windows 8 (at the Consumer Electronics Show this evening), there are a couple of new Windows 8 codenames circulating: Mosh and Jupiter. View the full article
  22. Windows IT Pro On the eve of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft confirmed its long-rumored plans to port the next version of Windows, currently known as Windows 8, to ARM chipsets, in addition to those based on the Intel x86 architecture. And yes, the port is happening in part to power a new generation of iPad-like slate devices, but Microsoft says that it has plans far beyond that, since these "system on a chip" systems are so small they can fit on a fingernail. ... View the full article
  23. Supersite According to a source within or close to Microsoft, the software giant is developing a new tile-based user interface, app model, and app store for Windows 8. But the question remains: Is it true? ... View the full article
  24. Windows IT Pro The CES news deluge has already begun, with approximately 20,000 consumer electronics companies from around the world vying for our attention on the eve of the show. ... View the full article
  25. Use Windows Update to make sure you have all updates for the system. It should fix the .Net issues. Once done try the fix again from Microsoft Fixit.
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