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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Silent Install

Posted by  on 19 August 2009, 10:57 pm

Being one of the lucky ones who was able to sign-up to the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview program, I have started looking at the deployment of Microsoft Office 2010 today. My first observation was that unfortunately the provided documentation seems to be ahead of the Office Installation sources that have been made available for [...]

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Microsoft My Phone Beta

Posted by  on 11 July 2009, 11:13 am

Yesterday I received my new mobile phone. Everyone that has switched mobile phones once, knows the pain of getting all the data transferred to the new device. I had heard about the My Phone service from Microsoft, a web based solution that allows you to backup and restore your mobile phone data to a secured [...]

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TechNet – Windows 7 Forums

Posted by  on 17 January 2009, 6:20 pm

Looking for answers on Windows 7 ? have a look  on the Microsoft Technet Forums for Windows 7 Beta.

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I have changed my mind

Posted by  on 14 January 2009, 8:58 pm

In October 2008 I dropped a post called Don’t wait for Windows 7. Well during the past days I have changed my mind and I guess many others did as well concerning waiting for Windows 7. When Windows 7 came up on the horizon last year, we heard statements like “it isn’t expected to begin [...]

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MDT 2010 and AIK 2.0 Beta released

Posted by  on 10 January 2009, 11:23 am

Just found out that Microsoft has released MDT 2010 AND AIK 2.0 BETA on Microsoft Connect. So now we cannot only test Windows 7 BETA but we can also start looking at it’s deployment.

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Vista SP2 CPP anouncement

Posted by  on 3 December 2008, 6:17 pm

According to a blog post on the Windows Blog from Mike Nash, Windows Vista SP2 will be made available on TechNet Thursday December 4th. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) Customer Preview Program (CPP The current plan is to ship Vista SP2 in the first half of [...]

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Google launches Chrome Browser

Posted by  on 3 September 2008, 12:58 am

Today Google launched its own first web browser called Chrome. Less is more, Chrome comes with a very nice lean design. Chrome has a couple of nice features, one I personally found quite interesting is that the address bar also acts as the search bar. As you type in words in the address bar, you [...]

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IE 8 Beta 2 released

Posted by  on 28 August 2008, 9:00 am

Earlier as planned, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. A final release date has not been communicated yet. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/

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