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Can your ISP Hijack your Search Engine?
I had a friend send me this story. It sounds very interesting. I have Charter for my ISP, I hope it...
Author: jweston Date: 01/31/2007
Chris Henley is famous!
My co-worker Chris Henley is getting some great press lately. Here is a big story:...
Author: jweston Date: 01/31/2007
Article on Microsoft Researcher.
I saw this article today on fellow Microsofter and fellow sailor. Very scary. I hope is his OK....
Author: jweston Date: 01/31/2007
Windows Vista ReadyBoost Specs.
Thanks to Mr. John Baker for the following information on Readyboost. You can see his blog at...
Author: jweston Date: 01/31/2007
Did you see Bill Gates on the Daily Show?
https://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml Funny!
Author: jweston Date: 01/31/2007
Microsoft Best Corporate Reputation according to Wall Street Journal
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB117019715069692873.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace We moved up from...
Author: jweston Date: 01/31/2007
Time Square goes "VISTA"
I am in NYC tonight for an Exchange partner event tomorrow. I had a little time tonight to walk...
Author: jweston Date: 01/31/2007
Free T-mobile Hot spots (until April 30 using Vista)
www.skysurprise.com If you are running Vista, go to this site, you can get free access to T-Mobile...
Author: jweston Date: 01/30/2007
VISTA FOR $49.99!!! (ok, only two copies after you buy one retail Ultimate)
I blogged about this a couple of weeks ago. MSNBC and news.com had articles back on 1/18 about it....
Author: jweston Date: 01/30/2007
Launch day at Best Buy What fun!
I spend 5 hours last night and 12 hours today at the Best Buy by my house. It was lots of fun. I got...
Author: jweston Date: 01/30/2007
microsoftwowlaunch!!!
go check out the videos on https://www.microsoftwowlaunch.com We had an great launch today.
Author: jweston Date: 01/30/2007
cool Video
My friend Michael J. Murphy did a Vista, Exchange 2007 and Office 2007 launch event last week. He is...
Author: jweston Date: 01/29/2007
Are you going out at Midnight tonight to get Vista?
I will be at our local Best Buy helping out. Do you have plans to be one of the first to get Vista?...
Author: jweston Date: 01/29/2007
"Sunday Drive" Texas Style 500 miler
You know what a Sunday Drive is right? It is the way to get the family together, nothing to do, the...
Author: jweston Date: 01/29/2007
Billions and Billions
No not the old Carl Sagan statement about the stars. I am talking Money. Remember when $1 Million...
Author: jweston Date: 01/26/2007
More Vista websites!
I am just amazed at all of this viral marketing. Here are some more. https://vistatestdrive.com...
Author: jweston Date: 01/26/2007
Go search yourself
About once every 6 months or so I go MSN search or Google my name. Everyone does it right? Well I...
Author: jweston Date: 01/25/2007
Go Vote for my WOW picture!
https://showusyourwow.msn.com/?id=53648 click on the link and vote for my picture!!
Author: jweston Date: 01/25/2007
Windows Vista Innovation Cafe'
I keep finding these sites. Here is another one. yes cool, our as my teenagers would say "Tight" it...
Author: jweston Date: 01/24/2007
show us your wow!
www.showusyourwow.com is a new site we just put up. Watch the opening video from Billg. Cool stuff....
Author: jweston Date: 01/24/2007
MS extends support on XP Home and Media center
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-24ExtendedSupportWindowsMA.mspx is the...
Author: jweston Date: 01/24/2007
Office 2007 that you get at Launch events
Apparently the directions to Download/install the Office 2007 that we are giving away at our events...
Author: jweston Date: 01/24/2007
Vista Helps Boston
Tomorrow is the Vista Product Launch event in Boston. Look at what the Boston Globe is saying: The...
Author: jweston Date: 01/23/2007
Wal-Mart Novell and Microsoft.....
Who would have thought it would happen. Check this story out:...
Author: jweston Date: 01/23/2007
24 Hours of Exchange Webcast
Go check this out: The first one was last Friday, I helped with questions, man you guys have a bunch...
Author: jweston Date: 01/22/2007
Immortal Computing
https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300636_msftimmortal22.html NOT Immoral computing, IMMORTAL...
Author: jweston Date: 01/22/2007
GWAVA or GWAVA Nation
So I have attending this session about Novell and GWAVA called GWAVACON. GWAVA has a community site...
Author: jweston Date: 01/22/2007
Novell Religion
Novell Religion I have met several people here that are religious about Novell. They love Everything...
Author: jweston Date: 01/22/2007
New BDD (business Desktop Deployment)
You might not have noticed that last week we released a new version of BDD 2007, free to download....
Author: jweston Date: 01/22/2007
More Novell
Here are more observations from my attendance at a Novell conference. I attended a session titled...
Author: jweston Date: 01/22/2007
Novell an interesting Competitor perspective
This week I have been attending a Novell conference hosted by a company called GWAVA. GWAVA is a...
Author: jweston Date: 01/22/2007
Speech Recognition in Vista
At our launch event on Tuesday in Memphis, Matt Hester (https://blogs.technet.com/mathewms) demoed...
Author: jweston Date: 01/19/2007
Windows Vista will be available to buy and download Online.
Now you don't have to get up at 6AM on January 30th and head to you local computer store! SEATTLE -...
Author: jweston Date: 01/18/2007
Vista Pricing
I was reading news.com this morning and came across this quote: Microsoft wants to get your whole...
Author: jweston Date: 01/18/2007
Vista Launch Event Slides....
UPDATE BELOW I have been getting request for the slides that we show at our events. This is only for...
Author: jweston Date: 01/18/2007
TechNet Radio Interview with Lee Benjamin goes live! Exchange 2007
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/archive/benjamin.mspx Is the link they put up...
Author: jweston Date: 01/17/2007
Launch questions BDD VISTA
Well yesterday was our first Launch events. Exchange 2007, Vista, and Office 2007. We had great...
Author: jweston Date: 01/17/2007
Coming to a Best Buy near you!
Yep, Launch is coming!!! Besides all of these launch events, Launch Day January 30th is coming soon....
Author: jweston Date: 01/15/2007
travel and Ice
Yep it's icy in Dallas. I need to get to Memphis today. My flight got cancelled this morning. I hope...
Author: jweston Date: 01/15/2007
TechNet Radio
I have now done two TechNet radio recordings. The first one had over 2,000 hits Since it came out...
Author: jweston Date: 01/12/2007
Exchange 2007 Recipients Webcast
I am getting ready to do a webcast this morning on Exchange 2007 Recipient Management, Policies, and...
Author: jweston Date: 01/12/2007
Excitement for Launch builds
January 30th is they day they will be availble to the public. They being Vista, Office 2007 and...
Author: jweston Date: 01/12/2007
Windows Vista Mystery game
Have you heard about the Mystery game? If you love Vista, you will love this....
Author: jweston Date: 01/11/2007
DreamScene
Vista ships to customers January 30, we are counting down the hours! At the Consumer Electronics...
Author: jweston Date: 01/09/2007
Zune verse IPod
So I have 4 kids, two of them teenagers. They are the expert on this topic not me. Since I work for...
Author: jweston Date: 01/08/2007
Free Office Pro 2007
I am part of the Microsoft Across America Team. We start on January 16th, 2007 doing Vista, Office...
Author: jweston Date: 01/05/2007