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Peter Ritchie posted this on MSMVPS.com - AWESOME "hack" Does the look of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles bore you? Well, you can spruce them up with a Zune or X-Box theme. For example, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312906 , looks like this: By simply adding ?sd=xbox or ?sd=zune to the end of the URL, you can change it to look like this and this … respectively. For all I know, there’s...

So, knowing some people complain about Vista...which I personally have had no issues with Vista...and knowing that Microsoft has Windows 7 due out in 2010...is there people considering to skip vista? If that is the case, do you think the communities will pressure Windows 7 to come out in 2009? What is the main reason for not going to Vista? Is it because of the memory requirements? Now, for the ones...

WorldWide Telescope WOW...Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HA4lSUhlbw Featuring Bill Gates, Brian Williams, Bono, Steven Spielberg, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Steve Ballmer, Lisa Brummell, Robbie Bach, Kevin Turner, Ray Ozzie, and Craig Mundie. Funny stuff!!

Review: Samsung's 64GB flash hard drive Nice review of a flash hard drive laptop. This technology should be the greatest way to increase performance of any computer device. I'm excited about this...now they just need to become affordable and I'll buy one to test it out. Or if you have one to give me, I'll do a review of it and post my findings here.

Battlemodo: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 vs. Shipping Vista Why are the Network copy and Hard Disk Speeds so SLOW on Vista? I really like Vista, but I'm running Vista 64Bit on a beefy machine...but the numbers don't lie above. I wonder how fast my machine would be if I loaded Windows XP on it?

Keith Combs' Blahg : TechNet Plus Direct single user subscription for $249 Not sure how long it will last...but what a great deal. Microsoft software licensed for evaluation purposes: Evaluate full-version commercial products--without time limits or feature limits, including Windows Vista™ Microsoft Office System and Exchange Server 2007. With full-version software, IT Professionals can make informed...

Some interested numbers posted on bink.nu . Microsoft internal IT: 600k connected devices 10,000 Servers 3 Datacenters 1 operations center 11% is virtualized in Microsoft Datacenters 330 of 385 servers run Windows Server 2008 (RC0) plus all 85 Microsoft.com servers 11 clustered systems 30,000 users in redmond domain (50,000 with vendors) NAP reporting 140K clients, 90 clients deferred mode The Redmond...

Got the following post from Ann Liu's blog "MSCOM is made up of more than 20,500 URL's and hosts 16 million pages and is available in more than 30 languages. According to available metrics, http://*.microsoft.com received 35.4 billion page views in FY06. On average http://*.microsoft.com receives 229 million unique users per month . The Australian site alone generates more than 2.2 million...