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 Monday, November 06, 2006

Microsoft's Virtual Earth now has some interesting "3D" (really 2 1/2 D) features.  Pretty neat.

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 Friday, July 28, 2006

I totally agree with Chris Sells regarding phone support.  I was quite pleased with my Pocket PC phone, which at the time I purchased it, was running the Windows Mobile 2003 OS.  After some time (probably a few months), Microsoft released Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.  Naturally, I wanted to upgrade my phone to the new OS release, which had major usability enhancements.  I would have no problem spending more money to purchase the OS upgrade (assuming it was reasonably priced, ie. cheaper than buying a new phone).  I totally ran into a brick wall with all of my attempts to upgrade.  The phone's hardware manufacturer directed me to the cell provider, and the cell provider directed me to the manufacturer.  With phones increasingly becoming more like PCs, a better support model is much needed.

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 Thursday, June 08, 2006

The Windows Live Mail team just released support for Firefox 1.5.  The AJAX-style UI is very snappy and very slick!  I'm really lovin' it.  Now I just need to find a Windows Live gadget for Yahoo mail so that I can see all my mail in one place.  I wonder what Windows Live Desktop Mail beta will really be like?

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 Friday, May 05, 2006

Microsoft has put the Consolas font family out for download.  These will be some of the fonts used in the next version of Windows (Vista).  They look really nice!  Note that they are ClearType fonts (you must have ClearType enabled for them to look good).

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 Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Lutz Roeder's tool, Reflector, now supports reading local variable names from PDB files.  Awesome stuff!  Get it here.

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