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May 14th, 2008

Scoble’s Cry Factor Now Available

Remember when Robert Scoble, was reduced to tears over something that he had gotten a peak of at Microsoft’s development teams? It turns out that the cause of all the eye leaking is now available to the public.
The Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope (why can I not get David Letterman’s production company ‘Worldwide Pants’ out […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 9th, 2008

Microsoft Silverlight Powers SXSW Community Stream

Sitting here in the Bloghaus at SXSW and wrote a quick post about the pulse.sxsw.com site that’s covering everything going on at SXSW that’s being talked about and generated by the community of those in attendance.
The Pulse site is written with Microsoft Silverlight technology and the screen shot above is of the “media” […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

January 26th, 2008

Small Business Summit 2008

Microsoft is sponsoring the Small Business Summit 2008 and everything is free and online.
This FREE online event provides hours of valuable small business programming each day. You’ll get tips, advice, and secrets from experts, all designed to make the hats you wear each day fit more comfortably.

The event will be spread across four days […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

January 17th, 2008

Managing My OneCare Circle

I’ve come across an dilemma in my use of Windows Live OneCare. You see, I’ve been recommending and installing this software on lots of people’s machines. Mainly family members and some client accounts. Then of course there are the three computers in my house that have it installed. It would be four but it […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

January 9th, 2008

College Students Can Get Office 2007 Ultimate for $59.95!!!

It’s been over a decade since I’ve been in college but if I remember correctly, money was usually a hard thing to come by when I was there.
I didn’t have a computer when I was in college, my-oh-my how my life would have been different, but if I did, this would have been a […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

January 3rd, 2008

Two Years Ago Today - January 3rd, 2006

I’m sure that date doesn’t mean much to anyone else but for me it marks the two year anniversary of my first post on the Microsoft Weblog site.
Meeting of the E-mail Guru’s talked about the heads of Microsoft’s Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Gmail getting together and talking about the development of each of […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

December 29th, 2007

Microsoft Ford Sync TV Commercial

The advertising for Microsoft’s new Sync product in Ford vehicles has been pretty strong since the Thanksgiving holidays where I believe it debuted. I’m sitting in my living room and there’s a PC Magazine with a Sync advertisement on the back cover.
I’m sitting here watching the New England Patriots go for the perfect season and […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

December 29th, 2007

Top 10 Things to Do With Vista

I’m continuing to learn more about Vista as I play with my wife’s new laptop and help her figure out some things. Because of that I decided to click on a link titled “Windows Vista: Top 10 Things You Can Do“.
So far I haven’t really had any problems with Vista, but after reading through […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

December 20th, 2007

Microsoft Making Updates to Office Live

I signed up for an Office Live account awhile back to try it out. Haven’t done much with it all. I’ve heard some people love it. I just don’t like being restricted to using the online editor for my site functions. I’d like to be able to embed Microsoft developed and provided widgets into […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 31st, 2007

Microsoft’s HealthVault - What Are the Implications?

Have you seen the Microsoft HealthVault website? Here’s the quick and short of it:
When it’s your job to protect your family’s health, you need every advantage. Imagine if you had a way to collect, store, and share the health information critical to your family’s well-being.
HealthVault is the new and FREE way to […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

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