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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

October 4th, 2007

Bill Gates Flashback

Wow! This guy was a looker wasn’t he? This picture now appears on the Microsoft homepage promoting the new versions of Visual Studio Express versions.

You can say what you want. If I grew up looking like that and now had achieved and owned we he does…you can call me a geek any day of […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 3rd, 2007

Working at Microsoft

Have you ever thought about working at Microsoft? It’s sure crossed my mind a number of times. I remembered the first time I really thought about it I was at a Microsoft TechNet event. The speakers that were sharing and talking about how to use a new version of a piece of software at the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 21st, 2007

Are You An Office Genius?

UPDATE: Looks like I missed the boat on this one. The deadline for this was back at the end of June. I need to update my e-mail address for some of my Microsoft newsletters to Gmail. Is that ironic?
Do you really know what you’re doing with Office? Are you the one everyone comes to […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 13th, 2007

Windows Live Writer Now Managing All My Blogs

A huge Thanks to Joe Cheng who shared a solution for a problem I was having with Windows Live Writer.
I followed his advice; downloaded and reinstalled IE7. After quite a lengthy uninstall and reinstall process, although it pretty much ran itself completely, everything is back up and running and all fresh and ready to explore.
But […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

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