Small businesses are the genesis of all large companies today. While it’s hard to believe, we’re a good example of this. Microsoft started with two employees – Bill Gates and Paul Allen and grew to more than 90,000 employees today, with 1.1 billion PC users worldwide. Key to this growth, Bill and Paul had a clear vision for how personal comput.. more »

Hello, I’m Olivia Riley Cornejo, and starting today I’ll be blogging about the experiences some of our commercial customers (large and small) are having in their Windows 7 deployments. Hopefully their stories will help answer questions you may be having about migrating to Windows 7 in your own environment and inspire you to try it for yourself. Oh, .. more »

Hello my Name is Nachiket Acharya and today I am going to talk about usefulness of an SDK and use it to create applications for the SDK. Brent Bishop has posted an article on this site for Automating the Creation of an OS Design Project and Modifying an OS Design Programmatically. In this article – we will discuss what the importance of an SDK is.. more »

Three months ago we posted about the open beta for the Asset Inventory Service (AIS) 2.0. To all of you who signed up, we want to say thanks for your help and participation. It was great to see to people interested in the improved user interface, the...(read more).. more »

When it's a slow news day and you have a quote from an official at a company, you can quickly make a mountain out of a molehill. , Samsung was quoted as saying We are prioritizing our Android platform. Android is very open and flexible, and there is a consumer demand for it having success with a 2+ year old mobile OS Of course, the other half of .. more »

The rumors are true, folks. There's actually a Windows Phone here at the IFA conference in Berlin, Germany. It's the LG Optimus 7, aka the GW910 aka the Panther. It's not a full production unit just yet, and it was on hand really to show off DLNA media sharing -- which lets you wirelessly pipe video, photos and the like from your phone to your TV... more »

An image has appeared online at showing the companion cloud service for Windows Phone 7, the services are the same as for the current MyPhoneservice, but carry a Windows Phone 7 accent. The shows features that will prove very useful for anyone who ever loses their phone (even if its just under a pile of towels in the airing cupboard where mine once .. more »

There’s been a bit of a gap in this series which was caused by delays in the editing process and my copy editor was changed. This left me with a three week gap when nothing seemed to be happening with my new book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out The editing process for a book takes several stages. With Microsoft Press in my case the chapters fi.. more »

The folks over at Ikanos Consulting have just released a Windows Live Messenger gadget for Windows SideShow!  Check out the announcement, as well as more SideShow-related posts over on the SideShow Jim blog.  I have a feeling this isn't the last of them :) - Dan.. more »

I wanted to call out some work done by some colleagues of mine. A study was released yesterday about teenagers' opinions on illegal downloading.  The study indicates only 11% of teens surveyed completely understood the rules about downloading from the Internet - in fact, 49% say they aren't at all familiar with the guidelines for downloading im.. more »

The Windows Intune Team would like to thank you for your participation in the April release of the Windows Intune beta! As many of you may know, we announced the second public Windows Intune Beta on July 12th and we hope you have had a chance to sign up for an account and are evaluating this most recent release. If you haven’t signed up yet, you ca.. more »

The Windows XP Support Tools, previously available on the ECE for OEM customers for Windows XP Embedded, are now available for Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 and Windows Embedded Point of Service as well. These Support Tools are intended for use by Microsoft support personnel and experienced users to assist in diagnosing and resolving problems .. more »

Windows Phone 7 may not have cut/paste yet but it will have a fart piano! We've seen snippets of applications under development for Microsoft's new operating system and this one definitely stands out. Developed by Herm's Software the fart piano delivers tunes in an assortment of tones including the short fart, the escape, the bubbly, the beans .. more »

is now offering pre-paid monthly data plans without the need for service contracts. This includes a $30 pre-paid unlimited plan and a $10 pre-paid 25mb plan (anything over 25mb will cost you $.20 per MB). The limitation is that these pre-paid data plans are only for 3G enabled phones and the list of eligible phones doesn't include any Windows .. more »

HTC has tweeted that Peeps is back up and running. Actually, according to Twitter it's been up and running for a few days. Earlier this week everything went dark due to a problem when Twitter changed their authentication protocol.  It's nice to see that the conflict wasn't too hard to resolve.  Now that everything is up and running again, we ca.. more »

You can find a series of new step by step videos for both Advance Group Policy Management (AGPM) and the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) on the MDOP video page . If your new to AGPM or DaRT, or just looking to get up to speed on a particular feature...(read more).. more »

Samsung says there is hardly any demand for Windows Phone 7 so will concentrate on Android.. more »

is and coming for Windows Phone 7 soon, and we'll try to explain it. Basically it's a way to send out "alerts" based on certain categories and using geolcation. Some of those categories are: So lets say you're in midtown Manhattan and you notice a building is on fire or something really important happening, you can send a "warny" out and people .. more »

has released a handy SMS message utility, , that helps clean up some of the clutter in your inbox.  The app is available for $1.99 over at the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. If you've done any amount of texting you know that deleting messages can be tedious. msgCleaner will automatically delete old messages in one clean sweep. msgCleaner can be f.. more »

It has been reported that there are issues with upgrading to the August 2010 Security Updates on databases that have IE7 and WMP11 installed, and also have all other security updates installed. This is caused by an issue with versioning the in components in the list. The August Security Update inadvertently overwrites the components with an .. more »