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Windows 7’s Groovy Desktop Backgrounds

April 26, 2009

Among Windows 7’s Release Candidate 1’s Best New Surprise Features in Gizmodo are the funky (and quite unexpected!) new desktop backgrounds that come with “the Vista that should’ve been”. I have a couple of favourites. One is the one below, which is reminiscent of one of my favourite videogames of all time, Katamari Damacy:

I also [...]

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Halifax Coffee and Code / Windows 7 Mini-Installfest Today

April 20, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
Today, as part of our EnergizeIT cross-Canada tour, Christian Beauclair, Rick Claus and Pierre Roman are heading out to Halifax. As part of their visit, they’ll be hosting a Coffee and Code event today from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Just Us Cafe at 1678 Barrington [...]

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Halifax Coffee and Code/Windows 7 Mini-Installfest: Monday, April 20th

April 17, 2009

Coffee and Code is Coming to Halifax!

As part of Microsoft’s EnergizeIT cross-Canada tour, we’re holding a Coffee and Code event in Halifax at the Just Us Cafe at 1678 Barrington Street on Monday, April 20th from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m..
Hosting the event will be Developer Advisor Christian Beauclair and IT Pro Advisors Pierre Roman [...]

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Last Night at EnergizeIT Toronto

April 15, 2009

Last night, EnergizeIT – that’s the cross-Canada tour where we talk to developers, IT Pros, students and faculty about Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Software+Services, cloud computing, architecture and a whole raft of other things that are coming soon from Microsoft – hit downtown Toronto with the “Future of the Platform” presentation aimed at [...]

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Windows 7 Feels the Love

April 8, 2009

ComputerWorld has a report citing a couple of interesting poll results:

A poll conducted by ChangeWave says that 44% of the IT pros they interviewed said that they were “very satisfied” with the Windows 7 beta. This is leaps and bounds over a similar poll they conducted in February 2007 when 10% said they were as [...]

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Toronto Area Windows 7 Installfest

April 5, 2009

This article originally appeared in Canadian Developer Connection.
We held a Windows 7 Installfest yesterday as part of the cross-Canada EnergizeIT tour. The idea is pretty simple: invite developers, IT pros and early adopters of all stripes to the Microsoft Canada Headquarters in Mississauga, provide them with DVDs of the Windows 7 beta, walk them through [...]

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EnergizeIT 2009: Coming Soon!

February 23, 2009

It’s been announced on Canadian Developer Connection, but I thought I’d mention it here: we folks at Microsoft Canada are gearing up for the 2009 edition of EnergizeIT, a cross-country tour where we’ll show off our upcoming tools, technology and platforms.

For starters, we’ll be showing off Windows 7. I’ve been running it on [...]

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xkcd on the Windows 7 Beta

January 9, 2009

Even though this organization gives me a nice paycheque every two weeks for evangelizing:

…I still found today’s xkcd comic on the Windows 7 beta release funny:
Click the comic to see it on its original page.
The alt text for the comic does say "Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet.  I hear it’s [...]

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Taking Windows 7 for a Spin

December 15, 2008

I had my first look at the next version of Windows – Windows 7 – at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles back in October, a week after I joined the company. By the powers vested in me as a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, I got my paws on an installer for a [...]

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“The Onion” Compares Apple’s OS X “Snow Leopard” Against Windows 7

November 10, 2008

…and hilarity ensues:

Links

The Onion: OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7
Apple’s page on Mac OS X “Snow Leopard”
Microsoft’s site on Windows 7

Technorati Tags: It’s Funny Because It’s True,operating systems,Apple,Microsoft,OS X,Windows,Snow Leopard,Windows 7,The Onion

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