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Irresistible Forces and Movable Objects

Pat Helland from Microsoft gave a presentation last year at TechEd in EMEA called “The Irresistable Forces Meet the Movable Objects“. I received a copy from Kala at work. Not long after reading it I wanted to find out more.

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BitLocker Overview

BitLocker gets mentioned more and more lately.  I understood the concept but didn’t know the details.  While looking for something else, I can across a great video about BitLocker technology from Microsoft.  Also Wikipedia has a BitLocker page. I didn’t

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Bill and Steve Meeting History

D5 video showing when Bill and Steve were together. Steve and Bill have only been seen together around 5 times. 1983 Apple Mac discussion with Dating Game spoof 1991 Fortune magazine interview 1997 MacWorld 2005 D3 2007 D5 The referenced

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Windows XP and June 30 2008

Based on a previous post about Microsoft, it was mentioned in a comment that Microsoft was going to discontinue selling Windows XP on June 30, 2008.  There was news before related to Microsoft postponing the end of sales date for

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (Friends or Foes?)

For the last few days I have been trying to put together a post revolving around a magazine I’ve kept since 1991. The article is called “The Future of the PC” in Fortune Magazine from August 26, 1991. The article

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What Keeps Microsoft Up Late?

I was researching an article recently and came across this gem.  The bit I was searching for was an old IBM/Apple partnership.  The outcome was unexpected. I asked Gates what trend or development had occurred in the technology sector in

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Bill Gates’ Charmed Life

Microsoft and Citrix have had a long and productive relationship.  Microsoft gave Citrix the ability to create the terminal services business and Microsoft bought the technology when it matured.  The partnership continues strongly today from the new focus on virtualization

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