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When I attended the MVP Global Summit 2008 in Seattle in April, Steve Ballmer asked all the attendees to try using Live Search as their default search engine for one week. I have since then, been using Live Search as my default engine in Internet Explorer....
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PC World ran an article on 18 Features they think Windows should have, but doesn't, and that they think Microsoft should borrow and steal to add them as features in Windows. While the list is great, there are alternatives and mistakes in the article....
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Microsoft recently released the first CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS). Ever since the first public announcement of Microsoft's endeavor into robotics I was inspired to get deeper into this field. It's always been a huge interest...
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During Easter this year I ordered myself a Sahara i440D Slate Tablet PC from TabletKiosk.com . This was one of my top 3 favorites that I was considering buying (read the Showdown of slate Tablet PCs ). You can read the standard specifications on this...
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Today I decided to upgrade our Windows Server 2008 with the release candidate 0 of Hyper-V (the virtualization engine from Microsoft) and I stumbled upon various issues. The first mistake I did was to download and run the patch without reading all the...
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Last night, Microsoft arranged the Heroes Happen Here release party for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. As a part of the event, the National Broadcasting Channel (NRK) wanted to make a story on one of the nominated candidates...
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HEROES happen {here} is the concept for Microsoft's release of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Part of this launch is the release parties and the Norwegian one happens 6th of March in Oslo. The event has been fully booked...
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If you've read my blog before you'd know that I'm a big fan of tablet PCs and I used to own an HP TC 4200 convertible tablet PC that I loved and spent countless hours "playing" with. Always been a creative person and the tablet PC inspired my...
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If you have read my blog before, you might have read my post about Internationalization and localization . Here I go again with the same topic but this time I'm covering 4 different Microsoft products: Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Windows Live Services...
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If you read my predictions for 2008 and beyond and had a look at the Gizmodo video , then you might have noticed the last CPU on the video had 582,000,000 transistors. The Quad-Core Xeon processors. Now we have entered 2008 and Intel have just launched...
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During CES 2008 in Las Vegas, Microsoft and Ford demonstrated the Ford Sync technology (built on Microsoft Windows Automotive ) which is starting to appear in certain Ford models. Ford Sync is a technology that allows you to easily integrate your mobile...
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As we are closing the chapter on another early year in the 21st century, I have some thoughts about what to expect from the technologies that arrive next year and what we might possibly see beyond that. As a Microsoft Regional Director for Norway and...
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Recently I made my first publicly released Windows Vista Gadget, named Lyrics Player. This is a mashup gadget that is based on the work by Jonathan Marston. The gadget have already seen more than 9000 downloads and received good reviews. What it does...
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Microsoft have for a while now developed a brand they call Windows Live. Windows Live is Microsoft's wave of online services and connected consumer software. If you're an existing user of MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger, you'd probably already noticed...
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My good friend Scott Hanselman convinced me to move my family online services to Google Apps . To begin with I had my doubt on moving all my e-mail into Google's hands, but I have for years hosted the solution on my own home server and it was time...
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Update for the incredible NASA World Wind was released earlier this year. In case you don't already know what NASA World Wind is, it's an free and open source tool that gives you access to a huge amount of satelite imagery, weather data and research...
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Look mom, I'm on TV! ... well, it's not that big, but I have been appointed as the monthly MSDN-Guru in April for the Norwegian MSDN web site. It's an honor for me to receive this nomination and I hope that some of the things I do can help...
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As you might know already, I'm appointed into the Microsoft Regional Directors Program for Norway. Recently we released our new precense on the web, namely called The Region . This is a site where you can come closer to the 140 Regional Directors...
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During my stay at The Gathering during Easter I held presentations about the Microsoft Robotic Studio (link to presentation will come soon) 1.0. I demoed my Lego NXT Mindstorms tribot and some Phidgets LED and sensors. Microsoft have released MRS 1.5...
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At this years The Gathering event I will be doing presentations and demos of Microsoft's two new cool products: XNA Game Studio Express and Microsoft Robotics Studio . Please stop by the Microsoft sessions in the Vikingship Skating hall for some cool...
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Microsoft have released Service Pack 1 for their Visual Studio family of products. The biggest update is the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 which is the update you would want to download and install if you are using any edition of Visual Studio 2005...
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While doing TDD (Test Driven Development) with Visual Studio 2005 is not always an easy task when you get down and dirty. Microsoft is already working on improvements for the next version (codename "Orcas") of Visual Studio, but right now I...
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Introduction Here is a quick review of the new Virtual Earth 3D that Microsoft launched on their Local Live site. If you don't care about reading about it, just jump to http://local.live.com/ and get into the action right away. Please note , that...
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Microsoft has recently launched their High Definition 2.0 Mega pixel notebook web cam, the Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 , and I just happen to receive one in the mail and here is my experience. The Package There is not a whole lot of things included in the...
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The biggest developer event of the year is approaching quickly, and as the event is getting close to selling out it's about time to register in case you haven't already done so. Hans Verbeeck posted on his blog a big list of some of the featured...
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