From the monthly archives:

October 2011

Windows Phone Twitter contest starts today!

October 31, 2011

And the hits keep coming! Today we are kicking off a Twitter contest so go follow www.twitter.com/windowsphone for details, and for your chance to win exciting prizes. Official terms and conditions below for aspiring legal types out there. —————————————————————————– MICROSOFT WINDOWS PHONE SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES: These [...]

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Windows Phone Twitter contest starts today!

October 31, 2011

And the hits keep coming! Today we are kicking off a Twitter contest so go follow www.twitter.com/windowsphone for details, and for your chance to win exciting prizes. Official terms and conditions below for aspiring legal types out there. —————————————————————————– MICROSOFT WINDOWS PHONE SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES: These [...]

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Windows Phone Twitter contest starts today!

October 31, 2011

And the hits keep coming! Today we are kicking off a Twitter contest so go follow www.twitter.com/windowsphone for details, and for your chance to win exciting prizes. Official terms and conditions below for aspiring legal types out there. —————————————————————————– MICROSOFT WINDOWS PHONE SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES: These [...]

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Windows Phone Twitter contest starts today!

October 31, 2011

And the hits keep coming! Today we are kicking off a Twitter contest so go follow www.twitter.com/windowsphone for details, and for your chance to win exciting prizes. Official terms and conditions below for aspiring legal types out there. —————————————————————————– MICROSOFT WINDOWS PHONE SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES: These [...]

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Follow up to the SQL Server Fireside Chats after the 24 Hours of PASS Sessions

October 31, 2011

The SQL Server Team held Fireside Chats at the end of the 24 Hours of PASS on September 7-8, 2011 to give attendees the opportunity to ask questions directly to members of the SQL Server engineering team. The engineers answered most of the questions during the chat, however there were a few questions that we [...]

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Missing network drives in Windows 7

October 31, 2011

If you have been using Windows 7 (Or even Vista) for a while, you might have noticed something really annoying. When you have drives mapped in explorer: They don’t show up in a command prompt if it is elevated with administrator permissions: There is a simple reason for this – The feature known as User [...]

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Live from Nokia World 2011: Demo of the Xbox Companion App

October 30, 2011

A few weeks back I told you about the Xbox Companion App for Windows Phone, a handy (and free!) utility that let you find, learn more about and control content from Xbox LIVE Marketplace on your Xbox 360 straight from your Windows Phone.  Today on the floor at Nokia World the Xbox team was showing [...]

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“Fun with ‘Fragmentation’ Charts”

October 30, 2011

“Let’s not mince words here: This ‘Android and iPhone Update History’ chart [OSNews item] is not a good chart. Oh, it’s a pretty chart, to be sure artfully illustrated and researched. But this chart – done up by Michael Degusta at The Understatement and reposted by anyone unable to think clearly, apparently – is not [...]

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You’re Invited: Preview the new Seattle Sounders FC app

October 30, 2011

Attention Seattle Sounders FC fans: just in time for the playoffs, the Sounders are launching their official Windows Phone App! They’re celebrating by offering Sounders and Windows Phone fans a sneak preview of the app this weekend and giving away 25 phones during their Seattle viewing party (details below). The Windows Phone Sounders FC app [...]

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Blog platform maintenance later today

October 30, 2011

I just wanted to drop a quick note that our and other blogs hosted on TechNet will go down later today for scheduled maintenance. We expect that this will not last more than a few hours. The scheduled window is: Friday the 28th from 3:00-7:00pm PST Nino Bilic Exchange Team Blog

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