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	<title>Technology for Mortals &#187; Microsoft</title>
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	<description>Because technology isn&#039;t just for geeks</description>
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		<title>The tablet wars are not a foregone conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marco Arment spent a hell of a lot of time trying to make the simple point that the tablet wars are a foregone conclusion in favor of Apple.  The thing that stuck out about his review of a review is that it spends so much time frothing at the mouth because someone said something nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So a SQL Server Transaction Log ate Your Free Space.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Baumli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I came across an unusual circumstance that I thought I would share with many of those part-time SQL Server admins. I currently maintain more than a couple of SQL servers. Because SQL Server has a good maintenance program I don&#8217;t spend the money on a third party software for backup. Instead I setup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Ballmer Moving Microsoft in the Right Direction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Baumli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who don&#8217;t know me, let me establish a few positions that I have taken over the many years that I have been working in IT before me writing a piece I never thought I would write. First, I do not particularly care for Microsoft and have been known to go great lengths to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novell&#8217;s Patents and Why CDTN Holdings Wants Them.</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/novells-patents-and-why-cdtn-holdings-wants-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Baumli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The web was a buzz earlier today with news that Microsoft wasn&#8217;t the only company being involved in CDTN Holdings and some including ZDNet and ComputerWorld blogger Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols tried to speculate just what patents each of the member companies of CDTN Holdings would want and why. First many thought that VMware would jump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinect modified to capture true 3D video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kinect modified to capture true 3D video Oliver Kreylos has produced one of the most amazing demonstrations of true 3D video I’ve ever seen using an off-the-shelf Microsoft Kinect. This is not the cheesy stereoscopic tacky “3D” moniker being affixed to recent movie titles but actual video footage that you can rotate in three dimensional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube HTML5 slightly better, but still bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adobe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier last month, I found that YouTube’s HTML5 beta wasn’t even worthy of being beta.  Three weeks after that, Jan Ozer ran some CPU performance tests between YouTube Flash and HTML5 on Mac OS X and Safari and found that CPU performance was better on HTML5.  However, my tests (using same 720P video posted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube HTML5 not even worth of being beta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adobe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is beta testing HTML5 for video playback on YouTube, and my initial impressions of the technology are not good at all.  A few months earlier, I couldn&#8217;t get Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Google Chrome to run HTML5 video.  I am able to get the latest version of Chrome to render the video, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft forgets what a &#8220;security vulnerability&#8221; looks like</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/microsoft-forgets-what-a-security-vulnerability-looks-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/microsoft-forgets-what-a-security-vulnerability-looks-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought you’d get a laugh out of this one: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/954157.mspx Somehow, Microsoft hasn’t released a security bulletin for this, and they aren’t calling it a “critical” security problem, or classifying the patch as being security related in the update system, even though it is obviously a security problem! J.Ja]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s new booklet design tablet &#8220;Courier&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/microsofts-new-booklet-design-tablet-courier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be one of the coolest things I&#8217;ve seen it a while, but word is emerging about a new secret Skunk Works project called &#8220;Courier&#8221; which is a new innovative &#8220;booklet&#8221; design. This thing apparently has 2 7&#8243; LCDs on a rigid hinge and it looks like something that might be direction tablet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Office Web Apps looks pretty impressive</title>
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		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/microsoft-office-web-apps-looks-pretty-impressive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Office Web Apps is looking pretty impressive. The real time collaboration is something you can&#8217;t even do on the native Windows applications. Having the conditional formating in Excel, all the other rich animations in PowerPoint, and native Office compatibility makes this look extremely usable. Microsoft already has had a usable Outlook Web application for [...]]]></description>
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