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Back in December, I posted about a really neat video directed by Keith Rivers that highlighted how up and coming indie artist Andrew Belle used Windows 7 and Windows Live to create a song.

Voyager Enterprises, LLC released version 1.0 of their project management iPhone App called ProjectKeeper. Allowing you to manage the time spent on various projects quickly and easily. Bringing you an easy to use and simplistic design, ProjectKeeperallows you to keep track of your work one tap at a time. Add, remove, or edit projects to manage everything you're working on.

Today we reported our third quarter earnings for the period ending March 31st, 2010 with a record $14.5 billion in revenue. You can read our earnings results here. Windows 7 continues to be a growth driver for Microsoft and people continue to be excited about Windows 7. How excited?  Exactly 6 months after the launch on October 22, 2009, we’ve sold well over 100 million licenses of Windows 7. To put that in context, more than 10% of all PCs worldwide are already running Windows 7 today.

Hi, my name is Dick Craddock and I’m the Group Program Manager for Windows Live Hotmail. “Group Program Manager” is just a fancy way of saying that I manage the team of Program Managers at Hotmail. We have the job of planning each Hotmail release and managing that release from beginning to end. We pick what features go in and write the specifications for those features.

We want to let you know about a new addition to our Volume Activation TechCenter on TechNet. The section, called Cheat Sheets, will contain short but detailed technical whitepapers covering topics that were too lengthy to post directly to our team blog. 

The first cheat sheet, How to troubleshoot the Key Management Service (KMS), explains how to use the Event Logs and slmgr.vbs to troubleshoot issues with KMS activation on the KMS host and KMS clients.

We thought it would be interesting to put a face behind Windows Home Server and give you a chance meet some of the people that work on Windows Home Server day in and day out. To do so, I have been conducting interviews with members of the Windows Home Server team. In a previous blog post I interviewed Jonas Svensson, our community program manager.

With Windows 2000 Server and Client and Windows XP SP2 support ending July 13, 2010 are you aware of all the resources available to help you move to a new client and server operating system?

We have created a End-of-Support Solution Center to help with the planning of your migration strategy from Windows 2000 or Windows XP to Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

Client Migration

Today, Microsoft announced a surge of over 150,000 voluntary reports in the past two years from people who unknowingly purchased counterfeit software that often included viruses or other malware. More than double the amount of previous records, this increase reflects growing concern for the harm caused by counterfeit software and Microsoft’s efforts to give people a voice in the fight against software counterfeiting.

Happy Holidays from Windows Home Server!! In celebration of “Cyber Monday” and the holiday season, we figured it was the perfect time to tell you all about all of the fantastic Windows Home Server discounts that are being offered. Windows Home Server has teamed up with Acer, HP, and our newest OEM, ASUS, to provide some of the lowest prices we have ever seen for Windows Home Server.

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This is part four of my Widget Anatomy series which which will explain the ins and outs of the Widget Framework that is shipping as part of Windows Mobile 6.5.  In this installment I will discuss the Widget Framework’s security model..