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A few months back I blogged about a great product in Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) called the Asset Inventory Service (AIS) and how it can help you better manage your hardware and software inventory using a cloud based service. IT Pros have been telling us that they really like AIS since it helps them get the inventory of machines that don’t always connect into the corporate network and how easy it is to maintain since there is no server infrastructure.

Congratulations nategoss, you’re our Windows Recessions Sweepstakes #5 winner.  Hit me up on Twitter with your email address.

Wow!  That pretty much sums up everyone’s reaction at the phenomenal response to the first Windows Recession Sweepstakes.  Turns out your odds of winning were a little better than 1/797 (factoring out duplicates, my comments, invalid entries, etc.).  And the lucky winner is:

It’s been a long year. Just when the economy was starting to look perky job growth stalled in its non-Census tracks. Then summer, which we normally can’t wait to see, broke down the door and turned most of the country into a sweltering puddle of sweat—except Seattle, where it’s freezing and rainy. And since we Puget Sound-based Microsofties only see an average of 58 sunny days a year, our gloom is particularly profound right now.

So, we decided to give a bunch of stuff away to make you feel better. We’re calling it the “Recession Sweepstakes”.

We’ve posted quite a bit recently about the work we’re doing to prevent spam on Windows Live (Just say no to bogus Messenger invitations, Preventing spam and phishing using e-mail authentication,

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It is great to see the excitement for Windows 7 translating into customer satisfaction with Microsoft overall. Earlier this week, Bloomberg posted an article headlined “Microsoft Outpaces Apple in Customer Satisfaction” that examined data gathered by YouGov Plc showing that Windows 7 has contributed more than twice as much to Microsoft’s customer satisfaction than Snow Leopard has to Apple’s. The data shows that customer satisfaction for Microsoft was at 64% the day before Windows 7 launched on Oct.