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Will people move to Windows Media Photo, or stick with JPEG (or another of the billion graphics formats)?

Is it fair for your employer to have you train newer employees? Yes.

Protect your beta, with a beta anti-virus app. You never know what Vista viruses might be out there.

Write your code in C#, ship it as cross-browser JavaScript. Magic from one of the ASP.NET architects.

Windows Vista will come with a built-in benchmark application, enabling you to determine just how hot your box really is (and if it will run Aero, the new UI).

Write an app for Windows CE and their Shared Source libraries, win an Xbox 360. Simple.

There are some new hints that a Google music store, which could compete with Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store and other download services, is on the way. Bring on the cat fight.

Business Objects and IBI hop on Google’s OneBox Enterprise Bandwagon

They can't count Albert, but maybe they can count C# as an official language.

Congratulations to Albert Pascual on becoming an American citizen.

How's this going to work? Click your heels to change the song? Select music based on the pace you're walking?

There's a new nasty making the rounds, spreading via Word. Don't open strange documents.

Towels are back, so contractors have been asked to take off seven business days to help the budget.

Now with Canada and the UK.

In case you were in a cave yesterday: three big betas were released to the public. Commence downloads?

Will they move towards Limited User Accounts (LUA)? Will it help reduce viruses spreading?

Google has the name recognition and positive brand association needed to move aggressively into the portal space.

A worm running through Yahoo's instant messaging network is installing a browser of its own--a first for IM malware.

Even if a computer's time is off, at least it's not blinking 12:00.

Where is not a good place to use your cell phone? Here's one hint, there's lots of porcelain.

Excellent code refactoring tool for Visual Studio 2005 has a new version. Now with support for unit testing, ASP.NET support, and much more.

For everyone running out to buy the new MacBooks, now you can have Light Saber fights with them. Just don't try cutting open a Tauntaun.

Of course, what do you expect from a Beta? duh... Firefox support "coming soon"

Hypervisor Beta "by the end of 2006" may make virtualization software faster on Longhorn.