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Todd Ogasawara Todd Ogasawara is the editor of MobileAppsToday.com. He has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category for the past several years. You can find his personal website focusing on Mobile Device Technology at www.mobileviews.com.

Robin Nixon Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

Clay Breshears Clay Breshears is currently a Course Architect for the Intel Software College, specializing in multi-core and multithreaded programming and training.

Brian Desmond Brian Desmond understands how to run Active Directory successfully better than most folks and has thorough knowledge of how it works. Brian is a Microsoft MVP and has been exposed to the Windows 2008 Active Directory changes for over a year now and the product hasn't even hit the shelves yet!

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Low End Linux Netbook Prices Continue To Drop

By Caitlyn Martin
June 29, 2009

It almost goes without saying that you won't find anything that runs Windows at anywhere near these prices. Oh, and no, that doesn't mean that Linux is somehow inferior as Windows fans would want you to believe. It is, however, free of charge.

High Netbook Return Rate? Windows Is the Problem

By Caitlyn Martin
June 9, 2009

Note that the quoted story wasn't referring to netbooks running Linux. It was referring to all Intel Atom powered netbooks. I am assured over and over again by tech pundits like Mr. Weinberg that nowadays almost all those netbooks run Windows, not Linux. Did it ever occur to people that Windows might actually be the cause of the disappointment customers face and the high returns?

Windows 7 Starter Pushes the Web and IE

By Brady Forrest
April 23, 2009

I run XP on my netbook and I've been looking forward to running Windows 7 on it. So I've been watching news about Windows 7 with interest. There is much discussion this week that the low-priced Starter Edition will only let you run three apps at a time. If you want to run more then you'll have to pay...

What's new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory?

What's new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory?
By Kathryn Barrett
April 21, 2009

Bring your Active Directory questions and come learn what's new in Active Directory for Windows Server 2008 R2. In this free webcast, taking place Friday, April 24, Active Directory MVPs and authors Brian Desmond (Active Directory, 4th Edition) and Laura E. Hunter (Active Directory Cookbook, 3rd Edition) discuss exciting new features in R2 for AD including the AD Recycle Bin, AD PowerShell, the Active Directory Administrative Center, Managed Service Accounts, and more. They'll reserve half of the event time to answer questions about the presentation and Active Directory in general, so this is your chance to get the answers you need. Register now!

[AWS:EC2] Windows Gains EC2:EU Support; Additional US Availability Zone

By M. David Peterson
March 3, 2009

As per the recent announcement in the AWS:EC2 forums, Amazon Web Services has beefed up their support of Windows 2k3, adding an additional availability zone in the U.S. as well as extending support via two availability zones to EC2:EU.


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