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It’s that time where I am deciding on what to get as my next phone. I have narrowed down my choices to the HTC Fuze and the iPhone 2G. Yeah 2G as I am on the T-Mobile network and the iPhone 3G is not compatible with the T-Mobile 3G network — hence not worth the [...]

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Today is the last day of PDC. I checked out of my room early in the morning before I left for the convention center. There was no keynote today – just sessions
I attended the following sessions today:
1. Windows 7: Extending Battery Life with Energy Efficient Applications (by Pat Stemen)Â
Pat introduced the notion of ‘all day’ [...]

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So here I am again at PDC on day 3. Today has the keynote from MSR followed by a day filled with sessions. The day began with Rick Rashid from MSR talking about the history of MSR — when they were formed, why and what they had achieved. He spent almost 30 mins, in what [...]

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Today was the big day – unveiling of Windows 7. I was up early, had breakfast in my room & arrived at the convention center earlier than usual in order to find a decent seat in the keynote hall. It began promptly at 8:30 with Ray setting the tone for today’s keynote – focus on [...]

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I was up bright & early today at 7am and took the free shuttle from the hotel down to the Los Angeles Convention Center — home of PDC 2008. As I mentioned earlier, this is my 1st PDC. The venue was daunting and huge. The real magnitude was evident only when I went inside. The [...]

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I am attending Microsoft Professional Development Conference (PDC) 2008 this year and I plan to be blogging about my entire experience. This will be my 1st PDC. I was very keen on attending PDC this year as it was to be all about Windows — Windows 7, Windows Cloud. Being a Windows guy this is [...]

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So after 4 weeks, I had to make the diffcult decision of whether I wanted to keep the iPhone or return it well within the 4 week trial period (without having to get into a contract or paying a cancellation fee). So what did I decide.
Before I start, I need to share my background with [...]

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I just downloaded the Word Press free app for the iPhone and am blogging from my iPhone 3G. This is amazing. It just works! Typing on the touch keyboard is not so easy but what is a blessing is iPhone’s built-in auto suggestion/correction ability. I can keep typing even if I hit the wrong alphabet, [...]

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The last blog post I made was when I migrated my blog to wordpress. Today I just logged into check my blog. But in the process, I decided to upgrade WordPress to the latest version following instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
The whole process took less than 50 mins. The blog is now up and running on the [...]

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Today I lost my star performer on my team at work. He moved to the Live Platform Services Team under David Treadwell at Microsoft after working in Windows Security for 5 years. He started his career at Microsoft 5 years ago, sharing his first office with me – back when I was an individual contributor. He had [...]

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