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Kinect for Xbox 360 Pre-Orders Selling out Across the Web

For a company whose consumer brand is apparently dying – this news must be like the best medicine in the world – to have your latest hardware product in high demand

With less than one week to go until the release of Kinect for the Xbox 360 there are several reports across . . .

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Free Outlook 2010 Online Training Courses

If your making the move from a previous version of Outlook to Outlook 2010 which is part of the Office 2010 suite of programs then Microsoft and the Office team want to make that move a little easier.

To do that they are offering a series of free online training courses to . . .

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Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 6 Released at PDC10

Microsoft has released a new version of their IE9 Platform Preview – this is number six in the series.

The Internet Explorer Platform Preview has been updated. We encourage you to try out the newly added platform capabilities, and report any issues that you find in the Internet Explorer 9 web platform. . . .

Read More: Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 6 Released at PDC10

Earth Phase Windows Sidebar Gadget

One of the previous featured gadgets from the Windows 7 Personalization Gallery was the Moon Phase gadget.  Well today we show you another gadget to track the phase of a celestial body – this one is for our planet – Earth.

Here is what it looks like undocked on your desktop. 

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Read More: Earth Phase Windows Sidebar Gadget

PDC10 Day 1 Keynote and Wrapup

Well yesterday PDC10 kicked off out in Redmond, WA at the Microsoft Campus and it was led off by a keynote address by Steve Ballmer.  He talked about several subjects including Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, the Cloud, Azure, Internet Explorer 9 and there were several demos.  You can watch this keynote . . .

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@WinObs Tweeted Links on 28 October 2010

My Adventure with the Asus T91MT Tablet Netbook – http://clkon.us/9eRe3F # The Richard Hay Daily is out! http://bit.ly/cG0mmZ ▸ Top stories today by @KickPost # Notorious Koobface worm ported to Mac OS X – http://clkon.us/bAVs0B # We are up to 106 entries in our Office 2010 Home and Business Software Giveaway – . . .

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