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Microsoft Campus Tours: The Connector

The Channel 9 Series, Campus Tours, continues showing us what life and work is like at the Microsoft Campus and this episodes focuses on their transportation hub called The Connector.

The Microsoft Connector team manage a large fleet of buses, vans and on-demand cars to get people to and from their meetings, . . .

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Even The IRS Has A Mobile App

This past week the Internal Revenue Service released a new mobile application for the iPhone and Android.  It’s called IRS2Go and you can get your tax refund status and additional tax information all from your mobile device.

The IRS said in a press release that it is "modernizing the agency and . . .

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@WinObs Tweeted Links on 26 January 2011

Blog Post: @WinObs Tweeted Links on 25 January 2011 http://bit.ly/eKucgZ # WinObs’ Xbox – Jan 26 2011: WinObs must have a life, because he didn’t game yesterday… http://bit.ly/gpVpYk # I lost an entire 12 hours or so from jet lag. Been sleeping and now am totally out of whack! # Blog Post: Reduce distractions . . .

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Download Microsoft Office for MAC 2011 30 Day Trial Version

Microsoft has made a trial version of their most recent version of Office for MAC available to anyone who wants to try it out.  Of course you must be running MAC OS X to use this version.

For all life’s opportunities. With over 1 billion PCs and Macs running Office, Microsoft Office . . .

Read More: Download Microsoft Office for MAC 2011 30 Day Trial Version

@WinObs Tweeted Links on 25 January 2011

Blog Post: Customer Service Gone Bad http://bit.ly/hjiaQW # Blog Post: @WinObs Tweeted Links on 24 January 2011 http://bit.ly/fCxAeq # The next big Facebook idea http://bit.ly/ijEkj0 # Opportunity’s Empty Nest http://bit.ly/eejUEy # OData Browser Available for Windows Phone 7 http://bit.ly/fgIQYn # Portal 2 Will Have Two Endings, One For Single Player, One For . . .

Read More: @WinObs Tweeted Links on 25 January 2011

Highlight and Search in Windows Phone 7

Although Copy and Paste functionality is not presently on Windows Phone handsets the feature is coming soon in the first update to the mobile OS.

However, as shown by PocketNow in the below video, there is a limited ability to highlight a word and bring it into the Bing search app on . . .

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