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		<title><![CDATA[Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now available to anyone]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now available to anyoneas usual, no beefSeriously mary joe, if it was released today, you think you could provide some details, or is that not your roll? just report something happened, don't tell anyone anything they can use...sounds easy.RE: Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:39:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=49361&messageID=922986&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2Microsoft Press ReleaseOnly the other week Ed ran a story about how shoddy some people are running stories based on software companies press releases/marketing documents. Oh and that companies selling security software try and scare the market about the need for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft shares more IE8 security details]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1386]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer IE 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release.    In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:12:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1061]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm keeping a close eye on the latest Firefox betas to be released by Mozilla.Â  The reason is that if past performance issues have been fixed, it's quite likely that I might consider making a switch to it as my main browser.Â  While I find Internet Explorer 7 to be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:02:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as Monday]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=41124&messageID=760991&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as MondayLet seeThere are great features coming with VS2008. Let's just hope it will be stable enough. Hard to make a decision. How many of us can actually continue their work aacording to their current plans for the next 6 month (or...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:02:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launchYour source is wrong.  VS 2008 beta 2 isalready available.  http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/a/f2ac411f-acf9-42a7-a84f-3efc409bcd6b/VSTS_SelfExtractingJuneCTP.mhtIs this a good idea?Looking at what happened when they did this last time with .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, and VS 2005 - they ended up with huge delays, tons of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:57:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vista, Office 2007 beta updates]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=137]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The week, Microsoft made new versions of Windows Vista and Office 2007 widely available.If you didn't sign up for the Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program, you have another chance. Microsoft has now reopened registration for Vista Release Candidate 1. Details are here. The short version:It's available in English,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Triple beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHEC]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10533-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=21324&messageID=406863&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Triple beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHECReal Power of VirtualizationSomething that really caught my eye was the ability to add system resources to an OS on the fly.  That would be impressive when considering some of the more intensive apps.  A Database could quickly asborb that extra...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 05:32:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Windows Vista Beta 2? Pass the Maalox, please]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=59]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In about two weeks, Beta 2 of Windows Vista will be officially released to the public. And when it does, Microsoft will officially enter uncharted territory.The last time the hoi polloi were allowed to tinker with an unfinished version of Windows was March of 2001. That, as it turned out,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 15:59:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/dwight+silverman.html"><![CDATA[Dwight Silverman]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Back to the virtual driver future (aka: What's with all the reboots?)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2866]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There are probably a lot of you youngsters out there that don't remember one small important step for mankind that Windows took around the time that Intel's 80386 started to dominate the market.  Compared to it's 16-bit predecessor (the 80286), the 32-bit "386" enabled a breakthrough known as virtual...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:24:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 - first thoughts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11535-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=19118&messageID=369159&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 - first thoughtsGeneral StabilityI dunno about the last couple comments. Beta 2 seems to be quite a bit more stable then it's predecessor. In fact I've had not one issue with it since installation yesterday which I also had no problem.  Now if they...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:39:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Office 2007 in October?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=8]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m a little surprised at the lack of reaction to this BusinessWeek Online report from last Thursday, which claims that Office 2007 is going to arrive later than expected: Internal plans had called for Microsoft to finish development on the software by August. &hellip; Yet company sources say development delays...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:54:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Full-text of  Microsoft's Sept CTP (PDC Build 5219) Fact Sheet]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoftvistas/?p=28]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ I asked Microsoft if I could republish the fact sheet that it provided in conjunction with the Community Technology Preview release (Vista build 5219) that was handed out at the Professional Developers Conference PDC in LA.  They agreed.  The Word-compatible DOC file can be downloaded from Microsoft's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:42:42 -0700</pubDate>
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