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Windows 7 Family Pack Sales Ending December 31st
Sales of the Windows 7 family pack are set to cease at the end of this year. According to Amazon, sales of the family pack will end once they’ve run out of stock or on December 31st, whichever happens soonest

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CSIRO and Microsoft Research has eyes set on “White-(space)-Fi”
[See post to watch Flash video] Video credit: ABC News Australia Australian’s very own government scientific research body CSIRO , infamous for its recent patent disputes on its innovations used in the WiFi standard , has just successfully field-tested a new wireless broadband technology using existing TV antenna infrastructure for rural areas.

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.NET Micro Framework project turns Christmas lights into IM contact indicators
Some people hang colorful Christmas lights outside their house and others hang flashing ones on the Christmas tree, but you probably haven’t seen Christmas lights as cool as these on an office wall. Then again, very few Christmas lights are powered by the .NET Micro Framework. According to Andrej Kyselica’s forum post , who happens to be a Microsoft employee, he wrote a driver for the FEZ .NET Micro Framework embedded controller to individually-control a set of hackable GE-35 LED Christmas lights .

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Microsoft Research’s Diff-IE lets you play “spot the difference” with websites
A new prototype Internet Explorer add-on from Microsoft Research called “Diff-IE” adds a little bit of version control magic to your browser, showing you exactly what has changed on the increasingly dynamic web.

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Microsoft Research’s Diff-IE lets you play “spot the difference” with websites
The Noun Project and Metro, a match made in icon design heaven
A new and upcoming graphics design initiative called “The Noun Project” is going to make a lot of Windows Phone 7 designers and developers very happy. The project’s mission is to collect, organize and make available an extensive library of free pictograms/icons for common nouns and concepts that make up the universal visual language, which also happens to be a major theme in Microsoft’s Metro design style . The best part, all icons are guaranteed to be free.

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Help Microsoft Australia marry Mike and Jenny, win a Windows Phone 7 a day
When it comes to unusual marketing ideas, Microsoft Australia are the top of their game.

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Help Microsoft Australia marry Mike and Jenny, win a Windows Phone 7 a day
Windows Phone 7 freezes for French guerilla marketing campaign
It looks like some of the alleged $400 million marketing budget for Windows Phone 7 went into making several ice blocks for a guerilla marketing campaign in Paris, France to coincide with the worldwide launch. Although my French is limited to “Je ne parle pas français”, it appears the marketers handed out flyers to strangers on a busy street who then had to have a unique barcode scanned to check if they’ve won a phone. However, they’re not walking away with a free phone without a bit of effort there was a different way to win that involved a bit more effort

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