You’ve tagged, edited, and organized your photos on your home computer. Your photo collection is perfect – just how you want it. But wait, there’s a problem. Your collection is perfect on your home computer, but you want your photos and videos on your laptop as well. Who wants to go through all that work again?

It’d be much easier if

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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet an super sparkly 4 ½ year old girl named Kylie.  She was a fantastic little person who showed the world how to send an email of her sick fish, Dorothy, to her family. It is truly amazing to see how anybody – be it 4 or 90 – can easily

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You’ve imported your photos into Windows Live Photo Gallery and worked to make them perfect by:

· Straightening them.

· Identifying the people in them.

· Applying black and white treatments.

· Fixing things like lighting and red eye.

· Adding some captions, tags, and ratings.

Leaving you with a great collection where you can easily find

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These days, more and more mobile phones have built-in cameras and access to the internet. Did you know you could publish photos to photos.live.com right from your mobile phone today?

A picture is worth a thousand words. When I had an enormous pile of dishes to tackle I could have written a quick message on my

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You’ve imported your photos into Windows Live Photo Gallery and worked to make them perfect by:

· Straightening them.

· Identifying the people in them.

· Applying black and white treatments.

· Fixing things like lighting and red eye.

· Adding some captions, tags, and ratings.

Leaving you with a great collection where you can easily find

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Our family takes a lot of digital photos and videos.

I imagine that someday my 2 children (Serena and Lucy) will want to see what sorts of things they did as they grew up, so my wife and I—and even the kids—snap shots of all the fun things we do as a family. 

Sounds great, right? Well, it is, but

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In the past I have talked about the different configuration options when running Domain Controllers and Hyper-V.  One of the more interesting configurations I discussed then was having a Hyper-V server joined to a domain where the domain controller was a virtual machine running on the same instance of Hyper-V.

This is actually a configuration I use all

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A while ago we announced that Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 would support booting off of a USB flash device.  We have now provided detailed documentation on how to set this up.  Even cooler than booting Hyper-V off of a USB device – is the fact that what we are doing is booting a VHD with Hyper-V installed on it off

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A while ago I wrote a relatively short blog post high-lighting the fact that there are performance issues with Hyper-V when used with a high-end graphics adapter.  Since then I have been inundated with people asking questions and trying to get their heads around this issue.  Today I would like to take a chance to drill in

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If you want to learn more about the history of the TIP (Text Input Panel) and handwriting recognition, then be sure to check out the latest podcast at GottaBeMobile – it features our very own Tablet PC veterans Josh Clow, Jay Pittman, and Patrick Haluptzok.

Definitely an interesting podcast for any Tablet geeks out there

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