I wanted to post a response to what I consider to be somewhat suboptimal advice, with the hopes of correcting it.

In recorded history, there have been a number of classic blunders when it comes to advice. They include:

“Hey, let’s start a land war in Asia!”

“I really think you should buy the Betamax instead of

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A customer came to me with a question: they no longer saw the “Size” column in the Programs and Features list (where you go to modify or uninstall software) on Windows 7 when the installer was not an MSI.

Here’s the story: we used to run some heuristics, as described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/09/178342.aspx

However, if you read through those heuristics,

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From Jeremy Chapman Product Manager, Deployment Guru and part of the Disc to VHD/P2V team.

We are getting closer to releasing our current P2V Migration for Software Assurance tool, which is currently on Microsoft Connect in Beta 2 form. We recently sent out a survey to several thousand Beta users and asked them about how they intend to

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Let’s ring in the weekend with a new episode of Windows Phone Radio! You can find it in the Zune Marketplace or do direct download here. Enjoy!

To celebrate some Halloween fun this year, we’ve teamed up with the folks at Instructables.com to challenge you in showing off your ghoulishly talented costume-building skills with a movie making contest. All you need to do is document from start to finish, with video and photos, the process of building your Halloween costume. Then, use your PC

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Since 1991, Microsoft has held the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) to let developers get under the hood of the latest Microsoft technology and meet the engineers who build it. PDC is also a great time for us to meet and talk to the developers that use the technology every day and hear their feedback. There is obviously

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It’s been three weeks since we released Windows Live Essentials 2011 and over 16 million people have downloaded the latest version. We’re very excited about what Windows Live Essentials 2011 brings to Windows 7. Some of the key features we’d call out:

Today I have some very exciting news to share about a Windows 7 Enterprise customer – Samsung Electronics has completed deployment of Windows 7 Enterprise throughout their offices in South Korea. Samsung has about 150,000 employees worldwide and the majority are located in Korea. We thought other businesses might want

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Over the past 24 hours, Windows Phone 7 fans have been attending pre-launch parties and store openings in cities including Singapore, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Sydney, Milan, Madrid, and London. It’s so cool to see phones beginning to hit shelves in some of the retail locations in these cities. Determined fans including Jourdan Templeton in Auckland, New Zealand and Andrew Willett

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In celebration of Windows 7’s one year anniversary, we thought it would be cool to share some successful Windows 7 deployment stories with you. Last week, we had the pleasure of visiting General Motors and sitting down with Ken Michel, director of Online Infrastructure and Local Area Networks for GM Information Technology.

I’m sure you’re familiar with General Motors, but you

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