Jocelyn Lieppman is a senior at the University of Oregon who has traveled the world, wrestled for high school varsity, and will break out into camp songs on impulse. Originally from Seattle, she grew up in Houston, Texas. She currently works as a Microsoft Windows UCrew Student Representative at U of O. Adventure is in her heart, and as such
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Words provide endless ways to tell somebody what you’re thinking or feeling. But sometimes a picture says it all. In the world of smartphones, emoticons—also known by their Japanese name emoji—are one quick and fun way to express yourself in a text message.
Turns out Windows Phone 7.5 has a ton of built-in emoji—many of which were totally new to
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Last week, we shared our approach to designing a personal cloud storage service for billions of people. Today, we’re excited to release an upgrade to SkyDrive.com to address key feedback. You should expect to see the new SkyDrive release in the next few hours. Follow SkyDrive on Twitter so that you can be one of the first
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Tomorrow, I’ll be joining Tech Tuesday’s Live Twitter Chat from 30,000 feet as I fly to St. Thomas for an upcoming press trip. On this trip, I’ll be bringing one of the most beautiful laptops I’ve ever seen – an as of yet unreleased midnight blue and crystal PC from Samsung. It’s just one of the reasons I’m so thrilled
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Toshiba’s recently announced Portégé Z830 Series Ultrabooks are now available starting $799.99 at Best Buy and on ToshibaDirect.com, starting at $829.99. Back in September, Toshiba revealed the Portégé Z830 Series, which is their first PC in the category of stylish and thin PCs called Ultrabooks introduced by Intel.
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When you think of the holidays, most of us think of food, family and celebration. But when you’re a small business owner, it’s also time to prepare for the year ahead and set some new business priorities. Here at Microsoft, we understand that there are many to-do’s on every small business owner’s list and technology upgrades and needs are usually
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Our final city stop was Santiago, Chile for TechDays. For those of you not familiar with TechDays, they are locally run events showcasing the best and brightest MVPs. Microsoft Employee and Evangelists and Developers sharing the knowledge and skill sets with local IT pros and developers.
It’s Black Friday and everyone is out kick-starting their holiday shopping. I thought I would take a break from my own shopping to highlight some pretty slick Black Friday deals from Microsoft. We’ve got some pretty awesome deals going on for Windows Phones, Xboxes, Windows PCs and more – just check out this slideshow on Microsoft News
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CENTURY CITY, CA – NOVEMBER 23: Television personality Brooke Burke-Chavet (L), actor David Chavet (R) and family visit Santa for a portrait at Microsoft Windows "Picture Perfect Holiday" at Century City Mall on November 23, 2011 in Century City, California. (Photo by Chelsea Lauren/WireImage)
Now that DWTS has finished
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Are you ready for the biggest shopping day of the year? Shops have started advertising their offers and the deals look as great as ever. It’s really easy to score one of the deals from the comfort of your home because 78% of retailers will have cyber-Monday offers as well. So if you are going to join
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Just a geek who loves to make his computer run extremely fast and reliably :-)
