I Run Windows 7 Big in Japan
Microsoft is in the final stages of the development process for the next iteration of the Windows client. With RTM planned by the end of July 2009 and worldwide General Availability scheduled for October 22, the Redmond company has unveiled a set of initiatives designed to build up to Windows 7 hitting the shelves.
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6.7.2009 Microsoft: Bots a Big Problem for Windows
Malicious bots are becoming quite common, with six out of every ten computers scanned by the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool found to be infected, Microsoft said Monday. Altogether, the application has removed malicious bots from about 3.5 million PCs.
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13.6.2006 Internet Explorer 7 a Disappointment as Big as Windows Vista?
Is Internet Explorer 7 matching Windows Vista in the level of disappointment delivered to end users? Well, such an answer lies ultimately within you. But at the same time, IE7 has not been submitted to the same barrage of fire that Vista had to face throughout 2007.
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28.12.2007 The big Digg rig
Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites.
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5.12.2006 Vista = Big Brother?
PC users around the globe may find driver software is stopped from working by Vista if it detects unauthorised content access. Peter Guttman, a security engineering researcher at New Zealand's university of Auckland, has written A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.
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2.1.2007 iPod Nano May Have Some Big problems
What some analysts have billed as the "top MP3 player this fall" may have just hit a potentially damaging roadblock - its own frailty.
Complaints have begun to circle on both Web logs and Apple's own support forums surrounding an issue with the polycarbonate plastic that covers the front of the iPod Nano. Some users claim the player scratches extremely easily, enough that it makes the screen difficult to read.
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Office Upgrades to Have Big Impact
The number of corporate PCs using Microsoft Office that have to be upgraded due to a patent-infringement settlement might not be so small after all, according to a new survey.
AssetMetrix Research Labs said 22 percent of the 600,000 corporate PCs it surveyed that run Office with Access must be upgraded with Office 2003 SP2 and a special patch.
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8.2.2006 BIG Comparison of 27 BitTorrent clients
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of BitTorrent clients. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
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Microsoft's Big Bet: Win Within the Web
Although the latest version of Microsoft Windows is more than six months from shipping, company brass already have christened Vista as the best and biggest Windows release since Windows 95.
The company is making bold predictions, claiming Vista will be preloaded on as many as 200 million new personal computers in the first 24 months that the product is available. Windows 95 shipped on a mere 67 million new PCs during its first two years. These numbers are important. The prospects of nearly every product Microsoft makes ride on maintaining the ubiquity of Windows, which has in excess of 90 percent of the PC operating system market. It's been five years since the current Windows version was released, and Windows XP now is looking rather dated.
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15.3.2006 Microsoft to spend big on Zune marketing
Microsoft to spend big on Zune marketing, Zillions? Well, millions at least.
Microsoft is ready to take the fight to Apple in the digital music market by flexing its financial muscle.
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28.7.2006 Microsoft's Last 'Big Bang' Operating System?
Despite forays into Web software with Windows Live and Office Live -- collections of e-mail, instant messaging, and Web publishing apps -- Microsoft's core franchises remain wedded to the PC.
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12.4.2006 Gates Predicts Big Technological Leaps
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years.
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16.3.2008 NVIDIA Unleashes Big Bang II
A few months ago, NVIDIA announced its plans to release a GeForce R180 series of drivers meant to bring new features and technology innovations to its graphics cards.
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23.10.2008 Ballmer Analyzes Microsoft's 'One Big' Vista Mistake
Microsoft's CEO blames the company's "Big Bang" approach for leading to Vista's delays. He says it tried to do too much, too fast with all the core components.
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2.8.2006 Microsoft plans big Vancouver, B.C., software center
Microsoft announced this morning that it will open a software development center this fall in the Vancouver, B.C., area, with room for hundreds of workers.
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6.7.2007 Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009
For the past few Februaries, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes the trek to Wall Street to provide analysts with an annual “Strategic Update” overview, in which he covers the areas where Microsoft plans to invest and why.
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24.2.2009 How to Install Windows Vista
For people with access to the Vista betas through MSDN, there is an installation guide.
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Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it.
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6.12.2007 Vistas big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...
Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent.
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17.6.2008 How to Install and Enable DreamScene in Windows 7
Windows DreamScene, a feature which allows a video clip, movie show, slideshow or animated image and picture to be set as the desktop background in Windows Vista has been removed in Windows 7, in favor of Desktop Slideshow wallpaper auto rotator. Although Windows 7 no longer supports DreamScane, the DreamScene function can still be manually added and installed into Windows 7 with a little hack in order to turn on and enable the DreamScene support in Windows7.
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13.1.2009 Microsoft: How to install a browser on Windows 7 E
Microsoft have created a guidance page on the Windows 7 part of their website, detailing how users should go about installing a browser on Windows 7 E – the main version of Windows that will ship in the UK, that comes without a browser.
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15.7.2009 How to Install Chrome OS in Windows 7
Google unveiled Chrome OS in an event yesterday where they demonstrated the upcoming cloud-based OS for the first time in public. Source code of Chrome OS was also released which folks over at gdgt have compiled in a ready-to-install .vmdk file.
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20.11.2009 Big review of Vista December 2005 CTP (Build 5270)
I think people are going to be surprised by how good the Windows Vista December 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP, or build 5270) really is. After years of painful delays and an uncertain couple of months since the last CTP, Microsoft shipped a near-feature-complete Vista build to testers this week, and the prognosis is extremely positive.
From what I can see, Vista has turned the corner. The December CTP is an exciting release, stable and full of new features. In this review, I'll examine those new features, and the features that have changed since the previous CTP, build 5231.
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21.12.2005 Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI) 6.1
Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI) is a hypertext application designed for giving users choice. While Windows XP offers many ways of customizing the setup process out of the box, its major drawback is the lack of being able to select which applications an end user may install.
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29.7.2007 Windows 7 testers - RC is a clean install
The latest post on Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog outlines what existing Windows 7 beta testers will have to do in order to be able upgrade to the release candidate.
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9.4.2009 How to Install Microsoft Telnet Client on Windows 7
If you have been fan of traditional Microsoft Telnet client then you will be surprised to see that traditional Telnet Client is not available in Windows Vista & 7 by default and you have to manually install Telnet Client to use Telnet from command prompt.
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17.7.2009 Install Any Version of Windows 7 with Universal ISO
Those of you who own an official copy of Windows 7 from MSDN or TechNet may have faced a scenario where you wanted to install a different edition of Windows, only to find out that you will have to download a separate ISO file just to install your desired edition.
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9.11.2009 Crack Available to Install Windows Vista with Only 256MB RAM
Want to perform the impossible with Windows Vista and install the operating system on systems with only 256 MB of RAM? vista_nomem.exe is a patch that promises to deliver just that, enabling you to deploy Vista even if you only have 256 MB of memory.
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8.2.2007 Windows Vista SP1 Beta Install Fair
The Windows Vista SP1 Deployment Team wanted me to pass along notice of an upcoming Install Fair being held here in Redmond at month's end; we've held events like this before and they've always been well received.
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3.10.2007 My Day at the Windows Vista SP1 Install Fair
On Saturday October 27th, I had the chance to visit the Microsoft campus and join various others in installing the Windows Vista SP1 Beta.
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29.10.2007Windows 7 upgrade chart available
Microsoft has made available the official Windows 7 Upgrade chart, via allthingsd which indicates which previous versions of Windows are available for
an in-place upgrade to Windows 7, and to which version they can upgrade. You can view the chart below: As you can see from just a glance at the
chart, it's relatively confusing. Windows 7 offers no direct upgrade path from XP, which was announced very early on in the Windows 7 development
life cycle. Very specific upgrade paths from other versions of Windows Vista exist also. You can perform a "Custom Install" which is pretty much a
clean install, but you have the option to install Windows 7 to another disk without overwriting data.
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10.08.2009Microsoft: How to install a browser on Windows 7 E
Microsoft have created a guidance page on the Windows 7 part of their website, detailing how users should go about installing a browser on Windows 7 E
– the main version of Windows that will ship in the UK, that comes without a browser. Users will be required to install an internet browser
from external media, such as a USB pen drive or CD, as there will be no way of browsing the web without one otherwise. Due to the EU pushing on with
its anti-trust case against Microsoft, users buying Windows 7 E will have to find their own browser to use.
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15.07.2009Hackers Install Windows XP on
Intel Mac
While Windows XP won't
natively boot on Apple's new
Intel based Macs due to lack
of EFI support and Microsoft
has no plans to change that in
Vista, one hacker has found a
way around the limitation and
snagged a $13,854 prize in the
process. But the approach
requires heavy editing of an
XP install disc...
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16.03.2006Workaround Discovered For "Clean Install" With Vista Upgrade
DailyTech has posted a 7-step
workaround courtesy of Paul
Thurrott (via Microsoft
internal documents) on how to
perform a clean install with a
Windows Vista Upgrade DVD. Per
Microsoft's new licensing
requirements for Vista, users
are required to install a
Windows Vista Upgrade from
within Windows XP and to make
matters worse, the Windows XP
license is forfeited. The
process may be tedious, but
few will argue when they
compare the price differences
between the upgrade and retail
versions. Here we go:
- Boot from the
Windows Vista Upgrade DVD and
start the setup
program.
- When prompted
to enter your product key, DO
NOT enter it. Click "Next"
and proceed with setup. This
will install Windows Vista as
a 30-day trial.
- When
prompted, select the edition
of Vista which you have
purchased and continue with
setup.
- Once setup has
been completed and you have
been brought to the desktop
for the first time, run the
install program from within
Windows Vista.
- This
time, type in your product key
when prompted.
- When
asked whether to perform an
Upgrade or Custom (advanced)
install, choose Custom
(advanced) to perform a clean
install of Vista. Yes, this
means that you will have to
install Vista for a second
time.
- Once setup has
completed for the second time,
you should be able to activate
Windows Vista normally. You
can also delete the
Windows.old directory which
contains information from the
first Vista
install.
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31.01.2007OneCare and Defender to
integrate further?
The Windows Live OneCare team
used its blog yesterday to
announce they are currently
working on one of their most
requested feedback:
integration with Windows
Defender, Microsoft's
antispyware utility, still in
beta 2 version.
The first thing they did in
that way is to modify the
OneCare setup so that it also
installs Windows Defender in
the background.
"
For those interested
in the technical details, now,
when you install OneCare, as
long as you accept the default
prompts, the Windows Defender
install itself goes on behind
the scenes, and the Windows
Genuine Advantage check goes
on behind the scenes. During
the Windows Live OneCare
install process, the default
setting is to automatically
install Windows Defender with
automatic updates turned on.
However you will be given the
option to turn off automatic
updates of Defender signatures
or forego the Windows Defender
installation altogether if you
wish. "
The team also said
it will be easy to remove
Defender if wished, though the
didn't say if it'll be
through the usual Add/Remove
Programs or another way (a
button through the OneCare
front-end, for example).
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23.07.2006Installing GPMC on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1
The Group Policy Management Console is included in Windows Server 2008; however, you must install it before you can use it. The domain controller
promotion process installs GPMC on the server, in addition to adding the domain controller to the domain. Additionally, you can install GPMC on a
member server as long as its a member of the domain. Lets look at two ways to install GPMC on Windows Server 2008 (other than through DCPROMO).
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08.07.2008Windows XP SP3 Now Available on Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center
Microsoft Update Team: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available on Windows Update (and the Microsoft Download Center)!
If you'd like to install it via WU today, you'll need to visit the Windows Update website. To do this, go to
Windows Update and perform an express or custom install, make sure you see the service
pack selected, and proceed with the install. After it downloads, you'll see a series of screens and you'll be asked to make a few clicks before the
install will begin.
If you're not in a rush, we recommend you use Automatic Updates to install Windows XP SP3. It provides the
best experience because the download will happen in the background. We're planning to begin automatically distributing Windows XP SP3 over AU
sometime in the next few months.
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07.05.2008No More Clean Installs Using Windows Vista Upgrade Discs
Although it has been discussed
to death
here,
some official coverage on the
front page is needed. Thanks
to Ambiance for
posting a
direct response from
Microsoft about the issue.
Unlike with the
Windows XP Upgrade CD, with
Windows Vista users are forced
to have a valid install of
Windows XP Home or
Professional on their machines
before upgrading with a Vista
Upgrade DVD. This typically
isn't a big deal for the
majority of users on the first
install of Vista; but think
about the necessary steps if
you already have Vista
installed or no operating
system on the computer:
- Install a
genuine copy of Windows XP
Home/Professional
- Acti
vate Windows XP through
Microsoft
- Upgrade to
Windows Vista from within
Windows XP
Either
shell out the extra cash for
the full version or be
prepared for the extended
process of installing XP, and
then Vista. Of course there is
always the OEM road, but
remember that such a copy is
limited to the computer it is
first activated on.
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29.01.2007Microsoft proposes "Browser Ballot Screen" to the EU
We've previously reported that Microsoft was planning to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer. But now, reports are saying that
users could be given the choice of which browser to install when they install Windows 7 in Europe as proposed by Microsoft to the European Commission.
"Under our new proposal, among other things, European consumers who buy a new Windows PC with Internet Explorer set as their default browser would
be shown a ‘ballot screen' from which they could, if they wished, easily install competing browsers from the Web. If this proposal is
ultimately accepted, Microsoft will ship Windows in Europe with the full functionality available in the rest of the world.
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25.07.2009Silicon Valley Vista SP1 Install Fair next month
Similar to last month's Redmond-based Install Fair, the Windows Vista SP1 Deployment Team is holding another Install Fair at our Silicon Valley
campus early next month. You're welcome to drop by if you find yourself in the neighborhood, provided you register beforehand.
Date: 8-9 December 2007, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus, 1065 La Avenida St., Mountain View, CA
94043
Timeslots:
- Desktops: 9:00am or 1:00pm
- Laptops: 9:00am or 1:00pm
Registrations must be made via email to Windows Vista Install Fair Registration (
vsp1reg@microsoft.com). Please indicate your preferred timeslot when replying. Spaces are limited.
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19.11.2007My Day at the Windows Vista SP1 Install Fair
On Saturday October 27th, I had the chance to visit the Microsoft campus and join various others in installing the Windows Vista SP1 Beta. Now it has
been a while since I visited the main campus so I drove around for a bit before I went over to the conference center.
After taking in the sights and wishing that
the company I worked for had a soccer field next door, I headed over to the conference center, laptop in hand. When I first got there, all of the
doors were locked and I couldnt see anything through most of the windows. I finally got someones attention after awhile (perhaps I looked suspicious,
trying to peek in any way I could) and was escorted inside over to the registration table for the Vista SP1 install fair.
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29.10.2007Satire: Microsoft Reveals Windows Vista SP1 Will Install XP
Imagine if this was true... :lol:
In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and
improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP.
"We're focused on giving the
customer what they want, and want they want is to just go back to XP," said Microsoft Development Chief Greg Elston.
Elston said
not only will the move improve customer satisfaction with Vista, but will allow the company to focus resources on the next operating system instead of
the flailing Vista. "We can move people off of Vista development now, and move them to Windows 7 development," said Elston. "That should allow us
to only delay Windows 7 by thirteen months past its scheduled date instead of the planned eighteen."
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18.09.2007Windows Vista SP1 Application Non-Compatibility List
Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is an important update for Windows Vista. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains many security, reliability, and
feature updates for Windows Vista. A program may experience a loss of functionality after you install Windows Vista SP1. However, most programs will
continue to work as expected after you install Windows Vista SP1.
This article lists programs that have been reported to
experience a loss of functionality when they are installed on a Windows Vista SP1-based computer.
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19.02.2008Russinovich's Windows toolkit goes live, quite literally
Admins now have immediate access to any of Sysinternals utilities from any Windows computer, without having to install anything first...
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29.05.2008Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows
Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer. Enthusiast Chris Holmes claims that many users have started experiencing random
crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI based installer. Some have gone to the
extent of reinstalling the beta. Rafael has discovered that the fault arises from the Software Quality Management (SQM) Client which is a part of the
Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
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20.01.2009Live Webcast: MVP Charlie
Russel on How to Get and
Install Windows XP Service
Pack 2
View a live webcast Wednesday
by MVP Charlie Russel, and
learn how to obtain and
install Service Pack 2, and
how to find help in the online
community...
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04.01.2006Windows Vista SP1 Prerequisite Releases Coming Up
Microsoft Update Team: This week we're releasing two more prerequisites for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 that will be coming later this quarter. We
wanted to let you know about them because they are both marked as Important updates (and theyre a little different than usual).
KB938371 is a multi-component update that supports the successful install of SP1 and allows it to be uninstalled. KB937287 updates the Windows
Vista śServicing Stack.ť Both updates (required before SP1 will be offered via Windows Update) are being made available now to reduce the number of
reboots and make installation of the service pack easier.
Even if you're not ready to install the service pack once it's
released, you'll want to install these updates because they'll help increase performance and reduce failures for the installation of other
updates.
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12.02.2008Windows 7 Driver Compatibility Evidence Seen
A day after someone noticed a "Windows 7 Client" category popping up on Windows Server Update Services, another curious enthusiast on the Neowin
forums has also noticed a sudden prevalence of "Windows 7 Client" drivers on Microsoft's Update Catalog - the online library of drivers which
Windows uses to automatically install.
A
simple search for "Windows 7 Client" reveals more than 1000 drivers already available. These drivers range from the big brands
from Nvidia, ATI, Intel and Broadcom to even miscellaneous display drivers. Whilst it is true all drivers approved after June 1 should have been
tested on Windows 7, most of these drivers date back to early 2007 suggesting most drivers have just been carried over from the latest WHQL release.
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23.08.2008Microsoft, Media Center Integrator Alliance Announce 2009 Ultimate Install Contest
Today at the Electronic House Expo in Orlando, Microsoft Corp., in cooperation with co-sponsor Media Center Integrator Alliance, announced the 2009
Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest. This industry design contest, now in its third year, seeks to recognize the residential integration
business that best utilizes Windows Media Center in a custom home installation project. With the support of the newly formed Media Center Integrator
Alliance (MCIA), a group dedicated to driving awareness and adoption of Windows Media Center technologies in the custom channel, the Windows Media
Center Ultimate Install Contest will represent the best of the best in the ecosystem.
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12.03.2009The Dell Debacle: How Serious is the Damage?
At his press conference
yesterday afternoon, Dell CFO
Don Carty tried to paint a
picture of a company where
little men made little
adjustments to meet little
targets, in the context of a
big manufacturer with a big
customer base and a big number
of outstanding shares. But he
also came clean with some
serious revelations that raise
much bigger questions: Just
who has Dell been fooling, and
for how long?..
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