Microsoft Office Live Meeting Takes TV Spotlight on 'The Apprentice'
Tonight?s episode of the TV hit challenges competitors to concisely demonstrate the value of Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005, and Microsoft?s Real Time Collaboration Group judges the winning team.
Since earlier this year, the Real Time Collaboration (RTC) Group has been co-op marketing Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 through a partnership with the reality TV show ?The Apprentice.? Tonight the group will play its trump card: Linking up with The Donald himself.
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1.12.2005 Microsoft Office 2007 - Review
Releases of Microsoft Office over the past 6 years have been considered evolutionary upgrades, delivering new features with each new version making life a bit easier for authors of Office documents.
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16.11.2006 Microsoft Live "Academic Search" review
First, the overall concept of Microsoft Academic Search is similar to Google Scholar in that "it allows users to search across the Web for articles in academic journals, databases like PubMed and OA repositories".
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10.4.2006 Bureaucracy swamps ISO meeting on Microsoft format
FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A meeting to hammer out a consensus on whether a Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) document format should become an international standard descended into near chaos this week, people close to the meeting told Reuters.
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2.3.2008 Bureaucracy swamps ISO meeting on Microsoft format
A meeting to hammer out a consensus on whether a Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) document format should become an international standard descended into near chaos this week, people close to the meeting told Reuters
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3.3.2008 MAC meeting?
The Microsoft reorg week in review
Its time, yet again, to update the ever-changing Microsoft org chart. Heres another piece to add to the seemingly never-ending stream of Microsoft reorg news: Developer Platform and Evangelism (DPE) Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy has given up his post (as of mid-December, 2007).
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11.1.2008 Microsoft Windows 7 RTM Review
This October Microsoft will release Windows 7 world-wide, the successor to Windows Vista and Windows XP (again), a major upgrade that promises to further improve the user experience on different PC form factors such as the popular Netbook.
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21.10.2009 Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Review
A Little History
Virtualization software is nothing new, and dates back quite some time. One of the most popular examples for the end user was Connectix Virtual PC for the Mac. Since there are a pretty huge number of programs that are only available on Windows, this created a strong market niche to let Mac users run Windows programs, even if at reduced speed.
Virtual PC for the Mac, rather than emulating Windows, emulated the x86 architecture and the requisite peripheral devices, such as a video and sound card. This meant that emulation could work quite flawlessly, but also that any user would need to purchase a copy of Windows as well and then install it onto the Virtual PC. Virtual PC was a success and Connectix later created a Windows version which let you run most x86 OSes ? something quite useful for developers, enthusiasts, and IT professionals.
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22.1.2006 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate - Review
ActiveWin have just posted their 72-page, 200+ screenshot (Part 1) review of Microsoft Windows Vista, ActiveWin's largest and most in-depth review in ten years. In the review, we have broken down the information into 28 different sections, including (but not limited to): Windows Activation, Pricing, Installation, Daily Usage, Media Center, Windows Mail, DirectX 10, Gaming, Defender, IE 7, ReadyBoost, Developer Technologies, Sidebar, Windows Media Player 11, and much much more.
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30.1.2007 Microsoft submits Windows 7 for antitrust review
The latest status report in Microsoft's U.S. antitrust case mentions that the company has submitted a build of Windows 7, the next version of the PC operating system, for review by the technical committee involved in the case.
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11.3.2008 Microsoft Office 2007 to be released in 2007
Following on from the recent Windows Vista delays Microsoft has stated that it expects Microsoft Office 2007 to be available to businesses at year-end and OEM/Retail in early 2007.
Microsoft has a habbit of releasing products in one year but naming them a year ahead to keep them sounding up to date in the market.
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25.3.2006 Windows 7 Review
On October 22nd, 2009, Microsoft will reboot Windows. Next week, just five days from now, Windows 7 will hit store shelves worldwide.
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18.10.2009 Microsoft Goes Live Crazy With Live Labs
We've heard about Windows Live, Office Live, Visual Studio Live, CRM Live. But now there's the Live granddaddy of them all:
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26.1.2006 The Microsoft Week Ahead Week in Review
For all you audiophiles out there, we're now doing a weekly Microsoft Watch podcast. Each Friday, we'll give a quick synopsis of Microsoft-related doings and look ahead to what's on tap from the Redmond software giant for the coming week.
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12.3.2006 My Office 12 Review
A few weeks ago the Microsoft Office team worked hard to get Beta 1 out of the door to beta testers via Microsoft Beta. This build was quite successful in all products of Office.
Unfortunately, Microsoft Office ?12? does not come with a new product but the same products that have many changes will keep testers busy until Beta 2! During the Beta phase of Office 2003, Code-named ?Office 11? and referred to as NGO (Next Generation of Office), brought new applications to the table. These applications were InfoPath and OneNote.
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27.11.2005 Sony PSP Review
I know, I know. It's wayyyyyyy too late to put a review about Sony PSP here. I just think it's not perfect if I post a lot about this gaming console here but no review about it. So, yes, here it is. Just don't hate me and ignore this post if you don't like it. Please :p
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27.11.2005 Full review of the iPhone
Despite important missing features, a slow data network, and call quality that doesn't always deliver, Apple's iPhone sets a new benchmark for an integrated cell phone and MP3 player. See how it stacks up to our testing.
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1.7.2007 Windows 7 beta 1 review
Ive now had my hands on Windows 7 beta 1 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 (the build that is widely expected to be made available to beta testers by Microsoft early in January) and have had some time to compose my thoughts and feelings about this latest release.
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29.12.2008 Nokia N96 review
When the specs of Nokia N96 were first leaked to the net, I thought it was a pretty boring phone.
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14.2.2009 Ubuntu 9.04 Review
Ubuntu is a community-developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work, Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email apps, to web server software and programming tools.
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21.5.2009 Windows Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 Business Launch
While it's not the retail launch date, today is the official business launch for the next generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
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1.12.2006 Outlook 2007 users angry over Office 2007 HTML-e-mail changes
A quiet change Microsoft has made in the rendering engine used by Outlook 2007 is beginning to sink in among individuals who have gotten accustomed to having the Internet Explorer (IE) engine render HTML e-mail messages. And the reaction of many is one of anger and disbelief.
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13.1.2007 Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 Launched in The Netherlands
Today Microsoft launched Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 for Volume license businesses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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29.11.2006 Review of Microsoft's Mouse + screenshot
Back on a sunny day in July at Redmond, WA - Microsoft announced the killer combo of Philippe Starck's unique design combined with Microsoft's unique ability of trendsetting. The Microsoft Optical Mouse by S+ARCK was dubbed "a sleek shape and shimmering finish" by Microsoft's PR people.
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OneCare Family Safety, a review
I don't have children yet but let's imagine I have a 20 years-old son and a little 13 years-old daughter. OFS helps me monitor and protect both of them despite different needs and interaction with Internet they have.
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3.10.2006 LG KU580 Hero Review
After more than 1 year from its launch, LG's Chocolate collection ends in 2007 with another high-end stylish phone KU580 aka Hero. Also known as Chocolate Multimedia, the new handset embeds more Internet capabilities than its predecessors and a unique look which makes it the best choice in its class.
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4.8.2007 Sony Ericsson W960i Review
Sony Ericsson, one of the most important handsets manufacturers, is also one of the fewest that managed to educate its fans and teach them how to choose their future mobile phones.
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21.12.2007 Nokia 6500 slide Review
Fully aware that its own developed Symbian operating system is not a perfect one, Nokia offers users devices with its newly launched S40 5th Edition.
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18.1.2008 Intel E8500 CPU Review
In the world of CPUs (Central Processing Units) and motherboard chipsets Intel is the number one manufacturer and is the platform of choice for enthusiasts in the PC industry since the launch of the Core 2 series outshined the top CPUs at the time it was launched and they haven't looked back.
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24.3.2008Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Portal
The Live Meeting Service Portal makes it easier to deploy and manage Live Meeting. If your company has deployed Microsoft Active Directory directory
services, you can use the Live Meeting Service Portal to:
- Automatically create Live Meeting accounts for users once
they are authenticated on your corporate network.
- Allow authenticated Windows users to log in to Live Meeting without entering a
Live Meeting user ID and password.
- Permit users to change their Live Meeting passwords when authenticated by your Active
Directory service.
- Automatically synchronize a user's Live Meeting account settings with the user's Active Directory settings
each time the user logs in through the Portal.
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12.10.2007Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2007
Microsoft will host its
Financial Analyst Meeting 2007
on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at
8:30 a.m. Pacific Time.
Date: Thursday, July 26,
2007
Time: 8:30 A.M.4:50
P.M. Pacific Time
Place:
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA
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26.07.2007Glitches Shut Security Firms Out of MS Meeting
Though officials from
Microsoft had planned to hold
an online briefing with
representatives of security
vendors, reportedly including
McAfee and Symantec, earlier
this afternoon, some of those
participants were
inadvertently shut out of the
meeting. The cause,
apparently, was technical
difficulties with Microsoft's
Live Meeting...
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20.10.2006Microsoft Debuts Major Release of Web Conferencing Service
Today at Microsoft Corp.s
annual TechEd conference, the
company unveiled the 2007
release of
http://www.microsoft.com/uc/de
fault.mspx>Microsoft Office
Live Meeting, a new version
designed to dramatically
improve online meetings,
events and training. New
capabilities include a
redesigned user interface and
an integrated collaboration
experience as well as support
for live video, VoIP and rich
media.
Scheduled for
availability in fall 2007, the
new version of Office Live
Meeting will make it easier
for organizations of all sizes
to experience the benefits of
Web conferencing, whether
people are conducting simple
ad-hoc collaboration sessions,
formal Web-based meetings,
advanced online training or
large communication events.
The enhancements
included in the 2007 release
of Microsoft Office Live
Meeting resulted from more
than 10 years of Web
conferencing operating
experience and customer
feedback.
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05.06.2007Vista SP1 to Include Common Security APIs for Partners
A spokesperson for Microsoft
Thursday evening characterized
as "grossly
inaccurate" reports from
earlier in the day, including
from Reuters, stating that a
technical glitch in the
company's Live Meeting
services led to a dissolution
of a meeting between Microsoft
and security products vendors...
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20.10.2006Live Search 2.0 discussions continue
At the company meeting last week, the new Live Search 2.0 was demoed and has since received rave reviews from Microsoft employees (yes
even mini).
Sean Earp's impresions were picked up by Scoble,
with relevance still seeming to be the favourite buzzword of the Live Search team. Sean also mentions improvements around index size and instant
answers but refrains from mentioning any of the juicy new bits. Of course
Mary-Jo Foley has her ear to the ground, with some of the new directions the team is rumoured to be going in including:
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New personalization capabilities integrated into Live Search
- An integrated location/calendar/presence service that may also tie in with Live
Search 2.0
- A new capability integrating social networks, annotation (ratings and reviews) and search
- Future integration between
Outlook and Live Search
While these sound pretty useful, its worth remembering that some of them may just be at the ideas stage and not available
immediately at launch - the last point is rumoured to be an Office 14 feature, Calendar integration requires a Windows Live Calendar etc.
So with the Live Search team not talking about new features and long term aims until Searchification on Sept 26th, and Microsoft employees
left right and center adding to the hype daily, we thought we'd provide a quick look at how the beta UI has changed from the existing Live Search
(not looking at new features).
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11.09.2007TechEd 2007: New Office Live Meeting Will Enable Multi-session 'Events'
ON THE SCENE - Product
managers at TechEd 2007 here
gave BetaNews an early glimpse
of Microsoft's next
videoconferencing application,
which will tie into both
Office Communications Server
(which we saw in detail at
WinHEC three weeks ago) and
Microsoft's own
subscription-based
conferencing services...
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05.06.2007Meet Microsoft Live Labs
Journey into the mind of Karim Farouki, Group Manager in
Microsoft Live Labs, where you'll
learn about the innovative work his team is pioneering at the intersection of the thick client and the internet. So tune in and turn up your genius as
Karim gives an overview of Live Labs, demos product, and provides insight into the cutting-edge projects his team is working on. If you have
questions, Karim has answers.
What: Live Meeting presentation
When: Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 4:00-5:00pm PST
Where: Register @
www.Hey-Genius.com/LiveMeetings.html
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10.10.20071up Pulls Neverwinter Nights 2 Review
Seems the overly negative
review of Neverwinter Nights 2
over at 1up didn't sit to
well with the members. But
that begs the question, why
pull a review because it was
negative? 1up says it was
because the review didn't
live up to their "editorial
standards" which can be taken
many ways. Was it because
everyone thought the review
was way, way to negative? Or
was it because 1up got hate
mail due to the negative
review? Who knows. All I know
is that 1up actually pulled a
review - which I don't think
I've ever seen happen before
with an online review from a
major gaming site. The
original review gave
Neverwinter Nights 2 a 5/10
score, and it was pretty
obvious the reviewer didn't
care for the D&D rules or
world. Plus, as has been said,
it was poorly written. Or was
it?
Did 1up do
the right thing by pulling the
review? Should the review have
not been pulled? What does
that say about a negative
reaction to a review in
general, if it is so negative
it might get pulled by the
company? What do you guys
think?
You can
read the original
review
here on
the Bioware forums.
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05.11.2006Microsoft Sets a Date for Unveiling UC Software
The first commercial release of Office Communications Server 2007 will be unveiled to the public on October 16, Microsoft announced this morning.
Along with it will be the Office Communicator (OC) client -- the company's professional grade on-screen messaging service -- as well as the next
edition of Live Meeting, whose conferencing features will be upgraded to support OC...
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22.08.2007Fennec coming to HTC Touch Pro
In Mozilla's weekly project meeting yesterday, updates to
mobile browser Fennec were discussed, and the M1 milestone release target for Windows Mobile was noted.
According to the
meeting's
minutes: "We are targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC touch pro. We are two patches away from the
meta goal of building from trunk. The tools changes have review from dougt, and are waiting for review from ted, who has promised review by the end of
the week. NSPR changes are waiting for review from Nelson, who asked for and received a patch against NSPR trunk."..
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27.01.2009Windows Live Folders beta - more info
The folks over at LiveSide
have put up and detailed
walkthrough of Microsoft's
latest Live product, Windows
Live Folders.
Here's a snip:
Windows Live Folders is
(sic) not a difficult to use
service, folder creation is
straightforward, as it the
uploading of files. Microsoft
is aiming Windows Live Folders
towards a large as market as
possible, so the basic
procedures need to be simple
to promote adoption amongst
the less tech-savy. The use of
ajax to create new folders is
nice, though the rest of the
site could do with a little
too. As we've seen with
Windows Live Hotmail though,
too much of a good thing can
be bad.
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15.05.2007Review Round-Up: Ultra Cheap Laptops
Danny Dumas: Psst, hey buddy wanna buy a laptop? I've got some right here. They're totally legit too, didn't fall off the back of some truck. Oh
what's that? You only have five hundred bucks to spend? Don't worry, none of these notebooks will cost you more than 5 Benjamins (up front at least)
and each one delivers top notch computing performance. Here, take a step inside and check 'em out. It's totally legit.
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Asus Eee PC -
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11.12.2007NeowinCAST Gamers Edition for February 12th, 2007
Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV
present the NeowinCAST Gamers
Edition for the week of
February 12th, 2007. This week
our panel consists of Todd
(LOC) and DirtyLarry (Larry).
The guys spend time this go
round reviewing several Xbox
360 games, an Xbox Live!
Arcade game, and some gaming
news thrown in as well. The
topics discussed this week
include:
- Call of
Duty 3 Review
- Rainbow
Six: Vegas Review
(360)
- Lost Planet:
Extreme Condition
Review
- Xbox Live
Arcade: Heavy Weapon
Review
- Half-Life 2
Episode 2 delay, Unreal
Tournament 3 rumors, the Halo
3 beta, Killzone 2 beta??, and
some other stuff
Hopefully you guys will
enjoy it, and feel free to
leave comments telling us how
much we suck. Of course
positive comments are welcome
as well! The file size is
about 50 mb, and the runtime
is around 55 minutes.
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12.02.2007Microsoft patents holographic meetings
Networkworld has discovered a rather interesting patent, applied for by Redmond company Microsoft, that would allow them to produce a holographic
meeting place, as well as a few other intriguing ideas. The holographic meetings, or 'Virtual Office Devices' are just what you would
imagine; a user would see holograms of other meeting attendees, whilst projecting their own for the others to view. Unfortunately, there is no proper
specifics on the hardware or software behind this, but there is a range of pictures included to show how this would be achieved. One of the people
credited with this invention is Patrice Simard, who is the chief scientist and manager of Windows Live Labs.
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26.05.2009Nokia's factory move from Germany to Romania hits more snags
After a high-level meeting today, Nokia has agreed to serve on a joint task force to review its decision to close a cell phone plant in Bochum,
Germany. Meanwhile, Nokia's cheaper facility under construction in Romania is in trouble...
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29.01.2008Live Clipboard Progress
Report!
Live Clipboard, one of the
newest member of the
burgeoning Microsoft Live
family, is moving ahead. Chief
Technical Officer Ray Ozzie
provided an update this past
weekend on Clipboard's
progress.
There is now a draft spec of
Clipboard available, for
review, as well as a technical
introduction and discussion
thread.
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05.04.2006Microsoft Highlights Strong Financial Performance at Annual Shareholder Meeting
Microsoft Corp. today held its annual shareholder meeting, where Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer discussed the companys plans to drive
continued long-term growth and shareholder value. Ballmer highlighted the positive customer momentum behind the companys pipeline of product
advancements, noting the strong response to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, as well as new product offerings such as the updated
Windows Live Services and Halo 3 and upcoming releases such as Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server. Furthermore, new models of Zune digital
music players became available in stores today.
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, outlined how Microsofts strategy of investing
in innovation allows it to shape the future of technology. He specifically cited advances in unified communications and collaboration, the combination
of software on client devices and services delivered via the Internet, and the emergence of natural user interfaces such as speech and touch as having
the potential to fundamentally transform how people interact with technology.
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13.11.2007Microsoft week-in review, May 30 to June 6
For the longest time we've had requests for a week-in review of the hottest news rolling out of the various sectors we report on here at Neowin.
Today we're glad to announce that starting this week we will be rolling out a Microsoft week-in review for all of you folks that are just too busy
to keep up with the news throughout the week. While this week has been a huge week for Microsoft due to the E3 conference that was held a few days
ago, there have been quite a few announcements made regarding Windows 7. Microsoft finally announced Windows 7 Starter edition details, and you
won't be limited to running three applications at a time.
Read full story.....
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05.06.2009Insider confirms anonymous Windows 7 M1 review, writes thesis on Windows 7 development
Long Zheng: Hot on the heels of the humble
Windows 7 Milestone
1 review at Neowin yesterday, an anonymous commenter appropriately named “MSBob” on this blog who appears as a Microsoft insider has
wrote a fairly extensive
comment essay confirming the authenticity of that review as well as revealing many other details about the current and future
state of Windows 7.
There’s a lot of detail from the design of Windows 7, to the development teams, Windows Live
integration strategies and of course the man, the legend,
Steven Sinofsky
who’s influencing the release cycles of Windows. And don’t forget Calculator, Paint and Notepad.
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