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Windows 8, Windows Server 8, and Office 15: Tons of new information straight from Microsoft and its employees!

By | February 24, 2011, 5:06am PST

Summary: Interested in the future of Windows and Office? Here’s the very latest straight from the people who work on Windows 8 and Office 15 directly!

In addition to my passion for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), I’m an investigative researcher/blogger with a penchant for finding confidential information on the cutting edge of topics I’m passionate about. Without fail, the one product I chase the most is Microsoft Windows. Ever since the days of Whistler (Windows XP’s code name), I’ve used the power of Google and other sources to flesh out undisclosed information to digest and make available to the masses. Today, I continue that tradition by bringing you a post consisting of a culmination of Windows 8, Windows Server 8 and even Office 15 information I’ve discovered over the course of the past month or so.

The information that follows is all directly sourced for your convenience and I’ve copied everything as it resides where it resides — grammatical errors and all. While some of the specifics on this list are certainly more significant than others, I’ve listed all that I have in the interest of leaving no stone unturned and so as to appeal to the unique interests of each individual who reads this. Additionally, I close the article with sources to much more Windows 8 and Office 15 information that will continue to whet your appetite should you find the contents of this article particularly piquant. Lastly, I’d like to go ahead and mention our resident Microsoft bloggers here on ZDNet: Mary-Jo Foley and Ed Bott. Between the two of them, the Microsoft coverage here on ZDNet is quite extensive, so please check them out and say hello sometime.

And now, in no particular order of importance or significance, here is Windows 8 and Office 15 information-galore!


Windows 8 Client and Windows 8 Server

 

John Michener

Windows Reliability, Security and Privacy
Microsoft

* Provide cryptographic guidance and review to Windows 8 feature teams
* Provide guidance concerning ACL’s and permissions for Windows 8 feature teams
* Conduct security reviews and threat model analysis to reveal vulnerabilities and then provide guidance concerning fixes and mitigations.
* Driving planning and specifications for telemetry enhancements for Windows 8.
* Driving planning and specifications for self-host reporting for Windows 8.
* Driving planning and specifications for ecosystem security reporting and analysis for Windows 8.

[Name Redacted by Request]

Worked on test tools/automation development for various core storage features of Windows 7 and Windows 8, including MPIO and storage CDB fuzzer.

Contributed to the beta, RC and RTM releases of Windows 7. Contributed to M1/M2 of Windows 8. Influenced all Windows 7/Windows 8 Server SKU products.

[Name Redacted by Request]

Developed the functional specifications for the FQTSV3 version of the tool suite using customer requirements and feedback that will be available as part of the Windows 8 OPK/WAIK kits.

[Name Redacted by Request]

Lead cross-product design efforts for Microsoft’s “cloud” services on Windows Live. Drive key design conversation on all “major bet” features for the World’s largest online mail service/cloud computing platform. Collaborate closely with Principal/partner level program management to elucidate a long term product vision for Hotmail and associate services as well as the relationship between cloud services and Windows 7/Windows 8 devices.

[Name Redacted by Request]

Created prototype around role extensibility which is used as a proof of concept for the Win8 version of Server Manager.

Xi Chen

PM owner of differentiator features for Win8 CHS IME.

David Burg

I currently work as an individual contributor to the user interface team for Windows “.next” [and] I lead a team of software engineers part of the Windows “.next” user interface team for file management.

Wes To

Windows 7 sustained engineering team. I test hardware compatibility on Windows 7 and Windows 8 builds.

Fabien Royer

Xbox LIVE File System for Xbox Kinect: designed and shipped a distributed storage system built on Windows Azure for customer data collection world-wide, resulting in improved acoustic models and skeletal tracking algorithms for Kinect and Windows 8 speech recognition.

Quyen Ho

•Work with printing Imaging team on Windows SE and Windows 8
•Test varieties of printers and scanners on Windows 7 and Windows 8

John Dix

Software Development Engineer on contract to Microsoft. Working on Windows 8 Terminal Services.

Ikrima Elhassan

Currently working on Windows 8 components using WPF & Silverlight

Christine Fiore

Assessed, identified and documented a Sensors platform implementation plan for Windows 8 performance with prototype performance markers in Windows kernel code (C++).

Katie Corner

LOCATION: Redmond, WA

TEAM: Windows 8 Experience (WEX) – Accessibility, Automation, & Application (AAA)

PATENT FILED: Automated UI High-Contrast Text Verification

[Name Redacted by Request]

Since shipping Multitouch for Windows 7 I have moved on to other modes of input, landing on the “Advanced Input” team for Windows 8.

I’m greatly looking forward to releasing what I truly believe will be the most important Windows ever shipped, and I’m anxious to see the reaction people will have to the ideas we’ve decided to pursue.

Did you catch that last sentence? Pretty big statement! And because this comes from someone’s personal LinkedIn profile instead of from a pro-Microsoft blog or something of that nature, it makes it a much more genuine sentiment. I love seeing things like this. :) Now, head on over to page 2 and let the good times continue rolling!

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Ron Burgundy 24th Feb 2011
Code name Vista 2
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy So, what was your code name for Windows 7, then? Are you actually slipping up and saying Windows 7 is a decent product? *gasp* Nah, you'll probably say something like "Vista 1.5." wink

-Stephen
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Ron Burgundy 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman I never said 7 was bad.
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RE: Windows 8, Windows Server 8, and Office 15: Tons of new information straight from Microsoft and its employees!
StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy

True. Perhaps I put the cart in front of the horse just a bit. =) All the hype around Windows 8 thus far is a bit reminiscent of Longhorn. Since Sinofsky is still at the helm, though, I think Windows 8 will be at least equally as solid as Windows 7.

-Stephen
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ItsTheBottomLine 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman OUCH!
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Ron Burgundy 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman No worries, I used Windows 7 from when it was a free beta and have continued using it on all of my home machines. While I miss XP greatly it is a suitable replacement on the desktop and serves me well from both a business and home user perspective.
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Windows 8 is really Vista Part Deux...
cosuna Updated - 25th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman : actually Stephen, Windows 8 is a far greater gamble than Windows Vista.

For the record, Windows 7 was fine 'cause it put nothing new on the table. Most of the speed bump was created by actually backporting C# managed stuff to C++.

This has created a halo effect.

While at the same time being an excellent product saleswise and marketingwise, technically it pushed back the actual Windows 8 development which depends on managed code (for multi-architecture support).

So instead of slowly-but-surely arriving in a legacy unencumbered CLR dominated Windows 8 code base, Microsoft has the double task of re-porting stuff that was already CIL code (but reverted to native stuff due to memory and performance issue) and pushing forward new stuff.

So Ron, in essence is right. Windows 8 is really Vista Part Deux.
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WilErz 25th Feb 2011
@cosuna

"Most of the speed bump was created by actually backporting C# managed stuff to C++."

Would you care to give some examples?
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bitcrazed 25th Feb 2011
@cosnua - for the record, Microsoft didn't "backport" any "C# pieces to C++".

What Microsoft DID do was:
1) measure the performance of every component in the entire OS and worked to optimize performance wherever possible.
2) improve reliability and security of core OS features
3) work with OEM's and ISV's to ensure that their apps were thoroughly tested on Win7 to reduce the chances of apps breaking as often as they did for Vista (due largely to Vista's *much* greater security).

Regarding your comments about C# - in fact, more OS feature code is now being written in C#. In Visual Studio, around 90% of all new code is managed. Office, SQL, and many other products around the company are also now targetting managed code more and more.
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Within Rafael 25th Feb 2011
If you're looking for someone out of touch with reality that can play a technical person on The Big Bang Theory, @cosuna fits the bill.

Windows won't be going "managed" any time soon (if at all) nor did it/does it have plans to. (To suggest Microsoft had plans to do this with Windows 7 is hilariously ridiculous.) I'll chalk that up not to being bag-o-hammers dumb, but rather confusion surrounding Microsoft's work on the -- separate -- Singularity OS project (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/).

When evaluating rumors like these, simply ask yourself: How would Microsoft's partners react? Microsoft is hugely focused on partners; more so than consumers, sadly. (Look at Windows Phone.) Going all managed would eviscerate partners and their investments in the ecosystem; the backlash would dig the OS (and the company) an early grave.

Won't happen. Maybe Windows 10.

Disclaimer: I've seen and touched Windows 8.
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apetti 24th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy WOW! You are pretty out of touch!!!
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Cylon Centurion 24th Feb 2011
Why do you guys continually feed the "Ron" trolls (However many of them there are)?
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@Cylon Centurion 0005

You think they're the only ones who can get amusement out of their trolling? No, no, no! Refuse to feed the trolls if you must, but give them *too* much to eat and they may not want to come back for more. That's my working philosophy with approaching some of the trolls -- not all of them.

In the case of Ron, here, his comment really wasn't all that bad so much as it was humorous. happy

-Stephen
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Cylon Centurion 25th Feb 2011
@Cylon Centurion 0005

Hmm. Interesting philosophy.
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Code Name Leopard
Will Farrell 24th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy
was used for another failed OS.
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Hasam1991 24th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy
I agree I bet they wished they worked for Apple... oh remember the iPhone funeral LOL... MS is just sad
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rengek 24th Feb 2011
@Hasam1991
Last I checked there are tons of jobs for those with windows skills....not so much for those with apple skills. You may have a pretty case with your computer but you're going to be using it in your trailer.
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wackoae Updated - 24th Feb 2011
@rengek Apple skills are just Unix experience.

Guess you have no clue of what a computer really is. Bet you only know how to click an icon.
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windozefreak 24th Feb 2011
@Ron Burgundy
I won a massive bet this afternoon. I made a bet that the first commenter would be the Burgander and that his comments would be most negative. Keep it up my friend Burger and I will be a rich man! Thanks!
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My ADD...
General C# 24th Feb 2011
...prevented me from reading all of this.
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Loverock Davidson 24th Feb 2011
With all this active development on the latest version of Microsoft Windows it looks like its going to be around for a long long time despite some people claiming its dead. I like what I'm reading about Microsoft Windows 8 and hope for the beta builds to come soon. If I were using other OS's I'd be fearing this competition.
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Nothing but Talk, Talk, Talk...
james347 24th Feb 2011
...that's all they ever do. 80% of anything 'advertised' will be stripped out anyway and what is left will be a crap Service Pack to Windows Vista (Not Windows 7, because 7 is just Vista re-marketed all over again).
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@james347 Spoken like a true non-Windows user! As a Windows user having adopted both Vista and Windows 7, the marked improvement of Windows 7 over Vista is made readily apparent to anyone who has experience with both operating systems.

To say that Windows 7 is Vista re-marketed all over again is to repeat the same misinformation spewed by every single anti-MS person/site out there. The only thing they all have in common -- other than spewing the same misinformation -- is that they are obviously NOT Windows users. Comparing Windows Vista to Windows 7 is like comparing OSX to Ubuntu: They're not even in the same ballpark sans what they were respectively birthed from.

Please learn to formulate your own facts instead of repeating other people's falsities.

-Stephen
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Actually, spoken like a true troll.
Will Farrell 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman, hang out long enough, and you'll see who people like james347 really are.

Apple probally sends them here.
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Chipesh 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman

Strong words Stephen.
In saying that 7 improved on Vista are you saying that it delivered some of the promises made for Vista ?
Where is the new file system promised for Vista ?
Have we got native USB3 support in 7 yet ?

Saying that MS doesn't promise much and deliver little is like saying they don't lie or operate anti-competitive practices.

I've used XP, Vista & 7 and agree with james347.

Microsoft thrives on selling systems that don't do much more than the previous one to customers who don't know any better, supported by journalists who should.
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@Chipesh

No, I'm saying that Windows 7 was a marked improvement over Vista. The new file system promised for Vista didn't happen, so, "where is it for Windows 7," you ask? Well, it's nowhere -- considering they didn't promise it for Windows 7, now, did they? Here we have just one of many moot points I often see recurring in anti-Windows arguments.

Have we native USB3 support in Windows 7 yet? No. Have I said Microsoft is infallible? No. Am I *personally* affected by this lack of native support? No. Should they get on the ball with it for people who would like it? Sure. Should the industry as a WHOLE pick up with USB 3? Yes. Microsoft aren't the only ones seemingly dragging their feet with this. I'm not saying that to cut them slack, but rather to put them in the company of everyone else in the tech industry who needs to get on the ball with USB 3.

Operate anti-competitive practices? What is this, circa 1995? I'm aware of what they've done in the past, but the game has certainly changed for them these days what with the microscope they're held under and the level playing field created by the Internet these days. You're a FOSS-er, aren't you?

Can you honestly sit there and tell me that Windows 7 is barely different from Windows XP? I mean, you did say Microsoft thrives on selling systems that don't do much more than the previous, right? From that, one can deduce that you're saying Windows 7 is not all that far from XP. That's a joke.

The comments I make here are my opinions; not journalistic efforts. I'm a Windows user who has been happy with Windows for years. I don't believe in brand loyalty, because that sells people short on potentially wonderful technology. I adopt Apple products, use Linux at work happily, etc. As a personal user, Windows works for me and I have very little issues with it. To say customers don't know better is to make an unfair generalization. To say customers don't know better *after* saying what you said is downright crass, if not ignorant.

-Stephen
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andrewjg 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman

I liked Vista. I prefer 7, but Vista especially after the initial updates e.g. file copy was actually pretty good. Certainly I would choose it a 1000 times over XP.
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andrewjg 24th Feb 2011
@Chipesh

Are you saying Vista did not do much more XP?

There were so many from a security, architecture and user experience point of view its hard to know where to begin.

- Address space randomisation (Apple does not even have a comparable implementation yet)
- Resolution independence (What have Apple got again)
- Many drivers pushed into user space e.g. video, audio
- GPU accelerated interface
- Application level audio mixer
- DirectX 10
- Bitlocker
- Context sensitive search everywhere.
- Threaded network stack
- UAC (A very good thing)

That is off the top of my head and I am no expert.

Vista laid the groundwork for 7. 7 Polished things up and made incremental improvements. But I think Vista accomplished a lot.
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audidiablo 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman

I agree but also disagree. I am a Windows user as well a Ubuntu user. Windows Vista post SP1 was a decent OS but I whole heartedly believe the main reason Vista had issues was due to the fact they decided to remove WinFS and put NTFS back in its place sort of like a heart transplant between two different species. Windows Vista is based of new code opposed to XP which is just patching of old OS's using same code. One thing Apple is known for is pretty much they are all the same throughout the series just making some fine tuning and additions but all to the same code.

I will admit though Windows 7 is really Windows Vista R2 or SE but with all the Crapple from Apple with their false commercials didn't help the name so it needed to go. The irony behind it is that Leopard was known as Leoptard because it was even buggier than Vista upon launch but Microsoft doesn't need to stoop to Apple's level of bashing since Microsoft is a reputable company.
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floopydoodle 24th Feb 2011
@audidiablo

You're wrong, WinFS was never a filesystem and was never supposed to replace NTFS. It stands for Windows Future Storage, and was only meant as a storage subsystem to lie ontop of NTFS. NTFS doesn't need to be replaced, it's probably the best file system in the industry.

While alot of Vista was new code (Drivers, network, UI etc). Windows has always built on previous versions. The only true "rewrite" is NT 3.1 which was the first version (They moved from an MS-DOS kernel to the newly developed NT kernel).

Also, as much as people like to say Windows7 is just a "Vista Service Pack". There were actually some big changes to the kernel. Mostly related to multi-threading and efficiency.
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Cylon Centurion 24th Feb 2011
For anyone to sit there and say Windows Vista/7 has no discernible changes from XP is sorely mistaken.

I know FOSS-ers have this weird attraction to it (You know, if it's not broke..., which XP most certainly is), but XP is old 9x code, while Vista is newer Server code. Like the poster above said, Vista brought about some much needed changes to the ecosystem, that despite the hiccup it caused, has made the platform better off in the long run.

To sit there and say Windows 7 offers nothing new over XP is similar in saying Office 2010 offers nothing new over Office XP. These past few years, the Windows ecosystem has seen a rejuvenation of sorts, with consumers becoming accepting of the changes since the XP days. More and more programmers have hopped onto the Ribbon bandwagon, and have begun optimizing aging apps for use in this new ecosystem. Gone are the archaic UIs that plagued the desktops of Windows past. Gone are the poorly coded apps that XP ran without quarrel. Gone is the need to run multiple anti-malware junkware, that bogged down so many systems. Gone is the instability that haunted Windows before. Gone is Windows rot. Need I keep going?

I think you're just jealous that the Vista-debacle wasn't even enough of a mess up to put Linux up front and center, leaving Linux again in the dust, and all but killing the dream of "Linux on The Desktop". Even Office 2010 has left OOo/LBO in the dust. I can see you sitting there saying that Windows 7 offers nothing new out of pure spite, because if you actually take a look and understand what has gone into making Windows 7 what it is today, you wouldn't be saying that.
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Rick_K 25th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman
Not to make you look silly or anything, But Windows 7 (NT 6.1)is actually a Service Pack for Windows Vista (NT 6.0). From what I have seen of the screen shots, Windows 8 (NT 6.2) will be a similar deal, just another paid for service pack for Vista. According to the Windows Zealots on this site, each version of Mac OS X (or as they type it MAC osx) is nothing more than a service pack. This is because they (Apple) don?t change the name of the OS.
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Cylon Centurion 25th Feb 2011
@Rick_K You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Come back when you do. You didn't make anyone but yourself look "silly".
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Not to make me look silly? Trust me, you didn't. lol.
StephenChapman 25th Feb 2011
@Rick_K Here again, calling Windows 7 a "service pack" is ridiculous. I'm assuming you've noted the kernel versions as if the .n change reflects a service pack somehow. Wrong. They change the number on the right of the period such that applications that perform OS version checks will still see version 6 (and below, if the applications account for it). The move from XP to Vista initially screwed many applications due to applications not recognizing a version 6.x OS -- they were looking for 5.x.

I know you're going to be too disinterested to do this (I can't be arsed at the moment since I'm typing this while making breakfast), but there are plenty of unbiased Web sites that will clearly show you the vast programming differences between Windows Vista and Windows 7. Go compare those differences to what is typically seen in a Windows service pack and tell me what you find.

If anyone's making someone look silly right now, it's you making yourself look silly. I'm not in the anti-Apple camp or anti-Linux camp or whatever. Those people can say what they want to say and look equally as ignorant saying it.

As for Windows 8 screen shots right now, the conclusion you're jumping to is absolutely hilarious. You've obviously not kept up with Windows 8 AT ALL. Windows 8 on ARM? Interaction with Kinect? Major UI overhaul (which, of COURSE you're not seeing yet -- do you remember how long Sinofsky kept us from seeing Windows 7's new UI? Probably not)? Etc, etc, etc. Anyway, I know saying all of this to you is like talking to a rock, so I'll go ahead and spare myself the time wasted continuing to try to talk sense into yet another person who mindlessly drones on about Windows 7 being a service pack for Windows Vista. >

-Stephen
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Cylon Centurion 25th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman

+1
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WilErz 25th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman

It's especially funny when they get excited about features that Apple add to OS X, which were actually copied from Windows. Then again, Apple are much better at marketing new features, both to users and to developers. Microsoft could learn a lot by studying Apple's marketing methods.
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ItsTheBottomLine 24th Feb 2011
@james347 Ahh another closet nut case.
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pepe-el-Toro 24th Feb 2011
@james347 I have tryend Vista and then WIN7, trust me, is not the same OS, I didnt want to switch from XP to Vista cuz it sucked, but guess what, now I use Win7 at home and at Work, never had software issues.

Ohh wait, yes, I have one issue: cant connect my old (realy old) Epson scanner to my Win7 64 bits fault of drivers.
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Ammalgam 24th Feb 2011
Very impressive.

I am stunned by how thorough this is.

Thanks Stephen, great job...

http://www.windows8update.com/2011/02/24/steven-chapman-just-blew-my-mind-with-windows-8-data/
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@Ammalgam Hey, thanks! I appreciate that! happy

-Stephen
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Ammalgam 24th Feb 2011
@StephenChapman

Not sure if you caught this in all the details that you threw out. genuinely funny..

http://www.windows8update.com/2011/02/24/tooo-funny-hacking-doing-security-testing/
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@Ammalgam haha. I actually did make that connection back when I initially found that guy's profile. Thanks for pointing it out for others. =)

-Stephen
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re-occurring context looks familiiar
jlt0x 24th Feb 2011
most of the information looks like these guys' resume bulletpoints. they may have posted their resume or list of current or past duties on some jobs site which became searchable content.
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@jlt0x Above each blockquote is a name/title. Click that to be taken to where I found everything. Indeed, some of these are people's resumes -- most of which I found on LinkedIn, which -- if you've never seen it before -- is a popular professional social site of sorts that people keep updated like a resume.

-Stephen
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looks like wikileaks to me
deep@... 24th Feb 2011
be careful steven...
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@deep@... hahaha. Duly noted. wink
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Mythos7 24th Feb 2011
Wow, you are quite the sleuth Stephen. I would imagine everyone at Microsoft will read this including Ballmer.

Of course security and authentication will be evolving further--maybe no more typing passwords for one. I wonder what else they have cooking in that department.
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StephenChapman 24th Feb 2011
@Mythos7 Thanks! Yes, I hope the big dogs at Microsoft have a look at this. To be honest, the fruits of my labor here aren't new insofar as how I obtained them. As such, I've heard that Microsoft has internally addressed -- via email -- employees needing to be cautious with what they say. That's been quite a while back, so I'm assuming much of these are newer employees who didn't receive that memo. wink

Naturally, that's assuming the source I heard that from wasn't just blowing smoke up my butt, though. haha.

-Stephen
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RE: Windows 8, Windows Server 8, and Office 15: Tons of new information straight from Microsoft and its employees!
jaykayess 25th Feb 2011
@Mythos7
If Ballmer was Jobs, Microsoft would block employee access to LinkedIn!
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WIN8? Adoption will take a long time ...
FlaCracker66 24th Feb 2011
My team has rolled a huge number of desktops from XP and Vista to WIN7 ... the market has to catch up with WIN7 before considering WIN8.

WIN7, in my opinion, is the best product to hit the market (from MS) since 3.11SP2. The users are raving about WIN7 .. from your average home users to the business class LAN/WAN.

The question is .. can MS follow up 7 with a winner in 8?
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