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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: John Papa - Mix11 3D HouseBuilder Silverlight application is now available Kirill Osenkov - Link Removed now available for WP7 Jef Claes - Link Removed WebMatrix site Somasegar - Link Removed IE Team blog -...

Microsoft released the first preview of Internet Explorer 10 this week, but immediately drew some criticism that it won't be backwards compatible with Windows Vista. Link Removed

The Saudi royal family has unveiled plans to build the world's tallest building, which will be exactly a mile high. Construction of the Kingdom Tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah is expected to cost £12billion and will comprise 275 floors, making it twice as high as the current...

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) – Waves of criticism have followed the removal of a mural depicting workers' history in Maine, including the iconic "Rosie the Riveter," from government offices in the state capital Augusta. Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, has said through spokesmen that he received...

MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Wednesday criticized a group of customs officers for a YouTube video celebrating the lavish lifestyle they say comes with their government jobs. The mock rap video made in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok shows customs officials in...

A high school English teacher who was suspended from her job after she blogged that her students were "rude, disengaged, lazy whiners," said on Wednesday that she did nothing wrong. "Some of the students, parents and administrators don't want to hear the truth," said Natalie Munroe, 30, a...

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A controversial iPod and iPad application that makes a game of the perils of sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border has sparked controversy among activists for immigrant rights. In the game "Smuggle Truck," which is due for release next month, a truck bounces along...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Cold war buffs will soon be able to roll through Berlin in a mini tank built from East Germany's best known car -- the Trabant. Painted camouflage green and decked out with a fake cannon on the roof, the Trabant tank is the latest attraction tapping into the...

If Microsoft intends to put some version of Windows 7 on a tablet, they just don’t get it. Link Removed - Invalid URL

If Microsoft intends to put some version of Windows 7 on a tablet, they just don’t get it. More...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Friday, November 19, 2010 Italy's culture ministry on Friday defended Premier Silvio Berlusconi for giving ancient marble statues in his office replacement body parts, to the horror of art restorers. The ministry, which is led by a close ally of the...

I’m extremely critical when it comes to television. It takes a whole lot to keep me watching a show. Actually sometimes it takes very little but that’s in cases like Link Removed where it’s so bad that it’s great. But for a show that is scripted and intended to impress us with characters and...

Remember how Microsoft vigorously defended Windows Vista as a good product despite strong criticism and slow adoption by IT departments? Looks like even Microsoft didn't believe its words, either. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Between antenna problems and app store hacks, ZDNet's Sam Diaz thinks the iPhone 4 is starting to feel like an outcast in the iPhone portfolio - kind of like Windows Vista was for Microsoft. More...

Link Removed - Invalid URL What Not to Say About Someone's Appearance Don’t say: “You look tired.” Why: It implies she doesn’t look good. Instead say: “Is everything OK?” We often blurt the “tired” comment when we get the sense that the other person feels out...

From Link Removed - Invalid URL One of the few pieces of criticism that Microsoft got for Windows 7 was related to the apparently modest plans it had for the operating system, with some calling the new OS just a minor upgrade from its precursor. Under the leadership of Steven Sinofsky...

That's it! I'm going back to Vista-(not!) Why can I not at least have the option for local email? Windows mail was fine in Vista. Windows live is a total turn-off EDIT- I think this is resolved for me- Would have been easier if Microsoft had included a replacement for windows mail WITH...

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Sometimes buzz is the last thing a company should want. Microsoft's lame Windows House Party prep video is the rage of the Web right now -- and that's not good. I refrained from blogging yesterday but have been called to action. This morning, Interpret's Link Removed...

this just popped in my email box: "The controversial landline tax, designed to fund next generation broadband services, is to be made law before the general election. The 50p a month landline tax is to be included in this year's finance bill with the aim to raise up to £175million a year...

I must say, I'm easy when it comes to operating systems. I was lucky enough to get into the Windows Vista, and subsequently, Windows 7, Beta testing. I therefore had the advantage of not having to dig to deep into my pocket to examine the OS’s. Although my preference is Windows in all...