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I just wanted to take a moment to remember an awesome music player for it's time. The Zune. When smartphones came along and new Ipod it just couldn't compete. But I really enjoyed the player. Anyone else remember them?

Bye Bye IE, it has never been fun. (Netscape Navigator for life!). But it looks like they are going with a Chrome based version. Source

I know about Office 365 and it's monthly or yearly payments and such. Does anyone use Outlook with this Hotmail account? I'm pretty sure it uses both POP and IMAP. I use Outlook at work and enjoy it and was thinking about using it at home as well. Any experience with it? @ndboarder ?

Wow, 7.5 Billion Dollar acquisition Source

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I see Microsoft is experimenting with ocean cooling their computer stuff as well. If you don't remember years ago Google built a  boat that did the same. I myself think it is the future. I can see man-made platforms in the ocean that recycle seawater for cooling. It has to happen sooner or...

Can a guy run MS SQL 2014 Standard in a global compatibility mode for 2012 R2 for a product that wants to create it's own database's and doesn't understand some of the newer query language?

Surface Book 13.5" Display (6 million pixels / 267 ppi) Intel Skylake Processor (upto i7) Nvidia Geforce GPU (upto) 16GB RAM (upto) 1TB SSD 1.6 pounds 7.4mm thick Detachable "fulcrum" keyboard 12 hour battery life Starts at $1499 Pre-order starts today, ships on Oct 26th

So who here is excited?