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		<title>Updated Xbox 360 Controller (D-Pad) Coming Nov 9 &#8211; $65</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/updated-xbox-360-controller-d-pad-coming-nov-9-65/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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It is getting expensive to be an Xbox 360 user. Days after Microsoft announced increased pricing for Xbox Live memberships, they announce a new Xbox 360 controller with a new and improved D-Pad (pictured above). Big ups to Chris Hunkele for the news on this one.
Some of the changes you&#8217;ll notice:

Colored buttons are replaced by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halo Reach Leaked Online &#8211; Live Stream Available</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/halo-reach-leaked-online-live-stream-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/halo-reach-leaked-online-live-stream-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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CVG is reporting that as of this evening Halo Reach, the entire game, has been leaked online about 3 weeks before the official release date; September 14th.
Apparently NeoGAF&#8217;ers were some of the first to notice the leak when hackers (modders from the GameTuts community) circumvented the press access-wall that Microsoft had setup on Xbox.com for them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Window Size/Position Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-window-sizeposition-keyboard-shortcuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-window-sizeposition-keyboard-shortcuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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I ran across this feature in Windows 7 totally by chance this morning even though we wrote about it a year ago (doh!) and wanted to share.
In Windows 7 you can position and resize windows on your desktop in a few very slick ways. The most well-known ones are clicking on the title-bar and dragging the window [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walmart Taking $199 Preorders for Xbox 360 Kinect</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/walmart-taking-199-preorders-for-xbox-360-kinect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/walmart-taking-199-preorders-for-xbox-360-kinect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since E3 everyone has been speculating what the Microsoft Kinect (originally called Natal&#8230; the video-motion-control stuff) with most pundits agreeing that anything over $99 was going to back Microsoft into a nasty corner of &#8220;new tech that no one wants&#8221;.
Well Gamasutra is reporting that Walmart has started accepting preorders for the Kinect at $199:

Is this insanity or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E3 Xbox Kinect VS Playstation Move: My Impressions</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/e3-kinect-vs-move-my-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/e3-kinect-vs-move-my-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J Patrick Ohlde</dc:creator>
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Going in to E3 2010 motion control was a big question mark. After three years of Waggleware from Nintendo’s Wii both Microsoft and Sony promised something better as they each jumped into the fray with their new tech. Both Microsoft’s controller free Kinect and Sony’s wand and navigation noreallythiswasn’tatallbasedonthewiiremoteandnunchuckatalldon’tyourememberwemade-funofthatgoofyshitwhenthePS3cameout based Move were covered in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E3 Day 2 Twitter Highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/e3-day-2-twitter-highlights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/e3-day-2-twitter-highlights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;ve been following Patrick at E3 you already know what is going on, even what he ate for lunch. But if you haven&#8217;t, here are the highlights from the last few hours (the dude is a machine):

Dead Rising 2 is just like the first one only prettier.
3D on PS3? not impressed.
Watching people play the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Motorola Droid on Verizon via Bing Cash-Back (2-year Contract Required)</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/free-motorola-droid-on-verizon-via-bing-cash-back-2-year-contract-required/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/free-motorola-droid-on-verizon-via-bing-cash-back-2-year-contract-required/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
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Whenever we see deals online that make our ears perk up, we repost them here because we can&#8217;t be the only ones that think these are saucy.
From Dealsea

Click here to go to Microsoft Bing.
Click on the Wirefly Bing Cashback link on the top. Your Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless is $49.99 &#8211; $50 Bing cashback. 2-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>85% of Windows 7 Machines Regularly Consume 90% of System Ram</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/85-of-windows-7-machines-regularly-consume-90-of-system-ram/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/85-of-windows-7-machines-regularly-consume-90-of-system-ram/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thrashing]]></category>
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Update #1: Big thanks to Chris Hunkele for pointing out this story was complete BS written by an author over at Computer World that got canned afterward. WOOPS!
ComputerWorld is running a story about data collected from 22k Windows 7 machines via the exo.performance.net community that shows 85% of machines that are now running Windows 7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disable &#039;Indexing&#039; in Windows 7 to Speed Up Deletion of Many Files</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/disable-indexing-in-windows-7-to-speed-up-deletion-of-many-files/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/disable-indexing-in-windows-7-to-speed-up-deletion-of-many-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/?p=6937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on Windows 7 since the RC was released &#8212; that coupled with the fact that I&#8217;m a blogger makes me an expert, you should trust me and take my word on everything unconditionally &#8212; and while I&#8217;ve been overall pretty happy (20 tips and tricks, 8GB performance) there have been a few niggles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video and Pictures from Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/video-and-pictures-from-microsoft-store-grand-opening-in-scottsdale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/video-and-pictures-from-microsoft-store-grand-opening-in-scottsdale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[announcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Hunkele]]></category>
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Many thanks to Chris Hunkele for the pics and video&#8217;s from the grand opening!
If you live in Phoenix or Scottsdale you like saw the news that Microsoft has opened it&#8217;s first (new) Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall and from the looks of things, it was a huge hit. With a few hundred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PS3 May Win&#8230; Years From Now with 3D and Motion Control</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/ps3-may-win-years-from-now-with-3d-and-motion-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/ps3-may-win-years-from-now-with-3d-and-motion-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were first announced, we aren&#8217;t ashamed to say that we were avid fans of the PS3 platform&#8230; much more so than the self-aborting Xbox 360. It was a much higher build quality, the technical achievement of the Cell Processor was ridiculously complex and therefore impressive, it played Blu-ray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xbox 360 Broken, but Original Nintendo Still Working</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/xbox-360-broken-but-original-nintendo-still-working/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/xbox-360-broken-but-original-nintendo-still-working/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[buggy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/?p=6381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Marc Chung just sent this one in, got a kick out of it:

Related Posts:GameFly&#039;s Top Rented Games of 2008Support for Origional Xbox Ends March 2Official October 2008 NPD ResultsUpdated Xbox 360 Controller (D-Pad) Coming Nov 9 &#8211; $65Nintendo Making a Profit on Wii HardwareXbox 360 DRM Can&#039;t Handle RRoD]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#8211; It Just Works&#8230; As Long as You Don&#039;t Use It</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-it-just-works-as-long-as-you-dont-use-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-it-just-works-as-long-as-you-dont-use-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/?p=6337</guid>
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I&#8217;ve been using Windows 7 since the RC was announced a few months ago and we&#8217;ve had quite a bit to say about it &#8212; mostly all good.
Over the last month I&#8217;ve noticed a trend in my Windows 7 install (that I use as my primary desktop and work machine) that was feeling all too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Games the Bing Search Results</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/microsoft-still-incapable-of-competing-with-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/microsoft-still-incapable-of-competing-with-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/?p=6249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw this on Digg, they are search result comparisons between Google and Microsoft&#8217;s new &#8220;Bing&#8221; search engine with an $80 million ad campaign behind it:

Given those results, I have to imagine Microsoft is going to allow advertisers to pay for higher search result placement &#8212; which, like this, will give us more helpful and completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Feature: Tells You Which Program Has Locked Your Files</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-feature-tells-you-which-program-has-locked-your-files/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-feature-tells-you-which-program-has-locked-your-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 02:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/?p=6226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My god it&#8217;s the little things with software&#8230; it&#8217;s always the little things that endear you to software for the long haul or turn you off of it forever.
As mentioned a few times, I&#8217;ve been on the Windows 7 RC for a bit over a week now and been pretty much thinking it&#8217;s great.
It seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#8211; 4GB vs 8GB Performance</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-4gb-vs-8gb-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-4gb-vs-8gb-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 16:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I originally installed Windows 7 64-bit, I had 4GB in my machine. While the performance improvements I saw were noticable and appreciated, it was clear that Windows 7 was more than happy to consume all the RAM I could possibly throw at it:

At the urging of Grant Gochanuer (happy owner of 12GB of RAM), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks You Will Love</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/19-windows-7-tips-and-tricks-you-will-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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TIP: You can download Windows 7 RC for free.
Ok, you&#8217;ve been hearing the buzz about Windows 7, maybe you read our take on it (or saw the screenshot tour), and you want to give it a try. Let&#8217;s say you downloaded it, installed it and are now sitting there wondering &#8220;Wait, so what&#8217;s so cool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/thoughts-on-windows-7-after-3-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/thoughts-on-windows-7-after-3-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 13:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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Introduction
It is no mystery that I&#8217;ve been part of the parade yelling &#8220;Vista Sucks!&#8221; since it&#8217;s inception &#8211; I&#8217;ve even taken the time to review Vista&#8217;s shortcomings for everyone willing to read it by only taking a look at changes in one program as an example of the half-assed decisions made throughout the entire OS.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/global-mac-like-menubar-on-gnome-with-gnome2-globalmenu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/global-mac-like-menubar-on-gnome-with-gnome2-globalmenu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News &#8212; apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don&#8217;t know, there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Hosting a Huge Gears of War 2 Sweepstakes</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/microsoft-hosting-a-huge-gears-of-war-2-sweepstakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/microsoft-hosting-a-huge-gears-of-war-2-sweepstakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigsaw hc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>
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Starting next week Microsoft is running a 13 day long Gear of War 2 Play and Win contest.  February 1st through 13th each day you play will get you an entry to win a 40 inch 1080p LCD TV plus a lot of other Gears of War 2 themed prizes. Despite not knowing a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games Show First Signs of Dominating Entertainment Market</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/video-games-show-first-signs-of-dominating-entertainment-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/video-games-show-first-signs-of-dominating-entertainment-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life & World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From cdfreaks.com:
At least in terms of consumer spending, retail video games were more popular than DVD and Blu-ray discs in 2008, according to an international research group.
Games accounted for 53 percent of entertainment software spending worldwide, Media Control GfK International said. These figures do not include movie or game rentals.
The momentum is clearly in video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Xbox Not Coming Soon</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/next-xbox-not-coming-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/next-xbox-not-coming-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigsaw hc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>
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When Playstation 3 released Sony clearly stated that they plan for it to be their system for 10 years. Microsoft has not made any announcements about their next Xbox iteration but industry analysts were speculating it may released in time for. the 2010 Holiday season.   However, Microsoft this week eluded to the Xbox 360 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/screenshot-tour-of-windows-7-libraries-taskbar-ie8-and-the-new-paint-application/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/screenshot-tour-of-windows-7-libraries-taskbar-ie8-and-the-new-paint-application/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category>
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Introduction
When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit).
After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things:

Windows 7 is a &#8220;finished&#8221; Vista. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Beta Released</title>
		<link>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-beta-released/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/windows-7-beta-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigsaw hc</dc:creator>
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Microsoft Windows 7&#8217;s Beta Customer Preview launched today.  Based on the below message posted on the download page it looks like it is pretty popular.
&#8220;Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal &#8212; we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the [...]]]></description>
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