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I don’t know about you, but I’m getting confused with all the Windows blogs coming out of Microsoft – last week I wrote about two new Windows 7 blogs<\/a> (one for developers and another for IT pros) and those who are watching the Windows Vista Team blog may have noticed that it moved to a new site today.<\/p>\n

The Windows Blog<\/a> is a new site, hosted outside the normal TechNet\/MSDN domain names and it features a combined feed from several Windows blogs<\/a>, including the Windows Vista team blog<\/a>, the Windows Experience blog<\/a> and the new Windows 7 team blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once the dust has settled (and after tomorrow’s PDC keynote), I expect to see lots of new content appearing on the new site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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