Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Kim Kardashian Reveals Mystery Plastic Surgery


Kim Kardashian thinks a spruced-up Bruce Jenner is better than ever.
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"Bruce has gotten a lot of media criticism in the past for getting an ill-advised partial facelift and a nose job," Kardashian tells PEOPLE exclusively as her step-father's latest plastic surgery is documented and revealed on the family's reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
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"He has never ever spoken about this until now," she says of the incident 25 years ago. "It's very heartfelt and I think people will see how sweet and simply human Bruce is."
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Regarding Jenner's look on her blog Monday morning, Kardashian writes, "Unfortunately, the result wasn't what Bruce had hoped for and for years since then he has been the victim of cruel taunts from the media. Since he's turning 60 in October, Bruce felt it was time to correct the mistakes made by the previous doctor so he went to a new doctor for a second facelift. The results are amazing! Bruce looks better than ever and he is extremely happy with the result."
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This time around the Olympian "just wanted to be more natural and refreshed," adds a source.
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Jenner's new look will be revealed next Sunday on the show.

Microsoft confirms Windows 7 coming this year

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Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it is planning to release Windows 7 this year, in time for the holiday shopping season.

"We are tracking well to a Windows 7 holiday," Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said in an interview.

Veghte made a similar statement in a speech Monday at Microsoft's TechEd event in Los Angeles, California. As recently as January, Veghte was saying publicly that such a release was not a sure thing.

At the event, Microsoft also announced it plans to wrap up work on an update to its server operating system -- Windows Server 2008 R2 -- at the same time it finishes Windows 7 on the desktop side.

Microsoft issued a release candidate for the server operating system last month, alongside the near-final version of Windows 7.

For months now, Microsoft's official position has been that Windows 7 would ship by January 2010 -- the three-year anniversary of Windows Vista's mainstream launch. However the software maker has been aiming and planning for a 2009 release all along, as we noted last fall.

Computer makers have been indicating privately -- and in a few cases publicly -- that things have remained on track. But, with memories of Vista's delays fresh in its mind, Microsoft continued to hedge its bets.

At TechEd, Veghte also plans to show a demo of how Office 2010 will take advantage of some of Windows 7's features. For example, Office will make use of a feature called "Jump Lists," which allow users to quickly take action directly from the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. From Outlook's Jump List, for example, users will be able to start a new message, create a contact, or schedule a meeting with two clicks.

Those that have both products will also be able to drag an Office file from a Jump List directly into an e-mail, a big time-saver.

A technical preview of Office 2010 will kick off in July, with those at TechEd among the first to get to try out the software.