But strangely, when they started in on their presentation, zipping in and out of the various gestures that are really required to operate Surface and Windows 8, I found myself more than a bit bewildered at how much had changed and how much users were being asked to learn.
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But when they started doing certain new operations on babies they were less successful.
But then on the second day they started to get specific and try to pin down his definition of torture.
"I've kind of started to move on, but they haven't, " he said from his car, on his way to the picket line.
But it was on the sand in Athens where they started their golden run -- and their shutout.
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Wayne Rooney started on the bench for United but they went 2-0 up when Javier Hernandez pounced on a parried save to slot in before Nani steered in a shot.
The government named four pilot areas last year, but local councils have admitted that they have not yet started work on their broadband projects.
It was a bitter disappointment for Villa, who started so promisingly, but they tired as the game wore on at Wembley and United ultimately deserved their triumph.
Bath lost a second South African half-back to the bin when James was yellow carded for a reckless tackle but they finished the match, as they had started it, well on top.
Needing three points to guarantee progression, they started this match on the front foot - but Fernando Torres spurned two half-chances and the Liverpool striker clearly looks like a man still feeling his way back after injury.
The negotiations in Havana are held behind closed doors, but the two teams said before the talks started that they would focus initially on the issue of land reform in Colombia.
They started the day needing 277 to avoid the follow on but fell 20 short despite Lamb's highest Championship score for three years.
But they started brightly and Shota Arveladze was unlucky to be ruled offside when clean through on goal, television replays proving the linesman was wrong to flag.
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Members of The Mekons might have started out as punks in 1977, but three decades on, they've evolved into a category of their own, outside any pigeonhole.
They started out as different character skins and things of that nature, but soon moved on to exclusive weapons or missions, content that regular players would have to do without unless they bought the game from a specific retailer.
United have started their last couple of games slowly, but I felt they would have been spot on from the first whistle at the San Siro.
"They're succeeding at some of the big but simpler problems and really just getting started on more complicated secondary pollutant problems, " said Chris Nielsen, another researcher on the project and executive director of Harvard's China Project, which focuses on the atmospheric environment.
Police said they now believed there was an electrical fault with the hob on Mrs Crown's cooker, but could not confirm whether they believed that started the fire or whether an accelerant was used.
England said all the right things leading into the game and when they started impressively it looked as though an upset might be on the cards, but once the visitors' initial surge ran out of steam New Zealand assumed total control.
But after she started using Krossover, she was in for a surprise: The numbers showed that they were only scoring on that play 5% of the time.
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Saracens started the weekend as league leaders and they made it six wins out of six on Sunday, but they have been criticised for a limited game plan which relies heavily on the use of the boot and it was again in evidence on Sunday.
He--they got on musically and they got on also intellectually but he said that he could never--once she got famous, once she started making money, he couldn't stay on in there, because he'd have been washed away by the kind of people who were crowding around her and who were going to, you know, take her from him, and so he--they were together for a couple of years.
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