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Paul lampoons*Steve Ballmer*as George W. Bush: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_state.asp (yes ive posted much the same thing before...) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this comedic address to Windows citizens, I (sort of) examine the State of Windows Vista! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Live Search Gets Gussied Up StraightUpSearch, MI - 13 minutes ago In my opinion, the design definitely has more of the Windows Vista flowing feel to it. I particularly like the hover-over preview function on the video ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ross Rubin Editorial on Linux Internet Devices Palm Infocenter - 53 minutes ago "It is no coincidence that, mirroring Microsoft's product gap between Windows Mobile and Windows Vista, the historically hazy and suddenly hot device space ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> FAQ: What you should know before installing Windows XP SP3 Computerworld, MA - 24 minutes ago To do otherwise, according to a long post to the IE development team blog, would invite stability problems. Microsoft recommends that users who want to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

when I cut&paste any file with .ANI extention from a remote vista or server 2008 to a local XP using remote desktop about 3k of data is appended at the end of the file making it unreadable. did anybody else experience the same issue? I thought it was just a network problem while it was happening when I was using rdp through internet but now I verified it also happens on a local LAN. I've put the ANI files inside my application resources but this issue is still rather annoying. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yep, I know this news is a couple of days old. It seems like NBC is now going to put some of its hit shows (The Office BSG, etc.) on Zune, instead of iTunes. This should be a major coup for Microsoft and its Zune. Problem is, I have not seen ANY marketing about this from Microsoft. And if this flops, NBC will likely move elsewhere. So, why haven't we heard anything from Microsoft? I haven't seen any "Now available at Zune.net" at the bottom of NBC shows like I used to see "Now available on iTunes". So, do you think Microsoft will take advantage of this? Will we see more marketing? Will we see anything? Will it flop, as I think it will? Just wondering what your thoughts are. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone know how to perform an aggregate string concatenation in Microsoft Access without using a VBA module? I want pure SQL. Across columns of a table is easy. Ex: People Id* Name* Dob 1** John**1/2/1975 2** Bob** 1/2/1975 3** Tim** 5/7/1955 MS Access SQL: SELECT p.Id, (p.Name & ' ' & p.Dob) AS Person FROM People p I have no idea how I would go about concatenating rows. Does anyone have experience with that? Ex: Get a comma-delimited list of people with the same birthday Results should look like this: Dob*******People 1/2/1975* John, Bob 5/7/1955* Tim Thanks for the help. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ross Rubin Editorial on Linux Internet Devices Palm Infocenter - 20 minutes ago "It is no coincidence that, mirroring Microsoft's product gap between Windows Mobile and Windows Vista, the historically hazy and suddenly hot device space ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have an H:/MUSIC on my home computer and I just got a new 1TB external where I'm going to make a MUSIC folder as well, so I can take the drive to work. Is there a good program where, if I add music at home in my MUSIC folder, or even if I see an error and I clean up an mp3 tag on the external at work, and I take my external home on the weekend, for them to sync the 2 folders up so they're the same? Whether it's a new folder in my home computers MUSIC folder*that needs to go over, or a single*mp3 on the external that needs to be synced to the home computer. Nice if it's automatic too....plug in external, turn on the switch in the back and it keeps them in sync. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

From LiveSide: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif LiveSide wrote:We recognise, however, that we must continue to offer users a choice ofservices while we complete the integration of all Virtual Earthfeatures into the Multimap site. Do I take this to mean that we'll only be given the choice while they integrate the features and when they've finished the feature integration we'll be forced onto Multimap? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

All the goodness!: http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2141/xpsp3wuzd5.th.png More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello! :) I talked with my friends for a while and runs into the news that WinXP SP3 will be released to WindowsUpdate soon. We know that Microsoft has the tradition of selling service-pack-slipstreamed Windows CD to the latest SP level, but as we all know, Microsoft will stop supplying OEM license for WinXP soon. So it come to the question that if we were buying new PC with WinXP next month, will we get the SP3 versiopn of install disc? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft resumes XP, Vista updates CNET News.com, CA - 13 minutes ago Microsoft on Tuesday said it is resuming two major Windows updates that had been halted because of a conflict with one of its own software products. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vision Solutions Announces New Global Information Availability Data Storage Connection (press release) - 2 hours ago Widgets/gadgets for Windows Vista and the Apple Mac will soon be available. Links to the blog, its syndication feeds as well as the Google Desktop widget ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In what I hope and assume is the final update to my Windows XP Service Pack 3 FAQ, you'll find links to the XP SP3 public download and my preliminary slipstreaming guide! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> VMware releases beta for newest Mac virtual machine Reseller News, New Zealand - 14 hours ago However, users running Windows Vista in a Fusion VM may still out of luck here, depending on what 3-D application or game they're running; Vista supports ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I rent one of my dedicated servers from IPower (back when they were good, mind you). But after this experience I'm thinking of switching. Recently IPower decided to start charging my card an extra $12 a month. Not much, but enough to make me sit up and take notice. But conversly, I noticed my "Future Invoices" list on my billing page said my November 2008 bill would be only $25 (wtf). Here's how the conversation went: Hi, I recently noticed that iPower has been charging my card more than before. In the past iPower regularly debited my card once every three months, but recently I've seen two additional smaller payments made every month since Februrary 2008. On my invoices/receipts page (which only has records from November 2007) I see you're debiting me $12 every month on top of the existing fee I pay. Since my account is debited with GBP (rather than USD) and the exchange rate fluctuates a bit I cannot tell if you've reduced the main monthly rate and charge this to compensate, or just charging me more anyway. Also, I notice the future payment due on the 17th of November 2008 is only $25 rather than the usual $xxxx. Can you explain this too? Thanks ----------------------------------- Hello, Thank you for contacting Support. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. I have checked your account and noticed that we have charged your credit card for the amount $12.00 for ‘Windows OS for Dedicatedon’ on April, 17, 2008. However, the next due date for your hosting plan ‘Dedicated User’ is due on August, 17, 2008. You can view billing status of your account through the link: http://members.ipower.com/member/BillingConsole/billingConsole.bml . If you have any further questions, please update the ticket with more information so that we can assist you further. Sincerely, Mario Rogers Customer Support ------------------------------------------- I haven't been charged $12 monthly before, if this is a case of iPower over-charging me I will file a chargeback with my bank. I need to know *why* iPower has started charging me monthly. I also want to know why the November 2008 payment is only $25. ---------------------------------------------- Hello, Thank you for following up with us. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. I have checked your account and noticed that we have charged your credit card for the amount $12.00 for ‘Windows OS for Dedicated’ on April, 17, 2008 and $xxx.00 for ‘Dedicated User’ on February, 17, 2008. If you do not want ‘Windows OS for Dedicated’ product, we can cancel it. Once this product gets canceled, your credit card will not be charged further for this product. Could you please forward us with the exact URL of the page where it shows the next payment is due for the amount $25? Please reply to this e-mail with the requested information, so that we can assist you further. Sincerely, Mario Rogers Customer Support --------------------------------------------- I'm afraid you haven't provided the required information. I asked *why* I'm now paying more per month than before. And *why* the November fee is only $25 rather than $xxx. ----------------------------------------------- Hello, Thank you for following up with us. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. I have checked your account and noticed that we have charged your credit card for the amount $147.00 for ‘Dedicated User’ on November 11, 2007. Could you please get back to us with the credit card statement stating that we have charged your credit card only for the amount $25? If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console. Sincerely, Mario Rogers Customer Support ------------------------------------------ I swear I'm not making this up. Is "Mario Rogers" a robot or script or something? Morerather, how can I get redress for this? International phone calls are expensive. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone use both the Zune and iTunes software routinely? I don't have iTunes installed (since I don't have an iPod), but do have the Zune software installed. Can anyone who uses both at least somewhat casually give me a compare/contrast? I'm not looking for Fanboi's per se. I really would like to know "what's the difference" without having to install iTunes. Does one give me something the other doesn't? Can I see other people's songs recently played on iTunes? Any personal preference in the UI? Thanks! Rdaja More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

... well it starts like this I have dvd of 18 movies (nearly 7.87 gb on the disk). When I insert the dvd it has its own catalog listing the movie names, when i click on any name, it will start playing the movie. The dvd folder contains some about 30 files, but the file name is not as same as the movie name (something like this... VTXB01NA and so on). Now, is there any way to find out the file name to which the movie is playing now? if yes, then I have some 15 dvds like this... :D that I need to transfer to my E-HDD, and there is the main problem where playing the movie for hdd with this weird file name which will be too difficult to pick a particulat movie to watch, So I can list them in a text file saying this file name is for this movie :$ (-oh phulees help me.. [A]) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Pls see video in action Link bye bye Iphone More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hey guys, I have been reading up on DirectShow in these forum posts, and I have learned quite alot.* But there seems to be no questions asked regarding passing raw data (byte array, etc) into DirectShow.* Basically, putting parts of a movie into a byte array/another type of buffer, and passing it into DirectShow everytime there is more data available.* I was wondering how this could be done? Also, can DirectShow play HTTP streams? (Example: http://www.blah.com/blah.avi) Any help would be great and much appreciated! :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Eduardo Quintás explica brevemente qué es nHibernate, framework ORM (Object-relational mapping) de código abierto y su papel dentro de una arquitectura de aplicación empresarial. Eduardo Quintás es ingeniero en informática y trabaja en el área de innovación tecnológica de la universidad de A Coruña. También realiza labores de "development advisor" para PlainConcepts, principalmente en el campo de desarrollo de aplicaciones empresariales con tecnología .NET Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone know if there is a way to set the permissions so a group can see the*version history (checkin*notes etc) but not actuall see the contents of the source files? Cheers, Stephen.* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Security Bytes: SearchSecurity.com, MA - 13 hours ago The information security blog for the latest buzz on data security, privacy and regulatory compliance issues, information security threats, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds