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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Problems with software upgrades in a Windows world The Industry Standard, CA - 34 minutes ago Vista has been available for more than a year, but is still plagued by problems, ranging from incompatible device drivers to poor performance. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Vista Is 'a Work in Progress' PC World - 22 hours ago As PC users clamor for Microsoft to continue to support Windows XP, company CEO Steve Ballmer called the Vista OS "a work in progress" at an annual Seattle ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Needs A Good Pruning InformationWeek, NY - 23 minutes ago Responding to last week's blog entry about the Gartner "Windows is Collapsing" Affair, one reader took me to task in calling Vista "bloated. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Are You Stealing Vista? PC Magazine - 20 hours ago "So if you see anyone stating, or writing, that buying an upgrade by itself (Windows Vista Upgrade for instance) without having a full license first gets ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft investigates new Windows zero-day flaw SearchSecurity.com, MA - 7 hours ago Sisk's message follows alerts from such security vendors as McAfee, which warned of a potential ActiveX-based zero-day in the McAfee Avert Labs blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

it's already 6 :( victim 1: pavilion dv6129 laptop, after installing SP1 the network card stopped working and the drivers, no matter what version I tried to install, wouldn't work anymore victim 2: packard bell x51 laptop, after installing SP1 the sound card stopped working (solved) but the battery is not recognized anymore victim 3: unknown brand pentium 4, after installing SP1 after every reboot the default printer is set to XPS printer, I deleted all the printers but the real one and then the reboot after there was no default printer and that in the default selected printer in print dialogs was empty victim 4: an olidata with an athlon x2 4800+, after installing SP1 at each reboot the system was losing for keyboard and mouse drivers (hid input device) but couldn't find them, no matter ho many times I copied the input.inf file in another folder and pointing the driver wizard to that victim 5: an asus pro57sn laptop, while installing SP1 it became stuck at the 2nd install stage, left it for an entire day and it didn't finish then I shut it down and now it BSODs while booting victim 6: acer gemstone 2920z, after installing SP1 it randomly tosses out error messages saying applications are not a valid win32 applications. somebody help me, it's real massacre [C] luckily I now have a clean vista sp1 install disc so I can format without having to wait all those the endless reboots to install sp1 again update: victim 7: a "dialogue technology" (it fights against olidata for the most unknown brand title) flybook, after installing SP1 the display shows vista booting but then it just stays black however you can hear the startup sound (video card driver issue?) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What ultra portable meets my needs for under $1000? ZDNet - 1 hour ago If I did not want to run Windows apps and wanted to buy something for less than US$500, then the N810 gets my highest recommendation. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Vista Is 'a Work in Progress' PC World - 21 hours ago As PC users clamor for Microsoft to continue to support Windows XP, company CEO Steve Ballmer called the Vista OS "a work in progress" at an annual Seattle ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I think Microsoft could learn a lot from this company. With all the talk of "the cloud" at the moment, and Microsoft's two overlapping products (FolderShare and SkyDrive) that they seem reluctant to merge this provides a great example of what a SkyDrive desktop client could be. Up the storage from 2 to SkyDrive's 5 and integrate FolderShare features and you have yourself a killer cloud storage service. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Lately I've noticed that my PC really seems to slow down over time, more than usual. I've found the culprit, IE7. http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/trix_1520/wtf.png This is with 2 tabs open, Channel9, and my online OSU course page, which uses no fancy ajax or anything. I did browse neowin.net, live.com and digg.com. I just do not get how the result can be such a high memory usage. I tried this with no extentions and a similar result happens. I do have Flash, Silverlight, and a Live Writer Extention listed. I haven't really noticed this until about a month and a half ago. Did SP1 change some IE7 code? Did some hotfix? What happened? I hate the web browser. I can't continue to use IE7 if I have to restart it in the middle of my homework. I like Firefox 3 Beta, but since it is new and had some major rendering changes, sometimes it doesn't work with all webpages, plus it is ugly. Opera...well it doesn't work with my school pages. Does anyone else expirence this, I have one friend who seems to, but everyone else uses firefox so I really have no comparison. If no one else does expirence this, then wtf is wrong with my computers (my desktop and my laptop). If it is an addon, it is either Microsoft's fault or Adobes fault still (though it still does this with "no addons" mode). In anycase this is driving me nuts. Additional Evidence with no CPU usage http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/trix_1520/wtf2-1.png More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Expert Restates That Microsoft Knowingly Included Loophole DailyTech, IL - 1 hour ago Livingston argues, "No one is encouraging people to try to 'rip off' Windows for zero dollars. One or two people might buy Vista without having any prior ... Microsoft Exec Lashes Out At Users, Journalists Over Vista Upgrade ... DailyTech all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What ultra portable meets my needs for under $1000? ZDNet - 29 minutes ago If I did not want to run Windows apps and wanted to buy something for less than US$500, then the N810 gets my highest recommendation. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've got a sharepoint 3.0 site running and have gone through all of the usual steps to get annonymous access running, with no luck.* W2k3 Ent, sql 2005 stand db I'm using windows authentication, on a domain/AD.* WSS is in a farm (one web, one db server at this point, both member servers). App pool is running under network service, but same issue if run under a domain account that is admin on all farm servers. Intranet zone users pass through/authenticate fine (url as machine name), but if using the ip, or the FQDN, users get prompted. Regardless of zone, kerbos, ntlm etc, I can not get annonymous access. I'm not an AD guy - is there an AD/Policy setting that would be preventing me from allowing Annonymous access? No problems allowing it for a standard website, just under WSS. I will eventually need to create a registration page and use a mssql db, but for now I'm simply trying to grant read/view. Thanks for the help - EZ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A little over a month ago, Mary Jo blogged*about a rumoured spherical Surface Machine that may or may not have been shown behind closed doors at TechFest. If I'm not mistaken, that's visible for two seconds at 3:57 in this video from Microsoft Research: (Courtesy of Long who goes on about some new kind of desktop search.) Is this a first glimpse of the consumer version of Surface? The sphere looks kind of... desk-sized. Apparrently, the device itself is a Magic Planet display from Global Imagination, but I don't see any mention of touch capabilities on that site... Early prototype? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Expert Restates That Microsoft Knowingly Included Loophole DailyTech, IL - 35 minutes ago Livingston argues, "No one is encouraging people to try to 'rip off' Windows for zero dollars. One or two people might buy Vista without having any prior ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE8, Not Quite Great Redmond Developer News, CA - 25 minutes ago The bad news, at least for me on my Windows Vista Ultimate system, is that beta 1 is so unstable that I couldn't keep it installed. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am using Visual Studio 2008 Professional on Windows and G++ on Unix. My program compiles in both of them. I have the following class definition in my header file: template class SearchableList: public list { public: *** int count(_Ty needle, int start = 0); *** bool inList(_Ty needle, int start = 0); *** void cycle(); *** void rcycle(); }; I wrote the SearchableList class to extend the C++ list class because I needed more functionality than it provided and I wanted to familiarize myself with the C++ list class. This is the first time I have ever used inheritance, so it took a few hours of googling stuff and trial and error to create external member functions for the class that would compile. I have the member functions in a searchableList.cpp file, which has the following code: #include "header.h" template int SearchableList::count(_Ty needle, int start) { *** int answer = 0, i; *** //Make sure that starting variable is within range of list *** start %= this->size(); *** for ( i = 0 ; i < start ; i++ ) *** { *** *** this->cycle(); *** } *** for (* ; i < this->size() ; i++ ) *** { *** *** // Check to see if we have a match *** *** if (this->front() == needle) answer++; *** *** // Cycle List *** *** this->cycle(); *** } *** return answer; } template bool SearchableList::inList(_Ty needle, int start) { *** return (this->count(needle, start) > 0); } template void SearchableList::cycle() { *** this->push_back(this->front()); *** this->pop_front(); *** } template void SearchableList::rcycle() { *** this->push_front(this->back()); *** this->pop_back(); *** } My program relies on (most) of this classes' member functions. It compiles without a problem, whenever the linker is run, I get a linker error. I have been using workarounds that rely on the parent classes' methods, but it is getting to the point where I cannot do this anymore and I must to be able to use this classes' member functions. Here is an example of a linker error that comes from using one of the member functions: 1>recordArray.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: bool __thiscall SearchableList::inList(int,int)" (?inList@?$SearchableList@HV?$allocator@H@std@@@@QAE_NHH@Z) referenced in function "public: class SearchableList __thiscall RecordArray::getSemesterList(class std::basic_string const &)const " (?getSemesterList@RecordArray@@QBE?AV?$SearchableList@V?$ basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@ @V?$allocator@V?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$ allocator@D@2@@std@@@2@@@ABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits @D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z) 1>C:\Documents and Settings\Richard\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\hw4\Debug\hw4.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Note: I added a few newlines to the above text to make it fit in channel9's post area. I also get a similar linker error from G++ on Unix: g++ -o hw4.out main.o read.o record.o recordArray.o recordList.o searchableList.o Undefined********************** first referenced *symbol**************************** in file SearchableList::inList(int, int)recordArray.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to hw4.out collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `project' Would someone please tell me what is wrong? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello all. I have a WPF UniformGrid, and I want to add buttons to it. However I want each button to fill to the size of its container, so that for example if I have 4 buttons, then the 4 buttons will fill the entire area of the unifromgrid, with just a small gap between them. At the moment, I cannot get the buttons to stretch. I have tried the Margin setting, but it does not help Many thanks More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft investigates new Windows zero-day flaw SearchSecurity.com, MA - 1 hour ago Sisk's message follows alerts from such security vendors as McAfee, which warned of a potential ActiveX-based zero-day in the McAfee Avert Labs blog. ... MS08-021: A Must-Patch Vulnerability eWeek all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Vista Is 'a Work in Progress' PC World - 15 hours ago As PC users clamor for Microsoft to continue to support Windows XP, company CEO Steve Ballmer called the Vista OS "a work in progress" at an annual Seattle ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Recently i have been trying all kinds of fun stuff, for instance yesterday i spent a few math classes and most of my spare time, playing with C++. But i have always wanted to master a technology for building websites. Sadly, asp.net web forms is a black art which is just not trivial, as i see it. So i have surfed the internet and found RoR and ASP.net MVC/Monorails. I like VB.net, but Ruby does seem kinda cool. It could be cool to learn. Im already fluent in VB.net and C#, som im thinking it would be good to learn ruby, so i learn a dynamic language too. But the power of the .NET framework would be tough to live without. So im wondering, should i learn Ruby(On rails) or should i do ASP.net MVC OR Monorails? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover: - Updates to Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D - including export GPS, new traffic-based directions, importing of 3D models into VE 3D (add a massive 9-guy on campus), MapCruncher for overlays of user-generated information (stadium seats), and more (0 - 2:41) - .NET 3.5 Training Kit - ASP.NET Dynamic Data, MVC, Silverlight, etc, via Greg Duncan (2:41 - 3:30)* - Follow up from last week: Firechild*in the forums*points to a*.NET Rocks episode with Jon Goodyear on how to program SMS (3:30 - 5:26) - Follow up story:*Gizmodo has first*video*of*a*Surface at an AT&T store showing*interactive AT&T coverage map,*dynamic device colors, information and even phone comparison. (5:26 - 8:06) -*Symantec releases study showing Microsoft is #1 in*fewest days in average response time for*security vulnerabilities via Matt Hardman*(8:06 - 9:51) - Dan and Brian's reaction to the internal leaked Vista SP1 video and Microsoft's original response. (via DCMonkey in the forums). (9:51 - 12:28) -*The*Channel 9 Dev team releases Developer Diary, a recurring weekly show on what*features they're working on (12:28 - 13:18) -*The N+ Dev Team talks about*how you*build an Xbox Live Arcade game and how you*program against lag (13:18 - 14:50) - Dan's Pick of the Week: 15-year old Ashish Dergawan's Coding4Fun article on*how to convert a laser pointer into a*mouse*by using*a motion tracking web camera (14:50 - 16:30) - Brian's Pick of the Week:*IIS Pack for bit-rate throttling of Web Videos via Vishal Sood*(16:30 - end) *Note: there were some issues with stale frames when a static image is shown in the video. We'll try re-posting an updated version, but just wanted to get this one up now. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TECH BLOG The PC of Doctor Moreau TechNewsWorld, CA - 16 hours ago I found this Windows theme, dubbed "Vista OS X", on Lifehacker, a blog that features interesting downloads from around the Web as well as ideas and tips on ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

New here but I can't find this... I'm watched the first video of Zoe and the interview process at Microsoft. I want to see the rest of the videos in the series. I've used the search tool, but all I see with keywords "Zoe" and "interview" are text replies to said videos. Is there an easy mechanism to find the rest of the videos in the series? Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds