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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Does Windows Still Meet Your Needs? Windows IT Pro, CO - 2 hours ago And yet when the company takes big steps forward, as they did with Windows Vista, analysts complain that Windows is "bloated," as if that term actually ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

After a long time, I missed you all and this place... :( a lot. Feels like my insist is back :) well, Life gave a bad turn and it took time for me to make a proper stand, things changed and my circumstances were so beautiful that it brought me to my knees and made me cry; phew!!! Now again, I started my journey. Hope atleast I get strength to withstand this time. Okay. How are you guys? And whats hot now a days...? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Adventures in lightweight Internet app development TMCnet - 1 hour ago Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard include widget (aka gadget) functionality that essentially lets you create a Web clipping from a Web page and park it in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Adventures in lightweight Internet app development TMCnet - 7 minutes ago Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard include widget (aka gadget) functionality that essentially lets you create a Web clipping from a Web page and park it in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A new way to monitor your Windows systems' performance TMCnet - 7 minutes ago You can learn more about these real-world trends in the Windows Sentinel blog that Kennedy moderates at InfoWorld. You can learn more about the free widgets ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I would: - warn shareholders of a dip (dive) in stocks - buy 5 or 6 Linux companies (hopefully ubuntu among them) combine - "win-ize" - stop all work on IE - use mozilla - offer them best of - ie tech (open ie) - open sourse win media / silverlight / all api's - new ad company - get 500 fonts for web- (or buy corel - to offset web only design slant = expression) - ensure to keep just enough of* winmedia / win UI / kernal / propietary - but open sourse the rest = help - CLOSE most offices / stop building: empower workers to work from home - impliment state of the art video conferencing - work towards 0 offices within 5 years - build MS Computer - force oems to carry it as baseline "to beat" bla bla.. i dunno... daunting task.* Oballmer has been doing good.* but can he do better?* could you? * yes i like him better when i call him oballmer ;) ..perhaps there's still.... HOPE More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Confirms SQL Server 2005 SP3 CRN, NY - 58 minutes ago ... 2005 was one of many obstacles that Microsoft VARs faced in getting their customers' systems in line with the myriad requirements of Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi there, I would like to run a regular JScript (.js) or WSC (windows script) in a C# application. How can it be done ?* Please advice me. Thanks. Allan More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Just a quick, and poorly filmed, update from the dev team on what we worked on during the last sprint and what we are building right now. Yes the filming is shoddy, and yes the screens are hard to read... we'll get better, but we didn't want to spend a lot of time redoing this one when we know you'd rather we keep focused on developing the dev site :) Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/InsideChannel9 As I mentioned last week, we recently decided to record what we accomplished in the past week and what we're going to be working on in the coming week.* It only makes sense that the site about transparency into Microsoft would*be transparent about how the site that runs said transparent site is developed. Check it out: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=397956 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

what percentage = a great software product? can a web service - with emotional underpinnings - like facebook - rival that of something with more technical/logical underpinnings - like office. is the emotion of mac and linux users - cutting in to the technical merits (network effects) windows has always enjoyed? (technically better - but emotionally losing ground?) Is it important to have a likeable ceo - or public face is it better to have a technical one?* a showman? what % is the perfect equation? - to a software product - and the ecosystem (company personality?) surrounding it? Edit: what % would you say apple or ms or google is currently? id venture... ms -****** 10% emotion / 90% logic apple -** 75% emotion*/ 25% logic google*** 25% emotion / 75% logic *neither emotion or logic are "bad"...* just left and right... brain? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My name is a bit on the common side, there are 7 people in Wikipedia with my name already, so I need to make myself more unique so I'm more googleable (I know this can be undesirable in some circumstances, but I don't have any facebook profiles with drunken pictures on). As many of you know, my first name is the uninspiring "David", and whilst I'm English, my parents are Welsh and Irish respectivly. Going with the Welsh heritage side of things I was thinking of changing my first name to "Dewi" (not pronounced "Dewey" btw) which is a Welsh variant of David... and also the name of the dragon on the Welsh flag, but that's just bonus points. I already call myself Dewi on messenger because people were complaining they had too many Davids, and I think the name's growing on me. Since it isn't an overreaching name change I don't need to fill out any legal forms or anything, I can start using it whenever I want. Do you think it's a good idea to alter your first name so it's more unique? And if you had the opportunity (and inclination) what would you change your name to? Difficulty: no "Max Power". More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Veteran Microsoft exec plans to retire in fall Seattle Post Intelligencer - 18 hours ago By TODD BISHOP A longtime Microsoft Corp. executive who played a key role in the development of Windows Vista plans to retire later this year, ... Microsoft shakes up emerging market unit ZDNet Asia all 6 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've just getting started at using WCF, but like what I've seen so far.* I've been reading about it, writing my interfaces and implementing them with classes, etc.* It seems to be going well. But one thing I would like to do is both pass into methods ADO.NET DataTables or DataSets.* I know that isn't the "proper" way to do things, especially if you want to be cross platform.* But in this case I am writing WCF services which will be used in-house, probably using TCP for the protocol, between our Windows 2003 Servers and the clients' PCs.* In that situation, is it OK to use DataSets and DataTables?* Or doesn't that work? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

For your viewing enjoyment, here is a very thought provoking geekSpeak episode.* James Kovacs is the guest, and he really shows us the the shortcomings of tightly coupled architectures from the perspective of testing and maintenance. James gives lots of guidance on how to avoid introducing dependencies that result in too-tightly-coupled a design. The decoupled approach makes a lot of sense once you see it, and you've probably been doing it to a lesser degree without even being aware of it. There's also a lot of good discussion in here about Test Driven Development, and how tight coupling impacts the ability to create effective tests that are poor at isolating the errors you need to fix. James shows how using unit testing frameworks can reveal this coupling nicely. James also introduces the concept of mock objects, and compares them to fake objects. He also shows off a couple of interesting tools. Watch this geekSpeak to learn more about how you can create more nimble code bases and avoid ripple effects when code is changed. Also, see if you can figure out where Glen's audio got disconnected! Be sure to read the article James wrote for MSDN magazine to extend your learning. More resources related to this geekSpeak can be found on our geekSpeak blog. About our guest: James Kovacs http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/geekspeak/WindowsLiveWriter/NextgeekSpeakTameyourSoftwareDependencie_9B84/JamesKovacs(150x200)_thumb_1.jpg James is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, specializing in agile development using the Microsoft .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a founding member of the Plumbers @ Work podcast, which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. James is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - Solutions Architect and card-carrying member of ALT.NET, a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications. He received his master's degree from Harvard University. James can be reached through his blog http://www.jameskovacs.com http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/397927.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP SP3 Pegged For Release On April 21 InformationWeek, NY - 36 minutes ago Among them: A feature called Network Access Protection that's borrowed from the newer Windows Vista operating system. NAP automatically validates a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Should the IE8 address bar work like the Vista explorer address bar? What do you guys think about that? Today I found myself trying to click inside a part of a www URL to navigate up... weird, but true. :s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Better performance than Vista: Windows 2008 Server OS News - Apr 14, 2008 I got the idea from a Microsoft blog [1] but left out the stupid and ugly eye candy that Vista is bothering its users with. I must say it is very usable ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Responding again to the recent Gartner silliness, I look at Windows from the point of view of an IT professional and ask, Is Windows broken? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We are currently looking for .NET Developers to join our team in Dortmund, Ruhr-Area, Germany. We are looking for full time employees who help us further improving a sophisticated communications product line (it's not contractual, hourly paid business, it's product development!). If you're interested, drop me an email at ralf_rottmann[AT]hotmail.com . I'll be happy to send you the details. Thanks Ralf More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have an active directory domain ABCD. I have a internal asp.net 2.0 web application located at myApp.myDomain.com. I am using* ** My problem is when users navigate to this site it attempts to log them in as user: myApp.myDomain.com/adUserName password: adUserPassword. i need it to attempt to login them in as part of there AD domain such as: user: ABCD/adUserName password: adUserPassword. Any idea what it is i'm missing that causes the application to default to its myApp.myDomain.com instead of the active directory domain? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft's second generation security suite, Forefront "Stirling," is now in beta, offering deeper integration and expanded capabilities! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Crave Blog <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Add a remote to your Vista media center for $14.99 CNET Crave Blog - 50 minutes ago To use the kit, you need Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate. (Rumor has it there's a hack that'll allow it to work with the XP version of Media Center; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

anybody wants to know? I'm making it right now to be ready to face the sp1 upgrade crisis. I could write a short tutorial with screenshots if somebody's interested. it would be also valid if you want just to install SP1 before creating your user :s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Crave Blog <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Add a remote to your Vista media center for $14.99 CNET Crave Blog - 11 minutes ago To use the kit, you need Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate. (Rumor has it there's a hack that'll allow it to work with the XP version of Media Center; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds