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Today I am: Putting vista on my machine (reinstalling everything after) setting up a new staging environment figuring out Nant to automate builds (I've worked with it, but never implemented it on my own) shopping for a desk for new home office its a little exciting lots of newness what are you up to? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Learn more about how the Microsoft System Center Family of products can integrate into typical data center-centric tasks such as: planning, consolidation, deployment automation, updating and patch management, health and performance monitoring, data backup and protection, and regulatory compliance, as well as more about the role of virtualization.** Dave Morehouse, Sr. Product Manager System Center Marketing interviews Jeff Wettlaufer, Technical Product Manager System Center Marketing. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Jeff Wettlaufer - Technical Product Manager System Center Marketing Dave Morehouse - Sr. Product Manager System Center Marketing Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The recently released VSTO Power Tools provide some great capabilities for Office developers.* The Extension Libraries alone could save you hours of work, and you can get then for free!* In this short video I will introduce you to a few of the main Power Tools in the package and briefly talk about a few of the other tools as well.* So sit back, enjoy, then start coding! VSTO Power Tools 1.0 Downloadhttp://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/397787.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ DigitalJournal.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Op-Ed: Save XP campaign hits Microsoft, Vista scheduled for ... DigitalJournal.com, Canada - 12 minutes ago They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If anyone can solve what my (network) problem is, I'll name a machine in my workgroup (or my smartphone) after their C9 screenname.. :) I'm having trouble with my XBox 360 media center extender connecting to my PC. Namely, it's a poor network connectivity, according to the Tune Network Wizard. Here's the setup: * Dell XPS, hardwired, to the router in the basement. * XBox 360, wireless running 802.11G, 2nd floor. * Router almost directly below the XBox 360. It is 802.11n. Latest firmware was applied. * Two other PCs connect the router. Uncertain of protocol. * Older house: top-of-the line plaster job, although the basement has drywall. * The Xbox 360 has no trouble getting to XBox live. Here's the kicker - a week ago, my signal was almost in the optimum HDTV range. yesterday, it dropped to sub-TV signal. To my knowledge, nothing has changed.. (Obviously, something did). I have already tried to rebooting the Dell and router, to no avail.* At this point, I'm almost ready to drop a*cable down the back of the house in order to hard-wire things..* Any clues? Anything to else to look for? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft’s kings of bloat InfoWorld, CA - 22 hours ago Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007, which, when deployed on Windows Vista, consumes more than 12 times as much memory and nearly three times as much ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Consumers petition Microsoft for XP survival The Tech Herald, IN - 10 minutes ago More pointedly, Windows XP may be a six-year-old OS that didn’t exactly have a glorious following prior to the arrival of Vista, but Microsoft’s ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Save Windows XP! The clock is ticking InfoWorld, CA - Apr 13, 2008 When I first set up the computer new, loading into windows vista, it logged in and went straight to a BSOD. But it was just that one time. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> April 14, 2008 10:34 AM ET | Permanent Link U.S. News & World Report, DC - 21 hours ago With Microsoft's plan to stop selling Vista's predecessor, Windows XP, in June, XP enthusiasts have peppered the Internet with "Save XP" blog postings and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ bit-tech.net <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Better performance than Vista: Windows 2008 Server OS News - 18 hours ago 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 ... Windows (slowly) collapsing under own weight Moneyweb Gartner: Windows collapsing under own weight ZDNet Asia Windows is 'Collapsing,' Analysts Say AOL Canada all 24 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A new way to monitor your Windows systems' performance InfoWorld, CA - 36 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

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> April 14, 2008 10:34 AM ET | Permanent Link U.S. News & World Report, DC - 18 hours ago With Microsoft's plan to stop selling Vista's predecessor, Windows XP, in June, XP enthusiasts have peppered the Internet with "Save XP" blog postings and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In my applications, I try to use the new fonts that MS delivers with Vista and Office 2007 (Calibri, Segoe UI, ...), of course falling back to other fonts if the user doesn't have them installed. Now I'm getting exceptions under certain circumstances. If I'm trying to measure a string with more than 32000 characters using one of the new fonts, I get an ExternalException that says "A generic error occurred in GDI+". If I use a font like Tahoma or Verdana, there's no problem. If the string is 32000 characters or less, there's no problem. Of course, it's taken me 2 days to locate the exact location and circumstances of the error. And if it was in my own code, I could write some kind of*workaround, but no: the MeasureString is performed by a 3rd party grid control, making it impossible for me to fix it. Which means I am now unable to use Segoe UI (or Calibri)*as the default font for all the grid controls in my applications. What's wrong with these fonts that it makes me unable to use them? Nice way to promote the use of MS's new fonts. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It* is now a pretty common thing to monitor staff by using GPS to determine where a company car is for instance. Taxi firms use it to pin point the location of their fleet at any given moment. This is a serious weapon for scheduling scenarios. Serious Criminals (Felons) are now tagged so Law Enforcement agencies can determine their location at any moment. Yes, it does not always work, but that is not the point I’m trying to make. The most recent and unfortunate child abduction cases here in the UK are either that of Madeline McCann or Shannon Mathews. Both have been big stories, child abduction sadly does occur and must be utterly traumatic for all those involved. What is the problem with tagging children by law up till the age of let’s say five, at that age a chip is removed from them? I am not a parent and can only see advantages to this, and feel that this is surely inevitable. If the government is considering taxing cars (road tax) by using this technology, surely it’s just a matter of time till this is available for children. There are already things like snoop available to monitor children and no-one seems to be making any objections, what do you think? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Has anybody else noticed this. whether the pc is utilising it or not, it's still nice that the system recognises that I not infact have 4GB. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anybody know of an application that can take an avi, and output wmv's, mov's, flv's, etc all at once? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> On a mission to save Windows XP CRN Australia, Australia - 8 minutes ago As the disappearance of Windows XP computers from retailers and the phasing out of technical support looms, an increasing number of blog posts on the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Veteran Microsoft exec plans to retire in fall Seattle Post Intelligencer - 28 minutes 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, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Ars Technica <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista (Product) Red reaches new heights Ars Technica, MA - 40 minutes ago You can track their progress on the Windows Live Space blog: Everest Team INSPI(RED), or with the Tracker Gadget for the Windows Sidebar. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Alright, so this is my problem: for the past couple of months, my host's website (I am hosted on a subdomain) as well as my subdomain has been compromised and injected with malicious, obfuscated javascript that appears to affect *.php and *.htm? files.* Would there be any safe way to check certain pages (assuming that the attack was automated) for anything that looks out of the ordinary, such as an abnormally long string of hex codes?* I do have a sample saved onto my computer from when I was trying to figure out why my Wordpress installation was going whacko earlier today. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I worked with it, and worked without it. Gotta say I liked my environment better with it. However, I've heard it slows down your environment a lot. I did notice a performance boost when I worked without it. Was hoping it was an anomoly. opinions? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is there a single*list somewhere of all the patches/fixes for VS2008? Thanks, Stephen More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat this Thursday, April 17th at 10.00 PDT/17.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by members of the IE product team. If you can’t join us online, all chat transcripts are published here. Allow approximately 7-10 days following a chat for the transcript to go live. Hope you can join us on Thursday! Kristen Kibble Program Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8394578 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Users Rallying To Keep Windows XP InformationWeek, NY - 19 minutes ago Users are drumming up petitions, blog posts, and Web sites aimed at trying to convince Microsoft to continue support for Windows XP, which Microsoft plans ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Robert Cringley wrote a great article on the failures of Windows and Vista.* His predictions are that the Windows platform is done for.* I agree.* Microsoft in their best day couldnt beat Google, Windows is so unreliable the Department of Homeland Security says not to use it and Microsofts competitors products Ubuntu, Mandriva 2008 and Mac OS X are light years ahead of what Windows Vista could ever hope to be. Goodbye Microsoft, you are now obsolete. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds