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The natural language search company Powerset is still in closed beta mode, but there is a Powerset lecture video http://videolectures.net/iswc07_pell_nlpsw/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi everybody, i need to let the C#.Net code to generate a snpahot for a report published in the Report server. dot you have any idea how to do this ? is there any samples? anyone faced such issue before? thank you indeed, More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ask Dave Taylor: Gambling with extended warranties Daily Camera, CO - 2 hours ago I installed Windows Vista on my Mac PowerBook using Apple's Boot Camp program and it all installed and went great. In fact, it's so well installed that I ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone know if it is possible to upconvert dvd's on the 360? I am talking about normal DVD's, not HD-DVD. I thought I had checked before and my DVD's were being upconverted to 1080i, but either I was hullicinating then or it* has since stopped upconverting my movies. Anyone know what the story is with the 360 and upconverting playback of standard DVD's? http://www.myveryownwebsite.com/mypics/101_0232.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

My mother is an NHS physio and has been for more than 30 years now, so she's seen a fair bit: the penny-pinching of the Conservative era in the 80s, the naive enthusiasm in the 90s, and the "Management Consultant"-days of the present. As a means of dealing with the frustrations on having to deal with paperwork measured in feet, PHBs (well, in her case: Peroxide-Blonde bosses), and unappreciative patients she talks things over in great detail to my dad. Fair 'nuff, it works for her, but I feel the stories she comes up with deserve to be heard: like how the "targets"-related paperwork she has to fill in takes up time she could be using to treat patients, or how the PCT makes no arrangements for physios having to transport patient's equipment around (which can be much bigger than fits in a Toyota Yaris). So I suggested to her that she gets a blog. Considering she can barely use Hotmail I proposed she just tells me everything and I'd post it. Obviously making suitable arrangements to anonymise things (FWIW, she has some high-profile patients... who I can't name), and stuff like this would be pretty popular I can imagine. So after posting her stuff onto Blogspot, how could I get it noticed and hopefully trigger a mass firing of Management Consultants at the NHS? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> SAS storage on a Windows Vista desktop Search Storage - Apr 10, 2008 Scroll all the way down for some notes on Vista x64. * I know this is a storage-oriented blog .. but .. this process drove me so far up a wall I needed a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm looking at iGoogle themes. They're all static. Are there any dynamic ones? Slow animations etc. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Having just finished watching Dr Who's latest episode (Pompeii)... I found it pretty bad. I think the storyline was completely predictable - and what's up with the part with the escape pod? One minute he's going to die and the next he's just.. not? I think it was pretty weak. Poorest episode I've seen to date :( Thoughts? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was listening to 93.9 here in Chicago and there was a commercial for MSN Money.* It was in the form of rap song, and was pretty funny.* I can't say that I have heard anyone do a rap song about investing and using a website for tracking your investments.* I know there have been discussions on here about Microsoft needing to use different methods for advertising its products, and I would say this is one of the most unique methods that I have seen/heard from them. I can't find it on the internet to share with you guys, but I am interested to see if anyone else has heard this yet. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In part 2 of my ongoing series Shipping Seven, I examine some of the recent Windows 7 release date speculation and describe my hands-on experience with build 6519! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Originally developed as a means of quickly conveying the state of a community around a blog, I reckon we could use it for forums. The Airbag Blog Advisory System, a thinly veiled take on the Homeland Security Advisory System, it sums up how much of a prat the general populace is. Can we have a variation of this on C9? Maybe MS should sponsor it Internet-wide and make it a part of phpBB and vBulletin so newbies know what forums are good and not, etc. (but it's 12 days too late to make it this year's April 1st RFC) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Forget youtube - this is the ultimate Rickroll!: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7343833.stm More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Passionate users beg for XP The Wenatchee World Online, WA - 27 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

Can anybody recommend a good working WPF Split Button? Disclaimer: - Obviously we checked Google ourselves... please do not return respond with any of the first 20 search results :-). - We are looking for a clean and clever solution, not one which adds 1.200 lines of XAML to WPF projects... :-). - Commercial alternatives are welcome, too. So given this Disclaimer, can anybody recommend a Split Button given the fact that WPF lacks such a basic control.. . More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I don't understand why the .Net toolsbars in Vista look so spartan compared to the pretty Aero ones.* The toolbars in .Net on XP at least have some gradients. Also, why can't I make that pretty sort arrow at the top of a column of a ListView?* Appending "(A-Z)" or "(Z-A)" to the column title makes programs seem dated.* I know that I could instead use a picture of arrows pointing up and down, but even that doesn't look right, since the arrow would be beside the column title instead of at the top. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/2406970044_1191c1a9a2.jpg OK, I'm not just complaining.* Is there a way to fix these two issues?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Virtualization May Help With Windows Bloat Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 15 minutes ago Foley said in her All About Microsoft blog that all signs point to Windows 7 being "a minor upgrade to Vista." It won't be a "slimmed-down" OS, she added. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0? New York Times Blogs, NY - Apr 10, 2008 Another example: When Microsoft was developing Windows Vista, it actually permitted its programmers to blog about their progress. There was a security blog, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTXRzolPzFo&feature=related [H] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anybody got the new maps? I've bought them but I'm having some trouble downloading. I don't get an error code or anything, just a very stupid "Can't download this item". I've spend 800 points on this thing, I swear to god I'm getting it.. anybody have any ideas whats wrong? Or experiencing similar issues? Seems a lot of people are having trouble. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Right, that's it I about to give up using Nero, there is just to much junk in that latest version.* I'm having a look now at Nero Lite/Micro custom installers, BurningROM is fine, it's just all the other crap I have no need of! So can anyone recommend a nice light weight replacement for Nero? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Marc Schweigert shows you how easy it is to expose RSS and Atom feeds using the new Web Programming Model (REST) features,*classes in the new System.ServiceModel.Syndication*namespace, and LINQ to SQL*in the .NET Framework 3.5.* Then, you will see how you can use classes from the System.ServiceModel.Syndication*namespace to consume RSS and Atom feeds using Silverlight 2. Source code for this screencast is available here.http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/397040.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Wall Street Journal Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows (Slowly) Collapsing Under Own Weight Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 27 minutes ago But rather than fundamentally redesigning Windows to reflect the new world when it released the latest Windows version–dubbed Vista–a little over a year ago ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CBC.ca <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows is 'collapsing,' analysts say CBC.ca, Canada - 23 minutes ago Windows Vista has had a very low voluntary uptake rate, according to analysts at tech research firm Gartner. The Redmond, Wash.-based software behemoth is ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vista SP1 RTM wave 0 Has been distributed in 5 languages. Torrent sites is long OEM versions of wave 1, Microsoft late because so much to give to us this Update? were is a problem? I saw many forums where many user even spent the night waiting sp1. It is not possible to know a precise date? Thanks PS. for example 220 page to waiting sp1 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft eyes less obtrusive security SearchSecurity.com, MA - 4 hours ago Microsoft Corp. has been working on many of these technologies for several years and some of them are already used in various forms in Windows XP and Vista, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds