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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Passionate users berg Microsot to keep XP Inside Bay Area, CA - 1 hour 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

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I'm creating my very first .NET app with VB 2005. Everything was a'ok when i decided to remove an unused picture resource. Suddenly all these error pop-ups appeared about a certain error with text something. I reloaded the said image in the app resource and the errors stopped...but as soon as i ran the the program, all the menu items like FILE,EDIT,...etc disappeared and all that's left is a blank menu strip. Those menu items seem to still exist since i can't create a menu item with the same name and they're still listed. Is there a way to "reattach" those menu items into the strip? If yes, how? since i don't see their "interface" anymore. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It's crashed twice in the last half hour. It works fine for a while, then when I try to open up the main console, everything goes white. Or it tells me people who are most definately not signed out are signed out. I got 3 new updates on WU last night, anybody seeing similar problems? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Riddle me this Niners, I've always had trouble with animated gifs in WPG, which for some reason I let go but now I'm having trouble looking at any kind of gif. How could Microsoft omit*a format that is*so*blatently wide spread? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Passionate users berg Microsot to keep XP Inside Bay Area, CA - 3 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

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover: - Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released: - Reduce download times with OptiPNG and libJPEG, via Omar Al Zabir - Learning Microsoft Expression via Allan Da Costa Pinto- SMS Officer via Outlook Team Blog - Evangelism Network Sidebar Gadgets for C8, C9, C10, Mix, and Edge - via Grace Francisco - How to configure OpenGL to work with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition via Neil Galloway - New version of Phoenix compiler and analysis tools available - Charles interviews Andy Ayers on Phoenix - Dan's Pick: Clint Rutkas interviews John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment on what it takes to get a job at Blizzard. - Brian's Pick: Team System Web Access + Work Item Web Access CTP Release via Hakan Eskici Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Maybe I'm too big a privacy nut, but I fail to see why my usage information and/or survey responses should be tied to my personally information. I know this may seem like a troll, but it is not meant as one.* I was a member of the Windows Feedback Program and thought it was a valid tool to help make windows better in the future.* With these changes I have disenrolled from the program. I am unable to think of any purpose for tying these statistics in with personal information other than for marketing purposes.* What do you guys think?* Is there a technical value to coupling your personal information with these usage statics rather than just using a machineid that is not tied to user info?* Am I over reacting? Copy of the changes*below, items in red are the ones that concerned me.* I am also frustrated that I never recieved this email, and got it forwarded to me from a friend.**I would have had my WFP software update in the background and had the participation agreement change without being aware of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: winpanel@microsoft.com [mailto:winpanel@microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:25 PM To: Subject: notification from the Windows Feedback Program Thank you for participating in the Windows Feedback Program! On April 15, 2008, a new version of the Windows Feedback Panel (WFP) software and an updated Privacy Statement will be available on the Windows Feedback Panel program website. Please take a moment to review these updates, as the new version of the WFP software will automatically update the current version on your PC. Two sections in our Privacy Statement - Collection of Your Information and Choice and Control - are being updated. Changes to these sections are underlined in the sections below: Collection of Your Information We will collect personal information if you choose to participate in the Program. The personal information we collect may include your name, gender, e-mail address, city, and ZIP code. In addition, we will collect and store your survey responses. If you choose to participate in the automated feedback program, information about your software and your computer will be recorded and sent back to Microsoft. This information includes, but is not limited to: <li class=MsoNormal style="">Windows usage behavior including installed and used applications. <li class=MsoNormal style="">Number and type of software errors encountered. <li class=MsoNormal style="">Performance of software and hardware products installed on your computer <li class=MsoNormal style="">File and folder structures on your computer, including number of types of files in folders, such as number of jpg files in the Pictures folder. <li class=MsoNormal style="">What transpired during a network problem, including data obtained from various network connections, components, and devices installed on your computer. <li class=MsoNormal style="">System-specific information, such as hardware, devices, drivers, and settings installed on your computer. <li class=MsoNormal style="">Registry values. <li class=MsoNormal style="">Event logs. Office Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) data. More information about this program is available in the applicable Office privacy statement. The Office 2007 privacy statement can be found here. To display the privacy statement for Office 2003, please search for "Privacy Statement" in Office 2003 online help. Please see below for more information. Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) data. More information about this program can be found in the Windows Vista privacy statement. Please see below for more information. Both your survey responses and automated feedback will be associated with your personal information. Please note that this differs with the CEIP disclosures in the Office 2007, Office 2003, and Windows Vista privacy statements. If you choose to participate in the automated feedback program of the Windows Feedback Program, the CEIP data we collect while you are in the automated feedback program will be associated with the personal information we collect from you through the Windows Feedback Program. Choice and Control The Microsoft Windows Feedback Panel software occasionally checks online to ensure that you are running the most current version of the software and automatically installs an upgrade if a newer version is available. We also wanted to let you know that you will be entered for a chance to win USD $5,000 cash each time you complete a survey from the survey feedback program between April 1, 2008 and June 30, 2008. If you participate in the automated feedback program, you will receive an additional sweepstakes entry if you remain an active member in the program through June 30, 2008.* The winner will be notified by mail and email. We are about to announce the winner of the last sweepstakes period on our website. THANK YOU - The Windows Experience Team More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Great read for those of you interested in the search for intelligent life in the universe. An interesting new mathematical predictive model conceived by Andrew Watson implicitly assumes that intelligent life needs*to exist on an Earth-like planet that orbits a*G class yellow star (that produces more heat and light as it ages)*to exist. Remove this assumption (certainly, intelligence in the*universe need not be uniform)*from his new model (which appears to rely too heavily on*the Daisy World*model)*and the model falls down. What do you think? C More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft eyes less obtrusive security SearchSecurity.com, MA - 1 hour 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

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft eyes less obtrusive security SearchSecurity.com, MA - 1 hour 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

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is Microsoft serious about gadgets? LiveSide - 1 hour ago The last post to the Windows Vista Sidebar Blog is dated July 31, 2007 and the Windows Live Gadget Blog is dated June 27, 2006. Most of the top players in ... A new logo for Windows Live Groups? LiveSide all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We've had a couple of those in the past, but I might as well start a new, relevant one rather than dig an old one. They weren't too relevant to me before. I've lost my camera, and am planning on buying a new one. I would appreciate any opinions, recommendations and reviews. My last camera was a Canon SD700 / IXUS800 / whatever it's called in different parts of the world, and I was very pleased with it. Before that I had a Canon SD300 that I was also pleased with until I dropped it to its untimely death. In short, I had good experience with Canon cameras and would go for another unless someone has specific experiences to share. My requirements: * Ultra-portable. This is to be an everyday camera that's always on me, so the size definitely matters. * SD-card compatible, since I have quite a few cards and readers floating around and it'd be a shame not to use them. Not a biggie, since cards are cheap. * At least 4x optical zoom. That's mostly it. I'm not a megapixel hog, I don't need too many advanced features, manual white balance, wide ISO selection and so forth.*Just a plain, reliable camera to carry around in my bag. Anyone got any recommendations and (especially) horror stories to report? Models that disintegrate within months, batteries that die, LCDs that crack? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi All, I'm running Windows XP Home Edition & have a query regarding some Registry keys. The keys involved are HCKU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\User Shell Folders, and HCKU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Shell Folders.* My understanding is that most of the values in the second key are generated automatically from the values in the first key. The Environment variable USERNAME is defined as "Greg" (without quotes). In the ...\User Shell Folder key I enter: Desktop = G:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Desktop Templates = G:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Templates These values are of type REG_EXPAND_SZ After rebooting, the values which appear in the ...\Shell Folder key are: Desktop = G:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Desktop Templates = G:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Templates These values are of type REG_SZ As these values are of type REG_SZ, I*THINK that %USERNAME% will*not be expanded when the system comes to read it - i.e. the system will look for a folder called G:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Templates (which does not exist) instead of a folder called G:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Templates. Two questions: Will the system expand the %USERNAME% variable in the REG_SZ-type value Templates and find the correct folder? Is there a reason for the inconsistency between the way that the system generates the values of Desktop and Templates in the ...\Shell Folders key? Incidentally, ...\User Shell Folder values such as Cache, Cookies, Desktop, Favorites, History, My Music, My Pictures, Nethood, Personal, Programs, Recent, Start Menu and Startup are ALL expanded correctly - i.e. the corresponding values in the ...\Shell Folders key all contain Greg in their paths, whereas ...\User Shell Folder values SendTo, Printhood and Templates are NOT expanded - i.e. the values in the ...\Shell Folders key - all contain %USERNAME% in their paths. Hope I've explained the situation adequately. Any comments or suggestions would be most welcome. Best regards, Greg M More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is Microsoft serious about gadgets? LiveSide - 26 minutes ago The last post to the Windows Vista Sidebar Blog is dated July 31, 2007 and the Windows Live Gadget Blog is dated June 27, 2006. Most of the top players in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

ZDNet Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8428 This is in reference to a Gartner statement. I think Gartner is a little off on this, but one thing I see is this: Microsoft is giving developers mostly what they want, and that's why Windows is a very successful development platform. However, Microsoft isn't really giving end consumers what they want. And the stuff they are giving (Windows Media Center, for one), they aren't telling the world about it. I have yet to meet an end user (non developer) who bought Vista or a new cmputer with Vista that knows about Windows Media Center and that it can record your TV programs and burn them to a DVD. The first thing I know most people download, after they bought a new computer, was iTunes, if it wasn't already installed.. Even if they don't currently own an iPod. Anyone have thoughts on this? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Refreshes Visual C++, Ends VB 6 Support InternetNews.com - 25 minutes ago ... all existing applications in all the next versions of the Windows OS, including Windows Server 2008 and Vista," read a blog posting by Jeff Nuckolls, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, I want to use pointers. Hence, I need to activate the unsafe option. MSDN says you can activate unsafe code option in build properties. But there is no such property in the build. Please help Regards Naeem More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Imusing Sql Server 2005 and C# 1.1. I do realize about SqlCommand andParamters to eliminate Sql Injection but if i were forced to create adynamic query and were unable to use Parameters, to avoid sql injectionis it ONLY necessary to replace all instances of single quote with 2xsingle quotes from incoming user data? Thank you More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all! I watch a sample with trigger as: ***** I undersatd that : Grid.Row is a Attach DependencyProperty. But, if Create a new Attach DependencyProperty in another class. ex : class A { ***** // Code **** //............. *** public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty = *** *** *** DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(...); } How I use same as: ***** :) Thanks a lot More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> News.blog: Nvidia takes fight to Intel Crave, UK - 5 minutes ago Do you like Vista's translucent windows? Have you even heard of PicLens (which we actually like, but that's not the point)? PC gamers already tend to favour ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have previously written about Bill Gates saying that Windows 7 is going to be released in 2009. This was also reported around the web but Microsoft has this statement as released to SeattlePI: “We are currently in the planning stages for Windows 7 and development is scoped to three years from Windows Vista Consumer GA. [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I and my friends have had problems enabling our bluetooth on our laptops. We were not able to find updated drivers in our vendor sites. If you are using Toshiba you should have no problems as you can download the Vista bluetooth here. Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds