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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft fixes Vista SP1 endless reboot cycle ZDNet UK, UK - 10 minutes ago However, now Microsoft has the problem in hand, according to the Microsoft Update team blog: "We discovered that there were a few unknown and rare events ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Silly stories about Windows 7 Guardian, UK - Apr 6, 2008 What Fried says in the story is: In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hey Niners. I'd appreciate if you took a minute to help determine if this is a Vista Windows Photo Gallery or driver problem that manifests in Windows Photo Gallery. 1. Assuming your desktop resolution is 1280x1024 or higher (please mention), press print screen key while text is visible. 2. open mspaint, paste screenshot of full desktop, save to .png or .bmp (should not matter) 3. Open saved file in Windows Photo Gallery, press the button in the middle to run full screen slideshow, try changing Theme from Fade to Classic which should remove any smoothing filters if it's blurry. Is the text on desktop blurry/stretched?*Some*sites claim that*Windows Experience Index should be 5 or better for*images to show in 1:1/native*resolution but mine is*higher and this*is not the case. It looks as*if WPG internally uses 1024x768 or*other lower resolution*and then*trashes the images by scaling. (Broken on Vista 32 bit*sp1 rtm, 8800(174.74)/1 GB/4 GB) Imagine my disappointment when I took some amazingly beautiful screenshots from a modded Oblivion that actually uses the 1 GB of video memory only to end up Windows Photo Gallery totally trashing all the fine details artists spent time crafting on everything! I would post some here but you couldn't possibly begin to appreciate them until this bug is fixed. :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista's endless reboot update bug allegedly squashed New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 6 minutes ago Nightmares that plagued some Windows Vista users trying to run the operating system's first official service pack have been sorted, according to the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I ride a bus into work, which gives me a chance of listening to podcasts on my second generation 80GB Zune.* I was listening this morning when suddenly the sound stopped.* I thought at first it might be the Zune freezing up, but it wasn't.* I could see the time advancing, so that wasn't it.* So then I tried listening to some music albums I've got on my Zune, and the same thing was happening; no sound at all, although the time was advancing.* The Zune is more than 50% charged, so I don't believe that is the problem.* And the weirdest thing is I've tried listening to any radio station I could, and I could listen to those. It is acting like I've hit a mute button somewhere, but I've no idea where that would be on the Zune.* If there is some sort of mute functionality built into the 2nd generation 80GB Zune, where is it and how do I turn it off and on? But if that isn't the problem, then what is going on?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Product review: Curl 6.0 enrichens the rich Internet toolkit InfoWorld, CA - 10 hours ago Windows 98, Windows NT, or later, including Windows Vista, with IE 5 or later, Netscape 4.7x or 7.2, or Firefox; Red Hat 9, Suse 9, or Turbolinux 10 or 11 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blogging can seriously damage your health Guardian, UK - 1 hour ago There's always a new mobile phone whose clunkiness requires dissection, a new security flaw in Windows Vista, or a new USB drive shaped to look like a piece ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blogging can seriously damage your health Guardian, UK - 31 minutes ago There's always a new mobile phone whose clunkiness requires dissection, a new security flaw in Windows Vista, or a new USB drive shaped to look like a piece ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft to resume Vista 'endless reboot' update Tuesday InfoWorld, CA - 30 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Microsoft Monday said it would resume automatic distribution of a Windows Vista update on Tuesday that two months ago sent ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Fixes Technical Glitch In Vista Update CRN, NY - 39 minutes ago In a separate Monday blog post, Chris Flores, a director on the Windows Client team, said Microsoft remains on track to begin distributing the English, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Silly stories about Windows 7 Guardian, UK - Apr 6, 2008 What Fried says in the story is: In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft to resume Vista 'endless reboot' update Tuesday PC World Magazine, Australia - 15 minutes ago Microsoft said it would resume automatic distribution of a Windows Vista update on Tuesday that two months ago sent some users' PCs into an endless wave of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The IE team is pleased to announce the availability of Chinese (Simplified) and German versions of Windows Internet Explorer Beta 1 for Developers. The two languages released today are fully localized versions of the IE8 English Beta 1, released March 5, 2008. They carry with them the same improved CSS 2.1 support, better scripting performance, and other features and improvements that the English beta 1 developer release contains. Download links: IE8 Beta 1 Chinese (Simplified) for Developers IE8 Beta 1 German for DevelopersSupported Platforms: This release is supported on the same platforms as the previous IE8 Beta 1 English release. Here are the supported operating systems: Windows Vista Windows Vista SP1 (final version only - Currently available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers and Volume License customers) Windows XP SP2 Windows XP SP3 (RC2 candidate - Build 3311 or higher) Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2008 (final version only)For install guidelines, please see the "How to Install the German or The Chinese (Simplified) Builds of Internet Explorer" section of the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 release notes here. Please note that each international version may only be installed on its native language operating system or on English versions of the operating system with the native language’s Multi-language User Interface (MUI) installed. You can learn more about Multi-language User Interfaces (MUI) here. We value your expertise and look forward to hearing your feedback on this Developer Beta release! Online support is available through the IE Beta Newsgroup and you can sign up through MS Connect to vote on IE8 Beta bugs. You can report a webpage problem and also request to be added to the IE Technical Beta Program by following instructions found at the bottom of the IE8 Beta Feedback blog post. Hope you enjoy this Beta release for developers as much as we do! Vishwac Sena Kannan International Program Manager Internet Explorer edit: removed underline from section headers http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8366418 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone here had both? recently I accepted a new position and I had to give back my iPhone. Its been two weeks but the shakes have finally gone away. Now I am extremely unhappy with my Verizon Chocolate, esp since I now use my cell for work. I'd rather be able to get a Verizon phone but frankly it doesn't seem like they have anything close to as awesome as iPhone. Is anyone really happy with a phone with Windows mobile? Has anyone had both? Thinking about just cancelling my verizon contract and going with AT&T :( More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Problems Fixed Hard OCP, TX - 1 hour ago If you are one of the people that had problems installing Vista SP1 last month, Microsoft says they have fixed the problem and automatic distribution will ... Vista SP1 reboot bug fixed, downloads to resume NetworkWorld.com Vista SP1 reboot bug fixed ZDNet Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite ZDNet Blogs Biloxi Sun Herald - Gotta Be Mobile all 7 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Meet group program manager, Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been at Microsoft for nine years (Talk about a blast from the past . . . remember Microsoft Transaction Server? Mai-lan was on that team back in the day.). Mai-lan is currently on the Internet Information Services (IIS) team where she manages PMs working on IIS and the Windows Server Hosting System. What does that mean? Well, for starters, she and her team define the features of the core web server, as well as the management tools and administration interfaces plus they work on media server and providing the right tools for the web hosters of the world (like GoDaddy, for example). Phew! That’s a lot. From the Peace Corps to working at a couple of start-ups during the Internet boom when she left Microsoft for a bit, Mai-lan really has a worldwide global perspective. Watch this episode of WM_IN and hear about the mud mosques of West Africa! Low res file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What are the key areas of application compatibility developers need to know about for Windows Server 2008?* Pat Altimore a developer consultant from the Windows Server 2008 Compatibility Labs discusses key changes in Windows Server 2008 that may affect your applications. The following topics are covered: <li style="margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle">Server Roles <li style="margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle">IIS <li style="margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle">Failover Clustering <li style="margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle">Active Directory Changes <li style="margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle">Server Core Windows Firewall Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well, i have strings of numbers that are parsed one a website and they look like this (for each row) ######,#####,###### Each number is forever changing so it can either be #,#,# or ##,##,## or #,##,### and so on and so forth.. What i need is a tutorial (or something) that will teach me how to use the Inet to read the colums and each time it gets to a , it puts the first, second, and third number into different strings etc.. Thanks.. Hope i gave you enough information on what i need to do [C] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 reboot bug fixed ZDNet - 1 hour ago Remember that issue where trying to install Vista SP1 would result in a hard-to-break reboot cycle? Well, the Microsoft Update blog says the problem was ... Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite ZDNet Blogs all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft to resume Vista 'endless reboot' update Tuesday Computerworld, MA - 18 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer April 7, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today said it would resume automatic distribution of a Windows Vista update on Tuesday that ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We recently posted a very*interesting conversation with Technical Fellow and database guru Dave Campbell covering some of the new innovative work going on over*in SQL Server World. Paul touched on SQL Server Data Services and database services in the sky, generally. Here, SQL Server Technical Evangelist Ryan Dunn sits down and talks turkey with two of the creators of SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), Architect Istvan Cseri and Development Manager Nigel Ellis. Istvan and Nigel dig into how to design applications for SSDS and cover a number of the interesting aspects of working with SSDS in terms of features, design, and security. Low res file here. 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"> Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite ZDNet Blogs - 23 minutes ago The Microsoft Update team is releasing a fix on Tuesday that will install before the SP1 SSU prerequisite does, according to a blog posting from the team, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this interview, Greg Galipeau of RDA discusses three different patterns -- MVC, MVP and ASP.NET MVC with Dr. Zhiming Xue “Z”, Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Greg articulates the advantages and disadvantages inherent in each pattern, and explains when to use one versus another when creating Windows forms applications and web applications. In his view: - MVP may be considered when you want more extensive testing, i.e. testing everything on the view. It is harder to set up, but gives you a little more on the testing side. It is very useful when creating an application for both the web side and the win form side. - MVC may be a good candidate when testing is important but you feel comfortable testing right from the controller. It is also very useful for the win form side of things. - ASP.NET MVC may be used when MVC is an option and you are doing strictly web development. This option is very useful because of its Front Controller type of pattern, which lets you implement a RESTful style paradigm. This option is also very useful because it doesn’t use postbacks or viewstate, which some people will like because it gets back to the traditional HTTP way that web pages were intended to be. In short, MVC and MVP are just UI patterns, with ASP.NET MVC being a framework that implements the MVC pattern. Therefore, you can incorporate them with different data access or business layer patterns or frameworks of your choice, such as SOA and ADO.Net Data Service. You can find Greg's view on the subject of “Choosing UI Pattern” at his blog. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 reboot bug fixed ZDNet - 25 minutes ago Remember that issue where trying to install Vista SP1 would result in a hard-to-break reboot cycle? Well, the Microsoft Update blog says the problem was ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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