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This is a video which shows how to get a realistic Windows Vista sidebar on Windows XP. Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Video on playing Spider on Windows Vista. Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows 7 is going to be released next year as announced by Bill Gates: “Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version.” This remains to be seen as most analysts say that Microsoft would most likely release Windows 7 in 2010 or 2011. I am not sure why Microsoft is making [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was surprised when I read about the blog post of Nick White, product manager of Windows Vista, last March 31 where he announced he was leaving Microsoft.In his post:They say all good things must come to an end, and that is the case today: I want to share with you the bittersweet news [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Joel Evans of Geek.com has an interview with former Microsoft Nick White about his departure from the software giant:What is your proudest moment while working at Microsoft and/or at the Vista blog? I’d have to say that being written up in the Financial Times was one of those moments in which you swallow hard, your [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

- control panel / System:*shows the circular icons...rotating / zooming in out - some type of 3d desktop? (option) ..apart from the control panel thing (that id seen demoed in* longhorn promos) not sure what else would work 3d... what do you think could be 3d in win7? *some stuff to make use of WPF / silverlight..*might be good? Q:could icons be animated? too much over head? .... so they would look like normal icons - but if you moused over - or double clicked - they did things...etc? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is there any search engine capable of searching with hash codes and uploading files for similarity searching? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is a railroad Windows Vista Wallpaper created by the Vista Team Blog — Brandon LeBlanc. He took the shot during his recent trip around Washington State. His wallpaper post. Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows XP has entered the final phase of its existence with its Windows XP Service Pack 3. Various tests show that Windows XP holds some performance lead over Windows Vista like restarting 15-20 seconds faster, file copy being faster by 10-15 seconds, In other tests like file memory, physical meory and others, XP performed better [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So, anybody saw last night's episode? I have to say it was rather fun, much better than the last few episodes. Ok, the whole near misses thing with Donna and the Doctor in the beginning was silly, but it was still a fun episode. And speaking of Donna, she wasn't nearly as annoying as the last time we saw her. And it will be nice if for once we have a companion who isn't attracted to the Doctor (let's hope they keep that up). Spoiler: I wonder what Rose was doing there at the end of the episode, and if we'll see her again; I'd heard Martha was coming back as a guest star later in the season, but I'd heard nothing about Rose. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Windows 7 is said to have taken a different approach compared to that of Windows Vista. This changes should help boost the sales and usage of Windows Vista.In an excerpt:In response to this, Microsoft made fundamental changes to the way Windows Vista was linked together; shifting more towards modular designs rather than the monolithic [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/windows-7-to-arrive-next-year-says-bill-gates/ Interesting if true. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://i29.tinypic.com/10gidzr.jpg Sorry guys :) This picture is spreading all over the Interwebs though apperently. Makes you wonder why people hate Vista so much. :O More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft gives Yahoo three weeks to accept its offer "........If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, wewill be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders,including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternativeslate of directors for the Yahoo! board. The substantial premiumreflected in our initial proposal anticipated a friendly transactionwith you. If we are forced to take an offer directly to yourshareholders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the valueof your company from our perspective which will be reflected in theterms of our proposal.................." More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've got to say, Expression Blend has some of the best help/documentation I've ever seen. It's absolutely brilliant. Somebody head to building 42 and tell those guys they've done a brilliant job. Mind you, they wouldn't have to have amazing documentation (because it is just that) if their controls (well, one so far, but I've been using this product for like 8 days so..) were easier to suss out in the first place. I hope they see this, cause I've got one question (and if they don't, can somebody over these send an email or something?): Why the hell is the FlowDocumentReader so difficult to use? Editing it's text property is buried under no less than 4 menus, and editing that text is kindof stupid, considering the area you have to edit text is your typical one-line textbox thats about 50px long. Now, considering the nature of the FlowDocumentReader, this makes absolutely no sense, because it's designed to view larger documents - typing them directly into Blend is absolutely not an option. How hard would it be to add a bigger box to edit in :( It makes one of my favourite controls (cause it looks awesome out-of-the-box, and has some cool functionality) retarded in a way. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Public face of Windows Vista leaves Microsoft BetaNews - Apr 3, 2008 "It's a bit deflating to know that this constitutes my last post to the Windows Vista Team blog. But by the same token, I'm thrilled, amazed and humbled at ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Another round in the BPI vs. ISPs battle. However I was rather intrigued by this comment: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif BBC wrote:It (the BPI) also says that if they do not help with the fight against musicpiracy, then the government will bring in legislation to make themcooperate. How can an industry group know what laws a "democratic" government will bring in and, more worryingly, know what the result of a vote made in a "democratic" parliament will be? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was wondering if anybody can help me out (or point me in some general direction). After googling for some FlowDocument guides, I've not come up with much.* Given the nature of*Blend, I wasn't expecting to have to*manually delete code to get it working, but*I discovered that deleting the tags (highlighted red) allows the*FlowDocument to display the text - otherwise all that displays is a blank*FDReader. I'm pretty sure this isn't the way to do it, considering I have to re-add the tags to edit the text - so can anybody tell me whether I'm doing this right, or more likely wrong - and how I can fix it/do it right? ** *** **** *****enter *****your *****text *****here *****and *****then **** *** ** Thanks in advance! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This third Windows 7 build 6519 screenshot gallery shows various changes to the Windows user interface! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

IE7 in Vista always not reponse.And auto closes. Maybe when I visit the website including more images or something like that. And now,I can visit Channel9.com.I don't why!. I have maxthon,whose core is just from IE.I just switch this two explorers when visiting website. I don't like it. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Now normally I always use wget but when the web site wants referrer and user agent to be spoofed I figured I'd give IE7 a chance to show it's not totally useless only to be disappointed. (In end resorted to wget + spoofing) As everyone knows IE Team loves their temporary folders and these days it's possible to download*a file that's big enough to run out of space if your system/temp drive isn't the place you store big things. What happens is that IE lets your system drive run out of space instead of checking the space in the temp drive, then move the partially downloaded file to where you originally in Save dialog asked it to go in the first place and say all is well even though it's corrupt. Thankfully it was an archive so I atleast got a notification of corruption trying to extract it.*I*fail to understand how making users worry about space on more than one drive fits in the ease of use that Microsoft usually tries to achieve in its consumer products. Now some smart*guy in IE team will laugh and think*I should've*moved my temp folder to the drive I had close to a terabyte of free space and tried to download the file to. But it doesn't work! What if the temp drive has 800 *gigabytes* of free space but you want to download the file (1 TB) to a network share that has 10 TB of free? When IE "download dialog team" was planning this feature they should have anticipated people will use IE for enough years down the road to anticipate bigger downloads and stop using the temporary folder. Vista "need to waste some of this excess processing power Team" took a page from IE "file download algorithms and processes team" and added this feature that if you have self-extracting installer.exe that is*say 1*GB in size, Vista will copy this to temporary folder under Windows**to "verify it". Now depending on the installer*it gets re-verified by the installer itself and then it extracts it to temp folder and copies the temp folder back... = 5 gigabytes of total read+writes to install 1 GB file. Anything to keep hardware partners like Intel happy I guess? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds