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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Nvidia to blame for many early Vista crashes CNET News.com, CA - Mar 28, 2008 There is a ton of interesting information in the documents that have been released as part of the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit. There's the juicy e-mails ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Vista Capable fiasco: to hell with system recs! Ars Technica, MA - Mar 30, 2008 Back in the summer of 2005, Microsoft was still hammering out the best way to communicate what degree of Windows Vista capability an OEM customer could ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've heard Charles said this before http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Charles wrote: The coffeehouse is not Channel 9 And I thought... yeah, no duh. Colorado isn't the US of A. We all know the face of Channel 9 is the videos. No one denies that. Then, yesterday, I came across a post from Scott Hanselman, entitled *** 7 Blogging Statistics Rules - There is Life After Page Views and one of the rule is: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Rule # 1 wrote: Rule #1 of blogging stats: The only way to know if a human is reading your blog is if they are talking with you. ...my personal litmus test for my blog's success or failure is comments and other folks' blog posts, and nothing else. Now, the videos aren't typically very conversational -- I mean that people don't talk back to them. But, I was curious, what is the total comments vs. views for the videos. So, I started tallying. Here are the numbers for March: NotesViewsComments 1053 0 1795 0 955 0 1344 2 1749 0 1790 0 2104 2 2416 1 1374 0 3999 7 3280 4 1312 0 7883 12 3116 0Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 2 Beta 1 10399 22 1306 0 1572 0 6688 5 1645 0 1722 0 2009 0 2620 1 3090 1 1648 0 1926 0 3057 0 2601 0 3791 4TWoC9 4729 7 1971 0 2311 0 2276 0All About Mary Jo 6885 12 4544 3TWoC9 5864 14 4268 0Interview w/ Ice Cube 6672 11 3649 7 3647 2 2972 0 3270 0PLINQ under the hood 6170 5 4654 2 5283 10 3774 0 5555 4 2495 0TWoC9 4705 14 3006 3 2213 2 2513 0 1132 0 1649 1 3853 19TWoC9 1776 4 638 0 437 0Total 181155 181 That's roughly a 1000:1 read-to-write ratio. If you apply Scott Hanselman's # 1 rule of blogging stat to the videos, and say... compare that w/ the read-to-write ratio of the Coffeehouse, I'd say, it's clear which is greater. But in a moment of beer-induced clarity, I remember that Charles said a while back about how many visit a month C9 has. A little digging, I found this. In which Charles said (Nov 9 2005): http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Charles wrote: 2.7 Million visits last month.*8 *thousand new posts. This place is rocking. Even the Windows Watchers are to coffeehouse posts. OK, I didn't get that last part either, but Charles seems to have liked the Coffeehouse then. But anyway... 2.7 million visits a month... and it only generated 180,000 video views? Either Eagle was right in that traffic has dropped off dramatically, or the numbers were originally bad. Plus, the 180,000 views are post views, not necessarily video views. I'm not sure what this all means, I just like to look at numbers... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Very quick questions, as a matter of best pratice, do you name your database tables singluar or plural? Cheers, Stephen More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Washington Post <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Source: Windows XP to get reprieve for low-cost laptops ITworld.com, MA - 5 hours ago Microsoft set the June 30 deadline as a way of pushing users towards Windows Vista, and the expected extension of Windows XP for low-cost laptops may not ... Microsoft is Losing Credibility, Study Says Washington Post all 193 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have a Lenovo Desktop with Vista Home Basic, Last week I updated to Vista SP1. I have been having many Problems with Internet Explorer Before and after going over to SP1. On same machine I have UBUNTU 7.10 (What I am using just NOW) What could the problem be with IE? Firefox and Opera work reasonably. Uncle Sam from Jaffa Israel More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Search 4.0 Preview Unveiled T.H.E. Journal, CA - Mar 31, 2008 The preview version works with 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows (Vista and XP), plus Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Wall Street Journal Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Businesses Embrace Office, Shun Vista Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 7 minutes ago You might not get a computer with Windows Vista on it anytime soon. But odds are you’ll get one with Microsoft’s other recent release: Office 2007. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft joins MIT's Kerberos Consortium Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago Microsoft has implemented the Kerberos protocols in its Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and 2008 and Vista operating systems, but has also been accused of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ The Tech Herald <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Unhacked Linux eWeek, NY - Mar 31, 2008 With Windows Vista SP1 on a Fujitsu U810, Adobe Flash proved to be its Achilles' heel. In theory, the Flash vulnerability is cross-platform. ... CanSecWest: Vista taken down – Linux last one standing The Tech Herald Mac and Vista beaten by Linux in hacking contest Digital Arts Online all 37 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Everytime I visit an MSDN library page online I get a modal popup asking me to install Silverlight. Which serves no purpose for reading html documentation. Am I the only one going nuts with these pop-ups? Everyone else just swallows the pill and installs it? I don't need more activex controls, more unmanaged code with unknown vulnerabilities and constant patches. I don't like flash advertisements; silverlight advertisements sound equally bad. Please Microsoft stop these pop ups. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Lifehacker Australia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Create a Post-SP1 Vista Install DVD with vLite Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 20 hours ago The Digital Inspiration blog has a timely step-by-step tutorial on creating a "slipstreamed" Vista installation DVD that has all the fixes and tweaks from ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Free utility slipstreams SP1 with Vista, builds integrated install ... Computerworld, MA - 48 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer April 1, 2008 The Croatian college student who created software to shrink Windows Vista's footprint has updated the program so users can ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Don't know if this is an April 1st Joke....but well done if so.... Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> So long and thanks for all the dish InfoWorld, CA - 43 minutes ago I tried focusing on controversial topics-- evolution, terrorism, Scientology, Windows Vista -- anything to stir the pot and goose the readers. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

First off, don't shoot the messenger here, this wasn't my call. * As many of you have complained about Charles's behavior (see here, here, here, here, here, and*here) in forum threads, and since all Channel 9 community members must live to a certain standard,*we've taken the rather unconvential step of banning Charles as a user on C9. The final straw being that Charles insisted on*disclosing Brian Beckman's new*Quark project before it was set to announce later this year at PDC. Note that this has nothing to do with the fact that Charles and I dislike each other, this has to do with the fact that*no Channel 9 member is "above the law." Please take the time to thank Charles for his contribution to Channel 9 since its inception and for the hours of interviews he's done over the years. Charles, I know we've had our differences, but the Coffeehouse won't be the same without you.... -Dan More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Free utility slipstreams SP1 with Vista, builds integrated install ... Computerworld, MA - 32 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer April 1, 2008 The Croatian college student who created software to compress Windows Vista's footprint has updated the program so users can ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Software Architect and Astrophysicist Brian Beckman has a new job at Microsoft. No longer working with Erik Meijer on cutting edge developer tools and programming languages, Brian has joined a very small team of distinguished engineers and technical fellows that seeks to create a new product for Microsoft, code named Quark. * Brian and his big brained colleagues have produced a prototype quantum computing device that takes the notion of parallel computation to a whole new level... The really interesting thing here is that Brian has determined that theoretical phyiscs has completed. What does that mean, you ask? Well, only Dr. Beckman can explain it in terms that everybody will be able to comprehend. Tune in. This is very big news. Computing will never be the same thanks to Brian and his colleagues working in the newly formed (and apt-named!)*Quantum Unreality Computation Group. Enjoy. 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

I mean, we all expect absurdity, don't we? And in the IT-world, where dream connections are made and broken everyday, we all expect to hear crap like "Microsoft purchased 38% shares in the iPhone!" or something silly...can anything be trusted on April 1st? Is the day any fun really? * I did convince my wife I had a son in another state living with his grandmother. Jacob Riley Sampson was the name I came up with on the spot - I even had a Phone Number for "Nanna & Jacob" to show and all. So maybe there are exceptions. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

InfoQ Link "a greater focus will be placed upon filling out the .Net-based side of the Spring Portfolio, with a .Net-based version of Spring Web Flow becoming the basis for the ASP.Net web development APIs." "the Spring Framework would be integrated into the Windows operating system, with users having the ability to configure most settings and applications via associated Spring Beans" "Mark Pollack, founder and lead of the Spring.Net project, added: Anders Hejlsberg, Erik Meijer and I have had some excellent conversations around where Spring.Net can improve the development process for .Net applications, and we expect to add many of the existing Spring APIs in the .Net Framework 4.0 release. The AOP and Aspect namespaces will likely be added to the System namespace, and the DAO and Data namespaces will augment the existing ADO.Net APIs." More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Vista Capable fiasco: to hell with system recs! Ars Technica, MA - Mar 30, 2008 Back in the summer of 2005, Microsoft was still hammering out the best way to communicate what degree of Windows Vista capability an OEM customer could ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Despite Mac Gains, Windows Still Rules Enterprise Computing InformationWeek, NY - 51 minutes ago Most of those new Vista installations probably came from Windows 2000, which dropped six percentage points. Enterprises aren't upgrading Windows XP to Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Real-time interactive raytracing via 3 PS3shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLte5f34ya8Cheer up Dovella. ;-) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was wondering whether or not anyone can shed some light on the OOXML controversy for me. Specifically, why are many people against Microsoft's submission to the ISO? It seems to me that, standardized or not, no company really HAS to support it unless they choose to. I see what Microsoft has to gain (ISO Standards might well be required in some businesses), but why are so many people against standardization? Especially when standardization opens up the format, legally, for many developers? The only reason I can think of is basically one that supports the ABM crowd. You know... "WINDOZE IS 4 TEH SUXORS... OMG ROFL!!!111!!!" There has GOT to be something more to it than that. I can kind of see a company like IBM against it: they have competing products and it's their job to make things as hard as the competition as possible. But many of the open-standards crowd should be behind it.. What don't I get?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds