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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Despite Mac Gains, Windows Still Rules Enterprise Computing InformationWeek, NY - 4 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

Jordan's Queen*making*progress on YouTube: :D http://www.queenrania.jo/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Dexter thanks humans for creating him (it?), and says humans are welcome in the new robot order. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft signs on to MIT Kerberos Consortium InfoWorld, CA - 1 hour ago While Microsoft has implemented Kerberos protocols in its Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and 2008 and Vista operating systems, the vendor was accused eight ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Post any news stories that you read today that seem to good to be true and have to be an April Fools Joke. I am going to start with the Intel announcement for a new type of memory, Phase Change Memory (PCM).* After 38 years?* Yeah right. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080331_498434.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9906755-7.html?tag=nefd.pop More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What would be the porper way to call MyFunc(int, int, Struct2*) which is in unmanaged DLL from C# code? Where Struct2 { int int Struct1[sOME_CONST] } or { int int Struct1* } I've tried to define STRUCT2 in managed code as [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] publicstructSTRUCT2 { publicint XINT; publicint YINT; [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStruct, SizeConst = SOME_CONST)] publicSTRUCT1[]someStruct; } and then calling STRUCT2 myStruct2;* MyFunc(someInt, someOtherInt, myStruct2); but looks like LPStruct is reserved for some misterious use (MSDN articles/help didn't help much). Any ideas? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OOXML passed as ISO standard. :) Congrats Microsoft. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Greed, politics, and CanSecWest InfoWorld, CA - 2 hours ago In the end, the only platform without a champion was Windows Vista, which is not surprising since nobody will admit to being a fan anymore (all the cool ... 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

So, I'm behind the times. But, I just started watching MI-5 on Netflix Watch It Now and finished the first season... Now I have to see if the bomb went off and what happened afterwards.... I *love* this show, so far. Is there any other good series from the UK that I'm missing? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

... seems to be responsible for the whole shooting match, but no mention of how much he's being paid. Hmmm .... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have a problem with postbacks and master pages. I have a website project I’ve quickly put together to test this in Visual Studio 2005 (asp.net & c#).* On the master page, there are two ContentPlaceholders. In one of the web pages called search.aspx (which uses the master page), I have a ASP.Net WebControl Button in the second ContentPlaceHolder that I simply want to use to generate a postback. However, when I try the button in the browser, nothing happens!* There is just no postback! I am using Internet Explorer 7; it seems to work okay in Firefox.* But it needs to work in IE7 for what I am doing. Can anyone help with this, as it’s critical to the actual project? Thanks in advance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I wonder if this would have been released if the PWN 2 OWN results had been different. According to these blokes, Microsoft has shown improvements in their handling of vulnerability disclosures, but Apple seems to be sliding backwards. The writer surmises that the problem could be the relationship between the Apple and the crackers.* In order to maintain their image of invulnerability, Apple isn't keen on acknowledging holes in their OS/applications. So when researchers discovere holes, then they are more likely to sit on them until events like this come round. Microsoft has the right approach here. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Go to Prometric.com Register for any available Microsoft Certification and specify the following voucher code: "LOOFLIRPA2008" More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In an on-going effort to ensure that Channel 9 videos only display appropriate content, the Channel 9 Dev Team recently ported the spam feature to filter existing video content. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the results of our first tests using some of the more popular C9 video clips. The video filter should be complete by the time we ship Channel 9 V4. * Congratulations to the dev team and to JKL consulting for creating the original video filter prototype. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The "warez == terrorism" thing... didn't they try to run this one a few years ago ?? http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2008/ag_speech_080328.html More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Link for me this is a Joke 1 April and for you?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Capable versus Vista Ready- were graphics drivers to blame? TechRepublic, KY - 18 hours ago Here’s how Microsoft describes TDR: Windows Vista attempts to detect these problematic hang situations and recover a responsive desktop dynamically. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Debunking Myths In Microsoft's Vista Capable Case CRN, NY - 7 hours ago More importantly, what we do see of Microsoft's direct interactions with Intel on Vista Capable is what Microsoft's Will Poole, senior VP of Windows Client ... 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 - 7 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

Adobe Joins Linux Foundation “Adobe delivers key RIA technologies for Linux users, such as Adobe®Flash® Player and now Adobe AIR™, to deploy RIAs in the browser and onthe desktop,” said David McAllister, director of standards and opensource at Adobe. “The Linux Foundation is a valuable resource,providing a forum where we can work with the community to ensure AdobeRIA technologies are compatible across the Linux software platform.” Unless Moonlight is licensed for Linux....I see AIR > Silverlight being a common statement. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don’t expect MinWin in Windows 7 ZDNet - 3 hours ago Windows 7, the next version of the Windows platform, which will be the successor to Windows Vista, has its own kernel, MinWin. Microsoft — last we heard ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I know there's been some strife in the C9 coffeehouse recently because of the new "report spam" functionality. I'm here to thank you all for your feedback, and to let you know that we are listening. Because the Coffeehouse is Channel 9. And listening is only half of the conversation; the other half is action. So, I am glad to be reporting that we have a solution to the spam question. Ultimately, my goal is to eliminate the scourge that is spam from then entirity of Channel 9. Following are the steps that we have implemented, and will be deploying within the days: To eliminate automated postings, we will introduce a CAPTCHA system to ensure that unwanted automated posts don't make it onto C9. Our CAPTCHA images come from decades of MS Research work, and have been used on a wide-ranging list of properties such as Hotmail and MSN Mail. For those who aren't familiar with CAPTCHA, it is usually an image that's very easy for people to break, yet impossible for programs to recognize. For example, in the following CAPTCHA, everyone will see the words "Channel 9", and they simply type that into a validation box when posting. Note: Our CAPTCHA's are case-sensitive. http://mnt.images.s3.amazonaws.com/c9%20captcha.jpg In fact, HumanCompiler has just finished with the new posting module, and I must say, it looks great! http://mnt.images.s3.amazonaws.com/new%20c9%20post.gif But automated spam is only a third of all our spam, we've found out. One third is human-generated spam, and we need your participation for those. In retrospect, we can see that our current "weighted" system of spam reporting is flawed. It isn't fast acting enough. Depending on the posters, it could take from 3 to 7 reports for the system to mark a post as spam. I'm going to fix that. We will recruit amongst our members for moderator, by asking you to take a test. It will comprise of 25 multiple-choice questions, and we will be very stringent as to who will make the cut. Please stay tune for this moderator examination. And finally, we will announce a new banning system. It's just common sense that we should ban those accounts that create spam in the first place. From our database, we can see that about 100 new users sign up to Channel 9 every week. About 50% of these accounts are used to create spam posts. We will start a very agressive banning policy of madatory deletion of 20 accounts per day to remove those spam generating, or inactive, accounts. I believe that with the implementation of these steps, and your help, Channel 9 will return to its old self where members gets along, and the community became vibrant again. Thank you. Jeff Sanquist. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft previews desktop search update Washington Post, United States - 3 minutes ago According to aposton Microsoft's Windows Vista Team blog, Windows Search 4.0 fixes most of the bugs "causing a majority of distractions" for Vista users, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds