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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 10 Ways Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 Lucky Microsoft Watch - 23 hours ago I gave the advice before Vista shipped, and it was mostly right. I didn't second-guess afterwards. Anyone that followed my analyst blog between 2004-2006 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just started using VS2008 and build time just went to hell in a handbasket.* I am referring to when I deploy the application.* No matter if it is to the emulator or a device (it is a Windows Mobile app), the initial build phase went from a few seconds to several minutes.* I am thinking that VS2008 rebuilds all, even those components that are not out of date, whereas VS2005 only rebuilt the out-of-date components.* Is this the default behavior of VS2008, and is there a way to fix it? * More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft posts free service pack for Windows Vista online The Canadian Press, SEATTLE - Mar 18, 2008 On Tuesday, a Windows team blog said PC users with some drivers installed will "temporarily" not be able to get SP1 at all. Microsoft said SP1 will block ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 10 Ways Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 Lucky Microsoft Watch - 18 hours ago I gave the advice before Vista shipped, and it was mostly right. I didn't second-guess afterwards. Anyone that followed my analyst blog between 2004-2006 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Viewarticle... I sometimes wonder why the hell things like this weren't invented a long time ago :) I don't quite know why I'm posting this; I just find it funny that we're at the height of technology; yet simple things like this continue to make me think: wow, that is cool - but why not sooner? (I think I may bork the CSS again) Nope :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Angry Vista Users Vent Over SP1 Driver Issues PC World - 2 minutes ago Therefore, SP1 is not available to me via Windows Update," said "Fatalah" on the Vista blog. "SigmaTel was purchased by another company, and driver updates ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

today I bought another eee PC, this time for my GF, unboxed it and turned it on for the first time. I insert the SD where I copied her music and documents and an error appears on screen: "You do not have enough permissions to read /media/MMC-SD" and the file manager doesn't show the memory card content until I select "show all filesystems". I investigated and found out the /media directory did not exist and after a few minutes of google-ing I found out that error was pretty common and was fixed by creating the folder so I just sudo-ed a mkdir to create the directory. then I read that asus released an update, "desktop update", to address that problem along with some other improvements so I try to install it, wait a few minutes and another error appears: "Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution)." so I open another terminal, do a sudo apt-get -f install and the package installs fine. so I applied that and tried some of the other available updates: "media player update" and "open office update": the desktop update screwed up the the desktop icons (some disappeared, some are now black) and firefox stopped working (reboot didn't fix this, it fixed only the black icons), the media player update didn't complete (Couldn't find package asus-media-player-update-1), the open office update made open office disappear ("KDEInit could not launch ‘ooffice’.: Could not find ‘ooffice’ executable."). applying every update also wasted significant disk space that couldn't be recovered with apt-get clean. I didn't experience any of these problems on the first eee I bought because I formatted it immediately but if that's what asus calls "easy" they sure have a long time to go. now I deleted that crap and installed eeeXubuntu: much, much better! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNet News.com Blog <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all posts by Matthew Elliott in News Blog CNet News.com Blog - 19 minutes ago Read more Ah, Vista. It has forced many to return to the waiting arms of Windows XP, while sending others fleeing to the other camp. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft to Help Eclipse InternetNews.com - 28 minutes ago "We discovered that the SWT team had gotten requests to make it easy for Java developers to write applications that look and feel like native Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 10 Ways Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 Lucky Microsoft Watch - 14 hours ago I gave the advice before Vista shipped, and it was mostly right. I didn't second-guess afterwards. Anyone that followed my analyst blog between 2004-2006 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am an experienced .net windows developer looking to learn Asp.Net. I have the book Pro Asp.Net 2.0 in C# 2005 but it is not an enjoyable read. I would like a book that is enjoyable to read. A lot of tech books are about as fun as reading MSDN Library.* I don't want a book that assumes the reader is*a complete idiot and feels more like a kids picture book than a programmers guide. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Someone please fire Microsoft's entire marketing team. Now. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

At South by Southwest, Michael Scherotter met Jeff Sass of Myxer a company that has built an ASP.net/SQL Server-based web service for ad-supported mobile content. They were at SxSW to show their service to artists and musicians to be able to get their content into mobile ringtones and other mobile-oriented services. 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"> Driver Issues, Blue Screens Prompt Barrage of SP1 Gripes TechNewsWorld, CA - 2 minutes ago By Walaika Haskins While many Windows Vista owners have successfully installed the operating system's first service pack, some reported malfunctions ranging ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It looks like Long Zheng's been trawling the MS job boards again. This time he's found an opening on a team that will build a next generation native code UI platform for Windows 7. I seem to remember him (or someone) finding a similar job post a while back, but that one sounded more like an internal use library. This time it defintely sounds like it's for public consumption. With Silverlight coming from one side, and now this new framework coming from the other, I'm starting to wonder what niche plain old WPF will be relegated to in the next several years. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Angry Vista users vent over SP1 driver issues Computerworld, MA - 14 minutes ago Available on Windows. March 21, 2008 (Computerworld) Confused and angry users are blasting Microsoft Corp. on its own Vista blog over the requirements for ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Angry Vista users vent over SP1 driver issues InfoWorld, CA - 10 minutes ago Therefore, SP1 is not available to me via Windows Update," said "Fatalah" on the Vista blog. "SigmaTel was purchased by another company, and driver updates ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How to get Vista SP1 ITworld.com, MA - 34 minutes ago After refusing to let most users have Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) for weeks, Microsoft on Tuesday finally said everyone could have it. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> University Bans Vista SP1 Upgrades CIO Today, CA - 30 minutes ago By Barry Levine Driver problems are having a big impact on users upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the University of Pennsylvania has ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Angry Vista users vent over SP1 driver issues Computerworld, MA - 33 minutes ago Therefore, SP1 is not available to me via Windows Update," said "Fatalah" on the Vista blog. "SigmaTel was purchased by another company, and driver updates ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm in need of some IP geolocation, where I can preferably figure out latitude/longitude coordinates for a given IP address, or city and country information for said IP address. Either as a webservice, or as a database I can host and write my own web service for.*There's a bunch of things out there, but they're either incredibly expensive (like ip2country or maxmind), or inaccurate, like ip2location. There's also IPligence, but their free database only contains info per country, and the lat/long one is $200. Preferably, I'd spend $50 to*$80 a year, tops. Anyone who can recommend something? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Here are some quick facts: - 20-year work-in-progress - A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations - 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground - facilitating head-on collision of protons, traveling very near the speed-of-light - each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it. - temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core - superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space "We don’t even know what to expect," says French physicist Yves Schutz. "We’re now in a domain of energy that nobody has ever explored." http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/time-machine-worlds-biggest-particle.html More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This Week on Channel 9 we cover - Silverlight Streaming increases storage, traffic, and runs Silverlight 2.0 (0:55 - 1:57), via Angus Logan - Microsoft working Eclipse Foundation to support WPF with SWT and CardSpace (3:04 - 3:40) - Charles Torre and Don Box*interview Mary Jo Foley who gives her thoughts on Microsoft's blogging strategy (4:44 - 5:30) - Michael Scherotter interviews Ice Cube on using Silverlight for UVNTV.com*(5:50 - 7:43) - Sean Shypula and Luis Villegas from Bungie on the "Bungie Server Farm" for rendering lighting on Halo (7:43 - 11:00) - Arian Kulp's A Better Startup Experience Coding4Fun article (11:15 - 12:50) - Free WPF Controls - FluidKit Codeplex project and Xceed*DataGrid*Express (12:50 - 14:10) - Brian's Pick of the Week: Jeff Beehler, DevDiv Chief of Staff on showing how he uses TFS to manage Visual Studio (14:10 - 16:50) - Dan's Pick of the Week: SQLISV blog shows how to track execution statistics on running queries and converts a SQL cursor to a regular query and increases performance greatly, via Jason Haley (16:50 - 18:50) - It Came from the Internets: YouTube Best Series Award: College Humor's * (18:50 - 22:09) Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Has anyone here experimented with modelling XML (or some reasonable subset of the XML Information Set) as SQL tables? I know there are support for XML in some databases, but for those that don't have support, how'd you do it? [Actually the underlying database does support it, but the application platform over it does not.] I'm thinking the simplest solution is to have a nodeId, a nodeParentId, a nodeName, a nodeType (att, elem, text, cdata, pi, comment, ...) a nodeValue and possibly some more (maybe XS types). Binary nodes could be encoded as BLOB and output as Base64 encoded text. However, if you had such a structure it would be very convenient to also have an XPath implementation to query over it. That would be the next problem... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn InformationWeek, NY - 30 minutes ago ... via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third part of the update," wrote "Iggy33", in a comment posted Wednesday on Microsoft's Vista team blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds