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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all 'Windows XP' posts in Defensive Computing CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago On December 14th, I wrote that IBM recommends Windows XP. Unbeknownst to me, on the very same day a Lenovo blogger was griping about Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 Available Through Windows Update PC Magazine - 18 minutes ago You can get more details from the Microsoft Windows Vista Team Blog, and update your PC to Vista SP1 at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 downloadable now, ships tomorrow BetaNews - 12 minutes ago In a blog post just minutes ago, Windows Vista product manager Nick White acknowledged having encountered driver compatibility problems with the initial ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Vista SP1 ready for download CNET News.com, CA - 22 minutes ago Microsoft did make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available for download on Tuesday. Meanwhile, in a posting on the Windows Vista blog, Microsoft also went ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ Loooots of interesting projects! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Why not download it to listen to on your way to the UK launch event tomorrow? http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=325 If you're lucky he won't have had a chance to hear it himself by then and you can giggle and point at him knowingly telling him you've just heard the show and can't believe what they said about him ;) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Continuing our exploration of the Parallel Computing Platform and the folks who think it up and build it, we sit down with software developers*Joe Duffy (he wrote the original Parallel LINQ Think Week paper*that Bill Gates read and obviously enjoyed!)*and Igor Ostrovsky (he*spends his time implementing PLINQ and associated technologies)*to deeply dig into how PLINQ works. Lots of whiteboarding and great conversation in this one, as is usual with the people helping to shape our general purpose parallel computing development platform. 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'll have a full write-up later today, but if you've been itching to get your hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), it's available now from the Microsoft Download Center in 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) variants! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all 'Windows XP' posts in Defensive Computing CNET Blogs, CA - 25 minutes ago On December 14th, I wrote that IBM recommends Windows XP. Unbeknownst to me, on the very same day a Lenovo blogger was griping about Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Appears As Pre-Order On Amazon eFluxMedia - 23 minutes ago ... PC from sleep is faster on Service Pack 1,” explained some time ago Mike Nash, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President on Windows Vista official blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

On this episode of TechNet Radio, we get the scoop on the new forum for IT Pros – TechNet Edge.* We also feature highlights from the recent Vista SP1 Roundtable hosted by Mark Russinovich.* Plus, we have a conversation with Mark Souza from SQL CAT (Customer Advisory Team). Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer David Tesar – IT Pro Evangelist Mark Russinovich – Technical Fellow Paul Mestemaker – Program Manager, SQL CAT Best Practices Mark Souza – Director, SQL CAT Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hello, I have decided to create a small programming challenge and have written up the details on my blog: http://www.justnbusiness.com/Blogs/Prisoner's_Dilemma_.NET.aspx The challenge is all written in VS 2008 with 100% test coverage using the integrated unit testing features of VS (on the core library) and a WPF front end. So, at the very least, if you're looking for a simple example of Unit testing, WPF and Linq, all wrapped up,* this could be a fun and easy way to do it. Iwould love to get some participation from folks here, since the morepeople involved the more fun it will be. I first heard about thePrisoners Dilemma from one of Richard Dawkins videos on youtube and Ihave been interested in it ever since. Here is a little excerpt fromthe blog post about why I officially am doing this challenge: Whatcaused me to put together this challenge, though, was a conversation Ihad with a colleague regarding the use of torture as a valid means ofinterrogation. At some point in the discussion I decided to use thePrisoner’s Dilemma as an example to counter one of his arguments.Essentially he was arguing that American’s should be allowed to tortureterrorists because they are also torturing American soldiers. So, ofcourse, this discussion gets much more complicated than this but when Ibrought up the idea that the Prisoner’s Dilemma should illustrate thatcooperation is more beneficial than betrayal (or not torturing enemiesof America as, at least, a gesture to also not torture Americansoldiers) he disregarded the study and claimed that it has questionablescientific validity to begin with. So as someone who valuesreason I would like to perform a bit of a scientific study to validateor invalidate the theory behind the Prisoner’s Dilemma before wecontinue with this point of the debate. So if you're up to it give it a shot! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Have you ever created your own Office 2007 ribbon bar tab and wanted to place it on the ribbon bar someplace other than the end of the ribbon bar? You can do this, and all you need is one download and some simple instructions. List of Control IDs In this short 5 minute screencast I'll show you how to use Visual Studio 2008 to create a Word 2007 add-in with a custom ribbon bar using the visual designer and place that ribbon anyplace you want on the Word ribbon bar. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/390707.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Death match: Windows Vista versus XP InfoWorld, CA - Mar 17, 2008 Point by point and blow by blow, we offer 10 reasons enterprises can skip Windows Vista and stick with XP By Randall C. Kennedy So there you are, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ The Tech Herald <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 available today claims Amazon The Tech Herald, IN - 18 minutes ago As things stand however, both the Windows Update site and official Windows Vista blog show no obvious signs of Vista SP1’s imminent arrival, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I know this is a little old, but what an engineering feat? I really have to take a really deep breath - i know all the environment stuff. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7301455.stm More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Yougle 0.4.0 brings YouTube, Flickr to Vista Media Center TV Squad, CA - 24 minutes ago Yougle developer Steven Harding has released a major update to his Windows Media Center plugin which lets you access online video and image sites like ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Apple rolls out Safari 3.1 browser CNET News.com, CA - 37 minutes ago ... X Tiger version 10.4.11 operating systems; Windows users will need to be running Windows XP or Windows Vista. Click this link to view this blog as XML. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've been reading a lot about this and from what I understand, a user switching to another program means that the first one has to save its state and shut down. What I can't get my head around, is why this is such a big deal? It's not a desktop machine. It's a PDA ... no-one is going to be compiling code on it while waiting for a train. I have a WM6 PDA and since the whole screen is taken by each app I'm running, then I'm not really sure what multi-tasking is giving me ... except the nasty feeling that any programs hanging around in memory may not have saved data. Am I missing something? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Apple rolls out Safari 3.1 browser CNET News.com, CA - 4 minutes ago ... X Tiger version 10.4.11 operating systems; Windows users will need to be running Windows XP or Windows Vista. Click this link to view this blog as XML. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've just been reading this, and although I haven't had time to play with the MVC stuff yet it has me a little worried - can anyone who has played with it comment on their thoughts with it so far? http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif From the article wrote: Building models with LINQ is death by a thousand cuts.**PAINFUL. ... If your app doesn’t fit the square peg, you get to chisel it out with a spork. Wonder if there is anything about MVC at HHH? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Our projects are large(ish) WinForms projects that currently have up to 29 separate projects within the main solution file. I seem to spend an awful lot of time battling with VS2005 crashes (white screen of death in particular) and freezes (one project always freezes for about 5 minutes whenever you first open a form designer and I haven't been able to track down the cause). I also spend a lot of time battling the design (or rather the non-design) of the code itself (very high coupling). I probably spend about 30-50% of my dev-time either re-booting VS or trying to reverse-engineer obscure pieces of code and actually fairly little time just banging out code at a good rate. We are doing something to try and improve the code design, but it's a slow process. How bad\good do other people here have it? Herbie More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Death match: Windows Vista versus XP InfoWorld, CA - Mar 17, 2008 Point by point and blow by blow, we offer 10 reasons enterprises can skip Windows Vista and stick with XP By Randall C. Kennedy So there you are, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Read all 'Windows Vista SP1' posts in News Blog CNet News.com Blog - 2 minutes ago Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be available for shipping on Wednesday, March 19, according to a listing on Amazon.com. People can pre-order them ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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