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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> DIY Users Set Up 'Vista Workstation' IT Management, CT - Mar 13, 2008 By Stuart J. Johnston Does Windows Vista seem a little sluggish and underpowered? Want to switch to an edition of Windows with a little extra kick to it? ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

How Can Investors Play Both Sides of the Microsoft Vista Debacle? (Market Intelligence Center)We can be stupider than me (The Globe and Mail)Creative releases new X-Fi drivers for Vista and XP (Tech Spot)Win Server 2008 Directory Services, Windows Server 2008 Functional Levels Overview (Server Watch)Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I came across this post by Chris who wasn’t happy when configuring a new laptop for purchase over at the DELL website. There is no anti-virus available for his Windows XP operating system and as such his only option is to buy Windows Vista on his DELL.According to him: This leaves me with one choice. [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It is pathetic to sue a government agency for using Windows Vista without giving Linux a chance throught bidding. Savoir Faire Linux, a Linux advocate company, sued Régie des Rentes du Québec this week for not giving free open source software a chance in the agency. In an excerpt:Savoir Faire Linux’s position is that Windows [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this commentary, I examine the iPhone's evolution into a true smartphone! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

PC World grabbed three awards in the 54th annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards held in New York. PC World has won a Neal Award for best subject-related series of articles particularyly in Windows Vista. In an excerpt: PC World’s ongoingcoverage of Windows Vista started as soon as the long-delayed operating system arrived. A detailed review [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Intel computers based on Atom chip desktop computers ranging from $199 - $250 can run Windows Vista Started Kit. In an excerpt of the story found here. Intel expects an Atom chip, code-named Diamondville, to be used in fanless desktop computers designed for basic tasks like surfing the Internet or viewing standard-definition DVDs. The company expects the [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is a spinoff from a post that I made in the "Microsoft not doing enough to encourge females?" thread. My post made me think of this, but I did not want to take the thread off topic. I recall speaking to a girl who was majoring in Linguistics and upon learning her major, I asked her what languages could she speak. She immediately used some sort of body language that I could not understand, but I believe the general jist of it was "you complete moron, that is not what a linguist does" and she proceeded to say something along those lines. There is a maxim that says "A good programmer can write code in any language." That might be "A good programmer can write Fortran in any language," but I am not from that generation so I am not sure what is correct. Anyway, I would expect that by extension, a good Computer Scientist could write code in any language and since a Linguist does for human languages what a computer scientist does for computer languages, also by extension, I would expect a good Linguist to do the same thing for human languages. There are two cases here. One is that the girl to whom I spoke is not a good Linguist, which would answer my question and there would be no point to this thread. The other is that she is a good Linguist. I do not understand why a good Linguist would not be able to speak/write in multiple languages. I am not an assembly programmer by any means, but the other day, I had some disassembly from Visual Studio that I wanted to optimize. It was produced under debug mode and the "optimized" version I made was inferior to what Visual Studio produced under release mode, although it could have been made better with the appropriate modifications, as I had used 2 registers when I needed to use 4 and Visual Studio used the full 4. I had not realized that you could not use constants as operands in x87 assembly, which is something I was still trying to find a way to do when I saw what Visual Studio had done. Anyway, I downloaded a pdf of Intel IA-32 Architecture Software Developer's Manual and I was able to produce better optimized assembly than what Visual Studio produced in debug mode. I even learned that simply rearranging parts of a equation enabled Visual Studio to generate better optimized assembly in debug mode. Even though I am not an assembly programmer, I was able to write some assembly language because I am a computer science student. So, operating under the assumption that this girl to whom I spoke is a good Linguist, why it is that linguists, who study human languages, cannot (or more appropriately, do not) speak multiple languages, despite the fact that Computer Scientists, who study computers, can write code in multiple languages? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft keeps on improving their virtualization technology by buying Kidaro, a desktop virtualization management software developer. Microsoft plans to integrate its technology into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance. Microsoft is putting weight on improving their virtualization technology since this should push consumers to use Windows Vista and dump everything incompatible in a virtualized [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Windows 7 is expected to be released by Microsoft in 2010 as the general consensus around. In a statement to Softpedia: We are currently in the planning stages for Windows 7 and development is scoped to three years from Windows Vista Consumer GA. The specific release date will be determined once the company meets its [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

via TechCrunch "€99 million to Thomson and 22 other European companies to create Quaerohttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.21.0.2/t.gif, a multimedia search engine (Danny Sullivan notes Thomson was already in this business and then sold it off). This is on top of €120 millionhttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.21.0.2/t.gif approved last year for Germany’s Theseus research project, which will develop and test new search technologies for the Internet." *sigh* you'd think this would be against some law somehow More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm moving my video game reviews to the SuperSite blog and the first is now available, for the lackluster Turning Point: Fall of Liberty for Xbox 360! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Friday Rant - More “Vista is doomed” nonesense ZDNet - Mar 14, 2008 Now I’ve written a lot about Windows Vista over the years. I’ve delivered scathing criticism and heaped bounteous praise on the OS. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

US antritrust officials are acting early by keeping Windows 7, successor of Windows Vista, close to their hearts. The technical team of the regulators have already taken responsibility of a Windows 7 copy to ensure it abides antitrust rulings set in 2002.According to the report of US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly at the end of [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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hi!!!:) i'am new to channel 9..plz help me out.. i do not know much abt snmp* and v hv to do a project on snmp netwrokingin our college(for printers).....so plzzzz help.. i want to know how to implement snmp in java..... how do we actually send getrequest messsages to agent wt tools do we hv to use.... and wt abt mib variables... do we need to import mib variables in our pc.... also do all windows sytems hv basic snmp service..if not hhow do we install snmp service for windows xp.. u can mail me at smruthi_g@yahoo.com ....thanks in advance for ur concern...:):) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft relaxed Vista virtualization rules to quash antitrust ... Computerworld, MA - Mar 11, 2008 In a post to the Vista team blog that day, Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows product management, had mentioned the new rules only in passing, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WinInfo Short Takes: Week of March 17, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 6 hours ago Read 'em and weep, both for the future of journalism and for the continued right-wing conspiracy (for lack of a better term) against Windows Vista. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Check it out! I'm going to be an MSP :D (soon) Along with Donald and Josh (Gogole, TheContempt/Wa - from C8) http://www.continental-8.com also works, but it's just a frame redirect, until we get the proper server up'n'running. Anyways, we've got to write a WPF application, and we eventually decided on a Blogging tool. Here's where you lot come in.. name it! http://www.continental-8.com (also, could somebody let me know the age of the youngest msp?) //edit: fixed Gogle > Gogole More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this demo, Chris Mayo, the technical evangelist for Unified Communications (UC) and John Rauschenberger from Clarity Consulting*team up to show how developers can customize UC features to hit everything from outgoing calls, IP phone, to smart presence awareness. John also whiteboards how the whole thing works from an architecture perspective. 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"> Why I downgraded from Vista to XP Register, UK - Mar 12, 2008 The machine came with Windows Vista Business Edition pre-installed and when I was playing with it in the shop, it was pretty responsive – the 1.2Gz Core2 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Friday Rant - More “Vista is doomed” nonesense ZDNet - 6 hours ago Now I’ve written a lot about Windows Vista over the years. I’ve delivered scathing criticism and heaped bounteous praise on the OS. ... And the best desktop operating system is… eWeek all 4 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The "Save Windows XP" Campaign Rages On IT Management, CT - 17 hours ago Major publications like the Wall Street Journal have weighed in on the matter as well, with one of its user commenting that Windows Vista is to XP what ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi,* I just moved an existing client with classic ASP to aGodaddy* server running IIS7. I need to see error messages to debug, but I don't know how to do that without accessing the server.* I called GoDaddy tech support, but they have no idea, and the GoDaddy control panel offers no help for this. There MUST be a by-page way to do that - at least I hope there is.* Does anyone have the classic asp code that would go on a page that would show the detailed errors in IIS7? Any ideas? Thanks More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds