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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Wal-Mart Weekly: Checking out the retailer's unfiltered blog BloggingStocks - 26 minutes ago s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Vista a good tongue lashing, stating this about the world's largest software company's popular computer operating system: "Is it ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> ZDNet Resources ZDNet - Mar 5, 2008 Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Games, Uberclok, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, Microsoft Windows Product reviews 2008-02-08 Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm very interested in how people learn to use software because I talk to all sorts of users all the time and their concept of how software works or should work is very different from what's actually true. Most people got thrown into the world of software somewhere around the Windows 98 days or later and have never been taught any of the basic concepts that help you stay organized when dealing with files, folders and*executable files*that re-occur in all software/operating systems because they've become standards. Us geeks have been using computers from before the days of mice and nice UIs so we*understand what's happening "under the hood" better than the average office worker that uses Simply Accounting*on an average XP box*or the fisherman who only uses a browser to check the weather and nothing more (mostly because they don't feel they're smart enough to do anyting more complicated). These people usually have perfectly good computers* that can do a ridiculous number of useful, creative and fun things. It has nothing to do with the hardware, it's all about "Mastery" of their software. The more you master your software tools the more satisfied you will be with your computer. I was watching*the video of Jensen Harris' Office 2007 interface presentation at MIX08 http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/mix08/08_WMVs/UX09.wmv It's a great video that many people should watch but at the beginning he showed one slide entitled "Good Enough". http://ms-os.com/ Now... Jensen's talk was about interface design but that's not what I'm talking about here (even though I think it's VERY important). The part of this slide I'm interested in is "I would be better at my job if I knew how to use it more" When the new Live adds*came out on Youtube a while ago showing people using the products and not just some useless fancy swishing letters and smiley multi-cultural people that didn't inform people as to what the tools actually did, I was glad to see someone was trying to give*out useful information that*would help people use the software in a more productive way. Microsoft*need to put MORE emphasis on helping people learn*and less on ineffective marketing. A*bit of simple training put in video form on a well publicised website and on TV can help take away the mystery of software and give users a feeling of having mastered the tools they use every day. It would also help make*them see how ridiculous*it is when*people blame Microsoft for everything. It's certainly allot better than just telling someone "It's your own fault your computer is a disorganized mess", which in many cases is true but that's not going to make the situation any better. * perfectly good as long as you don't give it to a fearless person who installs all the free junk they can find online that*usually ends up taking over their entire machine. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, in an application I would like to open an html page with the Webrowser control, but instead of showing the start of the document, to show the bottom of it (automatic scrolldown) Does anyone now if this is possible with mobile IE? thanx More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Especially from the network. Copy a file, mouse starts jumping all over the place. It's hard to believe that a 3rd party plugin which replaces the Vista functionality is just so much better. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I think it would be great if you could configure the input method per application. Some apps work better with the onscreen keyboard, others work better with the block recogniser, and OneNote works really well with this handwriting recognition thing that I've installed. Now if the right input thingy would pop up as you changed applications .... Thanks for listening. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Language Packs Delay Vista Ultimate SP1 PC World - Mar 5, 2008 "We will be releasing Windows Vista SP1 in two 'waves'," said White in a post to the Vista team's blog . "The first wave will only provide Windows Vista SP1 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: No Delay for Windows Vista CRN, NY - 15 hours ago ... Corp. clarified earlier statements and said that the release for Windows Vista SP1 release has not delayed, according to a company blog posting. ... Microsoft's Vista Ultimate Woes Continue Appscout all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Responding to reports that there will be a delay in Windows Vista Service Pack 1, product manager Nick White has this to say:Aside from our having accelerated SP1 availability to MSDN/TechNet subscribers and volume licensing customers, there has been no change in the release.As updates for the problematic drivers become available, they will be installed [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows "Workstation" 2008 Clobbers Vista in Benchmark Testing InfoWorld, CA - Mar 5, 2008 You can read all the gory details over at the exo.blog site. Suffice to say that there's a new option for power users who are fed-up with Vista's ... Microsoft's Vista Ultimate Woes Continue Appscout More Microsoft Vista SP1 Release Date Woes DABCC.com (press release) Language Packs Delay Vista Ultimate SP1 PC World all 12 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: No Delay for Windows Vista CRN, NY - 13 hours ago ... Corp. clarified earlier statements and said that the release for Windows Vista SP1 release has not delayed, according to a company blog posting. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Joshua Jacobson, Product Manager for Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista gives Michael Scherotter*a tour of the latest beta of the product.* The coolest feature in this latest version built using WPF is voice visualizations that animate graphically based on the audio.* This latest version of Yahoo! Messenger is planned to ship in Q2 2008. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Fitt's Law It was either 9er Brian Shapiro or Michael that first introduced me too Fitt's Law - which basically just means "put things close together - so you can reach them easy"*

I know that strtok() is not thread safe, so I am wondering, does it return a memory location to which it keeps a static pointer or does it keep no pointer to the memory location it returns? I guess what I am really asking is, will I be generating garbage if I do not explicitly free the pointer it returns? Typically, I would think that answer would be yes, but since strtok() is not threadsafe, that might not be the case. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> More Microsoft Vista SP1 Release Date Woes CRN, NY - Mar 4, 2008 "We will be releasing Windows Vista SP1 in two waves," wrote Nick White, a Vista product manager, in a Microsoft blog posting on Monday. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft strives for 'The Singularity' with new operating system - EETimes.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft strives for 'The Singularity' with new operating system EETimes.com - 8 hours ago Microsoft said it has released to developers a "dependable" new operating system -- and it isn't Windows Vista. The company is developing an OS for research ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Dean mentioned a bunch of things we are doing in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers. I want to point you to more details specifically about the developer focused changes to CSS, the DOM and the new version targeting. Standards support (CSS/HTML) IE8 improves rendering of content authored to various web standards in standards mode. As we have mentioned before, IE8 Beta 1 for Developers ships with standards mode as its default formatting engine. In order to maintain backwards compatibility, sites can opt-into IE7-like handling of content by inserting a special meta element into the web page, that triggers the "IE7 standards mode". For more complete details regarding document compatibility, see Defining Document Compatibility. While the behavior of the browser is unchanged from Internet Explorer 7 in "IE7 Standards Mode", in standards mode (the default IE8 rendering mode), IE8 supports Data: URIs, the abbr tag, CSS generated content, the display: table CSS properties, in addition to fixing a lot of CSS and HTML parsing bugs. For a complete list, see CSS Improvements in Internet Explorer 8. Standards support (DOM) and AJAX CSS is not the only place where we tuned IE8, we tweaked the DOM as well. IE8 features an enhanced and standardized DOM that brings it in line with implementations in other browsers. Highlights include changes in the behavior of the getAttribute, setAttribute and removeAttribute modifiers to make IE8 more interoperable with other browsers. Additionally, IE8 has dramatically enhanced AJAX support with features like DOM: Storage, Cross Document Messaging (XDM) and the Selectors APIs. For a more complete list of AJAX and DOM improvements, see What’s New in Internet Explorer 8. Last but certainly not least, we have added support for the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification. This specification describes how site authors can mark up their content semantically such that users who might use assistive technologies may more completely experience the content. See What’s New for Accessibility in Internet Explorer 8 for a comprehensive discussion of this topic. It has been great to see all of the wonderful feedback on the beta thus far and remember that IE8 is still a work in progress. Stay tuned for more details here on our blog and on the IE Development Center on MSDN. Thanks and Happy Browsing, Doug Stamper Principal Program Management Lead Internet Explorer Developer Experience Team http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8104939 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

CREATETABLE #TEST (Keyfield varchar(30)NULL) INSERTINTO #Test (keyfield)VALUES('M-S Logistics'); INSERTINTO #Test (keyfield)VALUES('Monster Racing'); INSERTINTO #Test (keyfield)VALUES('Mueller Farms'); DECLARE @Search ASnvarchar(30), @Search2 ASvarchar(30) --Query 1 SET @Search ='Monster Racing' SELECTTOP(1) keyfield FROM #Test WHERE keyfield >= @Search; --Query 2 SET @Search2 ='Monster Racing' SELECTTOP(1) keyfield FROM #Test WHERE keyfield >= @Search2; -- Why does query 2 return different result than query 1 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows "Workstation" 2008 Clobbers Vista in Benchmark Testing InfoWorld, CA - Mar 5, 2008 You can read all the gory details over at the exo.blog site. Suffice to say that there's a new option for power users who are fed-up with Vista's ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: No Delay for Windows Vista CRN, NY - 3 hours ago ... Corp. clarified earlier statements and said that the release for Windows Vista SP1 release has not delayed, according to a company blog posting. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Over the past year, I’ve written about different tools to help web developers become more productive when developing in Internet Explorer. These tools came from partners inside and outside Microsoft. One – the IE Developer Toolbar – came from the IE team in response to your requests for a free, lightweight tool to help debug your site in IE. The IE8 Developer Tools are the next step in helping make developers more productive in Internet Explorer. In this post I’ll introduce you to what’s available in IE8 Beta 1 and point you to more detailed information about the tools. Integrated, Simple-to-use Developer Tools Internet Explorer 8 simplifies the process of debugging by including developer tools out of the box and making those tools easy to use. Instead of having to find, download, and install a separate debugging application, just press SHIFT+F12, or click the developer tools icon in the command bar. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/Toolbar.Icon.png And if you want to debug JScript, switch to the script tab and press ‘Start Debugging’. Even if script debugging is disabled, Internet Explorer 8 will remind you that it will refresh the page and enable debugging for only the current IE instance so you won’t see script error dialogs as you browse the web. Or, if you prefer to avoid the page refresh and dialog, just enable script debugging for Internet Explorer in the ‘Advanced’ tab of the Internet Options Control Panel. Here’s a view of the debugger: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/Debugger.png We also heard your feedback about the IE Developer Toolbar’s impact on performance even without the tool open, so we created a more robust design that resolves the problem. As we built on this new design for beta 1, we focused on new scenarios rather than putting back all features from the IE Developer Toolbar. As a result, you’ll notice many features from the IE Developer Toolbar aren’t available in IE8 Beta 1. In future betas, however, we’ll continue to add new features while bringing back the functionality of the Developer Toolbar so you can continue using the features you’re already familiar with. A Visual Interface to the Platform In addition to simplifying the debugging process, IE8 Developer Tools offer a new perspective on your site. Instead of just a source view, the tool provides visibility into Internet Explorer’s internal representation of the site. For example, the DOM tree in the tool is built from the tree IE builds internally to display the page, not from your source. So if script changes the tree, IE8 shows you the updated tree. You can also view style information for an element to better understand what rules apply or what rules specify a given style property, as show below. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/ElementStyleInfo.png Fast Experimentation The Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools also provide the ability to experiment and iterate rapidly by letting you edit a site within IE. For example, once you’ve found a style rule or property you’re interested in, click a checkbox to enable or disable it, or click an attributes in the DOM tree to edit it in-place. The tools also provide easy access to all available rendering modes so you can test different modes quickly: http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ie/WindowsLiveWriter/ImprovedProductivitythroughInternetExplo_A60E/clip_image007%5B4%5D_thumb.jpg By removing the need to save changes, switch between applications, and refresh the page, the tools make it faster and easier to test, debug, or just experiment. More Information For more information about the Internet Explorer Developer Tools, check out these resources: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 – download the beta, try the tools, and tell us what you think! Developer Tools whitepaper Developer Tools SDK page Demo video: overview (video version of this post) Demo video: debugging (~6min) Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Release NotesThanks! John Hrvatin Program Manager Internet Explorer http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8058759 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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