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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Visual Studio 2008 is here! Geekzone, New Zealand - 21 minutes ago As well as making VS even easier to use, these improvements allow developers to make the most of new features in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Jemals gewundert was die häufigste gestellte Fragen auf einer Launch-Veranstaltung sind? Oder vielleicht was für skurrile Fragen von Teilnehmern kommen? Auf dem Launch Event 2008 in Frankfurt haben Katrin Letzel und Florian Eichinger (MVP-Leads für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz) die Experten von dem Ask-the-Expert-Stand über die Veranstaltung befragt.*Schauen Sie das Video an, um zu erfahren, was die Experten (ATEs) darüber gesagt haben. Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Windows XP faster than Vista SP1 in some cases Computerworld, MA - Feb 28, 2008 Several users commenting on Microsoft's official Vista blog — where mention was made of the tests — took exception to Principled's conclusion that Vista SP1 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vom 19.-21. Februar war ich auf dem Microsoft Launch 2008 für Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 und Visual Studio 2008 und der Deutsche SharePoint Konferenz 2008.* Über 7000 Teilnehmer waren in Frankfurt, um mehr über die neue Produkte zu erfahren und über Lösungen mit Office SharePoint 2007 zu informieren.* Auf dem Launch habe ich ein paar Interviews durchgeführt.* In diesem Video sind die Interviews, die ich dachte, interessant für Entwickler wäre … Ich habe mit Michael Kalbe, Content Owner von dem Launch, über die Planung, die Veranstaltung und das Leben danach gesprochen.* Ich habe Torsten Weber, Marcel Hoyer, und Grischa Jacobs über das Projekt Codename Trian geinterviewt.* Trian ist das deutsche Referenzprojekt für Visual Studio 2008.* Mit dem 12-Jahrigen Philipp Wornath habe ich über Programmierung gesprochen und er hat mir sein neuste Spiel (OScatcher), das er entwickelt hat, gezeigt.* Ich habe auch mit Albert Weinert über das Community-Event, Afterlaunch (Launch war gestern – heute ist Praxis) am Freitag 11. April 2008, im Konferenz Zentrum im Technologiepark Köln geredet Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RTM means "release to mob" for Vista SP1 Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 5 hours ago Rolling up fixes means that new Vista users will get one big download from Windows Update instead of dozens of little ones, and there won't be any wondering ... Windows Server 2008 is here PCWorld.co.nz all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Kirk Evans interviews Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge, looking at the JNBridge JMS Adapters for .NET and BizTalk. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone know of a good way to intelligently sort strings? Consider in the case of filenames, "index2.shtml" should come before "index10.shtml", but since String.CompareTo(x,y) does a binary/alphabetic per-char comparison it fails and puts "index10.shmtl" before "index2.shtml". EDIT: Nvm, my terminology's wrong so Google wasn't helping. It seems I'm after Natural Search algos. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've been doing a little animation in Stickfigure Animator, for my welsh class. Unfortunately it doesn't support multiple backgrounds so I made each animation with a different background seperate, with aspirations of stitching the 12 GIFs together. Anybody know of a simple/free way of doing this? Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RTM means "release to mob" for Vista SP1 Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 3 hours ago Rolling up fixes means that new Vista users will get one big download from Windows Update instead of dozens of little ones, and there won't be any wondering ... Windows XP SP3: The improvements are under the hood Computerworld all 5 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I’ve got an old PC, which has a failing C: drive in it.* This PC has only 512 MB of RAM, and it is expensive RAM so I don’t want to upgrade to 1 GB.* It also has a second hard drive, as the D: drive, which works fine.* I am thinking of installing XP Pro onto the D: drive.* What I’m wondering about is will there be a problem making this the primary drive, especially if the C: drive fails me completely?* I believe there is a file called BOOT.INI which lists the hard drives and which one is the primary drive, etc.* My guess is that BOOT.INI is on the C: drive.* If C: fails, then won’t that make it impossible for the machine to know which is the correct boot drive? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RTM means "release to mob" for Vista SP1 Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 1 hour ago Rolling up fixes means that new Vista users will get one big download from Windows Update instead of dozens of little ones, and there won't be any wondering ... Windows XP SP3: The improvements are under the hood Computerworld all 5 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ ZDNet Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> March 2nd, 2008 ZDNet Blogs - 1 hour ago Consider this, Microsoft spends huge amounts of dollars and manpower creating protections for the Vista operating system, yet we still have old school ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RTM means "release to mob" for Vista SP1 Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 16 minutes ago Rolling up fixes means that new Vista users will get one big download from Windows Update instead of dozens of little ones, and there won't be any wondering ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Getting support for this stuff is hard...help.live.com is pretty much useless. I think there is a bug in Windows Live Photo Gallery, I just got a Nikon S210, and each time I try to import files, I get an error like this... http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/trix_1520/Error.png Now, with Windows Photo Gallery ( the app that comes with Vista) it imports just fine, but tagging support sucks compared to Live Photo Gallery.*Copying the pictures using explorer works fine too, but that doesn't allow tagging as well. Anyone know how to get a bug report right to the right people. I've tried live feedback, their contact on their blog.... Or is there something I could possibly doing wrong...I would doubt it but I guess it isn't impossible. Now that this product doesn't work for me, anyone have any other suggestions, any good import tools? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Lifetime DVD MPEG4 to MPG is a powerful video conversion program and easy convert MPG to MPEG, AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MOV, RM, VCD, DVD, SVCD formats. also can support batch video files conversion of different video formats such as DVD AVI MPEG ASF MOV SWF at the same time. it also can support to burn VCD SVCD DVD. And best of all, it has a powerful video decompress/compress engine that convert whole MPG movie to DVD in 30 minutes! Except for converting AVI to iPod Video and converting Video to iPod,it also supports converting among MPG, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MOV, RM, PSP Video, iPod Video, Zune Video, iPhone Video! http://www.iphone-software.org/download/b09/dvdtompg.exe More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> (Credit: Hands-On Mobile) CNET Blogs, CA - 1 hour ago Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. We spend way too much time inside our small Silicon ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> (Credit: Hands-On Mobile) CNET Blogs, CA - 15 minutes ago Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. We spend way too much time inside our small Silicon ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I googled a forum from this site where someone was also looking for an old Windows 95 game so I guessed this site could help. It was sort of like an army game; you started at a base and moved around the soldiers to a spot you wanted to move them to. I barely remember it, so I was hoping someone can help me find it. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was having some problems with IsWellFormedUriString where it was saying "index.shtml#foo" wasn't a valid URI, even though it is. A quick google showed this MS Connect entry, I've just added my own verification (and a workaround) and the entry is closed as "By Design" with no explanation. Can anyone else confirm or offer any explanation? Ta! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Last November, I wrote a C program that can find large prime numbers (using the Lucas Lehmer test for mersenne prime numbers). Today, I installed Ubuntu 6.10 LTS in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and proceeded to install gcc, m4, autoconf and gmp. I also installed all of the patches available for Ubuntu and upgraded the kernel to the i686 version. I downloaded the source code for my program from my university's unix server using sch and compiled my program using GCC. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my program executed in a Virtual PC far faster than it executes on Windows. Here are some numbers: Testing all of the mersenne numbers ((2^x) - 1) between 0 and 2281 takes 1 second on Ubuntu and 3 seconds on windows. Testing all of the mersenne numbers between 0 and 3217 takes 5 seconds on Ubuntu and 10 seconds on Windows. Testing M21701 ((2^21701) - 1) takes 6 seconds on Ubuntu and 20 seconds on Windows. You could say that my program runs twice as fast on Ubuntu, but that would be wrong, because Microsoft Virtual PC does not have SMP support, so my these tests are being run in a single thread on Ubuntu and two threads on Windows (three if you include the main thread that waits for the other threads to terminate) with the exception of the test of M21701, which uses a single thread on both. Since I am using win32-pthreads for multithreading, I decided to do another run that would eliminate shared resources between the threads as a source of overhead by ensuring that each thread had a ton of work to do before needing to lock the mutex. So I tested all of the mersenne numbers between 2281 and 3217. It took 4 seconds on Ubuntu and 7 seconds on Windows. The variables here are the operating systems and the compilers. I am running Windows Media Center 2005 Edition with Visual Studio 2008 Professional and under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Ubuntu 6.10 LTS with GCC 4.03. I am compiling my program in Visual Studio 2008 Professional under release mode with all compilation flags that I could find set. That includes /Ox, /Ob2, /Ot, /Oy, /GL, /arch:SSE2, /fp:fast and /GS-. I am compiling my program on Ubuntu with the following command: gcc -m32 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=k8 -march=k8 mersenne.c /usr/local/lib/gmp.so There are no background processes running that are sucking up CPU resources and I did each test (particularly on Windows) several times to try to minimize the negativity of the results. The code is the same and the hardware is the same. The only other variable is Virtual PC, which should be harming performance on Ubuntu, not Windows. So would anyone be able to tell me, exactly what is making my program run so much slower on Windows than it runs on Ubuntu? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

How can you trust a new guy? One can never be sure who is who... well, almost :D Just wanted to prove my point. Take care everyone! I won't be back again. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I keep trying to mark this post by blehbleh/siyavash/whatever as spam however for some reason whenever I hit the report spam button it jumps to the first page and marks this post of blowdarts as spam :s Do I take this to mean that the c9 codebase wants to see rahsoftware in his bikini with a 9guy? [6] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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We have been using AzMan at our client projects for a while now, and though we do not use the complete set of features in Azman, there have been deployment issues when we try to port the azman store from our development servers to the QA servers and deployment servers. Are there any tools that support Azman deployment (basically making it easy), or are there any other options that we can use for role-based authorization with similar functionality like MS Azman. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds