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Spam, Spam, Spam. I guess the definition of spam is rather vague. I check my e-mail box, I find something there I didn't ask for that is annoying, it's spam. In this context I guess spam would be anything anyone finds offensive or irrelevant. So, by that definition, this post is spam to someone, and I will go ahead and mark it as such. Moving past that I guess I'm at a loss as to what the spam button is supposed to be used for. Is it just for the google juicers trying to sling junk. Or can we also use it as troll retardant? If Duncan or Charles could lay down some kind of best practice here, or at least a guideline, I would appreciate it. What do other niners think? Should it be used just for ad spammers, or for trolls and irrelevant content (A !, Raymond, Corona, Shooby, etc)? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Pajamas Media <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 'Cold Boot' encryption hack unlikely, says Microsoft Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago Russ Humphries, a senior product manager for Windows Vista security, reacted Friday to reports last week about a new low-tech technique that could be used ... Disk encryption easily cracked, researchers find LinuxWorld.au http://ms-os.com/images/news_comment_bubble12.gifComment by Steven Sprague CEO Wave Systems Corp all 10 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Nasty, rude comments are bad enough - but when Moderators become negligent* and abusive it is time to leave [6] http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=385920 * Out of all the quality topics created, http://channel9.msdn.com/showuserthreads.aspx?userid=4468 *that last one was the one most excited about sharing. How can anyone in their right mind consider that SPAM http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/every-1-billboard-single-1955-1990-music-album-covers if this sort of rude, arrogant, insulting behavior is acceptable on this forum* - - why bother????!!! There will be no* future visits to this post* so it is not necessary to reply - unless you want to chat among yourselves about the issue More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 'Cold Boot' encryption hack unlikely, says Microsoft Computerworld, MA - 21 minutes ago Russ Humphries, a senior product manager for Windows Vista security, reacted Friday to reports last week about a new low-tech technique that could be used ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Recover Files Using Vista's Built-In Shadow Copies Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 43 minutes ago Windows Vista only: Shadow Copies, an automated file version saver built into all copies of Windows Vista (and enabled by default), isn't a complete backup ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'd like to point out that this is not a flame post before I start. Where do you go to submit an issue to Microsoft about Vista? Normally I'd go to Microsoft Connect and add a report to what I am testing there. I can't see any section for Vista though. Anyone have any idea's? Ta More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

n my latest editorial, I examine Microsoft's recent interoperability announcement: Is it for real, or is this just more of the same? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

James Silva was one of the stars of GDC 2008, presenting his good work in a keynote where good things were announced by the XNA People...* James created the winning entry in a recent XNA contest. His game is based on his experience as a dishwasher in a restaurant where he wasn't afforded proper respect. The result of this legitimate angst*is the XNA-based (managed XNA, specifically, fully written in C#)*Dishwasher Death Samurai :) I caught up with James and a few XNA People, Program Managers Mitch Walker and Michael*Klutcher,*to discuss James' game, XNA (what does XNA stand for, anyway? What does XNA encompass from a platform perspective? What does the recent XBox Live Arcade announcement mean? We also get to see an XNA game running on a Zune (very cool!). And there's more... Tune in. Enjoy. Low res version here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Why can Windows not read / write to HFS or even see it? I had to install some 3rd party crap just to do this. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7264321.stm Sam Tyler - Life On Mars. To Gene Hunt: "I think you've forgotten who you're talking to." Sam: "An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding?" ... a bit like Blowdart ;) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Apparently, we're "them" now... http://gf2vqg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prWzlKVgb18GRlD6HlyCdazisLlDDtJxgydPBTgV3o8U_dm-86VhZiflsAi-rchE47SfoBliBxpJQ0c-YzVfQ15Ydw6tz5mHw/them.png :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Disk crypto not defeated SecurityFocus, CA - 4 hours ago In a post to the Windows Vista Security blog, a Microsoft manager pointed out, however, that laptop users that are willing to slightly reduce a notebook ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

From the apps I've tried it sucks; and as usual for web2.0 stuff tries to layer it's own UI over things rather than look like a native OS program. What exactly is Air trying to be anyway? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm constantly looking for edification and am shocked at how prescient this paper is (prescient as in nineteen-eighty-four); http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html Well worth a read if you've never read it. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've been trying to use Windows Live Mail's built in reader for accessing connect newsgroups, but I'm having problems. Anyone able to suggest a good free newsgroup reader? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Join this session and find out how Microsoft IT is empowering the mobile workforce via the deployment of the Windows Mobile platform. Microsoft IT fully integrates Windows Mobile features and applications, with both established hardware and infrastructure, and future plans support master security policy migrations, such as complete two-factor authentication operations. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer John Albertson - Microsoft IT Mobile Service Planner *- John Albertson has 30 years background as a security and technology design, delivery, and operations professional.* After his early role of mobile field troubleshooter, he became determined to work in the computing headwaters of improving infrastructure and mobile services, for the past 16 years at Microsoft.* He has recently inverted his traveling devices profile from 3 PC’s and 2 handheld devices, to 1 notebook and 5 or more handhelds. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Zhiming Xue interviews Victor Mushkatin, CTO of AVIcode, a Microsoft partner that has developed and licensed to Microsoft some of its flagship .NET application management solution based on MOM and Operations Manager 2007. In this discussion, Victor Mushkatin shares his view on why application management is important to architects and architects, and explains how AVIcode’s Intercept Studio was created from a high-level architecture perspective and how it works with some demos. He mentions that its next release will support new features of the .NET framework such as WCF and WF. Download the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Disk crypto not defeated SecurityFocus, CA - 36 minutes ago In a post to the Windows Vista Security blog, a Microsoft manager pointed out, however, that laptop users that are willing to slightly reduce a notebook ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Time to dump Windows? Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago "Windows Vista was the reason I bought a Mac mini. I didn't want my only choices to be an operating system that would soon be obsolete (XP) or one that was ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is there any way to have Vista default to just one folder view for all folders?* I tried setting it via the traditional Folder properties->Apply to All Folders, but randomly, it'll go back to a clunky view, and then I have to reset it again. And some folders don't have that Customize tab, so I can't set the folder view default.* It gets annoying when I'm browsing the folders in details view, and go to my CD drive, and it brings up a grouped by type, and large icons.* Then when I change it back to details, and put in a new CD, it's back to the grouped large icons view.* I tried to uncheck the "Save individual folder settings" checkbox hoping that it'll use a default for everything, but it always insists on changing the view to what it thinks is best, even though I did a "Apply to All Folders". Very annoying. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

were* is possible Buy Microsoft real Gadget on Web Store? like , Hat, Sticker, t-shirt, flag, ?? and were i can buy Zune Import?? THX More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Time to dump Windows? Computerworld, MA - 39 minutes ago "Windows Vista was the reason I bought a Mac mini. I didn't want my only choices to be an operating system that would soon be obsolete (XP) or one that was ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yesterday it was denying my login to downloads & keys, prompting with random error messages. Today it*timeouts*with "Service Unavailable" message. Any idea? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I can't get into Live Messenger, and hotmail.com and mail.live.com*just doesn't load for me. Anyone else? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds