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.Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Linux forum. A venture capital firm has stumped up $100million to give SCO a bit more breathing room Norris Capital Partners terms of agreement state: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Ars Technica wrote: A memorandum of understanding that outlines the terms of the tentative agreement notes that "the reorganized SCO will pursue the Novell/IBM Litigation and other pending litigation claims aggressively," and that "an early and favorable resolution" of the litigation is one of the primary goals of the business plan. I can't understand why anyone would want to generate that much paperwork for no good reason. If you want get rid of $100million then why not just set fire to it? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Lifehacker <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Restart Windows Explorer the Safe Way Lifehacker, CA - 53 minutes ago The How-To Geek blog points out a tucked-away trick in Windows Vista that lets you restart Windows Explorer—the file browsing and desktop display aspect of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well I have been working on a program lately, and in my options dialog I want the font to match the systems default font. I figured that if I use a For Each loop and* get all controls from there, I could set the font for all of them.* Here's the code: ' Sets all controls to the default MessageBoxFont, which under Windows Vista, is Segoe UI. ForEach currentcontrol As Control InMe.Controls Dim theControl AsNew Control theControl = DirectCast(currentcontrol, TextBox) theControl.Font = SystemFonts.MessageBoxFont Next Is there an easier way to do this? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Lifehacker <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Restart Windows Explorer the Safe Way Lifehacker, CA - 4 minutes ago The How-To Geek blog points out a tucked-away trick in Windows Vista that lets you restart Windows Explorer—the file browsing and desktop display aspect of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is your Web site FIPS compliant? InfoWorld, CA - 2 hours ago Windows Server 2003 and later, Vista, and Windows Server 2008, are FIPS 140-2 certified. The original ciphers supported in Windows XP were grandfathered to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft To Speed Vista SP1 Rollout For Testers CRN, NY - Feb 11, 2008 In a Monday entry to the Windows Vista team blog, Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows Product Management, said Microsoft is now offering the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is your Web site FIPS compliant? InfoWorld, CA - 1 hour ago Windows Server 2003 and later, Vista, and Windows Server 2008, are FIPS 140-2 certified. The original ciphers supported in Windows XP were grandfathered to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Wall Street Journal <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Shakes Up Vista Wall Street Journal - 29 minutes ago This blog has chronicled the litany of charges brought against the new version of Windows since it was released just over a year ago: It’s too slow; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I remember these days :) What a fun, what an excitement! Viva .COM! http://static.userland.com/images/radiodiscuss/napsterScreenShot.gif* Awesome, the old napster website: http://web.archive.org/web/20000229130418/http://www.napster.com/index.html Who would ever have thought that this would tanslate into bittorrent and such. I still remember the first song that I downloaded with Napster: Eminem - My name is :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Service Pack Welland Tribune, Canada - 2 minutes ago It was about a year ago that I wrote about Windows Vista's release and spelled out my belief that while there would be some "bumps on the road," they would ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Final Vista SP1 Code Released To Techies PC World India, India - 3 minutes ago While most subscribers leaving comments on the TechNet Plus blog acknowledged that it made sense to delay SP1's delivery via Windows Update, they questioned ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've just been having an interesting discussion with a few people about how best to manage the coding of a DB project, with each of us doing it slighly differently but always revolving around editing tables and SPs in SQL Enterprise manager and then either manually updating source safe or creating a single script for all our DB objects and checking that into VSS. Now I'm not really a fan of this as I think it makes sharing updates harder and disconnects the DB code from source control. Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this as it seems quite a bad / old fashioned way of doing it? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> More Windows speed tweaks CNET Blogs, CA - 31 minutes ago On Monday I described some simple ways to improve the performance of Windows XP and Vista. Since there's no such thing as a too-fast Windows PC, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

:O [C] :D http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-me-cry/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/14/whats-microsoft-offering-open-source-on-february-27/ http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080215/scoble-big-secret-coincide-microsoft-open-source-hero/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Video duration: 3119 seconds Mako Analysis, UK - 33 minutes ago http://live.pirillo. com/ - Here's why I'm "upgrading" from Windows Vista to Windows XP in a few days. I just flipped on the webcam and started talking ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Volume Buyers to Get Vista SP1 Early InternetNews.com - Feb 11, 2008 After announcing last week that Windows Vista SP1 will not be available until mid-March, the company relaxes that restriction for some customers. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Over on Channel 10, we should get Scott on 9 soon..... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

At work we have a custom distribution, at home I have a custom distribution.* I was thinking of distributing it.* I have a couple of associates that use it and I have been increasingly using it at work on my own.* The biggest test was my sister in law who is the biggest computer illiterate you can find, she doesn't know how to turn the thing off, seriously.* She has been able to use it and loves it.* It's a remastered Ubuntu distribution with all the proprietary software that makes my black heart go pitter patter.* I recently dropped KDE and went with a modified XFCE desktop.* There are naming restrictions and such as I cant have the words buntu in it because I include my own repositories. So, what is a good name?* Something professional.* I have thrown out the name OS/3 as IBM might have objections, I threw out OS/360 as Microsoft and IBM might have objections.* If any of the artists want to help out with usplash, GDM and branding drop me an e-mail. I also don't just want to be another distribution, I have to do something that will set it apart from the rest.* Inclusion of Flash and the Fluendo codecs aren't enough.* While I love and I mean LOVE Microsoft, I don't want to kill it before it leaves the ground although Mono and Monodevelop will ship as the primary development language. For themes and artwork, it will ship with the OpenSolaris nimbus theme and iconset as the default.* I am looking at the 8.04 LTS as my first possible distribution if it happens. Advice, suggestions on why this is a terrible idea, a great idea etc. any dialogue please* pass it along.* Any flames, insults and other derogatory commentary can be directed elsewhere. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It looks like Long is on to something here: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080215/windows-7-homegroup-rebirth-longhorn-castle/ I was pretty sad to see Castles had been cut back in the Longhorn days, it's nice to see it possibly making a return in the next release.* A replacement for the old Workgroups has been a long time coming. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

finally a beagle has won the westminster dog show - first time ever the winning beagle is Uno http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/rt_uno_080211_ms.jpg - a very cute male thoroughbred. I love snoopy.. im happy for uno and all beagle kind.. especially of course - mazie :) http://www.channel9.ca/tory-mom-house%20023.jpg * she is 1/2 beagle and half border collie we are told - but i doubt that...* maybe beagle / jack russel? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Apple has significantly enhanced its digital media hub set-top box. Find out more in my Apple TV Take 2 Review! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Velocity Micro: First with Vista SP1 CNet News.com Blog - 38 minutes ago Ah, Vista. It has forced many to return to the waiting arms of Windows XP, while sending others fleeing to the other camp. There are those who still remain ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

..remember when there was that MS announcement about IP in personal media creation*(forget what) but i over-reacted and deleted everything i posted here for years - as well as all c9 parks (at the old wordpress address)? well ive done the same thing on FB i was reading about the "they own your images" and beacon etc and - on an angry whim - removed all photos, info, groups (even c9) et all. days later .. im now the owner of an empty page .. and if i try to go "fix it" everyone gets notified as i re-add what i removed..* haha i read billg quit facebook this week.. i can see why so - does FB annoy anyone else? as someone who sang its praises i have come to also dread it's interuptions - non-ending requests (and vague cloud who owns what issues) wish there was a way to System restore facebook .. or "Add in invisible mode" ;) ? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 coming sooner for some CNET News.com, CA - Feb 11, 2008 That's why it was a bit of a surprise when Microsoft said last week that it had finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but that customers would have to wait ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds