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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Partners: We Want Vista SP1 Now CRN, NY - Feb 6, 2008 Several posters on the Windows Vista Team blog have been voicing their frustrations and demanding to know why Microsoft chose not to allow them to download ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

One of those gadget related tasks that I have avoided to this point was to upgrade ny unlocked iPhone to the laterst firmware (I was on 1.02 and hadn't seen anything that really made the upgrade a must up to this point).* Anyway, to cut a long story short, part of the upgrade process involved instaling Java - no problem in theory.* What did erk me though was that I also got an unexpected*free install of the Google toolbar with my Java install.* So I probably should be posting this on a Google forum sonewhere with a message like 'cmon guys, this just isn't on ..'* Does anyone from Google read this forum? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What Vista's SP1 means to you SunHerald.com, MS - 1 hour ago Microsoft has shipped the "RTM" build of Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista, meaning those of us running this operating system soon will have some relief. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/business/10slipstream.html Mr. Montgomery, a veteran product manager who has also worked as a computer industry writer and editor, is an example of how it just might be possible to teach dinosaurs to dance. Last fall, his team introduced an intriguing software Web service called Popfly that is intended to make it possible for nonprogrammers to plug together Web components and data sources quickly to create useful new Web services. For example, news feeds could be added to digital images, or data lists to maps. Introduced at the Web 2.0 conference last year by Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, Popfly was picked by PC World magazine as one of the most innovative computing and consumer electronics products of 2007. It has garnered more than 100,000 users — the company says the exact number is confidential — and now has a library of more than 50,000 “mashups”: new components or Web pages that have been created in a visual snap-together fashion, like Lego blocks. The mashup is at the heart of a generation of Lego-style software that is emblematic of the second generation of the Internet. Both Google and Yahoo have developed tools to help Web users display apartment rentals on maps, or build complicated Web sites like TripTouch.com, which is intended to offer diverse local information for travelers. The Popfly programmers, however, have gone a step further in an effort to design a tool that is intended for a generation of Web users who are familiar with the Internet but are not skilled programmers. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/09/the-new-safari-is-amazingly-quick-firefox-watch-out/ Why is Safari/WebKit getting to be so much faster than IE/Firefox? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Partners Screaming - "We Want Windows Vista SP1 Now" - DABCC.com (press rel <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Partners Screaming - "We Want Windows Vista SP1 Now" DABCC.com (press release), FL - Feb 7, 2008 Several posters on the Windows Vista Team blog have been voicing their frustrations and demanding to know why Microsoft chose not to allow them to download ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

its official Yahoo's board is made up of idiots watch their stock collapse back to 18$ tomorrow http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/09/1812239 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/06/ms-cuts-windows-features MS was keen on having DX11 be part of Windows 7. DX10, which whiletechnically pretty nifty, is saddled with Vista as an arm twist mechanism, so itis taking off like a water buffalo with bunions and a weight problem. For Windows 7, MS basically pulled the mandatory DX11 requirement at thebehest of one company that basically whined a lot. History tells us that if youthrow a hissy fit, MS will screw itself over and cave in, look what they did toneuter DX10 when NV got all pouty. Now DX11 is gone, and the debate is aboutDX10, and whether it will even be mandatory More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

here is the code for the gridI want to add a link or button to delete any one of the entries, can someone help me on this? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft already trimming Windows 7 features, DirectX 11 on the outs? engadget, CA - 9 minutes ago My company has over 30000 windows based machines and none of us in the IT department can justify even thinking about 'up'grading to Vista due to its stout ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm kinda desparate. So I'm going to give $100USD to the first person who can help me solve this problem. Ultimately, I think it stems from me using both ASP.NET Membership and NHibernate together in parallel. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well, after a day out I made a jump and bought a D-Link 710. I'd been eyeing it up online, and hey, I've got holidays, so I thought now would be a good time for Xbox Live. After the palaver with the Asus, I was expecting a little bit of frustration; as in nothing would work. I was wrong. I plugged it in, shoved the software in and it *worked*. It's a cleaner UI than the Asus' It's a simpler router than the Asus It looks better than the Asus And I'm about to plug in Xbox Live :D Updates will follow... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

.. did I forget to tell you about it? http://plasq.com/comiclife-win More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yes, I know it is Slashdot, and I know it sounds a little out there - but this isn't how Vista search behaves is it? http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=446922&cid=22350458 -- any feedback from Paolo? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is it bad to use the extension EXE for files in URLs which send Content-Type: text/html and a website? If so, why? What do you think? PS: yeah, it's no pretty URL... [A] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Ok here is the deal, I like Windows Calendar, I also like using my phone to remind me of stuff.* I currently use My Phone Explorer [url="

This is a video of Windows Vista Aero vs Linux Ubuntu.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

NEC has come up with “NEC Software Tool” which downgrades Vista PCs To Windows XP. In an excerpt:In the latest sign that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Windows Vista operating system has failed to catch on with businesses, Japanese computer maker NEC has released a software tool that helps IT managers downgrade Vista-based PCs to the older [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

E-mails: Microsoft execs raised ‘Vista Capable’ concerns (Seattle PI)Fans protest Microsoft’s plan to dump XP (SFGate)Microsoft responds to Save XP petition (IT World)Microsoft Partners Screaming - “We Want Windows Vista SP1 Now” (DABCC)Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Share how to convert dvd and video to iphone I was able to convert dvd/video to iPhone using the Cucusoft iPhone Video Converter suite software .I found on http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone.html So far, I'm really impressed with how easy it is to use and how effectively it got the job done. 1.Download the latest version http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone.html and install it. You can know more about it by referring here. <font face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://ms-os.com/http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone-1.jpg" /> 2.Insert the DVD you'd like to convert to your computer's DVD drive. <font face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://ms-os.com/http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone-2.jpg" /> 3. Click 'File' menu and 'Open DVD', or directly hit 'Open DVD' button to load the DVD. Set the profile to be iPhone 480*320 mpeg-4 video which is the default DVD video quality. 4. Click around in the DVD's menu to set up DVD playback as you like, select the subtitle and audio sound tracks etc, then begin to play the movie through the software by click the play button. 5. The following window will pop up. Here, you can rename 'Title Name', set 'Save Path' and output quality, then click 'Yes' button to start ripping DVD to iPhone MP4 or iPhone H264 video from the point that the movie starts. That is all. Just so easy! <font face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://ms-os.com/http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone-3.gif" /> If you'd like to record from certain time point, or want to change some parameters like 'output format', 'video bitrates', 'frame rate', 'audio bitrates', please click 'No' button to close the window. Optional parameters settings * Select subtitles and languages Click 'Subtitle' or 'Audio Track' in the 'Setting' menu, choose the related value you like. * Set output formats Choose the target file format from 'Profile'. The software supports converting DVD to iPhone 480*320 MP4 video,iPod MP4 video, iPod h264 video, MP3 audio. <font face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://ms-os.com/http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone-4.gif" /> * Set the start time to convert Use the video playback controls to queue up the point at which you want to start ripping. Or click 'Setting -> Go to' and jump to previous/next chapter. * More parameters Click 'Setting -> Output video settings', here you can choose different profile, video/audio bitrates, video size, disable video/audio, aspect ratio, frame/sample rate, etc. If you are not familiar with these options, please view the descriptions listed at the bottom of the window. *Crop/cut&Resize the movie If you want to make the widescreen dvd(16:9) to be outputted as fullscreen(4:3) video, you can use the crop function. Set Crop to "Crop both black bands" and resize to be "stretch to full screen" if you don't need to keep the subtitle. Set crop to "Crop the upper black band" so you can keep the subtitle in the down black band. <font face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://ms-os.com/http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone-5.jpg" /> <font face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://ms-os.com/http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone-6.jpg" /> *Direct/batch conversion If you want to rip you DVD movie into one whole file, please use the direct ripping mode described above. If you want to rip your DVD by chapters to into separated output files (for example your music DVDs, TV Episode DVDs), you can use the batch conversion rip mode, just ticket out the titles you want to convert and click convert. You can switch this two modes by clicking on the mode-Direct&Batch. 7. Hit 'Convert' button, choose the recording time point and quality, then click 'Yes' to begin to convert DVD to iPhone video or audio quickly. 8. After ripping, transfer the converted files to iTunes, and then sync to iPhone. http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-to-iphone.html More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

One of the Vista forums I frequent, TheVistaForums, has announced they have installed a new component which allow users to create their own blog and post entries. They allow two options when you decide to create a blog and they are:Hosted blog: This is a blog hosted on the site itself. You can post entries [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

One of the better security features I like about Windows Vista is being able to limit user access to my computer and files. I have been sloppy securing my files before during my Windows XP days which proved unpleasant when someone quickly used my computer at home.The things you should bear in mind when limiting [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

TheVistaForums has released a cool Windows Vista Gadget which lists the latest 15 posts from the site.Below is an image of the Gadget.The announced is found here.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ok. Im a student. I dont actually use Visual studio for commercial use, despite the fact the express FAQ states its allowed. So im using Express, as i cant afford anything else. Now, Express has very few features. I miss unit testing, code rush, etc. etc. I have no problem with Express being a stripped down version for enthusiasts and hobbyists. But if i cant extend the shell with extensions like some of the excellent unit testing tools, and my beloved coderush, its a deal breaker for me. I see absolutely no reason why they wouldnt allow extensions. It makes me sad. So im either forced to not use all these great tools, or go buy an absurdly expensive license. I thought you got the hint with VS05 guys. But well. I was mistaken. Next time, consider who your user base is. Hobbyists in particular WANTS to extend and tweak their shell. Dont stop them. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds