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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 Will Hit In March Bug fixes, network transfer speed ... Dslreports - 11 minutes ago As rumors predicted, Microsoft today officially announced the March release of Windows Vista Service Pack One, which the company hopes will fix many of the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Releases to Manufacturing — Now for Another Six ... RealTechNews, CA - 9 minutes ago In fact, although on the Windows Vista Blog they note the release, they also list some worrisome facts and the steps the RTM release must go through to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Driver bugs delay launch of Vista Service Pack 1 PC Pro, UK - 7 minutes ago "Our beta testing identified an issue with a small set of device drivers," Microsoft's Mike Nash writes on the Windows Vista team blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Digitaltrends.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 Officially Heads Down the Pipe Digitaltrends.com, OR - 21 minutes ago On the official Windows Vista blog, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows product management, Mike Nash, announced that SP1 would go live to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ bit-tech.net <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft announces Vista SP1 RTM bit-tech.net, UK - 25 minutes ago Don't think that you'll be getting the Service Pack tomorrow though, as Nash outlined the availability plan on the Windows Vista Blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Portal IT <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Service Pack 1 Goes Gold, Set To Arrive Next Month Portal IT, Romania - 12 minutes ago ... German and Japanese),” writes Mike Nash on the Windows Vista blog. The Service Pack 1 for Vista presumably fixes up flaws still featured by the OS, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Announced Windows Vista SP1 Is RTM Ready eFluxMedia - 18 minutes ago ... a Windows Vista-based PC from sleep is faster on Service Pack 1,” said Mike Nash, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President on Windows Vista official blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 is Complete, Update Available in March PC World - 5 minutes ago Also over at the team blog, Mike Nash of the Windows Product Management group gets further into everything SP1 is looking to fix, including software ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://matthewhelmke.net/temp.html Matthew puts together a list of things that you can't do on Windows or Mac (easily?) but you can do on most Linux distros. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Microsoft finishes Vista SP1, Server 2008 Seattle Post Intelligencer - 14 minutes ago Microsoft has finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the big bundle of fixes and updates for the 1-year-old version of the PC operating system. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If it doesn't deal with development don't post it.*We are not here to fix you PC, help you install nondevelopment*software, or to discuss the lastest video card driver issue. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

At 6:00 am today in Redmond, Microsoft announced the RTM of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008! I'll be reviewing both products in the days ahead... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It's Official: Windows Vista SP1, 2008 Head to Manufacturing - Windows & Net Magazine <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> It's Official: Windows Vista SP1, 2008 Head to Manufacturing Windows & Net Magazine, OH - 38 minutes ago In a post to the Windows Vista Blog this morning, Microsoft vice president Mike Nash finally explained how users will get SP1. New PCs with Vista and SP1 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

From PressPass: http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif PressPass wrote:What: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today and will start being available to customers in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers. What the hell guys? Edit: Oh, remaining languages will RTM in April. I guess that makes that,*what, a June release for localised SP1's? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Alex Hinrichs, the Project Manager for Windows Server 2008, talks about the development process and coordination that goes into launching a product as big as Windows Server. I ask him about the lifecycle of a bug, the tools used for checking dependencies, and of course, his favorite feature of Windows Server. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Microsoft finishes Vista SP1, Server 2008 Seattle Post Intelligencer - 24 minutes ago Microsoft has finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the big bundle of fixes and updates for the 1-year-old version of the PC operating system. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm sort of new here so not sure if this has been discussed earlier, just found this via another post here : http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html Perhaps he is right? In a way, if Microsoft is dead the way he sais then it is only good for Microsoft and bad for Google. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Good afternoon. I have noticed that for some reason, my WCF communications sporadically take a while to connect. Both the client and the server are on the same LAN, so bandwidth is not an issue, but it seems that as soon as I try to invoke a sub / function on the client, there is a 1~2 second delay that I cannot account for. I have put stopwatches in the code on the server side, and as soon as the request is recieved, the response is sent in under 10ms. It just seems to me that it is taking a while to initialize the connection. Which brings me further to: Am I doing this the right way? My WCF service is configured as the default (I believe) PerCall mode. The clients can sometimes query the server for info up to 100 times per minute, so I am thinking I might be better off with a Singleton service? Am I right? Also, I have found numerous places that detail how I can change to a singleton service in code, but how do I specify Singleton behaviour in XML? (app.config) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

To stirr up the pot, here's an article I've yet to read, but looks might be an interesting read, if not for the sake of the reactions... :-P http://wastingtimewithmikeandari.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/linux-has-better-windows-compatibility-than-vista/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Security increased on Vista and XP One Stop Click, UK - 21 minutes ago A blog post from Windows revealed the step up in security, saying that they wanted more people to "opt-in to using DEP" (also known as No eXecute). ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Error will not be patched Quote; "Thanksfor filing this issue. The problem won't meet the next service pack barbut we will look into fixing this error message in the next version ofSQL Server." Posted by Microsoft on 02/05/2006 at 10:12 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Looks like I found a y2k&8 bug in some old software from a big vendor. Don’t ask me why someone is using ancient software, but it does serve as a reminder that y2k bugs can strike late. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OK so I've been messing about with more cardspace stuff and I though it was time to try it out with a Vista client. Now right now I have the following setup; My laptop; which runs the cardspace servers. I have a loopback adapter installed, which is configured to be 10.255.254.1 Then there's the XP client VM, which has a single virtual network adapter, which is bound to the loopback adapter and is configured to be 10.255.254.5 So I setup a Vista VM. Shared network is fine, as is directly binding to my wireless NIC. So it was time to get it onto the loopback adapter. I unbound IPv6 and file sharing and LLTD etc, leaving only IPv4. Close down the VM and switch the networking configuration to bind the loopback adapter to the VM. Start it up again and allocate 10.255.254.6 to the VM. And nothing. It can't see 10.255.254.1, can't ping it. I can't ping the other way either, even after adding ICMP to the firewall rules. Has anyone had this and got it to work? Sorry I did something stupid *grin* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OK here goes. The Microsoft Syncronisation Services for ADO.NET sounds like a really truly useful technology. I mean that. The ability for me the create an application whereby the user can do an initial sync to pull back product data etc, edit / delete / create new data whilst disconnected, and then reconnect and synchonise the changes? Brilliant. This will save me an unbelievable amount of time in doing all the synchronisation logic myself. So today I decide to try it out to see how it works. I created my Compact Framework 3.5 application, because I intend for this to run on PDAs. I try to add a 'Local Database Cache' - uh-oh. It's not there. I start hunting around on the web, and much to my surprise (although should I really be surprised? MS only seem to be interested in deploying 75% complete products these days) It seems that the Sync Services do not yet support the compact framework!!! HELLO?!? Am I missing something here? Surely the PDA scenario would have been at the forefront when this type of this was being designed, so to ship VS2008, but not have this ready? Unacceptable, and yet so believable nowadays. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi ! I'm new on Xaml and I try to create a template for TabControl and TabItem. I want to have all its tabItem with the same width and the sum of all the TabItem width equal the TabControl width... I've succeed to do this with a custom tabControl (inherited from TabControl), which have callback on events to resize its TabItem. I wonder if it's possible to do this with a template. I looked for this, but I didn't found anything. If somebody can help me... Thanks. Nico. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds