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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> XP vs. Vista: Readers respond InfoWorld, CA - 4 minutes ago Macs or Linux (that should elicit some interesting responses) but the primary purpose of this particular blog is to focus on Enterprise Windows. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Time for a Vista Do-Over? Slashdot - 53 minutes ago You could use anything from MythTV to Windows Vista, Windows ME to MacOS. Nobody really cares so long as it gets their work done. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I started a C9 group on http://www.theupdown.com http://www.updown.com/displayGroup.do?id=1599 You get 1 million dollars to invest, let's see who can make the most this year? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Time for a Vista Do-Over? Slashdot - 22 minutes ago You could use anything from MythTV to Windows Vista, Windows ME to MacOS. Nobody really cares so long as it gets their work done. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Looks like they can escape the long arm of the law no longer. Good? Bad? Ugly? Discuss. Personaly I think that while they can claim they didn't actualy distribute any files I doubt they actualy have any legal ground to stand on. At least they have no moral ground to stand on (unless you consider copyright to be imoral). (personaly I do not consider copyright to be imoral, only the way it's implemented.) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this review, I take a look at PC-based online movie and TV show purchase and rental services like Amazon Unbox, Apple iTunes, CinemaNow, and MovieLink! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In the second part of this two-part interview, Scott discusses how this year's Mix (http://visitmix.com/2008/) is going to be even larger than last year's, covering everything from*Windows Presentation Foundation improvements to*Web development frameworks including Dynamic Data and the MVC Framework, to dropping some hints about upcoming tooling support,*and the major improvements in Silverlight 2.0. You'll also hear Scott*talk about the different needs of developers and designers with Expression, how he personally wrote the control, the unique challenges in building controls and how XAML enables unmatched control composability. 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"> MS denies Halo Wars heading to PC Play.tm, UK - 49 minutes ago "Given that, we have no plans to develop Halo Wars for Windows Vista at this time." "I remember all too well how Microsoft vehemently kept putting down the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> MS denies Halo Wars heading to PC Play.tm, UK - 6 minutes ago "Given that, we have no plans to develop Halo Wars for Windows Vista at this time." "I remember all too well how Microsoft vehemently kept putting down the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am getting irritated about the misuse of the term ‘softwarebloat’ so would like to take some steps to elucidate peoples misuse of theterm. The’ irritants’ tend to fall into two distinct categories Vista is Bloated .NET Framework is bloatedThe two features that are always present in these ‘irritants’is that they have Little to no programming experience. By this, Imean, none have ever written a production quality application and launched it. Have never gone to, or rarely use their locallibrary, or don’t read/purchase booksThese irritants find it de rigueur to interject intoany discourse, where they want to diminish Vista or .NET the aforementionedterms. I will tackle the terms thus; Vista is bloated Do not purchase Vista Ultimate or any of the enhanced versions andplease acquire Vista Home Basic. Please then return and tell me that theoperating system is bloated. I would also like to draw attention to the factthat the Vista OS is predominantly unmanaged and this in general produces smallfiles .NET Framework is bloated What you are doing here is complaining that (analogy) your locallibrary has too many books in it (when has that ever been a bad thing?). You say that there is far too much information on offer atthis library, and that you would much prefer that the Library had just ten booksin it. These ten books would be in the main section with a huge placard with ‘LinuxSection‘in bold letters. Everything else is superfluous. Don’t misunderstand me (I'm not a Windows surrender monkey), there are things in .NET that annoyme, like ADO.NET. Just what do you choose for your data access today? Choice isa very bad thing here, and the various readers, adapters, table adapters, linq,Astoria open the framework to significant derision. *Just remember thatthe .NET framework today is less than a tenth of the size of a DVD, and I canwrite almost anything with it. There are a lot of ’books in it’ so to speak, sothe next time you care to interject the term 'bloated', remember your LinuxLibrary with the ten books in it. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Garmin nuvifon Garmin the world’s leading GPS manufacturer, announced its entrance into the mobile phone market with the nüvifone, an all-in-one, sleek and slim, touchscreen device that combines a premium phone, mobile web-browser, and cutting-edge personal navigator. The nüvifone is a work of art in features, design and functionality and is destined to transform how individuals connect, communicate and navigate their life.“The nüvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched integration of utility and function in a single mobile device,” said Cliff Pemble, Garmin’s president and COO. “This is the breakthrough product that cell phone and GPS users around the world have been longing for — a single device that does it all.” http://www8.garmin.com/buzz/nuvifone/m/g/pt-gps-lg.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Feb. launch set for new Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 tools Infoworld, Netherlands - 25 minutes ago The tool is for users planning migrations to Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft Virtualization technologies (Virtual Server 2005 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ahhh .. running even better than on the desktop. VS08 and Vista Home Premium on a brand spankin new toshiba laptop. Bluetooth enabled!!!! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Why Vista sounds worse Guardian Unlimited, UK - 10 hours ago As the senior program manager for sound in Windows Vista, Ball knows that nobody wants that. So it must have been difficult for him to author a blog post ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft prepares tools for Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 ... ComputerworldUK, UK - 20 minutes ago The tool is for users planning migrations to Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft Virtualisation technologies (Virtual Server 2005 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> February 27 launch for Windows Vista SP1? PC Advisor, UK - 5 minutes ago 26 posting on the MAP blog that the assessment tool would be released on the web in approximately four weeks. A beta program is already under way. Vista SP1 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just hit my head against the door and came up with this amazing idea and I was wondering what you guys think. How would you feel about Microsoft open sourcing XP and keep Vista under closed source until it's predecessor comes around? Or is the OS to young? Would you rather see Windows 2000 become open source? Or none at all,... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have no issue with people being Anti-MS or saying Vista is crap...**but I find this*piece of journalist comentary beyond a joke. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/30/vista-later Bla bla bla... MS is evil... bla bla bla... Vista is crap... bla bla bla... "As of this writing, I have never installed a release version of Vista" Bla bla bla... MS is evil... bla bla bla... Vista is crap... bla bla bla... "To be honest, MS did try to engage me after I wrote that, but the sad thing is it was through bribery. I don't use that word lightly, but there is nothing else I can call it. I think I explained my differences of opinion quite clearly in that article, and the response I got from MS was as follows, names removed to protect the sender." * "Hi Charlie, I'm really sorry to hear of your bad impression of Windows Vista, I would be very interested in having a chat with you to dispell some of your worries, and to provide you with your first contact at Microsoft! I've got a copy of Windows Vista here for you as well if you want to have a go with the real deal RTM build! (signature)" In other words, they tried to "bribe" this "journalist" with a free copy of the final product to evaluate... WTF ??? How DARE they !! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anybody looked into this open source C# OS? http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Cosmos wrote:Cosmos is an operating system project that aims to be completely implemented in CIL compliant languages, that is currently 100% C#. http://gocosmos.org/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ WindowsForDevices <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Tetris comes to .NET Micro Framework WindowsForDevices, CA - 49 minutes ago Already part of Windows Vista and Windows CE 6.0 Release 2, this "enables a USB-like level of plug-and-play for networked devices," in the company's words. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Feb. launch set for new Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 tools Computerworld Australia, Australia - 31 minutes ago The tool is for users planning migrations to Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft Virtualization technologies (Virtual Server 2005 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/14/intel.shelton.platform/ It seems processor giant Intel is starting to aim for a market were raw power is not important, but low power and long battery life is. Shelton will power a next generation of low power, fanless ultraportable and low cost notebooks and UMPCs which will put it against currently unchallenged Asus EEE PC. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Lets say we have a class to represent a river: In class River { public: ** void SetUpstreamFlow(const float upstreamFlow); private: ** float m_upstreamFlow; } Do you think that it would be "over kill" to have a precondition like this: void River::SetUpstreamFlow(const float upstreamFlow) { *** // preconditions *** if (isnan(upstreamFlow) || isinf(upstreamFlow) || upstreamFlow < 0.0f) *** { *** ** throw std::invalid_argument("River::SetUpstreamFlow()"); *** } *** m_upstreamFlow = upstreamFlow; } In our application we've got -1.#IND sometimes on resulting files. I thinks that we could catch those errors early with some precondition like this.What would you do ? Thanks More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Why Vista sounds worse Guardian Unlimited, UK - 29 minutes ago As the senior program manager for sound in Windows Vista, Ball knows that nobody wants that. So it must have been difficult for him to author a blog post ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft sets Feb. launch of IT migration tools for Windows ... NetworkWorld.com, MA - 49 minutes ago The tool is for users planning migrations to Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft Virtualization technologies (Virtual Server 2005 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds