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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft sets Feb. launch of IT migration tools for Windows ... NetworkWorld.com, MA - 17 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

In C++, how can I convert a UUID struct to a base64 string? I already have the base64encode function working, but I'm not entirely sure how to hook it all together. int base64encode( constchar *indata, char *outdata, int indatalen, int outdatalen ); And so far... UUID uuid; if( UuidCreate( &uuid ) == RPC_S_OK ) { ***// WHAT GOES HERE??? } It's been way too long since I've done any C++.* :s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Bloggers: Early Version of Windows 7 Leaked PC World - Jan 28, 2008 The site also has a blog entry whose headline is: "Windows 7 More Screenshots and Screencast." Windows 7 is the follow-up to Windows Vista, and Microsoft ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CIO <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Nixes Rumors of 2009 Windows 7 Release CIO, MA - 1 hour ago Of note, sales of Windows Vista licenses have now passed 100 million. In addition, Windows Vista is being adopted by businesses at a rate that is similar to ... Screenshots of Windows 7 NetworkWorld.com all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I kind of stole the joke in the title from the first link here, but for the love of all that is noodly, WTF? Ctrl-ScrollLock somehow stops Visual Studio's already buggy search from even working? 2 restarts, and I'm a bit annoyed. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Aims To Boost Security With New APIs for Developers ADT Magazine - 30 minutes ago ... settings easier for developers, particularly for those writing solutions that will run on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's IGMPv3 Vulnerability Can Be Exploited InformationWeek, NY - 1 hour ago "Even though this bulletin is rated Critical for XP and Vista (the bulletin describes mitigating factors that lower the severity on Windows Server 2003), ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Thanks for helping. Going out to get a tattoo. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080130-doj-fits-microsoft-with-another-two-year-long-leash.html One reason citied is failure to comply with the DoJ's demands. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am taking a C++ class this semester. It is right now covering C material*and will switch to C++ material mid-semester. Anyway, in the textbook, there is the following code: #include int main(void) { int a, sum = 0; FILE *ifp, *ofp; ifp = fopen("my_file", "r"); ofp = fopen("outfile", "w"); ... The textbook then explains*the above code, saying that*it opens*two files in the current*directory. Is the current directory by default*the directory of the executable or the root directory? It then proceeds to say that if my_file contains integers, we want to sum them and put the result in outfile, we can write: while(fscanf(ifp, "%d", &a) == 1) *** sum += a; fprintf(ofp, "The sum is %d.\n", sum); Since this is in the textbook, I would expect it to sum all of the values and print the growing sum as the summation occurs, but it looks like an infinite loop to me.*I can see how it could end, being that the pointer reaches the end of file, but I do not see how it increments itself. Does this code even work and if it does, how does it work? After this it calls fclose(). More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this two-part interview, Scott Guthrie gives a preview of the technology that will be discussed at Mix (www.visitmix.com). In Part 1, Scott talks about IIS 7.0 for developers, how they've improved hosting scalability, improvements to configuration management and deployment with*the recent release of Web Deployment project tools, and the improvements to production debugging and instrumentation. 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"> Vista and Server 2008: Better Together? InfoWorld, CA - 33 minutes ago A quick read of the "better together" subsection of the Windows Server 2008 Product Overview document shows a lot of internal plumbing stuff that really ... Microsoft Aims To Boost Security With New APIs for Developers Redmond Developer News all 2 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anybody know the C# code for a console app to generate two random integers between -100 to 100, print them, print the sum of the two, and then indicate which number is bigger or if they're equal?* I'm familiar with using positivie integers, but not negative ones.* Thanks! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista at 1 year: One user's struggle Seattle Post Intelligencer - 11 hours ago To spend a couple hours in front of Charles Walling's computer is to understand the pain some Windows Vista users are experiencing. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/10/23/internet-explorer-8-preview.aspx reminds me of something ;) * not new - but i hadnt seen this before.. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Right, heres the deal. Next month i have to pick which subjects i wanna take at my high school(2 year) course. Im planning to take Danish, Math, Physics & Economics on high-level. This gives me several options at university. But im honestly not sure. My big interests are Computer science and physics. Id love to take a degree in physics, tho my plan have always been to get a job as a developer(Tho likely in a research position, as im not a code monkey) So my "aim" is to work in something like Microsoft Research or the like. So my options for university is: Computer Science Physics WITH Computer science as side subject To me it seems that the latter is the obvious call to make. But will any company hire somebody without a full computer science education? Thanks in advance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So I've got a set of classes that I want only created in a given Factory class. To annoy me intensely the factory class is in a different assembly to the classes I want the factory to create. So I thought "I know, I'll hide the constructors as internal, and make the other assembly with the factory class a Friend Assembly." and that would sort things out. Except the factory class uses a bit of generics, and now I get messages all over about not having a blank constructor for all the types which have their constructors made internal. In short: ---- Assembly One --- [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Assembly Two")] class Bob { ***//This'll fox people who may arbitrarily create my class ***internal Bob(){} } --------------------------- --- Assembly Two ---- class BobFactory { ***T Maker() where T :*new() ***{ ******... ***} ***SomeMethod() ***{ ******//This causes an error due to Bob*not having a*public default constructor ******Bob thing = Maker(); ***} } -------------------------- Any ideas? Perhaps I should abandon this idea and just trust my implementers (ha!). [edit: hang fire on being helpful people, I may have been targetting the wrong assembly doh!] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w 100.000 pc's running Ubuntu and Dell is starting to sell them again here in Europe. Seems like this is the moment of truth for Linux as a desktop OS. I am looking forward into seeing some results! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The computer costs ¥80million (~$750,000 USD) http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2008/01/the-shiniest-co.html More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I finished my taxes yesterday, and I get a few hundred back. I am going to buy another 22'' widescreen for my pc at home. Or maybe a 24, and eventually upgrade the other 22''. How about you? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I watched Untraceable last night and counted four instances of the Windows Vista "The Wow Starts Now" webpage. It was getting a little funny. The movie is about a Cyber-crime FBI Agent, etc. She's a 1337 h4x0r, basically. At home, while she's off doing something in the bathroom, you see her computer right next to her window in the bedroom. All of a sudden, a new browser window opens to the Vista homepage, stays for a second, then closes. Nobody at the computer. When she's at work, she has the "The WOW Starts Now" webpage as her default homepage, so when she opens IE7 to catch some predators, it by default goes to the Vista homepage. I counted 4 instances of this. Additionally, Windows Vista was VERY prominant in the video. Whenever you see a computer, it's clearly vista. Large Criminal-catching monitors in the office plastered in Vista. At one point the FBI Agent is discussing tactics with a room full of other FBI Agents watching as She stands infront of a brightly illuminated screen of Aero and the default Vista wallpaper :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista at 1 year: One user's struggle Seattle Post Intelligencer - 9 hours ago To spend a couple hours in front of Charles Walling's computer is to understand the pain some Windows Vista users are experiencing. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Someone asked me an odd question the other day. 'Is software development, a profession?' I thought about it and said 'no'. It's probably a very outdated view, but I reckon that a number of criteria define a 'profession' as opposed to a 'job' You 'practise' it ...*:). You have practising doctors, lawyers and teachers; you don't usually hear people say 'I'm a practising programmer'. To practise a profession, you are required by law, to have a national/internationally recognised qualification that says you can do it. Anyone who wants to be a programmer, can be a programmer. At the height of the dot-com madness when every man and his dog wanted to be a programmer, I interviewed some folk with some very interesting CVs. One chap had worked for ten years as roofer, before deciding that he was an 'experienced internet programming consultant.'* A friend interviewed a night club doorman who just happened to be an 'web architect'. It turned out that he was also did community work for the police, but had written on his CV that he was 'a marital arts expert who in his spare time, helped the police with their enquiries.' You are regulated by national/international board of some kind, who have the power to stop you practising if you screw up. In IT, if you cause thousands of pounds of data loss, you get another job. I've also noticed that 'professional' careers do not seem to be affected by employment trends. I've never heard of mass lawyer layoffs. What do you lot think? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Save XP? Why bother? InfoWorld, CA - 1 hour ago I'd love to defend Microsoft Vista against Mac, Linux, or some obscure OS -- but instead, I find myself defending it against Windows XP. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista at 1 year: One user's struggle Seattle Post Intelligencer - 6 hours ago To spend a couple hours in front of Charles Walling's computer is to understand the pain some Windows Vista users are experiencing. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds