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all these posts about windows 7 are becoming as sad as this windows 7 screenshot that sums it all up: http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2194/windows7vf2.gif please stop before any dwarf gets hurt [C] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

So that I don't have to spend five minutes in every quarter hour compiling dammit. It should be like C# - JITed for all debug builds, and then properly compile on the final build. Is that so hard to ask? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft trumpets record second quarter results engadget, CA - 1 hour ago The outfit also took the chance to mention that sales of Windows Vista had surpassed 100 million licenses, and Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

* liners? Im getting bored making fake things in my spare time. Ive tried to do stuff for FOSS before - but found everyone rude. Q: what's involved in making our own distro? specifically - like that abomination GOS* (i could do way better than their web OS UI) if anyone is interested - email me. (or post) *9 OS* :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft trumpets record second quarter results engadget, CA - 18 minutes ago The outfit also took the chance to mention that sales of Windows Vista had surpassed 100 million licenses, and Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Gauntlet <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft a leaky boat Gauntlet, Canada - 3 hours ago In the news and on forums, some people are speculating as to the consumer reaction to the replacement of Vista after only three years, given Windows XP’s ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I dont think Ive seen so many new 9ers all at once.. in quite a while Well maybe some have been around - but not posting here (till all the Win7 stuff) anyways - welcome! stick around :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone else going to this? Just got the OK to miss school so I could attend (w00t!!!!! :D:D:D) This will be my first event and I'm very excited. :D More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.channel9.ca/dev-server.jpg ..when was the last time you got an error or "server is too busy" at slashdot? didnt think so... * cmon c9devs... dont break the site while we use it (above photo courtesy of jonathan merriweather :) ) *note - c9 has been unavailable - or spuratically avail for last hour More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Vista 'most secure Windows' Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago ... in a post to the Vista Security blog. "Our investments in [security Development Lifecycle] and our defense-in-depth approach to building Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The wpf grid layout is a great control. It allows for flexible resizeable UIs and lets the framework take care of the sizing issues. for example, let's assume you want a gird like this this gives us a (not uncommon) layout like this (apologies for poor ascii art) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Some Label* ||Another Label***** ||+----------------------------+| |Line 2 Label||Another line2 Label|||*** ***** ||* |**************************************************** +----------------------------+| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ where the textboxes resize horizontally with window size and list box resizes in both directions. This is great. However it's not so great when you want to change something. For instance I show this GUI to my boss and he says " great, but can you put a title on the first line and a graphic to the left of the rest". Fine, I say, I'll just add another line and another column. but here's the problem. I now have to go through my entire grid and increment every row and column number. There must be a better way than this?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Ok so it was retired in 2005 and replaced with the .net framework. However I need to make some SOAP calls from COM and I am not sure of the best library to use. Anyone have one they could recommend? WIll the SOAP toolkit suffice? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Gauntlet <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft a leaky boat Gauntlet, Canada - 27 minutes ago In the news and on forums, some people are speculating as to the consumer reaction to the replacement of Vista after only three years, given Windows XP’s ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 10 Things Microsoft Fumbled in 2007 Windows & Net Magazine, OH - Jan 23, 2008 Several significant products – from Windows Vista to the Xbox 360 – have suffered sizeable setbacks of one form or another, and a host of the other small ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Shout It From The Rooftops: Vista's More Secure CRN, NY - 16 minutes ago In a Wednesday blog post, Austin Wilson, director of Windows Client Security Product Management at Microsoft, said features like User Account Control and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Quarterly Profit Up 79 Percent Windows Vista earned $4.34 billion Microsoft's earnings shine Microsoft’s $16 billion in revenue is a company record. The company’s client unit–think Vista and XP–had operating income of $3.36 billion on revenue of $4.33 billion. For the same quarter a year ago, Microsoft’s client group had operating income of $1.84 billion on revenue of $2.58 billion. Translation: For all the whining about Vista folks are buying it. Enterprise sales are strong with Microsoft’s business division and server and tools unit posted double-digit revenue growth rates. The business division–Office, Sharepoint etc–in the December quarter reported operating income of $3.18 billion on revenue of $4.81 billion. Microsoft’s server and tools business had operating income of $1.72 billion on revenue of $3.28 billion in the December quarter. Microsoft says it is seeing “healthy demand from both businesses and consumers in the United States and our growth in emerging markets is especially strong.” Xbox 360 console sales hit the 17.7 million unit mark. That’s a lot of units for a relatively small profit. In the December quarter, Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division had an operating profit of $357 million on revenue of $3.06 billion. But Microsoft’s online services division–MSN etc.–still isn’t making money with a second quarter operating loss of $245 million on revenue of $863 million. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Vista 'most secure Windows' Computerworld, MA - 27 minutes ago ... the most secure version of Windows to date," said Austin Wilson, a director in Microsoft's Windows client group, in a post to the Vista Security blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

FYI: Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Premium are now licensed for use in a virtual machine environment, and the updated end-user license agreement is available at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/default.aspx MICROSOFT SOFTWARE SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSE TERMS WINDOWS VISTA HOME BASIC, HOME PREMIUM, BUSINESS, ULTIMATE, AND THEIR SERVICE PACK 1 VERSIONS If you are licensed to use Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate, or Service Pack 1 of any of these Windows Vista editions (the “software”), you have the following license right. If there is a conflict with any past or future license terms for the software, this supplemental license term applies. Use with Virtualization Technologies. Instead of using the software directly on the licensed device, you may install and use the software within only one virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. When used in a virtualized environment, content protected by digital rights management technology, BitLocker or any full volume disk drive encryption technology may not be as secure as protected content not in a virtualized environment. You should comply with all domestic and international laws that apply to such protected content. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

"Experiments to create the first man-made organism have started in thewake of the successful creation of the genetic code of a living thingfrom laboratory chemicals." - Telegraph.co.uk *wow* ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> First shots of Windows 7 leaked? And by 7, we mean Vista. engadget, CA - 13 minutes ago If you say this is Windows 7, then I might have believed you... sigh... Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista safer in first year than other operating systems, says Microsoft SC Magazine US - 1 hour ago “My analysis found that administrators were required to mobilize much less often for Windows Vista than any other product examined.” More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

One of the very useful features of Visual Studio is Intellisense. C# and VB programmers have come to rely on this mechanism as a one of the means to being highly productive when using VS as their dev tool. VC++ developers have not been afforded the same luxury as their other (managed) VS counterparts. Why? Well, for one thing there are big technical challenges to pulling off highly performant and accurate Intellisense for a VC++ code garden. You can imagine why given the complex*structure of C++ programs... Here, we meet Senior Developer in Test Arjun Bijanki who has been working on the VC++ front end compiler team for his entire career at Microsoft (as you'd expect, the front end compiler team owns Intellisense...). How does Intellisense work? What are the challanges of implementing a truly useful Intellisense for VC++? When will VC++ developers get a great Intellisense experience in Visual Studio? What's the current state of the art and what's the future hold? Tune in. (Dan Fernandez joins in the conversation - this is Dan's first appearance on C9 as an interviewer (it was actually his first day on the job. Not surprisingly, Dan asks some very good questions.)) Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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http://ms-os.com/ Wired News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Rumor: an Early Build of Vista's Successor in the Wild Wired News - Jan 22, 2008 Windows Seven is supposed to have this brand new MinWin kernel which is version 7.0, not 6.0 (Windows Vista) or 6.1 (Windows Server 2008). ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds