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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista sucks - reality or perception? ZDNet Blogs - 9 minutes ago Do I think that Vista sucks more than previous versions of Windows? Yes. Do I think Microsoft overpromise and under-deliver? Yes. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/att-and-other-isps-may-be-getting-ready-to-filter/index.html http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif article wrote: representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and telecom giant AT&T said the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level. Network-level filtering means your Internet service provider – Comcast, AT&T, EarthLink, or whoever you send that monthly check to – could soon start sniffing your digital packets, looking for material that infringes on someone’s copyright. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Crave Blog <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Bump your notebook to 2GB of RAM for $26.99 after rebate CNET Crave Blog - 9 minutes ago If you bought a budget-level notebook within the past year, chances are good it came with Windows Vista and 1GB of RAM--a poor combination to say the least. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It would be cool to be able to slide and hide the taskbar in Vista... I made an application to manually hide it, here is the results : ( not usable ofcourse but if there was a button to slide it to hide|show would be really nice ) ps. I couldn't resize the image, for some reason it wouldn't show up then. http://paranormalstories.com/cool.png More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Ultimate Extras: Ultimately Disappointing InformationWeek, NY - 54 minutes ago Blogger Long Zheng has a great post in the form of a faux-email to Microsoft asking them what has happened to Windows Vista Ultimate Extras. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi.. In my web page,* users can attach files and then open it. If the user attaches a file name which has special characters , and then if the user tries to open the attachment, the* attachment does not open up. How to open the attachments which has files names containg special characters? Thank you More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/ces_2008s_big_thing_is_a_little_book.html http://www.microsoft-watch.com/mommys1.jpg http://www.microsoft-watch.com/mommys3.jpg creepy? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In my last article, we saw how a stepper motor could be controlled with a computer by connecting it to its parallel port. This article will extend it to build laser following camera panner, which tracks and turns towards any laser dot in the camera's field of view. I'm assuming that you have already built a computer controlled stepper motor. If not, go through my previous article for information on how to build one. After you successfully build your laser following camera, you could use your own ideas and creativity to build even cooler things. For example, you could extend this project and build a cool laser following robot, or maybe even an autonomous laser guided turret which shoots down targets you point at! Ashish Derhgawen http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/371130.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Ultimate Extras: Ultimately Disappointing InformationWeek, NY - 8 minutes ago Blogger Long Zheng has a great post in the form of a faux-email to Microsoft asking them what has happened to Windows Vista Ultimate Extras. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

One of my favourite playthings is back after a long fallow period ... Nester is a Unit test testing system which deliberately breaks your code to see if you unit tests are working. I love it because it's just a little bit mental. :) I believe one of our own niners (John Melville) is part of the Nester team. Well done for getting it back out there. Herbie More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.pointui.com/ Coolest shell for WM! Why MS can't do such things "by design"? This app is amazing! So fast! Unfortunately runs only on phones for now (tried in emulator). And it's free (for now, at least). More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If I got a virtual directory in IIS, some files in it which can be access directly : http://domain.com/virtual/myfile.txt ...If I disable "Directory browsing" can bots or other applications(?) list the file names or does one need to know only the direct url and filename in order to be able to see the file? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

*:| Wonder if Microsoft is THIS tough?* Any revelations from Redmond staff? Want a developer job at Google, be prepared for an unforgettable ordeal More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> An Ed Tech laptop rant ZDNet Blogs - 6 hours ago Fellow blogger, Mary Jo Foley, put it quite well when she said, Why would anyone — kids, governments and/or laptop makers — want a dual-boot Linux/Windows ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have a requirement in which I need to check some files and provide the report on UI. And I would like to design this in such a way that on Windows form it displays all file names and then it starts checking one after other. If it meets criteria, Green tick image would come after filename, otherwise Red Cross image. I can do file check but how can I display either Green Tick or Red Cross image based on result. Is there any tool/grid/control available in Toolbox to meet above requirement? Note that this is on Window form and using C#. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks|Sai. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I wrote this blog post for anyone having problems in adding WebParts dynamically. I know the problem isn't very well documented by MS and there's lots of forum posts out there with no solution. Hope this helps a little: http://leedale.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/dynamically-adding-webparts-using-webpartmanagerinternals-class/ More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Pocket PC Thoughts <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> CES 2008: Bill Gates' Keynote Pocket PC Thoughts, Canada - Jan 7, 2008 Windows Vista, love it or hate it, is currently being used by 100 million people. Windows Live has a strong user base of 420 million. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Electronista believe that 100million Vista sales do not tell the whole story. With over 255 million PCs sold in 2007, that would mean that Vista shipped on only 39% of new PCs. Ouch! Disclaimer: Electronista is MacNN with a different colour scheme. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I had a 5 gig external HD that I use for data storage.* I used it in a Mac to get some files off the Mac onto the drive.* Plugged it into my Vista box and it was a no go.* vista wouldnt pick it up without a reformat.* So I went ahead and did the reformat, what the hell.* Drive worked well and I could transfer the needed files.* Went back to the Mac to get those files I needed and the same problem came up when I pugged said drive into the Vista machine. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Every generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, around the dawn of the third millenium AD... The Gospel of Tux http://www.ao.com/~regan/penguins/tux.html More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I don't really understand, does the hickups or hold-ups when loading C9 caused solely by silverlight behavior or, is it part of the problem relates to IE7, or misconfigurations? Cause I do experience these hold ups with IE7 even on some sites without silverlight. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Seriously*"forgot password" form just isn't working for me, or your site isn't sending the email required. I'm sure its been like that for while since you change the layout :) I don't mind really but I think the lack of commenting probably isn't too good for the site? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

*** The greatest song ever made should be featured at the Grammy awards.* No artist has a song that even comes close to it, it is the best song EVER written More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> New rootkit threatens Windows users Search Security, Australia - 29 minutes ago ... rootkits and other malware to be undetectable for anti-malware sensors, including those baked into Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds