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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Digital gifts that keep on giving CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago In Windows XP SP2 the autorun.inf feature is disabled and the user is asked whether or not to run the file. A similar process occurs within Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

With Time-Warner Studios going BluRay exclusively, that stacks things about 10-to-2 for BluRay. Or is downloading make physical media irrelavent? I'd think not, HD means clogged tubes. What do you think? Have you invested much in HD-DVD? I have my "Planet Earth" and the free 8 DVDs they give you when you buy the Xbox external drive. It'll be funny seeing the Xbox 360 sku come w/ a BluRay drive. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Digital gifts that keep on giving CNET News.com, CA - 17 minutes ago In Windows XP SP2 the autorun.inf feature is disabled and the user is asked whether or not to run the file. A similar process occurs within Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Mobile Magazine <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> OQO Model 02 UMPC To Demonstrate Integrated WiMAX Mobile Magazine - 1 hour ago With a five-inch display and full computer functionality (including Windows Vista Business), the OQO Model 02 is almost as powerful as some compact laptops. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Mobile Magazine <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> OQO Model 02 UMPC To Demonstrate Integrated WiMAX Mobile Magazine - 33 minutes ago With a five-inch display and full computer functionality (including Windows Vista Business), the OQO Model 02 is almost as powerful as some compact laptops. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Digital gifts that keep on giving CNet News.com Blog - 15 minutes ago In Windows XP SP2 the autorun.inf feature is disabled and the user is asked whether or not to run the file. A similar process occurs within Windows Vista. ... 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 - 12 hours ago 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

This month I’m starting work on the re-write one of our two major Windows applications.* This application is 8+ years old, and is in desperate need of revamping.* Since Microsoft will no longer develop the WinForms platform, I think my best bet is to go with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).* As long as these applications that we write*tend to hang around, I want to have what is the current state-of-the-art form generation mechanism for a Windows application.* But I have to admit that it has been a few years since I’ve written any significant Windows application, and I’ve never written a WPF application.* I believe that VS 2008 has better support for*WPF design, than was available in VS 2005, so that is good, but I would still like to have a book handy to help me learn how to do what we’ve got to do, writing a WPF app in VS 2008.* I’ve just checked out Amazom.com and Barnes & Noble, and all I can find are books that have not been released yet.* (“WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008” by Arlen Feldman and Maxx Daymon, and “Programming C# 3.0 (Programming)” by Jesse Liberty and Donald Wie.* Both books have future release dates.* The book by Liberty and Wie will be released sooner, but looks like it covers all of C# 3.0, which would be good, but may not go into the depth that I am looking for.) So, I am wondering if anyone knows of any other books which will fit what I’m looking for, that you recommend? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ MacDailyNews <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Report: Microsoft attempting to rip-off Apple’s iPhone with ... MacDailyNews - 28 minutes ago Windows Mobile 7 is going to copy the iPhone," Zeman blogs. Nathan Weinberg for the Blog News Channel's "InsideMicrosoft" lays Windows Mobile 7 bare with ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Welcome to the tenth article on beginning game development. In the last article we manipulated sounds by adding sound effects. Together with the use of 3D Buffers to make the sounds positionaly accurate we now have a fully featured sound system in the game. But, while we’re are able to play and manipulate short sounds and sound effects we cannot play longer WMA or MP3 files with the DirectSound namespace. To accomplish that we need to turn to the AudioVideoPlayback namespace. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/370370.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am watching the keynote right now, and I sincerely mean it when I say that I'm sad to see him step down. I'm glad to know that he will still continue doing very meaningful work, but man, it's Bill, and he's leaving... This is a big day in History. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Once upon a time ... Nintendo, a game maker, innovates the world game experiences with a totally new concept: get physical (as to prevent you from getting ‘finger/thumb-RSI’). This striking new phenomenon is the nowadays well known Wii game, played with its remote objects, the Wii Remote (a.k.a Wiimote) and its companion, the Nunchuk. As time goes by, clever people discover other possibilities for, in this case, the Wiimote. With some dedicated software you can turn it into a PC device, impersonating the standard mouse. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/370362.jpg Download the project More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

While in Copenhagen recently, I was able to spend some time with computer scientist Peter Sestoft. He's currently a professor at the Copenhagen IT University and he and colleagues have created an awesome collection library for managed code (CLI), C5. C5 is a library of generic collection classes for C# and other CLI languages and works with Microsoft .Net version 2.0 and Mono version 1.2 and later. C5 provides functionality and data structures not provided by the standard .Net System.Collections.Generic namespace, such as persistent tree data structures, heap based priority queues, hash indexed array lists and linked lists, and events on collection changes. Also, it is more comprehensive than collection class libraries on other similar platforms, such as Java. Unlike many other collection class libraries, C5 is designed with a strict policy of supporting "code to interface not implementation". Here, we dig deeply into C5. We also dive into some other interesting computer science and programming topics, as you'd expect. We spend some time*discussing a very intriguing aspect oriented software project*named*YIIHAW. YIIHAW is a static cross-language aspect weaver for .NET. What does that mean? Tune in. Learn. Peter is a brilliant computer scientist and we're very lucky to have him here on C9. Thank you, Peter! Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have been engineering software for about 4 years now. For the most part*I have used Windows Forms and ASP.NET (the latter being my focus hitherto). Presently, I have a little sideline project, that may or may not be remunerative. This 'sideline' will be a smart client. The principal requirements for this project are two fold. A Microsoft Outlook type interface, with a grid control that has grouping. A*grid control*that is similar to uTorrent, Free Download Manager or FlashGet. This grid will have an array or progress bars.Because this project, which I'll code name "Chronicle" is not commissioned, its is best met with free tools. At present it is in three incarnations. Using free components from http://www.componentfactory.com/. I have used just the free toolkit from here Using the exceptionally good components from Devexpress Using Windows Presentation FoundationSo far the need for the project to be free has ruled out Devexpress components because they are *Very expensive Add additional*layers of complexity to the project. Just try to get you head around the Xtragrid, their version of the data grid view. This is not a pleasant experience, and comes at the expense of a few months to master.The two left, are the*Windows forms application with Krypton, or WPF. I was asked this question by Sabot a while ago; What drives change in your organisation? Technology or Business requirement? I have since struggled to answer it. Business requirement tells me the winforms is the way to go, but WPF makes things so much easier. Trying to embed controls like progress bars into data grid views requires some tricky code. The winforms data grid view has a flickering problem, basically I'm fighting the tools here. To get a faithful Outlook UI in winforms,*there is the Joe Stegman sample titled Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms*(link to the video on channel 9). This is probably the canonical example for doing this type of thing in winforms. Only problem is these is no grouping in the datagrid, that has been heavily modified. In WPF you just set a few properties to a Listview control. To get a faithful Outlook UI in WPF,*there is this example. Both examples lack the WOW and exact finish that Devexpress or Infragistics*components have. But they teach you the principles, you can iron out your business logic, then either be creative or purchase presentation layer components. In WPF you can add any control into any control, a huge*obstacle to my project*in windows forms. In WPF to enable spell checking you do this; In windows forms you either go with Netspell (4 years old) or this, which does not work on my PC because I'm using office 12. More tweaks required there then.What would you do? Which way would you go? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

No idea why it took so long for someone to come up with a KVM that didn't look pants. http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/assets/media/hi-res/SOHOKVM.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well after the keynote, everyone seems to be saying it, but they're all quoting an article on the BBC website, which doesn't say anything about retail. If they have sold 100million at retail (and I mean sold to end users, not to the actual shop) then that is quite an achievement; I'm just not convinced that Mary Jo read it right. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> All Windows Home Server devices to receive security, media ... engadget, CA - 22 minutes ago Remember those security / media streaming / Vista x64 updates that HP's MediaSmart Server was destined to receive in the not-too-distant future? ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This week, Bill Gates provided his final CES keynote. Find out what he said and what's coming this year in my CES 2008 special report! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Gates May Announce Xbox 360 DVR At CES Slashdot - 2 hours ago (Score:2) by Joe The Dragon (967727) on Wednesday January 02, @04:22PM (#21887112) The windows vista based system with don't work that well and SDV channels ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Signs Deals To Use Movie, TV Content Wall Street Journal - 13 hours ago Mr. Gates also plans to announce that Microsoft has sold 100 million licenses to Windows Vista, the company's year-old operating system for personal ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Home Server Breaks Ground on New Features, Expands Into ... Reuters - 19 minutes ago With Power Pack 1, the Windows Home Server Connector software for home computers is compatible with 64-bit editions of Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Gates May Announce Xbox 360 DVR At CES Slashdot - 1 hour ago (Score:2) by Joe The Dragon (967727) on Wednesday January 02, @04:22PM (#21887112) The windows vista based system with don't work that well and SDV channels ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ TrustedReviews <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Mobile 7 Leaked TrustedReviews, UK - 49 minutes ago The InsideMicrosoft blog has just pulled a major exclusive out of the bag with extensive details and the first grabs of Windows Mobile 7 - the most radical ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Save time, stay safe by partitioning your hard drive CNET Blogs, CA - 6 hours ago Windows Vista lets you create new partitions (which it calls "volumes") quickly and simply via the Disk Management utility. Unfortunately, the only quick ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Home Server Breaks Ground on New Features, Expands Into ... CNNMoney.com - 40 minutes ago New Power Pack 1 adds support for Windows Vista x64, enhances remote access capabilities, extends data protection and supports the Chinese and Japanese ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds