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I’m the end I have no start I’m nether black or white I’m nether on or off I have no hands my grasp reaches all I feel no love I feel no hate Some run to me other run from me, I catch all Stars have no power More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

One of the reasons Google become popular was it's simplicity: it does one thing: search, and it does it very well and not much else besides. So we're facing dozens of social networking sites that include everything but the kitchen sink (unlike Facebook which probably has a "Kitch 'n' Sync" application for it somewhere). So here's an idea: a website where it's nothing BUT social networking. You're presented with a simple network graph showing relationships between UML Actors (they don't necessarily need to be people, I'm sure some of us have feelings for their cats/dogs or love their computers). These networks are then n-dimensionally linked with other user's network. So many so-called "social networking" sites are simple one-to-many relationships marked one a "friend/foe/fan/freak/family" basis. I don't feel this is a realistic model of how real-world relationships work. Then there's the obligatory many-to-many groups system, if you're lucky maybe some tags too. With more people becoming disillusioned with Bebo, MySpace, and Facebook, yet want to network, can anyone see a potential market in this? People's lives get ruined by their Facebook or MySpace profiles because of embarrasing photos, yet this is social networking, pure and simple. Discuss. Potential investors also advised to reply. I need mon€y! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> A More Open Microsoft Baseline, NY - 26 minutes ago First, it means that your Linux and Mac clients won't be left out in the cold when Microsoft upgrades its Windows Server 2008 software later this year, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Since I can no longer use Lookout with Outlook 2007 I have been looking for an email search utility. With the IBM release of OmniFind*I thought my quest was over. However it seems that Omnifind uses a indexing service and actually launches your browser to view search results. Reading what Omnifind does sounds cool (semantic search) but among other things not sure why you need to open a port on your firewall to make a email search tool work!? What I don't understand is why you need a service for email search? Why you need a different UI to see the email search results? Why can't the built in search for outlook be bonified? Why is was what* Lookout did so wrong where you need to kill this feature with a 2 ton anvil? (yes I'm being a nagging user) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

ok, I could use some ideas on how to fix a problem in ASP.NET - Web Forms. We use masterpages that have our page navigation and now are adding a sub-menu to be displayed on every page. In the sub menu I put a quick search that includes a text box and a command button named "btnGo". My problem is, now on "enter" of every page no matter what control you are in it submits "btnGo" and not whichever command button is in the form on the page. I need the "btnGo" to submit when clicked or when "enter" is pressed when the co-responding text box has focus, and the command button on the page to submit on enter when anything else has focus like it did before I added the control to the master page. This sounds easy enough to fix, I am finding a lot of involved javascript functions that I could use but I figured I'd put some feelers out to see if anyone had any ideas. Thank you! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The very first Code Camp*of 2008*will be held at the*DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday,*January 12 from 8:00-5:30.* Details and registration for an amazing community event run by and for the community! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Steven is a member of the Windows HPC Server 2008 product team responsible for design and development of the new Open Grid Forum compatible Web Service interface.** This new interface enables client HPC*applications to interact with*the compute cluster job scheduler in a vendor-neutral manner. Learn more*about this and other new features via the community*website at http://WindowsHPC.net. The video is a bit long*for Channel9 (~30 min).* You may wish to download the entire WMV file, open it via the Windows Media Player, and select the fast play speed option, "Ctrl+Shift+G".** http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/369487.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> More Bad Drivers on the Information Superhighway eWeek, NY - 32 minutes ago It's as true of any operating system as it is of Windows, but Windows gets a harder time for it: Bad device drivers make for a bad computing experience. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Five Most Significant Tech Trends of 2007 Gadget, South Africa - 19 hours ago It was also the year Windows Vista was released which was supposed to improve the Windows experience. And yet, Windows Vista shows that Microsoft still ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is there a way to get the lightning bolt to show up for page events in the VS IDE? If I'm in the designer, there is no lightning bolt for the page or document.. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

After C++ code has been written, compiled and tested it's now time for figuring out out to deploy it successfully on users' machines. This is no easy task given the number of potential versioning conflicts. Of course, there are ways to do this, many of them automatic in nature, but which way is the best way? How do the various methodologies of delploying exes and dlls on machines stack up? How does it all work? Deployment is one of those things that many of us take for granted, but George Mileka and Ben Anderson of the Visual C++ team spend much of their time thinking about the process of deploying code to any number of machines so we don't have to. Tune in and learn about the nitty gritty of VC deployment. There is plenty of whiteboarding in this one so be sure to put your propeller caps on. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/rankings2007/phrcomp_sort.pdf As someone who lives in the UK this is particularly worrying. On the brightside we can't go down in the ranking much further :) I, for one, am up for migration to Greece. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> CES to host 2008's killer tech products PC Advisor, UK - 45 minutes ago Bill Gates will deliver the keynote on Sunday 6th January, and Windows watchers are already gossiping about what he's got in store for our PCs. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Five Most Significant Tech Trends of 2007 Gadget, South Africa - 16 hours ago It was also the year Windows Vista was released which was supposed to improve the Windows experience. And yet, Windows Vista shows that Microsoft still ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> CES to host 2008's killer tech products PC Advisor, UK - 2 minutes ago Bill Gates will deliver the keynote on Sunday 6th January, and Windows watchers are already gossiping about what he's got in store for our PCs. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

On today’s TechNet radio, we learn about how to customize your web server to the bare essentials of what you need on Windows Server 2008, minimizing your surface of attack and maintenance. We will cover Server Core as well as well as how to use our fine-grained components to build a custom, specialized Web server of your own. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Isaac Roybal – Product Manager, Windows Server Marketing Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec – Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec is the Group Program Manager for Internet Information Services (IIS). Mai-lan is a seven year veteran of Microsoft, working in the Office and Windows Server divisions. She was part of the Microsoft Transaction Server 1.5 and 2.0 teams and started up the Visio development community in 2001 with its first two generations of SDKs and developer focus in the product. Mai-lan also participated in the “Centro” development effort to put together a Windows Server solution server targeting the mid-size business. Mai-lan is the author of two books on strategic planning around Web-based technologies, as well as numerous technical articles in MSDN Journal. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As you may know, I previously created replacement FileDialog classes for .Net 2.0 that allowed application to use Windows Vista style file dialogs, unlike the built-in classes which would always use the old-style dialogs even when running on Vista. So you can understand that I was happy when I noticed that in .Net 2.0 SP1, System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog automatically use the new dialogs, so my work-around is now unnecessary. But I was surprised to see that the same update was not made in .Net 3.0 SP1 for Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog (and SaveFileDialog), which are meant to be used with WPF. So WPF applications still get old-style file dialogs on Vista, which is strange because WPF is meant to deliver a first-class Vista experience, isn't it? So now I'm using System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog in my WPF applications. It works, but it feels dirty. Can anybody explain why this inconsistency exists? Or did they simply forget to update that class? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

WTF? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/5414105.html http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Article wrote: If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to put David Levy's prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we'll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we'll have sex with these robots. Some of us will even marry them. And it will all be good. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

James Grant IV*- born January 1st 2008. http://www.channel9.ca/james1.jpg http://www.channel9.ca/james2.jpg nice new years gift :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

After a *finally* successful tech-support call to Scan, they said they'd honor the warranty on my router. Yay! Of course, something had to go wrong. Upon installing the routers "EZSetup" (my áss), I keep getting "Network Error" and "Unable to connect to network, check your network settings". After a little (understatement alert) digging, I found out that loads of people had this problem. Oh! And a fix.... for Ultimate. Then I find out the problem itself, that SAMBA in the router doesn't want to play nice with Vista HB. Okay, the date on the box is 2006 so I reckon Asus have a firmware update, with a SAMBA version that's compatible with Vista. Again, I was to be proven wrong. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Okay, I've been told again and again that Asus suck (mainly by LG :P) and I, the ignorant child I am, didn't believe them. The product rocks. It's a good idea. I just don't want to have to leave the router in a titanium box surrounded by CCTV cameras, plugged into the dreaded family computer. It'd be roughed up and broken within 24h :( Asus are marketing this as a High-Tech, 1337 product. How the hell can they do that without support for what is going to become on of the most popular OS's in the world??? *sigh* Summary: Scan: +1 honoring the warranty Asus: -3 Crappy firmware I don't even think they're making an effort towards making it complatible with V|HB - or Ultimate. Ultimate users can use it, at least.. with a hack. I phoned tech support and they just told me to email some more tech support. Upon doing this they told me to phone. My options: Stare nicely at my £200 paperweight Stick it on the dreaded family computer and have it abused Use a homebrew firmware Wait for Asus to come out with a new firmware update (like that's going to happen any time soon...) Somebody shoot me :( Anybody know anybody running V|HB + Asus wl700ge... and could you please get me details just how the hell they did it? Thanks PS: Anybody got a copy of Ultimate they wouldn't mind trading for a nice piece of thin air? [A] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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My app doesn't need to accept HTML as HTML*but HTML as plain text and something that looks like markup may be entered. Therefore unless I'm very mistaken I need to turn off page validation and to stop HTML from getting rendered I need to HTMLEncode somewhere. Some data may be exported as CSV for use in none HTML rendering applications. My plan was to HTMLEncode all input text either before being passed to the BLL or in the BLL itself, so HTMLEncoded strings are stored in the database. I would*then need*to decode only when the data is being externally exported. Is this the correct way? Or should I not encode any data until it is being pulled out of the database? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Tip: Five ways to expand a virtual hard drive ITworld.com, MA - Dec 30, 2007 Mitch Tulloch is lead author for the Microsoft Windows Vista Resource Kit and is a widely recognized expert on Windows administration, networking, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Has a Broken Home E-Commerce Times - 15 minutes ago "A few people in the Community Forums have reported data corruption when saving files from applications including Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds