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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007? Slashdot - Dec 18, 2007 eldavojohn writes "A ZDNet blog reports stats from Secunia showing OSX averaged 20.25 vulnerabilities per month while XP & Vista combined averaged ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Check out the new One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO laptop in this photo gallery! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If you're into Winforms VB or C# and have not heard of the Kryton Toolkit, or tried it, there has never been a better time to try it FREE. The latest version was released earlier today and has some nice additions. You can achieve the Office 2007 Look and Feel quickly and very very easily. There are some excellent FREE screencasts as well. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ BetaNews <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Latest Firefox beta passes Acid2 test, IE8 claims to pass also BetaNews - 9 minutes ago And a test this morning by BetaNews of Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 for Windows Vista, released on Wednesday, clearly shows it passes as well. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Linuxworld wrote:December 20th 2007. Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/1905 This is truely fantastic news across the board! :D More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

This is a C# 2.0*Win Forms app. I have my dataset filling a treeview, and that works great. I have a list view that I want to bind to a child table. I know I can't automatically bind the treeview to the relationship. I'd like to do something where I find the row in the parent table using code, and have the listbox reflect based on the relationship. On the treeview.afterselect event I'm trying this: currentProjectData.SectionDocuments.ParentTable.FindByProjectSectionID(sectionRow.ProjectSectionID).BeginEdit(); But that doesn't seem to trigger the listbox to refresh. I'm probably trying this the wrong way. Any ideas? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

The BBC website is undergoing a long overdue overhaul. I vaguely recollect the original (present) site costing somewhere around the 2 million mark. What faults can you pick from the present page? My hate is the waste of space, i.e. the fact that the page is aligned left. There is loads of content that is crammed consequently. The beta site excels in the use of gradient panels everywhere. I cannot believe that there isn't a single gradient panel in the original site. Can you spot any problems in the beta becuase I can't. Not 1 fault. I presume that type of 'extravigance' would have been frowned upon back then. The designer (s) would have *told, "look, this is the BBC. Keep it simple!" It's this super clean, crisp ajaxified, design that pleases one no end. Progress is certainly being made. I will use the site more often because of it. I will also spend more time using it. I've no doubt that http://www.pageflakes.com/* (in my mind) at least changed a lot of things about this type of design. Find me a Win32 smart client that looks as good as any of the above. Answers on a postcard please! WPF has some catching up to do. By catching up I mean this. Imaging you have to work with an application that looks like the first image every day. Drab, unexciting, demure, somnifacient... More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> HP Laptops Spring (Another) Code Execution Leak eWeek, NY - 23 hours ago Exploits have been tested against Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista systems. The researcher provided eWEEK with an advance ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft Fellow Mark Russinovich provides the best explanation yet of Windows 7's MinWin technology! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ten Trends That Defined 2007 Business Standard, India - 32 minutes ago The price of Windows Vista Home Basic is the same as Windows XP Home (around Rs 3800). How many times did you lose a business opportunity because you were ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

1) good Intel core 4 board with VGA build in. 2) 2u rack case w/ quiet PU/fans. Any recommendations?* TIA More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007? Slashdot - Dec 18, 2007 eldavojohn writes "A ZDNet blog reports stats from Secunia showing OSX averaged 20.25 vulnerabilities per month while XP & Vista combined averaged ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Oddest Science Stories http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/17/521869.aspx Oddest Human Interest Stories 2007 & 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22218865/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16073845/ Most Unforgetable News Photos http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=517&galleryName=Showcases#a=1 More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats questioned ZDNet Blogs - 40 minutes ago The problem being that you are only reporting CVEs for Windows for the XP Professional and Vista products (leaving out the Home Edition and Server products) ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It's weird... No Russian language support! No Latvian language support! No other eastern european languages support in Vista's "Input Panel"... I can't find any even for money! Stupid PenReader is just a piece of cr@p. It doesn't integrates itself in TIP. WTF? :@ More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hey all - I must be having a bad day. I'm trying to bind a WPF listbox to an ADO.Net Datatable. I have a listbox, and have the the ItemsSource property to my datatable's Rows collection. That works fine, I get my records returned etc and all is well..... but if I add a new row to the collection, the Listbox does not get updated, nor if I remove a row etc. In order to refresh the listbox, I have to set the ItemsSource property again, which I'm sure is not the right way to go about this. I think I must be missing something, but would really appreciate a nudge in the right direction :-) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Preview: Microsoft Hyper-V beta makes its lab debut InfoWorld, CA - 19 hours ago The basis of Hyper-V is the new Windows Server 2008 platform that carries with it a host of new features and a vaguely Vista-esque look and feel. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Passing complex object arrays isn't the most trivial thing. My proof of concept contract: *** public interface IDataResult : IContract{ *** *** string Name { get; set; } *** *** int? Age { get; set; } *** *** IArrayContract Children { get; } *** } How am I supposed do implement the IArrayContract, since a simple array didnt seem to work. And the documentation is not very clear. IDataResult[] Children { get; } resulted in a SerializationException. Any help would be appreciated More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Does anyone know of any free DVD Codecs that work with vista and XP? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> BenQ Announces SideShow-enabled JoyBook Q41 Laptop Laptop Logic, CA - 24 minutes ago Equipped with 14.1” UltraVivid widescreen, a 2.5” auxiliary display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Good morning. I have a datatemplate which is being used to format data coming from ADO. I have a Price datacolumn, which is put into a textbox using {Binding UnitPrice} I have a Quantity dataColumn, which is put into a textbox using {Binding Quantity} What i want, is another textbox, for the total Price, which is obviously the Unit Price, multiplied by the quantity. How can I achieve this in XAML? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Channel9 is increasingly getting spam adverts in the Techoff forum. Can someone please go on a deleting spree through them? Channel9 is a big website and spam links are deliberately put here to boost Google ratings, and while the C9 admins do nothing to combat it, there will be no peace in the Techoff forum. If the C9 admins feel that this would be too much, they could at the very least kill all of the links to their site in the Techoff to minimise the google/windowslive boosting that their spamming gets. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I was watching the Mark Russinovich Win2K8 Deep Dive video on my way to work this morning, and he's talking about future directions for Windows and changes in hardware that drive those directions, and one of the things he mentions is Flash memory and SSDs and the issues with those. There's been quite a lot of discussion about this lately, what with the Asus Eee PC and other SSD-based devices, and one of the things which keeps coming up is the limited number of writes you can do and how that relates to temporary folders/files. And I thought about my new PC and the 8GB of RAM it's got, which only cost £160(!), and how it could probably manage fairly well without writing temporary files to disk. And then I thought, if those 4*2GB PC6400 DDR2 modules only cost £160, then older, slower volatile memory could probably be manufactured stupidly cheaply. At the moment it costs more because very few people want it, but if it became ubiquitous again, surely it would be cheap as chips. :$ I appear to be banging on quite a lot. What I'm basically getting at is, you could have volatile SSDs for temporary file storage, or build some onto the motherboard, with HD-style interfaces to get round the addressing limit, that would be seen from inside Windows (or whatever)*as a disk, but could be used for temp files. Performance would be awesome and the limited number of writes to the Flash memory in the SSD would be preserved. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Over the last 2 days, i have been writing 17 pages of science reports. I have used EXTENSIVE amounts of equations and graphs, as well an auto generated index list.While office 2007 is really sweet, what a pain in the (I need to watch my language) the stability was. When*i reached 10 pages, with almost 2 pages worth of index, it started crashing over and over again, every 20 ish minut. And it was at the most random times.The amount of times i have even had to rewrite whole complex equations due to word crashing, and NOT having just autosaved, is really disturbing.Please tell me its just my laptop, and not because of word 2007 being just randomly unstable. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How Microsoft Can Save Vista NetworkWorld.com, MA - Dec 18, 2007 I have my own views on what can turn things around for Vista and save what could be another potentially disastrous product upgrade. Windows Vista SP1 Must ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds