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Okay, I've been polling people recently about this and I figured C9 would be a good spot to get some feedback... Okay, so everyone here probably has their favorite operating system. I’d say that’s a given. Mine is Mac OS X. I know some of you love Linux, and there's obviously lots of you here on Windows. So my first question is Why do you love your choice so much? What makes it so much better than MY choice or someone else’s choice? Why won’t you use anything else? Is it cost, or support, or morals or more obviously form and functionality? And my second question would be what would it take for you to drop your current choice for something else? What features in an operating system could possibly make you want it so bad that you’d switch and never come back? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft unveils IE -- minus the 'click to activate' nag PC World Magazine, Australia - 3 minutes ago On Tuesday Microsoft posted what it called the "Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview" of IE6 and IE7 for Windows XP, Windows Vista and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-) Introduction: In this 25' exploration of the heart of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework, you will learn how to use Tasks and how they relate to TaskManagers (including creation options, cancellation and policies). Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here. http://channel9.msdn.com/Photos/365238.jpg Watch the screencast(WMV) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/analyze-license-agreements-with-eulalyzer-332498.php This tool helps identify dangerous sections in EULAs so you don't have to read through them everytime you install a program. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-download/sync-openofficeorg-docs-with-google-docs-332055.php This OpenOffice.org extention syncs Google Docs & Spreadsheets with OpenOffice and vise versa. Sounds very cool. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Not is it legal or not.* No, it isn't. However, it is illegal to -Host FairUse4WM on my website -Host a video on my website showing how to use FairUse4WM -Host a program on my website that deletes the original DRM'd songs and fixes the un-DRM'd songs' file names. Also, do any of these three things break the GoDaddy terms of service that you know of? Thanks! More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Erik Meijer and a small team of very sharp developers (including Brian Beckman) have cooked up an intriguing toolset for building multi-tier distributed applications: Volta. When the Volta CTP release announcement hit the wire last week, the press declared Volta as a Java killer, etc. In reality, Volta is primarily, and most importantly, a tier splitting system where the details of the tiers aren't of primary importance. So, the most obvious case is Silverlight 2.0*as the client tier and a web server as the server tier... This is a great scenario since Volta can split IL to IL without having to resort to IL translation to, say, JavaScript (which has gotten too much attention).* Further, execution contexts such as XNA, WinForms, DHTML, SVG, VML, even SQL are realistic client targets (tiers) for Volta. Then there's the notion of a local "distributed" system (think of applications running on a single client as the tiers) where Volta also makes sense as a means of easily composing the system. Too much has been made of the IL to Javascript translation capabilities, so much so that people are apparently not seeing the forest for the trees. Well, have no fear. Over the coming days you are going to learn more about Volta than you can imagine and the people who'll you learn from also happen to be the people who thought up and implemented Volta. This is part 2 where we continue to dig deeply*into Volta. Lot's of whiteboarding and even a code sample using VS. See part 1 here. Tune in. Learn. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Rob Barker spent some time with John Graham, who owns the ODC Real World Track, to talk about what the track is all about and what you can expect. This chat is the first in a series with the other track owners that will cover Architecture, Services, Client and Server tracks. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I am getting the message when i go to use system restore as follows:* System Restore application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. What do i need to do... ok when i open it up for details this is also what it says: This error report includes: information regarding the condition of system restore application when the problem occured; the operating system version and comptuer hardware in use; your digital product id, which could be used to identify your license; and the internet protocol (IP) address of your computer. What else can i tell you? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Erik Meijer and a small team of very sharp developers (including Brian Beckman) have cooked up an intriguing toolset for building multi-tier distributed applications: Volta. When the Volta CTP release announcement hit the wire last week, the press declared Volta as a Java killer, etc. In reality, Volta is primarily, and most importantly, a tier splitting system where the details of the tiers aren't of primary importance. So, the most obvious case is Silverlight as the client tier and a web server as the server tier... This is a great scenario since Volta can split IL to IL without having to resort to IL translation to, say, JavaScript (which has gotten too much attention). Too much has been made of the IL to Javascript translation capabilities, so much so that people are apparently not seeing the forest for the trees. Well, have no fear. Over the coming days you are going to learn more about Volta than you can imagine and the people who'll you learn from also happen to be the people who thought up and implemented Volta. In this episode (or part 1, if you will) we meet the team and learn the basics. Since it's a room full of devs there is whiteboarding and lots of techincal talk, just the way we like it here on C9. You will be seeing much more of this great team over the coming days and Volta will make more sense with each epsiode, culminating in an Expert to Expert Going Deep where we a great deal of how Volta's tier splitting capabilities are implemented and get a clear picture of what a tier actually can be. It's all about tier splitting and*a tier is simply an execution context. Volta is much more than a web technology... Tune in. Learn. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Rob Barker spent some time with Jerome Theibaud, SharePoint Designer PM. Jerome owns the ODC Server Track, to talk about what the track is all about and what you can expect. This chat is the second in a series with the other track owners that will cover Architecture, Services and Client tracks. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

The Real Computer Monster* :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAKgJDahzw&feature=related Prototyping "Prototyping is the process of quickly putting together a working model (a prototype) in order to test various aspects of a design, illustrate ideas or features and gather early user feedback. Prototyping is often treated as an integral part of the system design process, where it is believed to reduce project risk and cost. Often one or more prototypes are made in a process of iterative and incremental development where each prototype is influenced by the performance of previous designs, in this way problems or deficiencies in design can be corrected. When the prototype is sufficiently refined and meets the functionality, robustness, manufacturability and other design goals, the product is ready for production. ..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototyping Merry Christmas and A Happy and Prosperous New Year * The Twelve Days of Christmas http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html [H] More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft Reworks Antipiracy Procedures After WGA Meltdown CRM Buyer - Dec 11, 2007 In a blog posting, Alex Kochis, senior product manager for Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software, outlined new processes that the WGA group ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A number of years back I found an example of how one can get an MDI like interface, but without taking over the entire form for the hosting area, instead a custom control was used that would host the MDI children but not have to be the size of the parent form. Any chance anyone remembers how to do this? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Linux and Windows interest on the wane; Mac interest trending higher CNET Blogs, CA - 17 minutes ago Much of Windows' news coverage has centered on Vista delays and its underwhelming of expectations. Not exactly what Microsoft wants people saying about it. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've seen examples of custom tab controls online, but I want to be able to create custom tab pages, that could be added in at run-time. (For instance, a plugin to my app adds 1-2 tabs to my main tab control.) So far I have some code, but it doesn't display much in the designer: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Drawing; using System.Data; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace ProjectTracker { *** [Designer(typeof(TabPage))] *** [ToolboxBitmap(typeof(TabPage))] *** public partial class ProjDocsPage : TabPage *** { ******* private AutoScaleMode autoScaleMode; ******* public AutoScaleMode AutoScaleMode ******* { *********** get { return autoScaleMode; } *********** set { autoScaleMode = value; } ******* } ******* public ProjDocsPage() ******* { *********** InitializeComponent(); ******* } *** } } More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Never noticed this before - wow! http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8812/c9searchol0.png This is great - thanks! More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft pulls Vista from snooping offer engadget, CA - 19 minutes ago Yesterday, we told you about an offer wherein you could completely sacrifice your privacy for a free software bundle from Microsoft which included Windows ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

At last, multimap is doomed to be replaced by live maps. This is definitely a win. It seems like the geodata/gis market is converging with a lot of companies being bought/sold recently. Hopefully this is a good thing and not a short path to a two-vendor world. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

The first MT job I've seen advertised, and it looks very interesting... but there's a catch.* Anyone going to apply for it? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Digitaltrends.com Microsoft Rebuffs Poor Vista Benchmarks Digitaltrends.com, OR - Dec 10, 2007 Microsoft’s attack came from Nick White, a product manager for Windows Vista. While he didn’t call out Devil Mountain by name in his Vista blog entry, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The public release is up! If you're interested in downloading Windows Vista SP1 RC1, check out the SuperSite Blog for details! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Operating system debate asks: 'Who do you love?' Bizjournals.com, NC - Dec 9, 2007 This long-time Windows user made the move to "The Dark Side of the Force" yesterday when I cracked open the relatively small box which arrived at my condo. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Will XP SP3 Slow Your Migration to Vista? Windows & Net Magazine, OH - 16 hours ago In late November, Devil Mountain Software tested pre-release versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 with officebench, a testing script that ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Where is a good place to get SSL certs for personal websites in the UK?* Cheers, STephen. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds