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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

Microsoft should learn from these people. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3138 More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft Reworks Antipiracy Procedures After WGA Meltdown CRM Buyer - 41 minutes ago 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

Microsoft Reworks Antipiracy Procedures After WGA Meltdown CRM Buyer - 6 minutes ago 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

So where is it? It looks like they forgot the rest of the world (or at least the UK)? I'm running beta 2 right now but I'd like to move to the RTM and ideally get work to BUY it.. I was waiting on the buying presuming they had RTM but not officially released yet, but when I visit the VS home I get told to download the beta 2.. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

You know you're a geek when you get all excited about getting a link on the front page of reddit. 13th! Who knows where it'll end. http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r76/inert_wall/fame.jpg More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

DivX is giving their codec professional*edition v6.8 (it's the most recent version)*away for free today! The Windows version can be downloaded here. The Mac version can be downloaded here. During install you only need to specify a valid e-mail address where they can send the serial number to. But that's all explained on the two websites for the download. Enjoy! :) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

SP1 focuses on the issues that matter most to our customers based on direct customer feedback and error reporting tools. You can expect: Stability. Using data from the Dr. Watson bug-reporting system, we've fixed the top software issues for each application in the 2007 Office system. The 2007 Office system SP1 also improves the stability of server components in the 2007 Office system and delivers compatibility with Windows Server® 2008, so you can confidently plan for future upgrades. Performance. The 2007 Office system SP1 improves performance in applications and servers. Performance improvements can be found in Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007, and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007. Security. By incorporating incremental advances in security and results from application testing, the 2007 Office system SP1 offers home and office users better protection against malicious software and potential threats to privacy. Download from Office Download Center SP1 Whitepaper Edit: Interesting... the download link gives me a 404. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Im using C#.* The query is in quotes: myNode.SelectSingleNode("Services/Service[starts-with(lower-case(OrgName),'MyOrg1') and starts-with(lower-case(ServiceName),'MyService1')]"); I only ghet back the error messgage: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Xml.XPath.XPathException' occurred in system.xml.dll Additional information: System error. Thanks for any help.* Im just trying to access a node which contains 2 children elements and seeing if those elements contain MyOrg1 "and" MyService1 within them.* Only then should it return the node. Thanks More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Toshiba's Satellite T31 arrives with Vista, Windows XP in box engadget, CA - 2 minutes ago Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Thought with the recent videos on Fsharp accross Channel 9 and it sister site 8 you guys might find this interesting: http://undev.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6526A337A687E45D!140.entry I am still reserving my opinion on whether F# is really useful. I see a lot of paralells with other languages. Not comfortable enough with some the idioms to prefer them over C#s. Yes I miss curley braces. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Anyone planning to go to the PDC next year? [H] http://msdn.microsoft.com/pdc2008* More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

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Hi folks. Hopefully this is the right forum channel for this. I'm a South African 9er and bandwidth is really an issue over here. Is there any chance some really kind soul over there could re-encode some of your larger videos and offer low bandwidth alternatives? I am really keen to watch some of your "Behind the Code" videos, yet both I considered downloading were 1GB in size. If quality is really a concern at lower bitrates, perhaps dropping the resolution by half would be an acceptable alternative. Anyway, I have really enjoyed a few of the smaller video files I've been able to download, and want to say "keep up the good work!". This site has really done a good job of putting a human face to Microsoft. Thanks. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Go Green. Dump Windows for Linux CNET Blogs, CA - Dec 10, 2007 ... for the need to refresh Windows machines stems from a desire to upgrade to the latest and greatest (XP instead of 2000; Vista instead of XP (or not)). ... Microsoft disses Windows security to sell...more Windows CNET Blogs all 19 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

on XP I could set autoplay to always launch the picasa auto-importing utility to import all the images from my cameras and phones on my PC and such setting was saved only for those devices. on Vista instead I can only set autoplay not for each device but for kinds of media instead. if I chose an autoplay setting for images it will be used for anything, including cdroms and removable usb memsticks that most of the times contain images I don't want to import because I already have them or just don't need. is there any workaround for this messy behaviour or am I doomed to having to rely on commercial 3rd-party programs like DL pro or end up disabling autoplay for removable/cdrom drives? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

We're working on optimising our software to work over a very slow WAN connection (using Citrix), but we're having trouble testing because we can't get the connections slow enough :s When we connect to our customers site, the connection (even out here in the countryside) is faster that some of our customer's connections (way, way out in the countryside). We have a local Citrix server on our network, so I want to throttle the connection speed back to make it as painfully slow as some of our customers. There are quite a lot of shareware network throttlers out there so I wondered if anyone here had a recommendation. Free would be good, too :D Herbie More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I've not been able to find the answer to this anywhere yet. Does the EF support multiple databases in the same model/context? Using SQL Server 2005 and I have 5 databases on the same server that I need to join and query against. It seems to lock you into using 1 database for each Model. And you can't combine the models/contexts in a Linq query. I'm able to work around this same limitation with Linq to SQL by changing the datasource when adding a table and referencing the tables by full name "database.dbo.Table". Is there a way to do the same with EF? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft, Testing Firm Bicker Over Benchmark Computerworld, MA - 22 hours ago Nick White, a Vista program manager at Microsoft, bashed the benchmarking by Devil Mountain Software Inc. in a blog posting, saying that the performance of ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

activation for hardware is worse... Yesterday, our company decided to update the OS (or firmware I would say, as it said on the "settings" page) of a S-brand hardware firewall. Before starting, we exported the settings to a file. And then we also downloaded "current firmware with backup settings" to the machine. After upload the new firmware and reboot the box, it loses it's all current settings and reverted to factory defaults. When we try login using the default password and upload the exported settings, it said the settings file is corrupted. Then we try to upload the "current firmware with backup settings" image to the box, but the upload page said we should have entered the registration code before update the firmware. (Before the hardware is first use, we have to go to the company's website and use the serial number plus authentication code to get the registration code) However, when we enter the code at the website, it said the serial number has already been registered. The worse thing is that, the staff who should have registered this box have leaved the company long ago - long enough that we had deleted his mailbox for ages... Then I figured that I should take a look at the exported settings file, as by chance it could be saved in easily recognizable format. Fortunately it's format is not difficult to be recognized so I can write a little program to extract the registration code out. We inputted the reg. code, uploaded the "current firmware with backup settings" file, everything restored, happy ending. However if we cannot figure the registration code out in the end, we'd waste a good piece of hardware for no acceptable reason, and we'd be in trouble. Moral of the story: Don't take for granted that if you had backup before update, you'll be fine. Never update critical hardware unless it is absolutely necessary. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://www.divx.com/dff/index.php?version=win hurray. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

*http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9051558&intsrc=news_ts_head AMD is an American company and thus is not allowed to do business with Iran by law. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

could somebody please try to reproduce this? just make a sfx archive bigger than 4gb with winrar and try deleting it to see if it works or not (it can't be deleted from explorer or command prompt) I've seen this happening on 3 PCs with almost nothing installed but I don't know if I installed something that messed up vista or if it's just one of the many vista bugs More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 Hit RC Milestone T.H.E. Journal, CA - 13 hours ago by Keith Ward Microsoft Wednesday continued its hand in hand development of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista's first service pack, publishing release ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yup. The feature-list in Wife2.0 is substantially more complete than1.0. Not to mention the new skin! Woooo (She's Brazilian - get it,"skin"?) Hehe. This version supports internationalization andmulti-lingual user-interfaces. It breaks less and works more than 1.0.It serves the user rather than forcing the user to serve it, like allgood software should! I feel sorry for the poor fella who gotmy 1.0 version. That thing was littered in bugs, and there was norecovery-disk either, which means no format/clean-install... SoI'm downloading the 2.0 update right now. At this rate, I'll have itfinished installing and functioning in about 6 months. Only thing is,it has a proximity-senor which requires it to be ran from Florida, soI'll have to relocate their to get full satisfactory output from theapplication. I've been using the Demo of 2.0 for a few monthsnow. It doesn't come with all of the functionality...the great featuresare only available to owners of the license http://sampsonresume.com/boards/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif But I'm really enjoying its seemless-integration with my current configuration and environment. It also works well with vista. http://sampsonresume.com/boards/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif http://sampsonresume.com/boards/download/file.php?id=6 More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds