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Microsoft warns of Windows zero-day SearchSecurity.com, MA - 11 hours ago ... Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003 Web Edition; Windows Vista; Windows XP Home Edition; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone here remember the "Choose your adventure" books? I was watching Family Guy the other night and seen the episode where Peter was reading one and it reminded me of it...I was wondering if anyone knows of an online version.... More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I used to use "CoolDesk" from http://www.shelltoys.com/virtual_desktop/index.html*but this great tool won't work too well with V64... it crashes on me. Anyone here using a multidesktop tool which you can recommend to me? I really need one. Can't live with this mess, my taskbar is full! Edit : Found this : http://www.codeplex.com/vdm*...works alright. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hello guys, I am a Microsoft developer/manager. I had www.MicrosoftManager.com* [H]**and www.MicrosoftManagers.com* [H][H] as my home page for a while now. Looking to see if any one likes it and looking forward to buy it for their homepage. The proceeds will go to http://www.tnfusa.org/*. Send in your offers to me at dssonthenet | a t |*g m a i l |*d o t | c*o m. Thanks, Shan. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs Start Windows in an Instant CNET Blogs, CA - 16 minutes ago Windows Vista's Power Options applet lets you put your system to sleep after a period of inactivity. Maybe you're the impatient type and don't want to wait ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

is there a way to disable windows from copying rich text... I hate it when you copy a bit of text from somewhere.. and then try paste it in microsoft word or any other similar app etc.. it and always tries to get the font/size/color and all that rubbish. ....so anything like a registry key or a quick fix that can applied that doens't let the windows copy function store the "RTF" nonsense anymore? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Zune 2, Amazon Kindle, OLPC vs. Asus EeePC, Firefox 3 Beta 1, the year of gaming, and the HP MediaSmart Server! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In the most recent episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I talk to Microsoft's David Fortin about Windows Live! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Find out what's new in Windows Live OneCare 2.0, the latest version of Microsoft's all-in-one, self-updating PC care service! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft this week announceed changes to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) in Windows Vista. Here's what I found out about these changes! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ High Tech Lounge Pair your Windows Mobile device with your Vista-powered laptop High Tech Lounge, NY - Dec 3, 2007 A brand new Software Developers Kit (SDK) has been uncovered at the Windows Sideshow Team blog. In this SDK, they make mention of portrait QVGA UI designed ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm trying to come up with some code that I can use to add INFO level tracing to my DAL and BL code.* So far, I'm able to obtain plenty of metadata about the functions, but not the actual parameter values: StringBuilder sb = newStringBuilder(); sb.Append(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod()); ParameterInfo [] ParameterInfos = System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().GetParameters(); foreach (ParameterInfo ParameterInfo in ParameterInfos) sb.Append(" ").Append(ParameterInfo.Name).Append(" {").Append(ParameterInfo).Append("}"); TraceLog.Info(sb.ToString()); this will output the metadata about the parameters, but not the actual values.* For example, it will show me that the value is an Int32, but not that the value is 3. I know that this is doable, but I can't seem to pick the right combination of words, punctuation, and secret masonic dances required to get Google to return a clue. Any clues? Edit: oh, and what the heck is the 'code' tag on C9 again? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft Drops the Windows Vista Kill Switch Top Tech News, CA - 11 minutes ago By Richard Koman Microsoft vice president Mike Sievert said that Microsoft dropped the reduced-functionality (aka "kill switch") mode in Windows Vista in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Kevin Remde and Shawn Hansen discuss how customers and software developers have introduced HPC in new ways, driving productivity from small turnkey clusters to clusters as large as 7000 nodes. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Kevin Remde – IT Pro Evangelist Shawn Hansen - Shawn Hansen is Director of Marketing for High Performance Computing at Microsoft. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_12_chanham.jpg A delicious Ham dinner. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Is there anyway to get Vista to play DVDs when you have unsigned video drivers?* The fact that you can't, is well, extremely annoying.* I'm stuck between using official signed video drivers that haven't been updated since March (thanks Dell!) and recent, bug-fixing ATI drivers that may or may not contain a "slight hack" to allow them to be installed on my laptop. Why OEMs don't let ATI/NVIDIA distribute laptop drivers I'll never quite understand. But anyway, this has to be the first time DRM-related technology has actually pissed me off. I'm stuck between being able to play DVDs and having video drivers that can run recent games. Microsoft, go fix the industry please, thanks. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

IdentityReference refer = new NTAccount(Environment.UserDomainName, *** Environment.UserName); RegistryAccessRule full = new RegistryAccessRule(refer, * * RegistryRights.FullControl, AccessControlType.Allow); RegistrySecurity sec = new RegistrySecurity(); sec.AddAccessRule(full); RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey( *** @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VSTAHostConfig"); key = key.CreateSubKey("TestApp", *** RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadWriteSubTree, sec); // Validate args first. key.SetValue("AppName", args[0], *** RegistryValueKind.String); key.SetValue("ProjectTemplateLocations", args[1], *** RegistryValueKind.String); // done! the above code should add the keys necessary to register a VSTA application to prepare it to create project templates.* problem is, .NET is telling me it can't change the registry. Are my security checks incorrect?* i'm on a corporate network, but i'm local admin on all machines in my domain, including of course my own. any help? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://www.webstersismybitch.com/images/keithrichards.jpg My word. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

If you are either targeting the Compact Framework version 1 or version 2 or version 3.5, there are still issues with the visual studio designer when creating custom controls.* It is just too damn sensitive and non consistent when rendering controls. Also, the warning messages are not helpful at all.* I do not understand why a control will render one time, and then when you close vs and reopen it the same control will not render.* Controls for winforms are first class citizens in visual studio versus developing controls for mobile platform. Oh, and try and target both types of devices in the same control, good luck, it is a pain. You have no idea the amount of extra coding that has to be done because the designer for mobile controls is not smart enough to know which code is runtime specific and which is not. And make sure if you are targeting different platforms, and you change the target platform, you also need to restart visual studio in order for it to fully take effect. Again, in Visual Studio 2008, just like in 2005, and 2003, Compact Framework custom controls are second class citizens....what give M$.....:@:@:@ More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft Relents on Vista's "Reduced Functionality" Washington Post, United States - 24 minutes ago Microsoft announced this morning that one of the least popular features of Windows Vista--its "Reduced Functionality Mode"--will go away when the company ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

UK primary and secondary school pupils and their parents can get uber cheap software from RM. I just heard about this (may be new?). Office 2007 student: £40 Enterprise: £63 Profesional plus: £51 Vista bussiness ug:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116008 You'll need to read the comments, but it appears that someone thought it was a good idea to cover up the activation key such that you needed to 'scratch off' the covering to reveal the key. Seems that the people who printed the activation key didn't make it durable enough withstand the scratching required. I'm considering buying this for the coming year (and taking a tax writeoff), has anyone had this issue? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Has someone posted this already? According to Ed Bott over at ZDNet, Microsoft has seen reason, and will no longer semi-brick your PC if it suspects that you are running a non-genuine copy of Vista. Although Vista SP1 will still display the piracy messages, folk will no longer be subjected to the so-called 'reduced functionality' mode. A triumph for the customer and common sense. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hey guys, I made an applicatoin for a company which allows a team leader to manage their staff's jobs and work loads. Now I have had some funky and fresh ideas on this and I want to incorporate some new reporting skills I have learned, I also want this app to be secure and I was wondering if anyone has had any experience writing applications that use a fingerprint reader for authentication and using a read as an event and such? Just wondering if anyone has worked on such a project how they found it. What was interesting what was not etc. Just for fun! :-) Cheers, Pace More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/015229 Looks like that MPAA "University toolkit" has been taken down thanks to a cease and desist letter to the MPAA by a Ubuntu developer. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds