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- Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'
- Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'Sounds cool! NT.Let me dust off my TerminalSounds like we're going back to the Stone Age. Back in my terminal days, there was a screen and keyboard. The server was in the basement of the building and tons of serial cable connections. This type...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UKAnother stupid cash cow?Well I hope it's not another milking of the MS cash cow i.e. delaying the release of SL2 until the PDC sells up because seriously .NET devs have been losing out to Flash over the last two years (good news for you, Ryan,...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
- Microsoft held reMIX UK last week in Brighton which as others have noted was an addendum to the MIX conference in Las Vegas which unfortunately came in the shadow of PDC where we should probably see a Silverlight 2 release as well as a bunch of other goodies from Microsoft....
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- What's next for Microsoft's Visual Studio
- What's next for Microsoft's Visual StudioI hope not...I spend probably 50% of my time in Visual Studio and 30% of my time in SQL Server Management Studio. I've said for years that Microsoft makes the best development tools on the market by a long shot. If they switch...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Microsoft building a family of Live Mesh applications
- Microsoft building a family of Live Mesh applicationsThis is great!This means that developers can build Windows applications that not only run directly on Windows, but from other computers (e.g. Mac and Linux PCs) and devices, via a browser. This is great, because it means that e.g. if you have an...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friend
- What's this? Posting at 4am in the morning? Are you kidding me? No. I can't sleep. Ahh, a sigh of relief, a breath of fresh air, freshly ironed underwear, or the first sip of an ice cold beer after a crap day at work. All these combined...
- Blog posts 2008-08-31
- Microsoft, eat your own dog food
- Microsoft, eat your own dog foodReally?"Using hidden aspects of Windows to advantage Microsoft's own applications has been disallowed and behavioral remedies including disclosure demanded."I can't find these in the DOJ settlement, please help: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9495.htmWe can of course look to the EU which did demand documentation of a small subset of...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Microsoft, eat your own dog food
- "Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Windows: You say major; I say minor
- Windows: You say major; I say minorThey can call it anything they please. It is still overpriced JUNK.Get Linux :-)Duck the questionMaybe they should do another theme change. For a while it was a series number (3.1), then a year (95, 98, 98SE, 2000), then a letter combo XP,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Going From Developer to 'Dev-igner' With Frank La Vigne (Level 200)
- Yearning to become a "Dev-igner," a developer/designer hybrid? The old cliché is that developers make poor designers, and many developers needlessly tremble at the site of designer tools such as Microsoft Expression or Photoshop. Graphic design is a process, just like software development. If one learns the basics, he or...
- Webcasts 2008-08-20
- My Windows 7 wish list
- My Windows 7 wish listPut more muscle in thereWhen you pay 100+ bucks, you'd expect it's loaded with more than just Notepad or Paint. Those two haven't had much major upgrade since Windows 3.0. If you want some themes, you shouldn't have to pay another 40 or so to get...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate itRE: really bad storyIt is a slow news day for me. But I thought it was one of the better breakdowns I'd seen and I'm also fishing for .NET/Mac hints.=Ryanreally bad storymust be a slow news day... they blog about...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?because VS 2009 would not be free upgradeI think MS would have a PR nightmare on their hands if this update wasn't free especially since it's adding features/support for stuff that was in beta/ctp along with VS 2008.Mary Jo Foley what a stupid...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- The Microsoft middle ground
- The Microsoft middle groundYes, but the current perceived credit crunchshould get rid of a lot of the "me-too" fat from the system.Only the genuine knowledgeable IT lovers will be left ....Price vs TCOYour piece fails to mention the well-documented costs of owning MS-based desktops and servers. The delta in...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
- Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. In doing so they saw a big increase in conversion numbers and the customers have responded well to having the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Nstrument Snmp Mib Browser (msi)
- The Mib Browser provides basic read-only functionality for communicating with Snmp Agents. It is written in Microsoft's new Windows Presentation Foundation Wpf and uses the Nstrument Snmp Library. Additionally, it includes over 1200 Mibs! The Mib Browser requires the .Net Framework 3.5. Version 1 includes unspecified updates.
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?
- Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?They are waiting for the right time to pounce. Right now, they want to slowSOA as much as possible, to keep the money rolling in for the twin cash cows, but, there will come a time...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- SQA4.Net.Tester (zip)
- SQA4.Net.Tester can instantly record a control's events from any Win32, .Net, WPF applications. During a recording session, all events from controls are completely recorded as test cases. As soon as recording is completed, the recorded test cases are fully generated and ready for execution. The ready-made test cases can be...
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week
- At TechEd today Bill Gates said that the second beta of Silverlight 2 will be available for download at the end of the week with a Go Live license. The Go Live license is similar to the one that was used late in the beta process for Silverlight 1 and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Adobe merging desktop and web with Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com
- Adobe merging desktop and web with Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.comAdobe puts the smackdown to the Microsoft CloudThis certainly looks very good. The interface is immediately refreshing from anything that is Brand M. I went to the site and the 'feel' is very nice. The uncluttered look is one I find...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
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