Microsoft Vista
Microsoft has announced that it’s long delayed and very much stripped down next version of Windows will be named “Vista”. Yawn.
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9-year-old earns accolade as Microsoft pro
http://news.com.com/9-year-old+earns+accolade+as+Microsoft+pro/2100-1012_3-5793614.html I got my MCP a couple of years ago. I know I’m not hot stuff, but I feel properly put in my place. Karim, you rock! Keep up the good work.
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Microsoft’s RSS Platform: The Why
Microsoft is hopping onto the RSS bandwagon for Longhorn. I must be missing something but why is this news? The only reason that I see it being news is that this is another example of Microsoft taking an open standard, and attempting an “embrace and extend” approach. Here’s a link to Joe Wilcox’s article: http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/008956.html [...]
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.NET: Too Little Progress
Peter Banks was making some interesting observations now that VB.NET is now 5 years old. Click here for the Google cached version of the article Main point: “VB Classic” was a RAD tool that made developers productive. VB.NET, while more powerful, may be too difficult to knock out the “one-off” programs that are quite useful [...]
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Grassroots effort at a school and a M$ Salesguy
Helios is involved in a grassroots effort to get the local middle school off of Windows, or at least off of M$ Office. He blogged about it here: http://lobby4linux.com/WordPress/?p=18. Short story: in walks the M$ sales guy looking to get them signed up again and hears about the school considering a open sourced solution. Time [...]
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Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability
A funny perspective from Robin Miller. http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/18/2033216.shtml I am definitely a SimplyMEPIS fan because “it just works”. Hardware detection, full office suite, advanced graphics software, …heck… advanced everything software. I loved the above article.
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Save your .NET projects by converting to VFP
Pretty funny. The AFUG group had Rick Schummer down to speak and he turned me onto this site. William Sanders has set up this site: http://www.dotnetconversions.com. Most of the site isn’t working at the time of this writing but I hope to see him finish the site. I’ve got to think that this is in [...]
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Windows Mobile 5.0 Revealed, Pocket PC and Smartphone Retired
Click here for the AP article Microsoft Unveils New Windows Mobile. Ouch #1: It also marks another change of course in Microsoft’s long-evolving strategy to extend the dominance of its Windows computer platform to mobile devices. Ouch #2: The updated version of Mobile Windows also serves as another example of Microsoft seeking to barge into [...]
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MicroSoft to Launch A Huge Ad Campaign
Here’s an interesting article about M$ launching a new advertising campaign. [Click Here for the Article] Interestingly, this isn’t about their new Longhorn release. There are starting to be rumblings of that release not happening in 2006, but being pushed to 2007 instead. This campaign is just about Windows in general. Astronomy on Windows? Gimme [...]
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The Cost Of Protecting Your Computers In A Multi-PC Home
Bill Howard has an excellent article in the April 26th, 2005 issue of PC Magazine. The title of the article is “Software and the Multi-PC Home”. I looked hard for a link to the article but couldn’t find one. You’ll have to pick up a copy off of the newsstand. I’ll post the link once [...]
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