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Now this I like...

+1 for making the PDC content much more discoverable. I think it's one of C9's crown jewels and it's hidden so well I kinda assumed it was done deliberately. 

"There's a lot of very useful information in this conversation with plenty of whiteboarding."

I read that sentence as "... with plenty of water-boarding." Sheesh, sign of the times.

woo hoo, my London based Chrome browser says thank you.

nemisys wrote:


Microsoft marketing innovation at work

I think I own the Mac guy's jeans. They look like a pair of Paul Smith/Diesel.

Worrying thing is that I also own a sports jacket that looks similar to Windows guy. Not quite as lame though ...

Cool.

I've switched.... to channel9.ca

Looks cool.

I have a questions about the new table cell naming (ie where cell refrences like  $E2 are replaced with  names like [2004 prices] (http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=177827&pvrid=269).

If I build a table in Excel 07 and my formulas are automaticaly translated this way. What happens when somebody attempts to open the sheet in Excel '03?

Excellent video. I was totaly unaware of R2's beefed-up file replication.

I have a couple of expensive Double-Take licenses performing this role for me at the moment (copying our file data to the DR site).

I now have a viable alternative to consider next time the infrastructure is altered.

CannedSoda wrote:

He said OWA for Exch2003 was the first AJAX app.  First AJAX app for Microsoft or from anyone?

mawcc wrote:

I think he said OWA for Exchange 2000, not 2003. I remember it was already quite good, and that was waaaay before everybody started talking about AJAX.

OWA for Exchange 2000 literally was the grand-daddy of AJAX. AJAX leverages the XmlHttp object for communication with the server "in the background". The XmlHttp object in IE was developed primarily for OWA.

A few articles MSDN later and a team I worked on started using it for internal corporate web applications. The Soap wizard & web behavior shipped and things became simple. Skip forward a few years, an XMLHttp implementation goes into Firefox/Mozilla and Google picks up the stick and runs with it.

There's guys on the team I used to work with that regularly deconstruct the gmail / gmap code. The Google developers seem to have learnt a lot tricks to really push the performance.

Cool. I read this book in a weekend. (Not entirely all my choice)