Comment Feed for daSmirnov http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png daSmirnov en Thu, 23 May 2013 22:03:03 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 22:03:03 GMT Rev9 Re: Countdown to MIX11: Joe Belfiore Talks Phone Honestly I don't see what all the fuss is about, I'm happy with my Windows Phone, and I'll be happy when I get the update, am I going to keep checking for updates in Zune, no, nor are the vast majority of users who are just using it as a smartphone, who will one day get a surprise update pop up.  Late Feb or early March I had the pre-NoDo announce itself, cool, was it straight away, no, but what's the rush?

Updates roll out over a couple of months.  That's fine.  How much of an improvement is that over Android or Windows Mobile?  Vastly improved.

Sure its not up to the iPhone pace, but then Microsoft aren't in a position to strongarm phone companies around like Apple.

Some of the people here saying they'll ditch the platform if they don't get the update within X number of weeks just sound childish (with too much money to waste by the sound of it) and don't seem to understand the difficulty of balancing the interests of manufacterers, networks and customers.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Counting-Down-to-Mix/Countdown-to-MIX11-Joe-Belfiore-Talks-Phone#c634366955750000000 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:19:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Counting-Down-to-Mix/Countdown-to-MIX11-Joe-Belfiore-Talks-Phone#c634366955750000000 daSmirnov Re: Crackdown 2 Project Sunburst on WP7 & Xbox LIVE Thanks, should be able to hang on another couple of weeks then. Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Crackdown-2-Project-Sunburst-on-WP7--Xbox-LIVE#c634269211280000000 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:12:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Crackdown-2-Project-Sunburst-on-WP7--Xbox-LIVE#c634269211280000000 daSmirnov Re: Crackdown 2 Project Sunburst on WP7 & Xbox LIVE The real question is GIMME.  Been waiting for Project Sunburst since I picked up my WP7 in October.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Crackdown-2-Project-Sunburst-on-WP7--Xbox-LIVE#c634268858330000000 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:23:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Crackdown-2-Project-Sunburst-on-WP7--Xbox-LIVE#c634268858330000000 daSmirnov Re: Dean Hachamovitch: IE9 - Questions and Answers Nice interview and I'm pleased with how IE9 is going. 

Bug with touch (or pen at least) which has existed since IE8:  https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/600102/pen-flicks-fail-to-scroll-a-page

Pen flicks not working to scroll the page, as a Tablet PC user this has driven me insane for too long. Smiley  During the IE8/Windows 7 beta it was closed as postponed, if you could squeeze it in it would be welcome!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dean-Hachamovitch-IE9-Questions-and-Answers#c634256777360000000 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:48:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dean-Hachamovitch-IE9-Questions-and-Answers#c634256777360000000 daSmirnov Re: Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta - Available Now I'd like to know where inking has gone in Messenger.  I sure as hell can't find it.  Found it very useful, especially when on my tablet.  Wouldn't mind more information from Sync about what its doing but I can live with that.

 

Other than that seems to be a good all round release.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-Wave-4-Beta-Available-Now#c634130105550000000 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:09:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-Wave-4-Beta-Available-Now#c634130105550000000 daSmirnov Re: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Yes, but the Home Server Connector software does all the configuration.  You can still tell the Library to stop adding a server location if you don't want it on a specific machine.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873458570000000 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:04:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Windows-Home-Server-Power-Pack-3#c633873458570000000 daSmirnov Re: A Look At Office 2010 with Chris Capossela What about Office Live Workspaces?

And how is the web notebooks folder of OneNote going to be setup?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/A-Look-At-Office-2010-with-Chris-Capossela#c633831729570000000 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:55:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/A-Look-At-Office-2010-with-Chris-Capossela#c633831729570000000 daSmirnov Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine I've seen screens of the UK site having the image background, which we don't currently have (and I use the US version to get it), so hopefully they'll more aggressively roll this stuff out.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/Bing-Test-Drive-Microsofts-new-search-engine#c633792303770000000 Fri, 29 May 2009 21:46:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/Bing-Test-Drive-Microsofts-new-search-engine#c633792303770000000 daSmirnov Re: Larry Osterman: Windows 7 Audio - What's New
Just switched audio between my onboard AC97 chipset and my Audigy, with this video running.  Normally you'd have to start up the video again, but on 6801 it keeps on going. Smiley Nice.

@Bas depends on the hardware, if you've got a headphone out jack on a soundcard or an amp, it'll switch over in hardware.  If I understand right - if this is handled in software you could even with headphones plugged in - switch over to speakers, which you can't do if its handled in hardware on the soundcard or amp.  Then of course you've got USB and Bluetooth devices, which the bulk of this I suspect is aimed at.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Larry-Osterman-on-new-audio-capabilities#c633610741330000000 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:22:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Larry-Osterman-on-new-audio-capabilities#c633610741330000000 daSmirnov Re: Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 1 - The User Experience
I loved the idea of virtual folders like we had in the early Windows Vista builds, where the Documents folder was a saved search result, dissapointly that feature was removed as it was too confusing - although it does still exist, it was just unhooked from the Documents, Music folders etc.

This is an excellent replacement for it.  I've always wanted to get public documents and pictures show up in the same view.  I had to train the rest of the family to use the Public Documents links, and links to the Home Server on the Favourite Links section instead.  This makes it much simpler to use, and they won't need to remember where specific things are stored anymore.  They can just hit Documents on their Start menus and see the lot.

Also like not showing image names in the Pictures view too - I used to be religious about naming images, but now I just leave them with the default name from the camera and tag them instead.  I suspect a lot of people do the same thing too.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Dan/Windows-7-Find-and-Organize-Part-1-The-User-Experience#c633608993650000000 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:49:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Dan/Windows-7-Find-and-Organize-Part-1-The-User-Experience#c633608993650000000 daSmirnov Re: Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 1
I remember playing with WEFT3 3 or 4 years ago for some of my websites.  It's good to know that it will be opened up so hopefully everyone will latch onto it.

I've also been experimenting with some of the new Vista and Office fonts on the web, but compared to Verdana they're a bit smaller, enough so that I'd like to make them an extra pt larger.  I understand that the current CSS3 specs have an ability to set the size of individual fonts which could eleviate this issue.  Any chance we could see this implemented in IE8?

Getting things resolution indepedent is probably the biggest challenge in computing, a lot of people are still stuck in their ways that things should be measued in pixels - I just had a running argument with somebody on it this week, that higher resolution screens should mean more work space, not higher resolution applications and text.

I've got one screen here that is about 144 DPI, Windows looks absolutely amazing on it (the machine came set to 120 DPI by default).  It's just a shame I still come across applications that break, and websites that define font size in pixels.  Hopefully once we start getting better support for higher DPI computer manufacterers will be more willing to up the DPI of their displays and it'll really take off.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Dan/Bill-Hill-The-Future-of-Reading-on-the-Web-Part-1#c633591665960000000 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:29:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Dan/Bill-Hill-The-Future-of-Reading-on-the-Web-Part-1#c633591665960000000 daSmirnov Re: David Steere and Trevor Robinson: How Live Mesh P2P Syncing Works From my testing here with the new bits, it is not sending directly over the LAN yet.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Dan/David-Steere-and-Trevor-Robinson-How-Live-Mesh-P2P-Syncing-Works#c633515907380000000 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:05:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Dan/David-Steere-and-Trevor-Robinson-How-Live-Mesh-P2P-Syncing-Works#c633515907380000000 daSmirnov Re: Anand Iyer - Life in the Field, Racism in the Tech Industry, and More...
foxbar wrote:
They're offering what seem to be similar service levels at lower costs to executives but are actually not. If you didn't know already execs are probably the dumbest people on earth, and can not see past numbers.


Business is about making money.  The simplest way to maximize profit is by lowering wages.  Business isn't about helping little Johnny there with no shoes out by giving him some shoes.  It's about selling him some shoes and ripping off the employees who made the shoes as much as possible so the capitalist can pocket as much unpaid wages as possible.

Management are well aware that using outsourcing support to foreign countries will result in negative customer experiences, largely due to language differences, and could result in some bad publicity, but its worth the cost because they're saving so much on wages.  They know about all this stuff, they're not "dumb" they know exactly what they're doing.  Maximizing profit.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Anand-Iyer-Life-in-the-Field-Racism-in-the-Tech-Industry-and-More#c633077697080000000 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:35:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Anand-Iyer-Life-in-the-Field-Racism-in-the-Tech-Industry-and-More#c633077697080000000 daSmirnov Re: Anand Iyer - Life in the Field, Racism in the Tech Industry, and More...

foxbar wrote:
Until Indian tech stops seeing the west as a cash cow to be exploited for bad service, there is no reason not to be weary.


Well you've got things backwards.  It's western companies exporting jobs to India or other countries.  So they can reduce costs.  It's called capitalism.

As for comments on foreigners "stealing" jobs, that's also nonsense, I mean come on you don't own that job, a capitalist "owns" that job, go talk to them.  I notice this issue has cropped up in the US a lot with people from Latin America, and in the UK press with people from the new European Union countries lately, so we're going through yet another wave of it.  But it is utter nonsense.

Think of it this way, don't have kids because they're going to take your jobs.  Increasing the population (by any means) increases the size of the market it doesn't have any long-term effect on job availability.

Cast your minds back to the 1930s, when all the press were slamming the Jews for stealing your jobs, the 1950s when it was the Indians, then the Africans, and now the Poles and Romanians.  Of course all its doing is shifting the blame from those responsible, the capitalists, onto a scapegoat.

It's easy now to look back and see it as nonsense, but people always fail to make the same connection to what's going on now, same problem just blaming somebody else.

Karl Marx wrote:
the need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere

If you don’t want a global market, go back to feudal society.

Good interview Rory, looking forward to the next part.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Anand-Iyer-Life-in-the-Field-Racism-in-the-Tech-Industry-and-More#c633077611060000000 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:11:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Anand-Iyer-Life-in-the-Field-Racism-in-the-Tech-Industry-and-More#c633077611060000000 daSmirnov Re: A tag-oriented tour of the Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Bas wrote:
Odd. I guess the problem lies with me, but I can't see what's causing it. I'll give it a try on Vista later today, the subject matter sounds appealing.


Same here, on two of my machines both running IE7 and Vista.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/JonUdell/A-tag-oriented-tour-of-the-Windows-Vista-Photo-Gallery#c633076910100000000 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:43:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/JonUdell/A-tag-oriented-tour-of-the-Windows-Vista-Photo-Gallery#c633076910100000000 daSmirnov Re: Windows Home Server
Makes a nice change from my 1Ghz Duron w/ 256MB of RAM running Windows XP thats in my cupboard now.  Which is well a lot of hassle to keep running, making sure all the drives are mirrored and so on.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Windows-Home-Server#c633039550370000000 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:57:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Windows-Home-Server#c633039550370000000 daSmirnov Re: Michael Surkan: Introduction to IPV6
But Chess Titans, and all the Windows games now have no support for playing over a network.  Gotta be on the local machine.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Michael-Surkan-Introduction-to-IPV6#c632992080260000000 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:20:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Michael-Surkan-Introduction-to-IPV6#c632992080260000000 daSmirnov Re: Vista User Account Control
Welcome to a better life.Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Vista-User-Account-Control#c632987177280000000 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:08:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Vista-User-Account-Control#c632987177280000000 daSmirnov Re: Five on Nine - Pilot Episode
Don't waste money budgeting for a fancy studio, keep it like it is and spend that money on making the snacks in the kitchen free.  Just make sure you can't see the people behind the camera reflected in the TV on the wall like you could in this episode at one point...  May be stick an image on it instead which should help with that if you stay where you are for the short term.

2 minute topic thing is a good idea, but how about letting the guests pick the topics they want to argue, that way we get an insight into what they feel strongly about.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Business-Intelligence-in-Excel-2007#c632761337550000000 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:49:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Business-Intelligence-in-Excel-2007#c632761337550000000 daSmirnov Re: Meet the new Mobile PC Team (new Tablet PC features too!)
Of course it probably won't stop me from buying a Vista-generation Tablet as things are looking really good.

Little concerened about how the Tablets with touch and digitisers will work, will you turn off the touch screen?  The coolest thing people mention when they see mine is you can actually write on the Tablet and rest your hand on the screen to do it so it's very natural.

Keep up the great work guys!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Meet-the-new-Mobile-PC-Team-new-Tablet-PC-features-too#c632643758000000000 Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:43:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Meet-the-new-Mobile-PC-Team-new-Tablet-PC-features-too#c632643758000000000 daSmirnov Re: The new Outlook Express: Windows Mail demoed Showing the Microsoft support newsgroups = priceless

That's going to help so many people, and totally flood the groups and hopefully one day, kill off that annoying web front end. Smiley

Thanks guys!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/The-new-Outlook-Express-Windows-Mail-demoed#c632625185100000000 Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:48:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/The-new-Outlook-Express-Windows-Mail-demoed#c632625185100000000 daSmirnov Re: Adam Nathan - Light up an app with WPF (formerly Avalon) You're going to have to get someone to re-do Spider now, my mum's got high expectations now!!!

Great stuff.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Adam-Nathan-Light-up-an-app-with-WPF-formerly-Avalon#c632623029240000000 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:55:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Adam-Nathan-Light-up-an-app-with-WPF-formerly-Avalon#c632623029240000000 daSmirnov