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Re: Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

lars — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:47:15 GMT

Cool stuff, and awsome video quality. Please make more videos in hi-res!

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Re: Vista Audio Stack and API

lars — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:51:47 GMT

Very interesting video! But isn't the volume a little low? How ironic.

Anyway, Larry - as usual - rocks!

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Re: Brian Jones - New Office file formats announced

lars — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:57:04 GMT

Yayyy!!! This is fantastic news. I can't find any downside to it what so ever!

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Re: Peter McKiernan/Jamey Tisdale - Neutrino demonstrated (new tool to help marketers work with develope

lars — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:19:21 GMT

We’ve got all the right acronyms in there – ESR, SOA, SO-WHA…

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Re: Joe Stegman - Developing rich user interfaces with Windows Forms

lars — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:58:12 GMT

The video quality of the screen recording has improved a lot. Good work!

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Re: Joe Stegman - Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms

lars — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:48:23 GMT

So when are we going to see a video with the Office team? *hint hint*

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Re: Dan Appleman - What would you tell a teen about security? Why didn't you write this for parents?

lars — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 23:47:41 GMT

I don't think that parents can teach teens everything they need to know about how to stay secure. Alot of the skunkware of the net is found at places the teens will never ever admit to visiting in the first place. And neither will the parents. So that conversation is a non starter. Everyone must learn to apply some basic precautions. The good thing is that its very easy to find resources online that offer good advice.

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Re: Dan Appleman - How does a teenager differ from a software developer (when it comes to security?)

lars — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:01:04 GMT

If I recall correctly not even turning on the Windows firewall will fully protect you while downloading the patches to a new Windows XP installation that is connected directly to the Internet. You need to turn of DCOM too in order to protect you against problems with the RPC vulnerability attacks while getting the first updates. Or better yet, get a good stand alone firewall and put between your machine and the net. It will let you sleep better at night. Just a tip (I like tips
Another thing to remember when talking about going to college is that it's very hostile environment. Lots of students with a high degree of knowledge and lots of free time. They just love to own your box.

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Re: Kosar Jaff - The networked printer

lars — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:57:26 GMT

Looks Channel9 just got interference from MTV...

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Re: Dean Hachamovitch - Do you have the hottest seat at Microsoft?

lars — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:35:22 GMT

ghos wrote:

Sure the security issues drive others to use something else, but tabs was one of those features that immediately drew me to use another browser besides IE.

For me it's the other way around. I moved to Firefox in early June because of the security problems with MSIE, and to begin with I didn't find the tabs all that useful. But now I've learned how they can make help me group related pages in one window. And I'm finding it surprisingly hard to give that up. On the other hand I think the tabs feature gets way too much attention. If Microsoft just wanted to add tabs to MSIE I bet they could have done in just a few days. It's not rocket science. What will be more interesting is to see what else the guys at Microsoft comes up with that Firefox has not yet invented/implemented. Coming up with new ideas is the hard part.

Working in the MSIE group will be a tough job. Everyone is watching. But believe me, the worst job of all is working on something that noone cares about!

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Re: Robert Green - Demo of Visual Basic/Whidbey's data features

lars — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:16:18 GMT

Jeremy W. wrote:

Okay, I read all the posts here going "okay, whatever, developers getting excited about nothing again".

Anything that gives me more time reading Dilbert and more money at the same time gets me exited. This reminds me very much of Access. Without the bad parts.

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Re: Kevin Schofield -- Tour of Microsoft Research's VIBE group (large screens/multiple monitors)

lars — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:41:23 GMT

I think this video is the one that have impressed me the most so far. The 3D media application is very pretty, but this is some really good down to earth productivity enhancements. The task oriented way (as opposed to document centric) of working is something I look forward to and I think it will make the everyday work much smoother. I'm also impressed by the openess. It's clear that they are concerned that someone else could rip of their inventions and still they show it and accept it as part of the game. Now that is a real change to the way I picture the "old" Microsoft. I like this very much indeed. Good work. And thanks for sharing.

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Re: Robert Green - What is the "My" namespace Visual Basic 2005?

lars — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:08:46 GMT

Maybe this doesn't make sense, but I'll try it anyway:
Say I use the my.computer.printer.defaultprinter, and then I want to go ahead an make customizations that is not available through "my". Is there a way to get the underlying code expanded inline, like expanding a macro? That would be a really great way to learn stuff. You can get a program up and running and then go look at the details of the my's that are interesting and see what it does behind the scenes.

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Re: Bill Hill: Homo sapiens 1.0 - The world's most important operating system

lars — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:18:35 GMT

tombo wrote:

I think it is amazing how much knowledge is available. Period. What a great time to be alive.

True that. But it's a thin line between collecting and owning information, and when the information starts to own you. When you get to the point where you feel it is a pain to make sure everything is backed up, sorted, and that you detect any form of corruption.

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Re: Rajesh George - Three new features in SQL Server Express

lars — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:06:47 GMT

Is he in some kind of witness protection program? All that is missing is the distorted voice and that he's not talking about the mafia.
Anywho, It's interesting that he mentions that there are administration tools for SQL Server Exprpess, because I couldn't find anything useful after the install. Is that an additional download?

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Re: Andrew Clinick - Demo of Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005

lars — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:44:28 GMT

This is just SO COOL!

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Re: Brian Goldfarb - How Visual Web Developer Express is tuned for Web development

lars — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:36:40 GMT

Very nice! I think this is an interesting video and it sure makes me want to go off and do some test driving of that nice free beta version!

I guess the Express edition is targeted at doing both for the hobbyist or casual developer. Even tho FP and VS are ment for different audiences there is overlap in functionallity which I think FP users really can benefit from.
Dreamweaver is very much around and it is an application that I hope Microsoft will continue to look at when improving their products. Even tho FP has improved a lot over the years it does run out of steam as the projects get bigger in a way that DW does not. With FP for smaller sites and Visual Studio targeted at developers I think there is lacking something in the product lineup that can compete head to head with Dreamweaver: For large complex sites targeted at professonal designers and that plays nice with other technologies like PHP (slowly coopting the site to use ASP.Net instead =)

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Re: Peter Wengert - More on Microsoft Automotive

lars — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:18:01 GMT

Cool stuff!

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Re: Peter Wengert - Inside Microsoft Automotive

lars — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:35:15 GMT

I didn't get annoyed by the "so"s in this video, but I know the feeling. Sometimes I go nuts when someone giving a lecture says "I'll go right ahead and ..." over and over again.

Or when I watch keynotes and demonstrations by executives and some middle management project leader who does the real demo.
It usually sounds something like this:

Let's say the exec is called Bill for some reason.

MMPL:    - "I'm going to go right ahead and deploy this ....."
Bill:           -"So, it's xyzzy compatible?"
MMPL:    - That's absolutely right Bill. Now if I click this button ..."
Bill:          - "And with that you can rule the world?"
MMPL:     - That's absolutely right Bill. So ... "

Gah! How many times have the rehearsed that? 200?

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Re: Jamie Cool - Demo of ClickOnce

lars — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:12:33 GMT

AndyC wrote:

I think it was more a case that it won't work the way they are written today. If they call the Windows URL APIs or handle the MIME types correctly themselves it should work fine.

I'm also confident that the good people working on Firefox will adress that issue. This could become what ActiveX never was! Or in a worst case become ActiveX all over again.
I think the deciding factor will be if it is possible to get end users to pay attention to the security dialogs and not just click accept/deny like zombies.

- Warning: The application "Paris Hilton pictures" needs permissions to mess up your system - is that okey?
- Hell yes, hit me bro!!

CAS is a suweet thing. If people just learn to use it.

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Re: Peter Wengert - Inside Microsoft Automotive

lars — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:36:46 GMT

I think he's aware about where Die S-Klasse comes from.

It looks like a cool technology. But I wonder what went wrong with our society when you need stock quotes while driving, and the kids needs movies to sit down and behave. He kind of went around the subject of getting emails to your car. And that is good. You shouldn't be deleting viagra spam while driving.
Another thing is privacy and security issues. Pairing GPS with online access I see a real potential for misuse. And I hope it will never be so tied into the "car bus" that you could plant a trojan in there to disable the breaks.

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Re: Anders Hejlsberg - Programming data in C# 3.0

lars — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:26:37 GMT

Isn't this something that will be improved with Object Spaces?

Does Anders have a blog btw?

/Lars.

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Re: Chris Anderson - "Hello Avalon"

lars — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:15:41 GMT

Homer wrote:

Would XAML be a public spec that could be used by others?

A very important question. Will Microsoft slap a patent on XAML or will it be available to anyone that wants to implement that schema?

/Lars.

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Re: Anders Hejlsberg - Tour through computing industry history at the Microsoft Museum

lars — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:59:35 GMT

This beats a video with a Bill Gates any day. Anders Hejlsberg is one of those tech icons I'd like to hear more from. I respect them more than any rock star CEO.

/Lars.

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Re: Michael Howard - What isn't being taught well enough in college? Security!

lars — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:15:56 GMT

Well, looking just a few years back maybe Microsoft wasn't a company that took security seriously either. As the demand for people with security training increases I'm sure colleges will deliver.

/Lars.

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