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Microsoft to buy FAST Search & Transfer. [Microsoft to buy FAST Search & Transfer.]

prog_dotnet — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:32:13 GMT

Microsoft Corp has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer for 19 crowns per share, valuing the company at about $1.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7207163

http://blogs.technet.com/mikep/archive/2008/01/08/hot-news-microsoft-to-buy-fast.aspx

:-)

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Windows Vista 90 Day Vulnerability Analysis [Windows Vista 90 Day Vulnerability Analysis]

prog_dotnet — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:59:18 GMT

http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_vista_90_day_vulnerability_report

February 28^th marked 90 days that Windows Vista had been available to business customers. Has it been a good or a bad 90 days for security vulnerabilities?

http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2007/03/21/windows-vista-90-day-vulnerability-analysis.aspx

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When will Vista Business Edition be posted on MSDN Academic Alliance ? [When will Vista Business Edition be posted on MSDN Academic Alliance ?]

prog_dotnet — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:02:39 GMT

When will Vista Business Edition be posted on AA ?
According to a Microsoft employee, the due date were set to December 1th, buth nothing found on MSDN Academic Alliance Software Center yet..

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Whats bad with the Zune list [Whats bad with the Zune list]

prog_dotnet — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:17:01 GMT

I was considering buying a zune device, but you (ms) has really missed the target this time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09pogue.html?8dpc

1. You cant use Zune as an external hard drive
2. You cant subscribe or download podcasts at the zune store
3. Stripped down device, no games, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, password-protected volume limiter, equalizer, calendar, address book or notes module.
4. Miss out on the 3,000 iPod accessories
5. Over 80 percent of 2007 cars will have an iPod connector option, none have zune
6 . regid copy protection and drm. I dont mind paying for music, but it has to be flexible. Like half play of a song counts as "one play", not resend a song.
7 . wi-fi mess, Zunes can connect only to each other. Who’d build a Wi-Fi device that can’t connect to a wireless network — to sync with your PC, for example? Nor to an Internet hot spot, to download music directly?
8. the zune store doesn’t sell TV shows, movies or audio books
9. the zune store are much smaller than itunes, 2 mill vs 3-5 mill
10. the Zune store is also missing gift certificates, allowances, user-submitted playlists and so on
11. can’t use Windows Media Player to load the Zune with music ?? ( this must be wrong )
12. thicker (0.6 inch vs. 0.4), taller (4.4 inches vs. 4.1) and heavier (5.6 ounces vs. 4.8) (zune vs 30 gb ipod)
13. fm radio has week reception and you cant make recordings.

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Competition is good and all. But what, exactly, is the point of the Zune? It seems like an awful lot of duplication — in a bigger, heavier form with fewer features — just to indulge Microsoft’s “we want some o’ that” envy. Wireless sharing is the one big new idea — and if the public seems to respond, Apple could always add that to the iPod."

So the question is..why should anyone buy a zune player ??

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IE 7 Delete AutoComplete History bug [IE 7 Delete AutoComplete History bug]

prog_dotnet — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:49:34 GMT

Im trying to delete the user names and passwords from the AutoComplete storage, but it wont work.

InternetOptions-->Content-->AutoComplete-->Settings
-->clik OK in Delete AutoComplete History

Im taken back to InternetOptions main windows ( the apply button is grayed out) and click ok.

When accessing the web site in question, the stored items are still there.

Close IE, restart, accessing the site again; the stored items are still there.

:O

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CNET news does not recommend IE7 for daily use [CNET news does not recommend IE7 for daily use]

prog_dotnet — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:04:55 GMT

In this video CNET News.com's Joris Evers and CNET.com's Robert Vamosi discuss IE7 security.

Their argumentation is utterly biased and filled with harsh criticism, on the point of loosing objectivity..

to bad...::s

http://news.com.com/1606-2-6128041.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc

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2007 Microsoft Office system activation problems [2007 Microsoft Office system activation problems]

prog_dotnet — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:32:39 GMT

Microsoft Discussion Group are full of postings regarding activation problems, but there are noe response from Microsoft.

To bussy fixing the problem i guess, but it wold be nice to have some offical feedback :-)

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx

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Project Semplice - Visual Basic for the Java Platform( Java6 ) [Project Semplice - Visual Basic for the Java Platform( Java6 )]

prog_dotnet — Sun, 21 May 2006 22:14:46 GMT

this is cool

"We are in the early stages of development for a compiler and tools for writing Visual Basic (VB) programs for the Java Platform. That means we will compile VB source code into Java class files that will run on the Java Virtual Machine. Even better, you will be able to import existing VB6 applications into any of the Netbeans family of tools and continue to work on them "

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/herbertc?entry=project_semplice_visual_basic_for

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/05/19/write-java-web-apps-in-visual-basic-or-javascript/

http://vbwire.com/brief.asp?9342

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=107

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Myspace hacked... [Myspace hacked...]

prog_dotnet — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:34:25 GMT

http://digg.com/security/Myspace_Hacked

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Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar and Server 2003 [Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar and Server 2003]

prog_dotnet — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:12:16 GMT

At; http://addins.msn.com/ it says:

Requires MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search and Microsoft Windows XP/Server 2003/2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later

But when trying to install;

This product is only supported on Windows XP SP2

If it only supports XP SP2, the "help" text should reflect that...

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"extremely critical" IE vulnerability - disable active scripting NOW ! ["extremely critical" IE vulnerability - disable active scripting NOW !]

prog_dotnet — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:24:36 GMT

http://www.computerterrorism.com/research/ie/ct21-11-2005

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Pictures - Bill Gates selling the first Xbox 360 [Pictures - Bill Gates selling the first Xbox 360]

prog_dotnet — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:35:12 GMT

Yea...Im the First one...

Warm Up...

Dan Friedman the lucky one...

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Businessweek Cover Story - Troubling Exits At Microsoft [Businessweek Cover Story - Troubling Exits At Microsoft]

prog_dotnet — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:11:07 GMT

I have previously posted a link to the Forbs article; Microsoft's Midlife Crisis.

http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952001.htm

You should also read...Steve Ballmer Shrugs Off The Critics ....

"If you take a look broadly through our company, we've got more empowered, innovative people than any other company in the world

http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952008.htm

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Revolution Controller showing just a few hours away [Revolution Controller showing just a few hours away]

prog_dotnet — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:58:36 GMT

http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?mode=news&type=n&cid=&pid=&vid=&prid=9130&n=Revolution+Controller+showing+confirmed+%96+Iwata+keynote+to+reveal+all

SPOnG can confirm that Satoru Iwata will show the Nintendo Revolution controller in all its glory on 16th of this month – a mere three days away. This confirmation, coming from a fresh Nintendo source, follows news from last month in which we exclusively revealed Nintendo plans, a full version of which you can read here.

The announcement will take place at around 11.20AM this Friday at the Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Tokyo. Iwata will fully outline the Revolution controller, as well as show some software, including, from what we have gathered, the game formerly known as Mario 128.

“Mario is the game that will show off the Revolution better than anything else in development right now,” a trusted and highly-placed source told SPOnG today. “You have to remember that the Revolution will take standard GameCube controller input and this is not solely for GC backward compatibility and retro gaming. The Revolution controller concept is merely an option for developers, something totally new, as was the Nintendo DS.”

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Microsoft's Midlife Crisis - what do you think ?? [Microsoft's Midlife Crisis - what do you think ??]

prog_dotnet — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:36:38 GMT

Forbes.com has this interesting read, an article about the internal life in Microsoft, using the psychological term, midlife crisis, to describe the current state of affaris.

http://www.forbes.com/2005/09/12/microsoft-management-software_cz_vm_0913microsoft_print.html

What has gone wrong? Microsoft, with $40 billion in sales and 60,000 employees, has grown musclebound and bureaucratic. Some current and former employees describe a stultifying world of 14-hour strategy sessions, endless business reviews and a preoccupation with PowerPoint slides; of laborious job evaluations, hundreds of e-mails a day and infighting among divisions so fierce that it hobbles design and delays product releases. In short, they describe precisely the behavior that humbled another tech giant: IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the late 1980s. Tellingly, IBM reached a point of crisis just over three decades after it started selling computers to commercial users.

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"Some employees complain that they spend hours tracking down collaborators in far-flung groups instead of talking to customers and taking products to market. Working on a huge project requires checking in with management constantly. "Instead of promoting the product to customers, I'd get stuck in the office until midnight preparing slides for my monthly product review," says David Ryan, 33, a marketer for Windows XP. He has just been freed up to pursue an incubation project in the server group, where he is happily exempt from most reviews. At Microsoft a "review" is often a progress report illustrated with 15 PowerPoint slides. "
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"Other staffers say that almost every move requires a lawyer's signature and that even routine approvals can take weeks. Recently one employee waited a month while a $10,000 purchase order for outside development work was held up by legal. By the time the lawyers were done, the budget for the deal had evaporated. Dennis Reno left Microsoft two years ago feeling burned out from bureaucracy. He'd worked 18-hour days but got little done because he was bogged down by paperwork. "The smallest issue would balloon into a nightmare of a thousand e-mails," says Reno, who is now at Plumtree Software (nasdaq: PLUM - news - people "
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"Jeff B. Erwin, who quit in December after five years there, adds, "Microsoft has some of the smartest people in the world, but they are just crushing them. You have a largely unhappy population." "
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Nerd TV - new weekly online TV show [Nerd TV - new weekly online TV show]

prog_dotnet — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:04:59 GMT

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/

NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks - a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology. Guests like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak are household names if your household is nerdy enough, but as historical figures and geniuses in their own right, they have plenty to say to ALL of us. NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions. If not THE future of television, NerdTV represents A future of television for niche audiences that have deep interest in certain topics.

NerdTV is MPEG-4 video. You can download the shows and play them with any MPEG-4 player you like, most likely QuickTime. Still in development but coming soon is a Mediaframe Open Source Java applet player, which will play NerdTV video right in your browser without any plug-ins.

There are two versions of the complete show -- one with subtitles and one without -- and three audio-only versions for those who prefer to compute by radio. Yes, NerdTV will be a Podcast, too. Ogg Vorbis plays in WinAmp or Sonique with a special plugin. AAC plays on an iPod or in iTunes. MP3s play in most media players.

And for those who remember books, we have included a written transcript of each show. Enjoy.

:D:D:D

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TweakVista - Vista Tweak Program [TweakVista - Vista Tweak Program]

prog_dotnet — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:41:23 GMT

http://www.tweakvista.com/

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Space Shuttle Discovery Launch [Space Shuttle Discovery Launch]

prog_dotnet — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:33:13 GMT

http://news.aol.com/spaceshuttle

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Microsoft's eye on open source - Interview with Martin Taylor, gm of platform strategy [Microsoft's eye on open source - Interview with Martin Taylor, gm of platform strategy]

prog_dotnet — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:51:12 GMT

An interesting interview with Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy

http://news.com.com/Microsofts+eye+on+open+source/2008-1082_3-5796496.html?tag=nl

Would love to se a video demo of the new http tunneling feature he is refering to....

"We're always looking for new things that can allow you to do things uniquely different today. For example, this new feature tool we have would allow me to tunnel directly using HTTP into my corporate Exchange server without having to go through the whole VPN (virtual private network) process, bypassing the need to use a smart card. It's such a huge time-saver, for me at least, compared to how long it takes me now. We will be extending that functionality to the next version of Windows. "

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17 hours of hands-on ASP.NET training for free ($349.00 value) [17 hours of hands-on ASP.NET training for free ($349.00 value)]

prog_dotnet — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:25:20 GMT

ASP.NET Training

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Click here to get started and enter promotion code 8317-MSDN-6595

Hurry, this offer is only valid for a limited time!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/learn/asptraining/

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birthdayalarm.com harvesting hotmail passwords [birthdayalarm.com harvesting hotmail passwords]

prog_dotnet — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:21:31 GMT

I got an invitation to this site from a "friend", http://www.birthdayalarm.com

the site is supposed to remind you before friends and relatives birthdays.

The registration process was divided into two steps;

in the first one, you provide name, birthday, nick and a password.

Okay, nothing particular about that one...

But hey, look at step 2

They want my hotmail address and the password.

Nice try...

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Microsoft Gatekeeper test cheat [Microsoft Gatekeeper test cheat]

prog_dotnet — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:08:23 GMT

The Microsoft Gatekeeper test started again today, after being closed for a while due to security concerns.

They should close it again, because people still cheat..

1. Microsoft use a client side “persistent” cookie, clear that one and you will be able to log on with a different and fake id.

2. The question pool isn’t randomised

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Google Summer of Code [Google Summer of Code]

prog_dotnet — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:34:10 GMT

The Summer of Code is Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of Open Source Software Development.

This Summer, don't let your programming skills lie fallow...Use them for the greater good of Open Source Software and computer science! Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer. (payment details can be found in FAQ)

By pairing applicants up with the proven wisdom and experience of established prominent open source organizations (listed below), we hope to make great software happen. If you can't come up with a great idea to submit, a number of our organizations have made idea lists available

http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html

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Can China build its own Silicon Valley? [Can China build its own Silicon Valley?]

prog_dotnet — Tue, 24 May 2005 08:27:39 GMT

Beijing's recipe for technological success

Cancan Chu / Getty Images file

Chinese workers construct personal computers at a Lenovo factory in Beijing. Lenovo, which recently purchased IBM's PC business, is one of the big tech firms congregated in the Zhongguancun district.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/7915125/?GT1=6542

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Microsoft Gatekeeper Test, any updates/news ? [Microsoft Gatekeeper Test, any updates/news ?]

prog_dotnet — Sat, 07 May 2005 10:07:12 GMT

Thank you for your interest in The Gatekeeper Test. Unfortunately we have encountered a technical problem and have decided to close the game immediately to avoid any disadvantage to certain participants. We are currently resolving the issue and will post further updates on the restart date as soon as possible so please bookmark this site and return to register.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/gatekeepertest/

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