Email from Steve Ballmer
Thursday, July 24, 2008 by paul
With FY08 complete, I want to discuss my priorities for the year ahead and share my thoughts about the key strategic topics that are on everybody’s mind, including Windows, competition with Apple and Google, our software plus services strategy, and Yahoo. ... continue

Unit Testing for Mobile Devices
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by paul
MSDN Webcast: Unit Testing for Mobile DevicesUnit testing is now available for mobile device developers using Visual Studio 2008. In this sample-filled webcast, Constanze Roman and Maarten Struys explore unit testing for devices. Not only will you learn ... continue

Games for Windows on Live
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by paul
LIVE now free for Games for WindowsIntroducing Games for Windows – LIVE, the free gaming service built for Windows that makes great Windows games even better. With Games for Windows – LIVE, you get an online identity – called a gamertag – and a friends ... continue

Windows Vista Story
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by paul
First hints of Microsoft’s “fight back” ads appearWindows Vista wasn't defined by Apple's TV commercials, it was misunderstood by the so called Marketing Teams at Microsoft. Windows Vista was created for the next generation of PC's and not to make your ... continue

Evolution of Networking
Monday, July 21, 2008 by paul
Brocade Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Foundry NetworksI just got an email from Michael Klayko the CEO BrocadeIt is my pleasure to share the exciting news that today Brocade entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Foundry Networks, a ... continue

Super Laptop Deal--Vista premium--$398!!!!
Friday, July 18, 2008 by MJMurphy_TechNet
http://www.checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/7/17/saving_you_some_money.aspx   All I can say is WOW!   Thursday, July 17 at 10:53 AM | Posted by: Ryan, Wal-Mart Category: Gadgets One of the coolest parts of my job is working with suppliers ... continue

Live Mesh - Technology Preview
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Costas Tsaklas
I’ve been reading a lot about Live Mesh lately, so I decided to spend some time to see what all the talk was about. Well…. VEEERY interesting… First of all, the technology is still in preview but we can get an idea for what it’s ... continue

New and Notable 251
Saturday, July 12, 2008 by Sam Gentile
.NET/C#/Functional Programming The very useful CR_Documentor 2.0 has been released with Sandcastle Preview and is now open source code Mathew has a boatload of links, resources, slide deck and code in Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation ... continue

Firefox 3
Friday, July 11, 2008 by Costas Tsaklas


Security Update KB948109 on Vista
Thursday, July 10, 2008 by Costas Tsaklas
I tried to installed the security updates that were rolled out last Tuesday and the SQL Server 2005 Security Update (KB948109) failed to install.  I did a search on Google and came up with a blog post that shows how to fix the problem I check the SQL ... continue