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Archive for February, 2008

I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications

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A pivotal meeting of international delegates to decide the fate of Microsoft's Open XML finished on Friday with advocates and foes of the standards bid predicting victory.Brian Jones, an Office program manager at Microsoft involved in the process to standardize Open XML, posted a blog Friday saying that

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Last-minute changes to Windows Vista broke drivers, forcing key hardware vendors to "limp out with issues" when the operating system launched last year, according to a presentation by Dell Inc. that was made public this week."Late OS code changes broke drivers and applications, forcing key commodities to miss launch or limp out

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Bill Gates seemed to draw on personal experience a few years ago when he pointed out one of the biggest risks of modern communications. “Today, if you e-mail things around, it's very typical for the information to go far and wide,” the Microsoft chairman said in a 2003 address to a conference in Seattle. “The

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PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 is now available for free download, along with source code and a readme document. PowerCommands, is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code, which requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 installed, can

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Sometimes, when you upload a new .cab file for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition or Microsoft RoundTable using the OCS 2007 Software Update Service Management Console Upload Software feature, the upload fails with an HttpException and the message Request timed out in the event log. The actual exception might vary, but the real reason is

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Microsoft may have made mistakes launching Windows Vista, but the operating system was far from a failure, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia, the company's senior vice president of servers and tools. The embattled OS may have gone too far in improving security at the expense of application compatibility, and ignored performance issues

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