NotesIs it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?Unfurl
Notes"This release is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the first Microsoft release that includes comprehensive support for RSS not only on the producing side, but also on the consuming side."Unfurl
Notes"We don't want this technology to be available to every hobbyist. We need to keep the number of licensees down to a manageable number. We charge a license fee to keep the number of people we have to deal with down to a level we can handle."Unfurl
Notes"There goes Microsoft, ruining something else." I'd hope that MSFT doesn't make all the same mistakes with RSS in OS-level support in Windows Vista.Unfurl
Notes"When Microsoft releases its SQL Server 2005 database on Nov. 7, it will have been five years since the last version debuted. If Windows Vista arrives as scheduled next fall, it too will follow its predecessor by five years."Unfurl
Notes"You know that one browser that has only a vague association with modern web standards? Yeah, Internet Explorer. Wouldn't it be great if it supported stuff like translucent PNGs?"Unfurl
Notes"The case had been raised by open source defenders who feared that Microsoft was preparing a legal offensive against Linux based on enforcement of intellectual property rights."Unfurl
Notes"Law-abiding people will be paying more for PCs, and doing less with them, because of the Hollywood-decreed micromanagement of graphics system design."Unfurl
Notes"Microsoft Chat, formerly known as Comic Chat, was initially released on Internet Explorer v3.0 in 1996, and was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander together with the Virtual Worlds Group."Unfurl
Notes"Realistically, then, to make the most of Vista we're looking at needing a dual-core processor system, with 2Gb or more of fast RAM, a 256Mb or better display card, a hard drive better than whats currently available and, if we want to watch the upcoming hUnfurl
Notesseeing how it's Microsoft and they control more money than the Roman Empire I find it hard to believe that even non-official sites have to be this crappy.Unfurl
Notes"David Bradley describes how he invented CTRL-ALT-DEL. Then tries to packpedal after he inadvertantly slams Bill Gates for making it famous."Unfurl
Notes"After watching a number of recent trends in the software industry I've been struck by how many of them were originally started by Microsoft but later abandoned only to be picked up by the rest of the software industry a few years later."Unfurl
Notes"With standards-conscious developers clamoring for increased compliance, Microsoft has everything to gain from supporting and evangelizing Web standards."Unfurl
Notes"No mention of Firefox. Or Opera. Or Safari. Or Mozilla. Or OmniWeb. Or any non-Microsoft products at all. It's as if they have been erased from history."Unfurl
Notes"So, when your PSU sparks and shorts out, it just trips a switch instead of catching fire, but your xbox still doesn't work." Bandaid on a design flaw?Unfurl
Notes"Ever play a game of chess and your opponent makes a move and you realize the game is over?" I've definitely been outside the Microsoft Media ecology.Unfurl
Notes"If Microsoft plans to build home entertainment systems that are designed to please entertainment industry executives, I don’t see how they expect their products to appeal to actual people."Unfurl
Notes"Despite reports indicating that Microsoft Corp. was planning to allow users with pirated copies of Windows XP to install Service Pack 2, the company has confirmed to eWEEK.com that this will not be the case." How clueless can you get? This isn't punishUnfurl
NotesWow. What a pain. Getting infected with nasty things before even being able to install updates, and then, once you're updated, DLL and Registry hell force you to reinstall and start all over!Unfurl
Notes"Hello enterprise market, it's nice to meet you. How can we rid you of Microsoft today?" Personally, I'd love to be working in a server environment made up of XServesUnfurl
Notes'“There are several remarkable features about this text,” said Mayberry. “In the first place, it does not inspire confidence in the integrity and efficiency of Microsoft’s coding to know that someone was able to insert a 30,000 word document withUnfurl
Notes" Was at the supermarket tonight, and went to the ATMs outside to get some cash; imagine my amusement when I saw this on the Nationwide machine's screen."Unfurl
Notes"We’re astounded at the progress that has been made at creating new factions, hosting new servers, replacing authentication, etc. It seems that Allegiance hasn’t really died."Unfurl