As most of you know already, Windows Vista is knocking at the door and should normally be on the market early next year. There are many things you can do to get ready to this upgrade. If you're part of the Customer Preview Program then you do have access to the installation files. If you're not part...

Hi guys, We are now one week away from Dev & ITPro Days 2005 . This session will be unique from many perspectives. Indeed, half of the agenda is for IT Professionals (the persons who actually operate the data center, the ones who are responsible for making sure that the data center never fails :...

Hi guys, I'm currently preparing a very specific event about " Industrial Strength SOA Workshop ". This worshop is the result of the collaboration between Newtelligence and Microsoft EMEA, and will take place only in 4 countries in the whole EMEA region. The speakers will be Clemens Vasters and a colleague...

Hi guys, We're now preparing the content of the Belgium Dev & ITPro days. I appear to have the ownership of the content together with Rudi Larno. Please tell us what you want to see and what you want to learn! Topics can go over: Visual Studio.NET 2005 (what aspects of it?); ASP.NET 2.0 (caching...

I must admit this is absolutely great: I've been invited to Tech'Ed 2004 in Yokohama in Japan by my colleague Masashi. The subject I'll be presenting will be " Conceptual Approach to Application and Platform Interoperability ". Simon has done a superb job focusing on the interop possibilities that exist...

I read a lot of comments about the backward compatibility "issues" of Windows XP SP2 and I understand that this could be quite frustrating that an application does not run the way it always did but let me try telling why by using a real life example, not related to IT at all. I'm living in a very peaceful...

About 3 weeks ago, I got a Smartphone Qtek 8060 powered with Windows Mobile 2003 . Well, it changed my life! Before having that device, I had a Nokia mobile phone and an iPaq PDA (read about new HP iPaqs here ). That was 2 devices to carry at all times. 2 devices to take care of, 2 cables connected...