Michael Swanson posted the contest today: If you create and submit a file converter to XAML, you can win one of three Dell XPS M1710 laptops. Here's the catch: It must be one of the following file formats, and you must submit your entry by October 29th...

Depending on who talk to, people will tell you how happy/unhappy they are with current Windows Vista performance. Like most of my colleagues, I have installed the July 2006 CTP (Build 5472, available from the MSDN subscriber download). On the machines...

The new Excel File Formats. Like all "new" file formats coming along with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, these file formats are really ZIP containers. Excel however, offers a choice of XML-based or binary files inside such a container. The...

I hope to see many of you at Tech·Ed: Developers Europe Nov 7-10 in Barcelona, Spain. I am one of the people responsible for the content there, taking care of "Windows Desktop and Mobile Development" sessions to be more exact. We'll cover an exciting...

According to a famous "New Yorker" cartoon by Peter Steiner, " On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog ". That's no longer true. In fact, today we can tell you're a scotch terrier, live north of London, enjoy chewing up your owner's shoes (including...

Occasionally people are questioning those fancy 3D Vista examples , or anything beyond today's 2D graphical interfaces will easy man-machine interaction. And, to be honest, it is not always - or even close to impossible - to predict how most...

10 years ago, JavaWorld was wondering if JavaScript has a future . Today, JavaScript has emerged as the most widely deployed form of a "runtime" available. Nevertheless, most of the of the criticism raised a decade ago still applies. Despite the ECMAScript...

Tim O’Reilly recently published a truly insightful analysis of the computer book market . Looking at the second quarter 06 computer books market provides clues what is hot. Obviously the real-world distribution of computer languages cannot be determined...

I've always had this uneasy feeling about WEP secured wireless networks, so when I moved to my current apartment a year ago I purchased WPA enabled devices. Unfortunately this means I cannot use and will not buy a number of nice devices (such as digital...