Good comment by Scott Hanselman on why Whidbey & Yukon RTM slipping to 2005 is not the end of the world ... I like the quote: "Good, Fast, Cheap. You may choose two."

Well, I got that fantastic Dell Inspiron 8600c (Pentium M 2GHz, 2 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo w/ 128MB video memory) which runs XP in Virtual PC faster than most of my other machines do on hardware , so I thought this would be the perfect...

Some time ago I wrote about a new feature that's coming in VS 2005: projects that contain source files in different languages (C++, C#, VB.NET, ...), which are combined into a single assembly. (That is really new & exciting because today you can only...

Have a look at FlipStart - a full-blown WinXP machine that weights less than a pound.

For all those who think/believe that evangelism just another way of doing sales, here is a cool quote from Guy Kawasaki, the "father of evangelism marketing" and former chief evangelist of Apple Computer, that I picked up from a " Creating Customer Evangelists...

Arrived on Friday in Seattle, for a MS-internal event. Staying at the Doubletree Hotel in Bellevue, quite acceptable. The jet lag finally got me on Sunday afternoon; since then I'm in (kind of a) zombie mode ... :-) Anyway, there's quite some interesting...

Speaking of religions (see my last blog entry): there is another new religion today (at least in parts of the IT world), and it's called "free software" (or "open source software", which practically means the same thing, if we leave out any nitpicking...

We ( German community evangelists ) are discussing whether we should create a German section of the recently launched and already popular Channel 9 on MSDN . Stay tuned for more.

After having attended some pretty impressive presentations on CF 2.0 and SQL Mobile (SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, i.e. :-), the successor of SQLCE 2.0, at TechEd Europe, I am playing with the VS2005 Beta 1 and a pre-Beta 2 build of SQL2005. What can...

Well, if you're planning to give all your personal info to Google (i.e., store all your emails in GMail and have them indexed by Google), think again: the first user information disclosure vuln. has been found while this is still in the Beta. OTOH...

Hallo liebe Freunde des gepflegten TechTalks, hier ein Hinweis in eigener Sache: Im Rahmen des neu aufgelegten TechTalks werde ich im Oktober in 10 deutschen Städten in Sachen Mobilität unterwegs sein. Thema: Neue Mobilität - Das .NET Compact Framework...

Don Box says good-bye to (D)COM here and explains why Indigo is the future.

Says this article . Seems like they have to figure out yet how to earn money from embedded Linux. Now we have yet another distro that competes with all the others.

Want to win a Qtek 8080 Windows-powered Smartphone 2003? Write a cool Compact Framework app for Smartphone or Pocket PC and submit to the YouCanWin.NET programming contest! Prizes include MSDN subscriptions and a brand-new Smartphone .

I'm currently in Bellevue, WA, attending a Microsoft event for us developer evangelists, and I'm just back into my hotel room from a meeting with Jim Allchin who gave us an update on the Longhorn roadmap - you can read the official press release here...

Freemail von Web.de teilt heute mit, daß es ab sofort für Club-Mitglieder (5 € pro Monat) statt 100 MB satte 2 GB Speicherplatz gibt: " Als Club-Mitglied stehen Ihnen seit dem 14. Juli nicht mehr 100 MB, sondern 2.000 MB Speicherplatz...

Ganz einfach: als Nicht-MSDN-Abonnent hier auf DVD bestellen (Professional oder Team System) oder hier herunterladen (Express Editions); als MSDN-Abonnent hier herunterladen (alles). So ein MSDN-Abo hat schon Vorteile... ;-)

I just realized that August is practically over, and I haven't produced a single blog entry this month ... got to change this immediately. Well, I've spent the last three weeks at home, recovering from knee surgery and an accompanying inflammation...

Some time ago, during the Beta ages of Whidbey, I posted about trouble with the new ClickOnce technology. Now ClickOnce hit me again... Having installed the RTM version of VS 2005, I was preparing a ClickOnce demo, and when I tried to install the simple...

I can't believe what I just read: Stanislaw Lem , the great Polish SciFi author, died today at the age of 84 . His books were among the first that I read when I was a child (I remember "The Invincible" like I read it yesterday). They contributed to...

For a certain time after the release of Windows Mobile 5.0, I have felt one important piece missing in the usability & security story of all those new devices: the ability to back up your system. With WM 5.0, there is no way to make a backup of your...

Recently a customer called me who was surprised that VS2005 asked for AS 4.x when he was trying to debug a CF project against a Windows Mobile 2003 PPC. Since this requirement does not seem to be officially documented anywhere (send me a link if you have...

When I got my i-mate Jasjar recently, the one thing that disappointed me a bit was the case that came in the box - no belt clip! How am I supposed to carry this with me? Doesn't really fit in my trousers' pockets, and is even too big/heavy for most jackets...

Read this . Wow - the world can change really fast these days!

Recently, my Dell C840 stopped working with a hardware failure (Stop Error d0000144: Unknown Hard Error). Didn't find anything about this through Google ... looks like the main board or the disk controller are into serious trouble :( I miss this device...