Recently I started having some device driver related problems on my laptop. Sometimes when I would leave my laptop in a standby power state and come back, the system would have strange problems after coming out of standby. IE would hang trying to load...

Well PDC is underway and for all the nice Vista, WinFX and Office 12 news, what really excites me most is LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) . This is huge. Finally COBOL and xBase have some serious competition in terms of language integrated data capabilities...

Ever notice how notepad can be really slow opening large files? Yeah I know why use notepad at all? For the simple reason that it might be the only editor on some random server that you logon to look at logs etc. Well there is Wordpad too but the default...

So I thought I'd finally start a blog and start sharing some of my views, ideas, tips and tidbits related to computers with the rest of the world. I'm Shiv (Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan) and my job at Microsoft is to watch TV :) Well not really but kind...