From the article: Bechtel put Vista’s IPv6 stack on trial - Network World One benefit of Vista’s IPv6 implementation for Bechtel is the Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP), a Microsoft -developed and patented technology that enables host computers to...

From the article: tumbl.us killed the blog star - a tumblelog via modblog.bmezine.com Why would someone do this ?

About 2 years ago, a small story out of the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge caused a bit of a frenzy in the press and with the creator of Bittorrent Brad Cohen Today after several years of development and testing, you can use "Avalanche" now called...

Pau Thurrott and Leo Laporte are doing another live chat on talkshoe on 7/27 at 4pm Eastern Time Join Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott for the live interactive edition of Windows Weekly. From the TWiT Netcast Network. TalkShoe - Talkcast - Windows Weekly...

Interesting ad promotion on Xbox Live this week. From the article: Xbox Live tries ads with McDonald's, New Line partnership - 6/22/2007 - Video Business Microsoft Xbox Live is partnering with McDonald's and New Line Home Entertainment to offer its first...

From the article: Business & Technology | Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles | Seattle Times Newspaper Microsoft is digging for a solution to the parking crunch on its growing Redmond campus. The software giant is excavating a giant...

Mark Russinovich writes about a class of security bugs that many applications (including lots of 3rd party "security" solutions) suffer from. Squatting Attacks are enabled when improper security permissions are applied to files and synchronization objects...

Mmm..Geek rap. Originally seen at: GeekLimit

From the article: Coding Horror: How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation Let my mistake be a lesson to everyone reading this: never browse the web without the very latest version of your preferred web browser . Intentionally choosing to browse the...

From the article: Firewall fire sale: Free ZoneAlarm makes it to Vista The Vista version of ZoneAlarm, a two-way firewall that will continue to be given away, is the first from a major security vendor to apply Vista's Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)...

From the article: BBC NEWS | Americas | US time capsule yields rusty car A car buried in Oklahoma in 1957 as a time capsule to mark the US state's 50th anniversary has caused some dismay after being finally unearthed. They had been asked to guess the...

New Halo Controlers and Headsets to be released with Halo 3. From the article: Xbox.com | Xbox News - Countdown to Launch with Halo 3 Accessories Gear up for the game's release with a variety of new merchandise, including two new Xbox 360™ Limited Edition...

When Apple's Safari browser was released several articles on the difference between how pages looked were posted. The majority of Windows users appear to prefer the way Microsoft renders font's and Apple users appear to prefer the way Apple does it. It...

In the article: The Old New Thing : What determines which programs show up on the front page of the Windows XP Start menu? Raymond Chen writes the following: "Software patents suck!" It's irrelevant what your or my opinion of software patents is. So long...

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Charles Simonyi, the inventor of hungarian notation , which is the primary variable naming convention used for C/C++ code inside of Microsoft, is going to space !

Get your bits here . You will need to get this if you want PNRP to interoperate with Vista.

Paul Thurrott has begun po^H^H Blog casting on the TwiT network at http://www.twit.tv/ww

Originally meant to be analogous to the non-mutable Mac bios chime. The startup sound is now Optional! There was heated internal debate on this issue, but customer feedback made this happen. Your feedback matters! Keep giving feedback on the latest build...

Food for thought: "If you had a business strategy that worked all the time that was premised on scaring the living daylights out of people, you just keep doing it" -Bill Clinton (found on Digg here ) (No, he's not, but an interesting commentary on how...

If you want your users running Microsoft Windows Vista to be happy when they use Outlook Web Access (OWA) you should install this Hotfix This also fixes the annoying "Click here to activate" prompting. Users, if your Admin hasnt installed this, and you...

This is a pretty cool application that shows some of the power of .NET and the Windows Presentation Foundation, you can sign up to download it here . Read more here: http://firstlook.nytimes.com/index.php?cat=4 and http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?p=22 Reaffirms...

This is one of the last EDW (External Developer Workstation) builds that will be posted before RTM. http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/do... Get your feedback in while there is still time!

Enjoy the XP Powertoy "Open Command Prompt Here"? Now its part of the OS: Shift+ right click on a folder in Windows Vista and see "Open Command Prompt Here"!

MSN has released their community video site to beta testing! Now you can watch my kid be tormented by ducks. Probably more interesting than watching Scoble buy meat .