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Windows Vista Beta 1 Now Available

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:03 AM by danielfe
Windows Vista Beta 1 is now available! MSDN Subscribers can download now RSS Feed for the latest news Beautiful Page Dedicated to Developers . Read More...
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Windows Longhorn client to be named Windows "Vista"

Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 6:55 AM by danielfe
Watch the video here. Check the Windows Vista home page , and add August 3rd to your calendar for Beta 1. Read More...
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SIC Notes from Localization talk

Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 3:44 PM by danielfe
The localization talk had three speakers for a one hour session that ran a bit over. Rough notes below Speaker #1 Claude Ostfeld <aside>He literally just read his slides and his slides had way too much text</aside - Don't publish prices on the Read More...
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At the 15th annual Shareware Industry Conference

Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 3:09 PM by danielfe
I'm way too busy at the Shareware Industry Conference , but here's a quick brain dump. I met with John Lueders of ElmSoftware who created iDo 2005 , some very cool looking and useful Wedding software. It's got 5 stars by CNET. I can tell you that my wife, Read More...
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Killer PDC Sessions

Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:44 PM by danielfe
As Brad and Cyrus point out, we have officially listed a lot of the PDC sessions . Check out the PDC Blog for up-to-date information. Below are some of the sessions that grabbed my attention including: Web Designer improvements, developing with Atlas Read More...
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The NHL's back

Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:29 PM by danielfe
Ed emailed me that the NHL owners and players have finally made peace and there will be hockey next year. The question is, will the fans come? This MSNBC article has some interesting quotes . The first two sum up my feelings, especially since I immediately Read More...
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What do Samuel L Jackson, Triumph, and Dave Chappelle have in common?

Posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 5:39 PM by danielfe
Nothing, they all just happen to have movie clips that are clogging up my blogging queue. I'm sure a lot of you have seen these, but some are too good to not link to... Chris Chelios talks about his first hockey coach, Coach Jules Winnfield - Watch Video Read More...
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Stored Procedure Utility - Count Lines of Code and Search Contents

Posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 3:51 PM by danielfe
<backstory to get motivation on why I did this> It's review time here for Microsoft employees, and I won't bore you with my thoughts on the review process as many in the blogosphere have written about it. I need to start writing my review and I Read More...
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Original Gangsta - VB Rapper

Posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 3:27 PM by danielfe
Have you heard of NerdCore hip hop? If not, check out Wired's article Rap Marketing Goes Nerdcore . Whe Wikipedia description is: Nerdcore Hip Hop : Nerdcore hip hop is a musical genre. The name is derived from "nerd" and the "-core" suffix in genre names Read More...
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Introducing the Shareware Starter Kit

Posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 2:58 PM by danielfe
I'm way, way late on this, but w e have officially released the Shareware Starter Kit on Channel9!! Download: ( C# download , VB download ). The Shareware Starter Kit is a sample application of the common features in all shareware applications. You can Read More...
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