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Developers rejoice - new API for Windows Desktop Search!

Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:19 PM by jonathanh
Ever since the MSN team released their first beta toolbar with Windows Desktop Search , developers have been asking how they can add its search functionality to their own programs. Well, the wait is over – the MSN team have quietly added documentation Read More...
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Kids these days

Posted Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:40 AM by jonathanh
BlogJet is a truly excellent blog-posting tool written by Dmitry Chestnykh (I've raved about it before ). Now I find out that he just graduated from college last week — from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology to be precise. Make you proud Read More...
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Nasty URL-rewriting bug in Community Server - apologies to syndicated readers

Posted Sunday, June 26, 2005 2:10 PM by jonathanh
All my posts for the past month have hit a bug in Community Server that strips out the leading "http://blogs.msdn.com" when I link to other Microsoft blogs. If you read this blog via a syndicated feed (e.g. Bloglines) then those links were broken for Read More...
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Getting to Zero Email Bounce

Posted Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:37 PM by jonathanh
One of the nice things about working alongside 1,500 other bloggers is that if you let a thought go unblogged for too long, someone else will pick up the slack. For example: OneNote tells me that I created the page “Getting to ZBB in your inbox” in my Read More...
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The Longhorn RSS team are blogging

Posted Saturday, June 25, 2005 5:32 PM by jonathanh
Yesterday's Gnomedex demos by the Longhorn RSS team (who also chose that moment to come out of stealth mode) have predictably started a huuuge discussion. Scoble's been doing his best to link to all the reactions - see " First blog reactions on RSS news Read More...
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More press coverage of NOT running as an administrator

Posted Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:38 PM by jonathanh
Ryan Naraine has written a nice article for eWeek about non-admin security in XP . He notes that Microsoft will be promoting Least-privileged User Accounts heavily in Longhorn, but that you can enjoy their added security right now – if you know where Read More...
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Oh Mr Channel 9 Guy, you're so *big*

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:52 PM by jonathanh
Jeff Sandquist and his team have posted graphic evidence* of just how low some developers will go to get to PDC’05. At least now we know what they were sneaking into Jeff’s office . Betsy claims to be shocked, shocked – but really, after seeing all the Read More...
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The MOM team start blogging

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 12:42 PM by jonathanh
The program managers for Microsoft Operations Manager have started their own team blog , and they already have post categories that hint at what's to come. I've been working closely with this team over the past few months, so it's great to see them getting Read More...
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David Ornstein talks about FlexWiki - and wall-sized screens

Posted Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:55 PM by jonathanh
Scoble has posted a fascinating Channel 9 video interview with David Ornstein . David describes what makes wikis work, how his own FlexWiki advances the state of the art, and speculates about what type of people like wikis. His PC display setup is also Read More...
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A good week for new .NET programming languages

Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:48 PM by jonathanh
IronPython is a .NET implementation of Python, written by Jim Hugunin . It’s now reached v0.7.6, and has been released on microsoft.com (via Mike Gunderloy ). What’s really impressive is that IronPython is faster than Python 2.3 . F# is a .NET implementation Read More...
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MaxiVista just got even better

Posted Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:53 PM by jonathanh
MaxiVista is a software application that lets you use another PC – your laptop, for example – as an extra screen for your main computer. Since more screen real estate is always better, this is a Good Thing. It's especially sexy with a Tablet PC, because Read More...
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If you think Microsoft uses silly product names, you're in good company

Posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:10 AM by jonathanh
I've ranted before about Microsoft product names, so it's nice to see that I'm in good company : CNET Interviewer : “You made a comment this morning poking fun at a Microsoft product name. Do you think Microsoft is good at marketing?” Steve Ballmer : Read More...
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Great things are afoot over at Channel 9

Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:51 PM by jonathanh
Another vital resource has sprung up fully-formed on Channel 9 – the Patterns and Practices Security Wiki (yes, this is yet another Microsoft wiki ). Whether you need to deploy a secure ASP.NET 2.0 application right now, or just have a vague wish to learn Read More...
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