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I've been making a point of reading the " Heroes Happen Here " online comic because it's just a pure delight for me. It's told a fun, albeit slightly far-fetched story that has brought our heroes all around the world in an effort to stop a nasty virus
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One of the most fun tasks I've done as a member is this team has been to post our MSDN Developer Center . This site is intended to be a one-stop portal for all issues pertaining to the Windows SDK, including download information, our latest release notes,
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Richard Russell (aka RGR) of the Windows Fundamentals team has posted a really nice description of Windows Performance Tool Kit, a new tool we're shipping with the latest version of the Windows SDK . As he says, "Xperf is an important tool for anyone
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Whoo hoo! The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 is now live and ready for your download in either ISO or Web Setup format. There's scads and scads of new content in this release - content that my colleague Barry has listed in
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Anyone who knows much about me knows I'm a big comic book fan. So it's been especially fun to be a small part of a new online comic that Microsoft and Seagate are working on that is intended to highlight the great work that developers and IT professionals
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There are certain times of the year at Microsoft that I like to think of as "golden time," when email is slower, meetings are fewer, and we all have more time to stretch out and dive deep into tasks that we never usually seem to have sufficient time for.
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Hey, if you're a Microsoft MVP of any type, stop by and join our Windows SDK chat tomorrow morning. We consider MVPs to be some of the most thoughtful and involved users that we have, and we have these chats in order to strive to become more connected
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Today we hit the first of a series of ZBBs for our next release, the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008. At the same time, we're essentially closing up work on our components in Visual Studio 2008. Working on these two releases has made for one of the
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I'm excited to announce that in the RTM Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 release, we'll be considering adding a new file to the SDK that many users have been asking for: a way to determine which build of the SDK is installed on disk, and a way to determine
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Our frighteningly productive team has just published yet another release live. The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 is now live and ready for download . This a pre-release SDK that exposes the latest headers, libs, tools and
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After two years of working as the Setup and Communities PM on the Windows SDK, I'm switching over to a new role within my same team. I'm now taking on a whole set of new tasks: Online release notes Offline release notes Vista logo compliance APIScan Headers
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Probably the most common mail I get from users about the SDK setup is some variation of this mail: I am attaching the SDK Setup log. Can you tell from this why the SDK will not install on my machine? I have tried twice, but it stops and says "failed to
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Do you like to create useful tools to help your colleagues be more productive? Are you frustrated by huge software projects that take years to ship? Would you like to work on small, delivery focused projects where you have lots of creative input, authority
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This is one of those posts where I have to state my biases up front because people tend to have strong opinions about it. Like everyone, I've always liked to use Google. I started using the site pretty much when it first appeared on my radar, and like
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I thought you might enjoy hearing about what the Windows SDK's download and user-submitted data are looking like. This data is as of May 7th, 2007. Successful downloads of the Windows Vista Client RTM: ISO 335,909, 37% Web 577,760, 63% Total 912,850 The
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