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Last week I ran into an interesting bug at work. We were extracting icons on one windows machine and saving them on an another windows machine as part of one of our features. This was a mechanism developed a while ago and it worked fine so far. Recently though, we began [...]

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I want to start by thanking everyone that has commented on the Beta (by posting their thoughts here or elsewhere) for doing so. Please keep those comments coming! They have a great impact on the senior leadership here and they are excellent rallying points for all the teams. They really do make a difference!
Jason has [...]

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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how grooming works for the OpsMgr DB and the warehouse http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2007/12/13/scom-2007-operational-and-datawarehouse-grooming.aspx
Recently I put the detailed grooming steps for the OpsMgr DB into a graphical form that I share here.  Please note – even though there are specific tables shown here don’t consider this posting sanction [...]

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According to Nintendo, the name of their family games console expresses their direction to break down the wall that separates video game players from everybody else, puts people more in touch with their games, and with each other. The two letter “i”s emphasize both the unique controllers and the image of people gathering to play, [...]

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http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/Bing-Test-Drive-Microsofts-new-search-engine/
Lots of internet/blogger chatter of course on our new search brand announcement last week. I thought this video test drive, done in the informal style of Channel 9, was a good way for Australian partners to see some of the functionality quite quickly…

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I joined the Expression Web team about a year ago. Oddly enough I haven’t really used Expression Web all that much. My work so far has been almost entirely in SuperPreview. I decided to take a step back and try doing something that would let me use some of the more useful features of Expression [...]

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Todos hemos experimentado el fracaso de la mitad de las búsquedas en Internet los primeros minutos, y como lo comente hace unos días que cada vez más se navega menos y se interactúa con aplicaciones en el web . Por muchos años Google ha sido el rey en búsqueda. Esta semana se presentó, Microsoft presentó [...]

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Make magazine have started building a green building monitoring system based on Windows CE and one of the SPARK hardware kits.
You can follow along with the project on the SPARK blog.
- Mike

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I’m embarassed that I’ve only recently stumbled across Microsoft’s “Security Reserach & Defense” blog: http://blogs.technet.com/srd/
It has some great information for what kinds of fixes are being shipped in updates and why.  For example, this post discusses a fix IE took to help mitigate the Safari carpetbombing vulnerability.  I wasn’t aware of this change at all–it [...]

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So, I’m getting ready to move soon and was at an unnamed provider trying to get some questions answered online.  The chat window looked like this:   Hmmm.  Not sure how to handle the situation on this one.  I can only hope the queue goes fast but, sadly, even as I was writing this post [...]

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