BOSTON (AP) ? The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.
How to use LINQ to order directories by creation date, pretty neat piece of code
Remember that Microsoft Surface model? The one that was a competitor on American Gladiators last season and actually managed to win the whole thing? She's actually a Gladiator now (her name is Jet), and really beefed up for the part.
WWTelescope (World Wide Telescope)

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe. Saved By: ~C4Chaos ~C4??? | View Details | Give Thanks
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth.
A nice tutorial on how to get image metadata using C#. The tutorial includes a easy to follow walk through and a usable class for retrieving image metadata - if you just want the code.
Designers can use Expression Blend and Design to create their artifacts and the XAML end result can be handed off to developers. Now, most people have heard this type of marketing hype ad-nauseum over the past year. So, here's what sold me:
Demo of the upcoming Windows 7 with new features and applications.
Microsoft is still toiling away at the Zune, but there isn't a whole terrible much to show for it so far in regards to market impact. They just broke the 2 million mark, almost a year after they hit 1 million in May 2007. That means growth has hardly accelerated since the second-gen players hit the scene.
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When it comes to reading Microsoft Office Word document Java does not have any in build classes to handle this but Apache POI Package developed by Apache Foundation gives you the power of reading Microsoft Word document in Java. More information on the Apache POI package can be found at Apache POI.
Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.
At first I thought it was just me. But then I googled for it and found a forum where people were experiencing the same problem. On MSN, type www.youtube.com and the message won't pass.The curious thing is that if you alter any of the letters in the domain (i.e. changing it to youtuve.com ) the message gets effectively passed.WTF, Microsoft?
I remember going through something like this with Visual Studio 2005 but back then I've swallowed my pride and called my local "pusher" and got the VS2005 all fashioned way. Now, 3 years later, I want to buy Visual Studio 2008. Let's see how this goes...
Learn how to use the Dictionary collection object in C#.
You can't go backwards or forwards with SP3, truly 'screwed' down.
We've all encountered it before, and we've all asked this question in one way or another. I see it appearing in Yahoo Answers every now and then, and I see it varients of this technology comparison in blogs I read. Its clear this issue is still quite relevant today and will continue to be tomorrow.
There's more blue and green everywhere, but not many changes to functionality or usability from the end-user perspective. If this is all Microsoft could pull together after working on the new update for so long, I understand why Ballmer wanted Yahoo so badly.
Even when Windows routinely gives you the Blue Screen of Death all may not be lost. We'll show you how to restore both your data and your sanity.
With the April Refresh hot off the presses, I figured it was time to write a concise, 20-minute introduction to F#. The goal isn't to teach F#, but rather give a quick overview of the language and some of the things you can do with it. I’ll divide the 20 minutes into three parts: * Part I - A slow introduction to F#, explaining your first program * Part II – A brisk overview of the foundational types and concepts in F# * Part III – A quick sampling into advanced topics
Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!

?We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole. Our goal in pursuing a combination with Yahoo! was to provide greater choice and innovation in the marketplace and create real value for our respective stockholders and employees,? said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft. ?Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal,? said Ballmer. Saved By: jongalloway | View Details | Give Thanks
In part two of our special three-part feature, Peter Bright digs deep into Win32, .NET, and Vista and discusses how it all got to be so "shambolic." When it comes to nurturing developers, Windows has become a disaster zone.
While Microsoft is busy churning out the newer versions of Silverlight and we are all learning to cope with plurality and continunal changes in the RIA world, Computer World has decided to be the soothsayer. They recently (i.e. yesterday on May 1) published an article titled -- 6 factors that will decide the fate of Silverlight .
Microsoft?s dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo?s shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?
According to TechCrunch, Microsoft has withdrawn Yahoo bid. But what looks like an end of the saga, may still have a couple of unfinished episodes [...]
The first beta version of Aggiorno has been released: it can convert crappy source code to valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional in just a couple of clicks. It works as an add-in to Visual Studio and claims to be able to move existing web sites to standards in a couple of minutes. New transformations, such as moving from tables to CSS, will be added later.
A company that develops cameras, FullView, that produce 360-degree videos is suing Microsoft for alleged patent infringement in its RoundTable conferencing product.FullView's patent, which builds on other patent applications dating back to 1995, covers a camera system that combines the fields of view of several cameras to form a continuous 360-deg.
A brief account and commentary on Adobe's Open Screens Project and then a dip into thinking about the current state of RIA platform strategies.
Sometimes we wish to know what locks are being held by the transaction. Also it would be great to know what SPID owns the transaction, on which objects the locks are being held, what SQL statement caused the locks, etc...
From poor marketing to missing components, here are my reasons why Vista will forever fail.
It looks like Mark Hamburg, a Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom programming guru, will be leading work to give Microsoft Windows a better user interface. And given the dramatic user interface differences between earlier and later Adobe projects that Hamburg worked on, that raises some very intriguing possibilities. Microsoft and Adobe Systems had...
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