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I have been using Windows Vista on my laptop for two solid years. I thought it was about time to dual boot my machine with Windows XP Professional. I find that my battery life and performance has greatly increased compared to Vista. I use my laptop for development, so the first thing I did after dual...
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During my daily reading this afternoon, the following post on blogs.msdn.com caught my eye. Apparently NASA uses XP on some of its mission critical machines. Someone at Microsoft managed to snap the following picture from a TV screen at the Houston Mission Control Center. Source ( http://blogs.msdn.com...
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I just saw that the MSDN Library April 2007 was released. I'm so happy that an update has finally been released! It literally has been ages since they released it as a free download. The link is a direct download link as the page is not yet available. The file size is around 2.25GB. MSDN Library...
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Microsoft earlier today released an Visual Studio 2005 SP1 patch that fixes certain application compatibility problems when running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista. Download ( Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista )
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Today Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. I personally have been waiting quite sometime for this update to come out as it fixes compatibility for Windows Vista. Hopefully we will not have to wait that long for Visual Studio 2005 service pack 1 for Windows Vista to be released. View ( whats...
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Today, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 available for download immediately. Service Pack 1 also provides over 70 improvements for common development scenarios including: New processor support (e.g., Core Duo) for code generation and profiling Performance and scale improvements in...
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Microsoft has released a white paper pertaining on "how to develop UAC compliant applications for Windows Vista", The following document contains the subjects or topics below. "This white paper includes details many aspects of designing and building applications that will work well with...
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Sometime soon, I plan on releasing a cool application that uses text-to-speech. Some of you might have been curious about the implementation about text-to-speech for quite a while. The implementation of text-to-speech really isn't that hard as long as you use Microsoft's Speech API (SAPI). The...
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The last beta build of Windows Vista has been released to the public. If you’re developing any applications where your intended audience will be using Windows Vista, then this is the time to download Windows Vista before it goes RTM (Released to Manufactures). Any applications that run on Vista...
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If your getting a "bookmarks.html does not appear to be a valid firefox document." when using " Firefox To IE7 " in Windows Vista RC1 or newer its due to the File IO Permissions and UAC. To fix this right click "FireFox To IE7.exe" and select Run as Administrator and everything...