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Essential MS Subscription for Mac-aphile Designers

Are you a design & mac user in a Windows Development Shop? Are they eyeing your Mac and measuring your desk to outfit you with a new PC? Over your cold dead corpse I bet. No worries. You owe it to yourself to check out the Microsoft Expression Professional Read More...

Status Update on Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet + Vista

It's been awhile since I've posted any updates on my Toshiba M400. Over the past year, my experience running Vista has improved greatly and I've been surprised with my efforts on extending the useful life of this machine. For the record, it's > 2 years Read More...

Congratulations to Tony Cavaliere, Gadget Guru and Agenda Junkie

Congratulations are in order for Tony Cavaliere, a fellow ObjectSharp Consultant. Tony is a self confessed addict of the TVO show The Agenda and when Microsoft Canada announced the competition for building Vista sidebar gadgets, Tony jumped on the chance Read More...

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack(s) 1

As an early Christmas present, Microsoft released a welcome service pack for Visual Studio 2005 last week. There's downloads available for each appropriate edition including the team foundation server. Check the download pages for releases notes as well. Read More...

.NET Applications on a Mac with WPF/E

As you might be aware, in sequence with Vista, Microsoft released .NET 3.0. This is an addtional set of libraries on top of .NET 2.0 - so your existing apps continue to work and the runtime CLR is otherwise unaffected. This incremental set of .NET 3.0 Read More...

Vista: Are you Ready? Microsoft isn't

<rant> At least not yet. There's lots of disgruntledness in the community about Microsoft own lack of preparedness. If you bought a Zune and run vista, you'll have to resort to some hacking to get your new toy to sync up. Want to run Visual Studio Read More...

Toshiba M400, Vista RC2 & Updated Bios 2.03 = goodness

On the Toshiba Vista RC1 Support Page , Toshiba quietly added some updates. The most interesting one, a new bios 2.03. Previously the latest available was 1.70. I didn't immediately notice much difference. I did a recalculation of my Vista score and the Read More...

Unifying My RSS Aggregation: IE7/Vista, Outlook 2007, Newsgator, Exchange

Icarumba! All of those things in the title have 1 way or another of storing RSS feeds. But it wasn't as bad as I hoped. Now that I'm using Vista RC2 fulltime, I figured it was time to start looking into the IE7/Vista RSS store. I had been leaning on the Read More...

Toshiba Protege M400 Tablet PC and Vista RC2

I've been running Vista RC2 since the weekend on my Toshiba M400. I was running RC1 before that, and Beta 2 on and off prior to that. During the RC1 “era” (from an XP upgrade) I had a lot of junk on my laptop that wouldn't work. So I was backfilling with Read More...

Visual Studio and Team Systems Service Pack Betas

So we have a few service packs to talk about.... Firstly, Visual Studio 2005, SP1 is now in beta testing. This is a fairly big service pack, lots of bug fixes, and the odd new feature. The list is not complete of things fixed yet but Microsoft promises Read More...
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