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Review: Windows XP

I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop. Look & Feel Windows XP has quite a cartoony look and feel compared to the slick look of Aero Glass; this is mostly offset by the lack...

Posted to Coding Sanity (Weblog) by codingsanity on 12-14-2007
ASP.NET MVC Framework

This would be very heartening news for anyone dreading the prospect of having to back to ASP.NET Webforms after working with RoR or MonoRail. Scott Guthrie 's team is working on a proper MVC Framework for ASP.NET. Some of the goals of the framework (lifted straight from Jeffrey Palermo's blog...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 10-08-2007
Microsoft's best marketing tool

Nitwits who by their actions try to show companies and the public that the GPL is run by a bunch of underpants-on-the-head kind of commie pinko weirdos . Here's a hint Harald, and what the hell, let's include RMS in this too, most people involved in OSS or semi-OSS stuff are in it to help the...

Posted to Coding Sanity (Weblog) by codingsanity on 07-25-2007
Windows Development Slowing?

CNet has a story where they discuss a slowdown in the percentage of software developers targeting Windows. The figures come from Evans Data who say: 65% of developers are targeting Windows, down from 75% last year, almost a 9% drop. They expect a further 2% drop next year. Linux in the same period has...

Posted to Coding Sanity (Weblog) by codingsanity on 07-04-2007
Command Prompt Here - Vista

I'm probably the last person to pick up on this little Vista Feature but you don't need to use a Powertoy anymore to get the very useful "Open Command Prompt Here" explorer context menu shortcut. Today searching for the Powertoy I stumbled across this post by Tim Sneath from 2006 :...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 06-11-2007
Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit

After a missed connection from Chicago to Seattle thanks to a delayed flight from London I'm now finally on my way to the Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit in Seattle. Or I should say almost as this flight is also delayed and it might take another hour or so to actually get under way. I was hoping to...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 03-13-2007
Free Copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007

Complete three Vista Webcasts on Microsoft's Power Together site and you receive a free full license copy of Windows Vista Business. The same goes for Office Professional 2007, complete three Webcasts or vLabs in the Office series and receive a free fully licensed copy. [Update] Unfortunately looking...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-28-2006
Novell and Microsoft Collaborate

Microsoft's public attitude towards open source is changing rapidly. First the Microsoft Open Specification Promise promising not to make any claims against implementations of any of the specifications covered by the promise and now an announcement of the broad collaboration between Microsoft and Novell...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-03-2006

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