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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS...
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Wanted: A Windows Edition for Power and Professional Users
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Scott asks, "Wouldn't it be great if there were an edition of Windows with all of the stupid features turned off?" Yes, it would and it must happen soon . I've spent the week and with my new Alienware and Vista Ultimate and I am frustrated...
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New and Notable 140
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time...
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New and Notable 139
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible...
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Windows Vista Disappointing on Launch
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So today's the day. After 5+ years, Windows Vista launches and it seems that there barely is a whimper. In really looking the last two days, there seems to be no real online and blogger buzz, and no real excitement. Where was that vaunted Billion...
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New and Notable 117
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type...
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Sept .NET FW 3 Installed on Vista RC1 (5600)
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Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK...
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September CTP, Orcas Tools, I'm So Confused!
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As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience...
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Vista RC1 Experiences Highly Variable
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I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't...
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Vista RC1 and Ready to Go
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My friend Shawn says , " Yes, I said upgrading XP! The good news is that is build is very very good. Not perfect, but very good! I am able to use it as my main box " about Pre-RC Build 5536. I agree 1000%. Since my install a few days ago, I...
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Vista 5472 Ultimate Up and Running
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I'm posting this from Vista 5472 Ultimate Edition and everything looks good. Again, a trivial install with 2 or 3 questions. Nice job. Of course, the first thing I do when I bring up any machine is to go right to Scott Hanselman's Repave Essentials...
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New and Notable 107
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Vista What's New in Vista - Creating dump files in Vista What's New in Vista - Complete PC Backup Data/OR/M Everyone's been pointing to Ted's long post on OR/M - The Vietnam of Computer Science. I personally find the analogy week, orthogonal...
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New and Notable 97
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I might as well combine my last 2 posts. Today's New and Notable is focused on the major beta releases today. Vista and Longhorn Beta 2 are finally available on Connect and MSDN, and NVIDIA and ATI both have released new drivers to coincide with the...
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Windows Vista 5365
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Windows Vista 5365 is out for testers and Brandon LeBlanc has an excellent review of it. Since this an Interim build for testers I am not sure if I am allowed to talk about it (don't know what Brandon arranged) so I will just note that I installed...
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Vista and Its Effect on WinFX for Your Development
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Andrew has posted a pointer to a succinct answer from a Microsoft employee on the very important impact of a recent timeline announcement on Vista and WinFX. Those of us who have dependencies in our products and our beta and ship cycles on WinFX have...
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