Came accross thisdocument today. Provides a detailed history of MS since it started back in the late seventies. Ialso found it interesting that MS is only about 1 month away from its 30th anniversary! They’ll probably have a big celebration then……
read more...Rodblogged asking about how startup programs slow down your machine when too many of them are there leading to your machine taking ages to start here. I found the answer to how to solve thishere …
read more...Read this on the xtra news today. “Microsoft moved to build its presence in the booming Internet telephony market on Wednesday, purchasing Teleo Inc, a Californian company that lets users make calls from their computers to regular phones”. In the article it also says “Will Collins, global messenger product manager at Microsoft, said the company hoped to integrate Teleo’s offerings into its products by the end of 2005. Microsoft may add “click-to-call” features to Outlook or Internet Explorer, so that users can automatically call a phone number by clicking on it, he said. “ Personally I think they might extend…
read more...Lukas Svobodaof Orbizhas been elected president of the NZ .NET user group community. It looks like we will be hearing more of this sometime soon. I only read the news on his blog here. But I guess this will probably come up on the mailing lists soon… Congrats Lukas.…
read more...Nic blogged about googletalk hereyesterday and on the NZ.NET Mailing lists seemed to be surpised no one responded. Well to make him happy! Here’s me posting about it. I just downloaded it now and exploring it at the moment. First impression is,the UI lookstoo simple, compared to MSN Messenger which some people feel is a bit klunky, I think Google Talk is just wayyy to plain. More on Google Talk later when I have a deeper play with it.…
read more...I am currently working through learning a bit about DotNetNuke so that I can develop modules …etc and thought I’d point some useful resources. I have personally found www.dotnetnuke.dk to be a great resource for the initial setups vs the documentation that is actually available with the DotNetNuke package. I will try to keep this post updated as I continue my journey with DNN, so that it would contain all resources I believe are useful and so on, but here’s a start anyway 🙂 Update: here’s another useful resouce : https://portals.my-asp.net…
read more...Just noticed that my 3 of my blog posts have been tackback spammed today. I guess I should consider not displaying trackbacks or referals on my blog, to avoid displaying spam.…
read more...I previously blogged about about the First Visual Studio error message I got here. I believe I know why I had this error, but forgot to blog about it a while back. Well, what happened initially was that I installed visual studio and the .NET framework on another partition drive than the root one that has windows on it. It seems that this upset the references to the framework and a few other things, as I not only got the error above, but also, errors saying, cannot load package blah blah blah …etc. After I got sick of all that…
read more...Just saw the following message on the VS 2005 News blog. To see the message check the MSDN Product Feedback blog here…
read more...Darrylblogs about how to change your MSN account and have it updated to reflect your new email address. See his post here…
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