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Updated Microsoft .Net Logo sweetness [Updated Microsoft .Net Logo sweetness]

Zeo — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:04:46 GMT

Check out the updated .NET logo:

PDC is going to be rockin!

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The very last town hall meeting from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer [The very last town hall meeting from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer]

Zeo — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:46 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2008/06/30/the-very-last-town-hall-meeting-from-bill-gates-and-steve-ballmer.aspx

Very cool videos that were shown last week. :)

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A look back at my life with Bill Gates [A look back at my life with Bill Gates]

Zeo — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:34:13 GMT

http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Life-without-Bill-G/

Now why can't we have funny developer videos here on 9 like 10 has?

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Meet the Microsoft Surface Team [Meet the Microsoft Surface Team]

Zeo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:00:51 GMT

http://www.on10.net/blogs/nic/Meet-the-Microsoft-Surface-Team/

Interesting Marketing Video....now when can we get some of these people on channel9?

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Charles has chicken pox oh noes! [Charles has chicken pox oh noes!]

Zeo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:01:13 GMT

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Jeff-Sandquist-and-Bill-Gates-stories/

Wow. Coffee house let's sign a card and send it to Charles for all of his great work....and wish him a fast recovery.

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Separated at birth MobileMe [Separated at birth MobileMe]

Zeo — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:12:36 GMT

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/06/09/separated-at-birth.aspx

Very funny.

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Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme [Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme]

Zeo — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:53:44 GMT

Seeing this makes me appreciate Aero.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000341.html

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Amazon.com is down. [Amazon.com is down.]

Zeo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:45:44 GMT

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/342/amazonoutage20080606it0.png

Check it out for yourself: www.amazon.com

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AMZN

15.9 Billion per year. 503 dollars per second of down time.

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New Forum Posting [New Forum Posting]

Zeo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:00:22 GMT

Just trying out the create a new thread button...it seems to be working.

Am I missing something or is there no longer the ability to change the size or color of the text in threads?

Also any idea when we'll see the emoticons coming back?

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Interesting article: No Way to Build an Operating System [Interesting article: No Way to Build an Operating System]

Zeo — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:43:18 GMT

At the June 2004 WWDC, Jobs blew away the MSFT engineers in attendance by demonstrating lightning fast Spotlight searches on Tiger (OSX 10.4). The court-released MSFT emails show how flabbergasted they were, and the imperative of getting the Tiger preview DVDs back to Redmond for reverse engineering. Comments by MSFT's Jim Allchin and Lenn Pryor were priceless

http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/2008/05/no_way_to_build_1.html

Interesting emails to say the least. :)

[Edit: Link added]

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Rumor: D6 Conference [Rumor: D6 Conference]

Zeo — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:16:23 GMT

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080524/windows-7-appearance-d6-conference/

:O

Quite a discussion going on over there.

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File Sharing Site Offers 250GB Storage Free [File Sharing Site Offers 250GB Storage Free]

Zeo — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:59:42 GMT

Link: http://www.filedropper.com/special.php

With mess, skydrive, and filedropper there's lots of free cloud based storage out there.

If this trend continues, and bandwidth improvesm in 4-5 years, I'm going to be storing all of my data in the cloud.

Anyone else know of better storage offers? :D

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Possibly the World's first Time Machine [Possibly the World's first Time Machine]

Zeo — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:05:21 GMT

Here are some quick facts:
- 20-year work-in-progress
- A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations
- 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground
- facilitating head-on collision of protons, traveling very near the speed-of-light
- each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it.
- temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core
- superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space

"We don’t even know what to expect," says French physicist Yves Schutz. "We’re now in a domain of energy that nobody has ever explored."

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/time-machine-worlds-biggest-particle.html

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Re: Anyone using TFS 2008 yet? [Anyone using TFS 2008 yet?]

Zeo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:02:48 GMT

I work with large companies on switching/upgrading to TFS 2008 from TFS 2005 and other solutions.

I've done some pretty complex migrations/upgrades.

If you run into any problems feel free to hit up my cell phone:
440-724-6721.

:D

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Max builds a 5.9 PC and.... [Max builds a 5.9 PC and....]

Zeo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:22:44 GMT

Max does a great job showing how to go about building a PC over on channel8.

He did a really great job editing the video and leaving in the really useful parts.

Take a look:
http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/2019/

:D

Now I want to go and build a machine like that.....if only I had the 4 grand.

Btw, congrats Trix and Lloyd! :|

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Sweet UI idea for 8,9,10 [Sweet UI idea for 8,9,10]

Zeo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:10:02 GMT

What do you guys think of this UI:
http://galilee.microsoft.fr/TechDays2008/SL/techdays-2008-silverlight.aspx

I think it's pretty sweet and I'd love to see something like that here on 9, what about you?
:D

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$7,500,000 in harm [$7,500,000 in harm]

Zeo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:19:37 GMT

The moral of this story is that “flexibility” is rarely desired in programming! The less a program will accept/the less a program will do/the less options and preferences it has, the more usable it is/the more understandable it is/the more stable it is.

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/

:O

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Melinda Gates goes public [Melinda Gates goes public]

Zeo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:29:21 GMT

Very very interesting.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/news/newsmakers/gates.fortune/index.htm

:D

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Bill Buxton : “getting the design right & the right design”. [Bill Buxton : “getting the design right & the right design”.]

Zeo — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:40:51 GMT

I know that many niner's have liked Bill Buxton's videos. Well here's another one from the Microsoft France group.

http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionfr/archive/2008/01/08/bill-buxton-getting-the-design-right-the-right-design.aspx

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Barney killed Dino, oh noes! [Barney killed Dino, oh noes!]

Zeo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:50:47 GMT

I can't stop laughing...this american life is great...

One day, when he’s backing out of his driveway, Barney accidentally runs over and kills a dinosaur that belongs to his neighbor and best friend, Fred. In the ensuing series of phone messages (performed by Jonathan [as Barney] and contributor David Rakoff [as Fred]), the two friends air some long-simmering grievances in their friendship—which might end it altogether.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=345

:O

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The Middle of Nowhere: Nauru [The Middle of Nowhere: Nauru]

Zeo — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:13:21 GMT

Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan and far from anywhere: yet at the center of several of the decade's biggest global events. Contributing editor Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci

Fascinating podcast :O

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=253

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While waiting for IE8 win $10,000 [While waiting for IE8 win $10,000]

Zeo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:32:10 GMT

I saw this on Long's site and it seems pretty cool.

Internet Explorer 7’s $250,000 sweepstake

I know many niner's don't like marketing people coming into the coffeehouse and making a random announcement.

I hope you won't mind a long time niner passing along some good info and I'd love to see a niner win the competition. Not really a competition....more of a sweepstakes I guess.

:D

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IE7Pro 1.2: Awesome! [IE7Pro 1.2: Awesome!]

Zeo — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:13:45 GMT

I was listening to Twit and I just downloaded and played with IE7Pro.

Check it out over here: http://www.ie7pro.com/

:D

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A chat on MSN with Santa! [A chat on MSN with Santa!]

Zeo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:35:20 GMT

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/ho_ho_ho_santas_back.html

My chat with Santa:

Joe says:
Hi, Santa!

Santa says:
This Microsoft Agent is powered by Windows Live Agents. Microsoft's Privacy Statement (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74170) applies to all information which you provide to this Microsoft Agent. Please be careful about information which you provide to online services and follow safety tips, some of which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/default.mspx.

Santa says:
Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas, Joe! I'm Santa Claus!

Tell me, are you a boy or a girl?

Joe says:
I'm a boy.

Santa sends:
Santa would like to share this background with you.

Accept(Alt+C) Decline(Alt+D)

You have successfully received a background from Santa

Santa says:
What do you want for Christmas, Joe?

Joe says:
Santa, last year I asked you for a Red Ryder BB gun.

Santa says:
Great, Joe! I'll see what I can do. What else would you like?

Joe says:
How about a Zune 80?

Santa says:
That sounds nice! I'll see what I can do, Joe.

Joe says:
Will your elves make it, Santa?

Santa says:
It's hard to say at this point, but we should have a better idea pretty soon, right?

Joe says:
I should hope so, Santa!

Santa says:
Ho ho ho?

Joe says:
Ho ho ho!

Santa says:
Merry Christmas to you!

Joe says:
And to you Santa!

Santa says:
What's happening, Joe?

Joe says:
Well, Santa, what do YOU want for Christmas?

Santa says:
Santa wants you to have a Merry Christmas!!!

Joe says:
What you want for Christmas is for me to have a Merry Christmas?

Santa says:
I don't know.

Joe says:
You don't know if you want me to have a Merry Christmas?

Santa says:
Why not? I won't cease to amaze me.

Joe says:
Santa, you're gonna bring me coal, right?

Santa says:
I used to leave a big lump of coal in the stockings of naughty girls and boys, but I don't anymore, because it's bad for the environment.

Joe says:
Global warming, huh?

Santa says:
Ho ho ho!

Joe says:
You're the best environmentalist Santa. Reindeer pull your sleigh.

Santa says:
I'll take it as a compliment.

Joe says:
You should, Santa.

Santa says:
What can I do for you, Joe?

Joe says:
Just have a Merry Christmas, Santa!

Santa says:
The holiday season—more like the Happy Season!

Joe says:
Are you checking your list, Santa?

Santa says:
Hmm... I don't know, Joe, what do you think? :)

Joe says:
So long, Santa. Merry Christmas!

Santa says:
And a very happy holiday to you!

From http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/ho_ho_ho_santas_back.html

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Today's C# quiz - does this compile? [Today's C# quiz - does this compile?]

Zeo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:59:35 GMT

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IEnumerable<Inter1> ienum1 = new Class1[] { new Class1() };
        foreach (Class2 c in ienum1)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(c);
        }
    }
}

public interface Inter1 { }
public class Class1 : Inter1 { }
public class Class2 { }

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/archive/2007/11/16/today-s-c-quiz-does-this-compile.aspx

:O

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