16th May '08Today's Top Blog Posts on Microsoft
1. Microsoft exec Raikes named Gates Foundation CEO
Bill Gates, preparing to shift to full-time philanthropy at the end of June, has chosen one of his longtime Microsoft lieutenants as the chief executive of his foundation. Jeff Raikes, the retiring Microsoft Business…
Covered By: blogs.zdnet.com
2. Are you a Test-Driven-Developer?
bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by geraintj to tdd - more about this bookmark…
3. You know you have been working from home too long when…
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…this sounds reasonable. Seriously, what kind of donuts?Tip: Seth (who is still wrong about resumes. I'll get over it)
4. Yay! Retailers catering to freaks like me!
Woohoo! I am not the only nut case out there that will not touch stuff in public bathrooms. Airport bathrooms are the worst. In any situation where a potentially snot (or worse) covered fixture needs to be touched, I…
5. C#
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6. Microsoft Excel : PivotTables: Calculated Items
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Today’s author: David Gainer, a Program Manager on the Excel team. PivotTables are designed to help users make sense of large amounts of data by providing an easy way to build a summarized report. In addition,…
Covered By: joiningdots.net
7. Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16
Systems administrators: Mark your calendars. Microsoft is going to start pushing the first service packs for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 next month.In December, when Microsoft rolled out Service Pack (SP) 1 for the…
Covered By: winbeta.org
8. Gamerscore Blog : Ninja + Dark Fiend Armor = Way Cooler Ninja
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Inspired by the Hayabusa family’s namesake, the falcon, this demonic costume mirrors the intensity of Ryu’s vengeance and fury as he fights to regain the honor of his clan. Starting in July 2008, Xbox Live members…
Covered By: joystiq.com
9. Microsoft continues to treat VB as a 2nd class citizen
It's bad enough when the Windows Live team continually releases their SDKs omitting VB, but when XNA 3.0 CTP is released and STILL NO VB support, it's getting beyond a joke. XNA 3 is for Visual Studio 2008 and…
10. Compromised file in Vietnamese Language Pack for Firefox 2 - Donna's SecurityFlash
Everyone who downloaded the most recent Vietnamese language pack since February 18, 2008 got an infected copy. While we cannot determine the exact number of compromised downloads, there have been 16,667 total downloads…
Covered By: blog.mozilla.com
11. Want to hear the best content from the Microsoft Management Summit 2008?
The Windows Management User Group are meeting up on Tuesday 13th May at Microsofts office in Reading from 18:30 onwards. Its free to attend. Two of the leaders to MMS and will share their highlights with you. Full…
12. Microsoft hiring Ninjas
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I was chatting with my pal Viral today and he pointed out an employee at Microsoft who had the title “Zune Ninja” stored in Active Directory. What a cool title I thought - I wonder if I can change my title to become &
13. Borland and Delphi Officially Dead
Some of you may not have heard, but yesterday May 7 2008, Borland officially sold off their developer tools division. This includes all their past technologies like Tubro Pascal, Turbo Assembler, Delphi, JBuilder,…
14. Gamerscore Blog : Grand Theft Auto IV Statistics
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The Gamerscore Blog would like to congratulate Rockstar on the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV. GTA sold over 6 million units, and broke the entertainment record with over $500 million in sales. I got some data from…
Covered By: kotaku.com, xbox360fanboy.com, joystiq.com, destructoid.com
15. Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition — from Sun | All about Microsoft
| ZDNet.com
At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft,…
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