Microsoft has been taking heat for the hardware requirements to run Vista with the Aero Glass UI and other goodies enabled. Mac OS X scales its UI to the hardware that it runs on, and with Quartz 2D Extreme, will do so even more. It’s not about needing a system upgrade to run your OS, but rather needing […]
This makes me happy: The code coverage support in Visual Studio Team Developer works with unmanaged code. Many cool toys in VSTD only work with managed code (which is understandable), but I still spend most of my days in an unmanaged world. The process in this article walks you through instrumenting and running an unmanaged […]
The Fire the Leadership Now article at Mini-Microsoft calls for accountability for Vista’s slip. I don’t know enough about internal Microsoft politics to know who’s really responsible for this sort of thing, but the Microsoft employees posting there probably do. I’m looking forward to Vista. Commenters in that article are quite hard on it, but really […]
Microsoft actually did something rather innovative with the search results from the search on live.com. Rather than the usual paged results, they give you a scroll bar that works like the zoom slider on their new keyboards – you drag it down and the list starts scrolling down, and keeps on scrolling, using AJAX techniques […]
I need a new MMORPG. It’s been a while since I stopped playing Guild Wars, EverQuest and World of Warcraft, and I want something new. I had a look at the Vanguard: Saga of Heroes site to see how they’re doing and there’s still not much to see, but I ran across an interesting tidbit […]
Here’s an indication that perhaps the XBox 360 didn’t see quite the quality assurance screening that it should have. While reading the serial number off the back of the unit (for ordering the Extended Warranty), I noticed that my XBox 360 has a typo on the case! Anyone else see this? I wonder how quickly […]
This is funny.. I’ve found a bug in Visual Studio 2005 that I want to report. There are lots of links to where I can pay for support, but I don’t want to pay to report a bug, I just want to submit it somewhere. Apparently reporting a bug isn’t a concept that Microsoft Support […]
Check this out. Hackers have figured out how to run Flash movies on the XBox 360. It’s not native code, but now the security of the XBox 360 depends on the security of the Flash player. Or does it? Will the hypervisor keep the 360 safe? Stay tuned…
I’ve seen a lot of answers to this question, but here’s the one that works. If you want to use a custom ringtone on the SMT5600 (or probably any Windows Mobile phone), you need to put the file in the Storage\Application Data\Sounds folder. Once you’ve done this it shows up in the list when you’re […]
I got MSN Remote Record set up so I can schedule TV recording now while I’m at work. It was an easy setup, and the web-based UI is better than I expected it to be. I’m used to Canada not being supported by Microsoft’s web applications, but this time they did accept my funny looking […]