On my notebook I have two primary partitions... one for XP and the other for vista... I switch boots by flipping which partition is active... From time to time, I have had to create partitions and redistribute free space to update to new betas... Sounds
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So my colleague Kevin Harder has the real dirt on why Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft. Turns out, that he was miffed that he was passed over for the Chief Architect position being left vacant due to Bill Gates announced plans to retire... Instead Microsoft
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So if you install the Yahoo Music Engine on your Vista Beta 2 x64 (5384); make sure you have your Vista install DVD handy... After the Yahoo installer finishes installing, and you reboot your computer... you will be looking at a "Windows Boot Manager"
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As far as I can tell, it is safe to install the aspnet framework 1.1 on a vista beta 2 machine... I havent tried VS2003 or using it to power a website in IIS7; but I had an app that wouldnt install without the 1.1 framework, I installed it, and my system
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With the new user security in vista, installing applications can be downright frustrating... All of those security popups and alerts and firewall warnings... but To make matters worse, sometimes the installs still dont seem to have enough permissions
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News of the day, Microsoft's Top Blogger, founder of Channel9.com, Robert Scoble is taking his leave... He is headed out to podcasting land, to work with a new start-up in California (PodTech.net)... I wish him luck... There is no denying the dramatic
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I have been dark for a while, hard at work for the last 6-8 weeks, working on a new site for the WinFX products... On friday with the Microsoft release of the new name for WinFX -> NetFx3... and the public release of CardSpace as the name for InfoCard,
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I am a Yahoo Music Subscriber; I was excited about the thought of getting all my same services through windows media player ll, using Microsoft's new music service URGE. Seeing that both of these services are powered my Music Net, I had expected the catalogs
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