On June 30, 2006, security updates, incident support, and the custom support agreement will no longer be available for Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows ME customers. Existing support documents will continue to be available through the Microsoft Product Solution Center websites. Read More . . .

Ravikanth showing us the way XML injection might attack through SOAP.

Hehe, it looks as I was not the only one hading memory issues for the past days. WIndows Live Messenger was using around 1.1GB of my memory and I faced Virtual Memory lack two days ago. Strange...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates said on Friday beating software piracy in China and India and getting compliance up to U.S. and European levels would take 10 years.

Microsoft CRM 3.0 is available as a 90-day trial version in each language in which Microsoft CRM is available.

The primary focus of Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is improved security. In addition, the service pack includes roll-ups of all reported customer issues found after the release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. Of particular note, SP1 provides better support for consuming WSDL documents, Data Execution prevention and protection from security issues such as buffer overruns.

Skype on the go with Skype for Pocket PC. Make voice calls and chat for free, no matter where you are. It’s easy to use and available when you connect to WiFi or 3G. Read More . . .

You all might know about the VoIP Conference which is being held in USA from 24th-27th. You can find the conferences tracks here.

Guide for installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining Windows SharePoint Services.

Math Tablet for Smartphones is an advanced scientific application designed for scientists and engineers. The software is compatible with Math Tablet for PocketPCs and Windows XP. Read More . . .

The Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 Redistributable Package includes Windows Forms and ASP.NET Web server controls for viewing reports designed using Microsoft reporting technology.

If you have ever developed mobile applications, you know the importance of using emulators. Emulators allow you to test your application on different types of target platforms without needing to buy all these devices (which is not practical, as it is almost impossible to test your application on all makes and models). And so the emulator plays a very important part in the development cycle: How realistically can it emulate a real device? Are you able to drag and drop files onto the emulator? Can you install applications onto the emulator? Read More . . .

Within the next few weeks, Microsoft will be releasing beta 2 of Windows Vista . The actual ship date of Vista hasn't been announced, but Microsoft's new OS is likely to ship sometime this Fall. Read More . . .

Want to stay in touch with your Outlook contacts? Try GoodContacts!

The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects. This release of Enterprise Library includes six application blocks (Caching, Cryptography, Data Access, Exception Handling, Logging and Security), and provides similar functionality to the previous releases for the .NET Framework 1.1; however, Enterprise Library has been redesigned to use the new capabilities of the .NET Framework 2.0.

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 System Views Map shows the key system views included in SQL Server 2005, and the relationships between them.

So, for those who’ve been demanding that Microsoft offer a fully functional two-way firewall, your request has been granted. Read More . . .

Microsoft has been showing the next versions of its Visio and Project programs at two conferences in Seattle this week, and CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to attendees at a joint session Thursday morning. (See this story for more details.) Afterward, during a question-and-answer period, one person asked about the Gartner research firm's characterization of Microsoft Project as a challenger, rather than a leader, in the market for project and portfolio management software. Read More . . .

The "Microsoft .NET Server Innovation Cup" awarded Axinom Enterprise CMS has a successor: a multilingual, multisite capable Content Management System. Read More . . .

REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 18, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft® Customer Care Framework 2005, a software solution for contact center operators that delivers consolidated data from core business systems such as billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and order management to the customer service agent desktop. In this release, Microsoft adds features that enable contact center operators to more tightly integrate customer service channels, such as voice, instant messaging and e-mail, and develop better self-service solutions, simultaneously helping to reduce operating costs and improve customer service levels. Read More . . .

Preston Gralla from Windows DevCenter: "I've been using Internet Explorer 7 in the latest Vista beta for the last several weeks, and here's a shocker: It may be better then Firefox."

Pretty nice tool for analyzing viewstate. Via Scott.

I actually installed Fedora Core 4 some weeks ago for a trial system and got tired of it even installing it. Redhat was on the wrong way in my opinion since Redhat 7.0, Redhat 5.1 and 6.0 were just rocking but v7.0 was where I switched to Slackware. Nowadays, if you ask me for the recommendation I will go for Debian.
P.S: Fedora Core 5 Test 2 Released.

It looks as Google has enabled the XMPP Server-to-Service communications lastly. Now the community just will start growing more and more and this might help Google Talk growing up.

Obtain a reference to the TCP IPv4 or IPv6 driver object. This static library allows for a developer to obtain a reference to the TCP IPv4 or IPv6 driver object in kernel mode.

And I don't know what does politics does have to do with sports. BTW, CNN is voting for 'Should Iran be banned from soccer's 2006 World Cup over its nuclear activities?'. PLEASE VOTE 'NO'.

REDMOND giant Microsoft, and maker of entertainment gear Apple, are apparently working on a cunning plan to emulate Windows on the new MacInteltoshes. Read More . . .

The IIS Diagnostics Toolkit is a compiled set of tools aimed at reducing the overall time to resolve problems with Internet Information Services (IIS) products. Via Stefano.

Microsoft now releases ISO-9660 CD image files that contain all the security and critical updates that are released on the Microsoft Windows Update Web site for Windows and for other Microsoft products. The ISO image files are released at the same time as security and critical updates are released on the Windows Update Web site. Read More . . .

Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can’t boot Windows XP might be inaccurate, reports Dan Warne. Read More . . .

Jason Hartman on Tech Roundup giving out some details on what .MSP files are actually.

CLSMail v2.0 is all you need for SMTP/POP3 on .NET platform. I don't know about it's support of UTF-8 emails but if it would, I will change all my email components which am using on variety of servers to this one. Via Stefano.

Top 10 reaons Chris Pirillo giving out on why your next PC will be from Apple.

Regression is all about fitting some data with your desired polynomial degree. Greg Young and a C# code for Linear Regression.

Judi Sohn previewing FeedDemon 2.0 alpha.

Apple Computer Inc. won't thwart users from loading Microsoft's Windows operating system onto its new Intel-based Macintosh computers -- but don't expect Apple to start offering a Mac running Windows. Read More . . .

The conventional wisdom holds that Windows is a security sieve, while Linux is locked down tight. Then why does Linux have three times the number of security holes as Windows? A 2005 year-end vulnerability summary by US-CERT (United Stated Computer Emergency Readiness Team) concludes that Linux/Unix accounted for an eye-opening 2,328 vulnerabilities, about 45 percent of the total of 5,198 vulnerabilities for the year. Windows, by way of contrast, had only 812 vulnerabilities during the year, 16 percent of the total. Read More . . .

System Center Capacity Planner helps you deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 for the size of your enterprise. Read More . . .

Rich has posted an article by Dr Evil on how to make money in VoIP world.

Here you can see a picture demo of CRM Server 3.0.

Microsoft plans to market several versions of Vista but will distribute all of the OS bits with every product shipped so users can easily unlock and step up to more full-featured versions using electronic keys, sources said. Read More . . .

This new phone is a nice one from i-Mate including a 802.11g and also quad-band GSM powered by a 2 megapixel camera. Everything got together in a small size.

I think Scott is right on the fact that 2006 is the year of Video Chat as Voice Chat issues have been resolved existing awesome protocols.

Microsoft Corp.'s Linux and open-source lab on the Redmond campus has been running some interesting tests of late, one of which was looking at how well the latest Windows client software runs on legacy hardware in comparison to its Linux competitors. While this may seem strange, given Microsoft's desire to upgrade every possible customer to the latest version of Windows, often resulting in a forced hardware upgrade as well, that strategy is far more effective in the developed world than among developing nations, Bill Hilf, who is director of Platform Technology Strategy at Microsoft and runs the lab, told eWEEK in a recent interview.

BEIJING, Jan. 5 - Microsoft has shut the blog site of a well-known Chinese blogger who uses its MSN online service in China after he discussed a high-profile newspaper strike that broke out here one week ago. Read More . . .

Microsoft did the right thing by releasing the WMF exploit patch yesterday rather than waiting until Tuesday. Fast release, even outside the monthly patch cycle, is the right approach.
I second it!

Findout more on MSF for Agile software Development here.

NASA looks as they have reached broadband in space using laser. Read More . . .

I was always thinking what if we don't install Exchange Server for running Microsoft CRM Server 3.0. Now Ben Vollmer gives us an answer: Nothing Special!

Stefano and the future of Navision and .NET.

A get together of articles on how to read/write app.config.

Microsoft Corp. has hired Bill Buxton, a leading computer scientist and designer specializing in the human aspects of technology, to work with Microsoft Research and assist on various projects the company has ongoing in its research labs around the world. Read More . . .

A firm that holds patents for technology used in Internet voice calling is suing search giant Google for US$5 billion over its Google Talk instant-messaging client. Rates Technology (RTI), a small, New York company that holds patents to telecommunications technologies but does not sell products, filed suit in October against Google, claiming the company is using two technologies RTI has patented but has not licensed. Read More . . .

MICROSOFT Corp, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies, still plans to continue its dominance over the ever-changing information technology (IT) industry. And the plans will focus on innovation, partnerships and acquisitions. Read More . . .

Well... The only Fiber internet provider of Iran in UAE has been facing issues for the past 3 days and we will be having the issue for almost more 3 days. The connection sometimes drops to 1KBps.