Archive for the ‘Microsoft Stuff’ Category
eWeek wrote an interesting article about 10 reasons why Google should still fear Microsoft.
The reasons are:
- It’s huge
- Google is a newbie
- The Yahoo deal matters
- Windows is still powerful
- Microsoft is improving
- Bing is pretty good
- Microsoft is settings its sights on Google
- The enterprise trusts Microsoft
- Microsoft knows the future is the cloud too
- Windows 7 is the X factor
Florin RAICU
Toshiba and the British company XMA launched a contest in the United Kingdom for college students. The contest is very funny. The prize is £3,500 , a Toshiba laptop and an internship at XMA
All you need to do is to answer in less than 100 words to a simple question: “Why are you the next Bill Gates?”
For more information about this contenst thenextbillgates.co.uk
Florin RAICU
Microsoft organized a short movie contest called: 72-hour Windows 7 film festival.
The biggest prize was $3.000; second place $2.000 and the next 6 movies received $500. Here you can see all the movies which got at least $500.
Grand prize: “7 Beat”  Â
First prize: “Untitled (Parkour)”
Second prize, Superhero: “W7 vs. Captain Virus”
Second prize, Free for All: “Journey to Wiggins”
Second prize, A Blast from the Past: “Bill and Paul’s Excellent Adventure”
Second prize, Reality TV: “Metropolitan Detail”
Second prize, Pets/Family: “IT Bud”
Second prize, Pop Culture: “Don’t Quote Me on This”
Honorable mention: “Installation”
This is why I’m starting not to like Microsoft anymore.
Hey, you are a serious company, not a joke.
Florin RAICU
More info here.
Florin RAICU
- ASP.NET 4 and Marcin Dobosz on New Markup from Old Controls - Marcin Dobosz
- ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2 with Eilon Lipton – Eilon Lipton
- ASP.NET 4 and Phil Haack (and son!)Â -Â Phil Haack
- ASP.NET 4 and David Fowler on LinqExtender – David Fowler
Florin RAICU
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced that they will continue to support IE6 until 2014. I know that many of us hate this browser but their reasons to support it seems to me OK.
According to IEBlog the user needs to make the final decision to upgrade:
“The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have. As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC.”
Florin RAICU
Cool news. I’ve just been enrolled on WebsiteSpark program.
What did I do to get enrolled?!….just filling a form.
What did I got from them?…Licenses for:
- Expression Studio 3
- Expression Web 2
- Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Web
- SQL Server 2008 Web
That’s a good way to increase the use of ASP.NET. Good thinking MS. Keep going like this 
If you like to see what Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 can do for you, for sure you want to watch this video. Scott Guthrie is making a very good presentation.
Florin RAICU
