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January 2006 - Posts

Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:58 PM

The Magic 8-Ball and the Orange Dot

When I was beta testing Office 2003, one thing that I learned was about unfinished artwork. Icons, in particular, were not finalized in early builds, such as Beta 1. However, the toolbar buttons and the like existed. They just didn't have artwork ready
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Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:14 PM

MSN Search adds some more "intelligence"

I use Google for my day-to-day searches, basically by habit at this point. I will occasionally use MSN Search, but often find that I get the answer I want faster from Google, although over time, MSN Search does seem to be getting better. That said, some
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:14 PM

Multi-threaded calculation in Excel

I'm a bit behind on the Office 12 front in some places, so it's only now that I found a reference to a blog entry about the new multi-threaded calculation (MTC) engine in Excel 12. Basically, the Excel engine has been updated to understand about how to
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:32 AM

BlackBerry and GoodLink users are about to have a bad day

From the Exchange Team blog : Very soon some of you may run into a problem after applying one of these recent Exchange 2003 Store.exe hotfixes where your BlackBerry or GoodLink servers will be unable to send messages. In fact, any application that uses
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:16 AM

Updated Virtual Machine Additions for W2003 SP1 (VS2005)

Microsoft has released new Virtual Machine Additions for Virtual Server 2005 running Windows Server 2003 SP1. They are not needed for R2, and will be available at some future time for Virtual PC 2004.
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:28 AM

Microsoft extends Home product support, but adds time to SP3

Earlier this month, Microsoft extended support for their home products in a quiet way. Basically, home products normally get five years of mainstream support, then that's it, while business products get five years of mainstream support, then five years
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Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:11 AM

Microsoft updates the Enterprise Library for .NET, finally

From a mention at ArsTechnica, I'm happy to report that Microsoft has released the updated Enterprise Library for .NET, updated for 2.0. It can be downloaded from Microsoft 's web site, after a brief registration.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:25 PM

When Google Maps is confused and Live Local isn't

I will start this entry by saying that before Windows Live Local, I was very impressed with Google Maps. I actually used it more than once to get directions, aerial shots, etc. However, tonight, my default changed permanently. I tried to do what I thought
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