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OK so it’s not MSDN, but TechNet gives you full versions of MS software, betas, bundled support incidents, a reference library, courses and other gubbins IT pros will love. It costs though. Well, it did. MS are now giving away a 3 month subscription for free to folks in the UK, Canada and the US. Yes, I’m as shocked that it’s a UK thing as you are. ArsTechnica has all the details. Technorati Tags: TechNet,Microsoft,Freebie
I’m at Microsoft doing a Proof of Concept with Geneva, building a custom STS for a Microsoft customer. I can’t talk about the POC but I can present you with yet another week’s worth of desserts… Eton Mess ...
So next week is my very first visit to Redmond (I can’t think why they’ve never let me on campus before *grin*). Aside from planning to ask "Where’s the documentation?" of the CardSpace team I had a request for supplies from an ex-pat. So, well, I have this ... Is it going to be enough? Technorati tags: Dairy Milk, Microsoft
Lime Syllabub Baileys Cheesecake Banoffee Pie Profiteroles Zabaglione So now that Phil Haack has announced his impending borg-ification we need to also worry about his waist line .... Technorati tags: microsoft, workplace canteen, phil haack
Getting a Microsoft hotfix hasn't been the easiest process; you need to ring support, quote the KB article number and sometimes justify your request. Now Product Support have joined the interweb and through a series of tubes have automated the application process on-line. It's not instant of course; and the hotfix file you receive is passworded, but hey it's a start. Technorati tags: Microsoft, Hotfix, Online
During the betas of Atlas Microsoft provided an update for the asp.net validators which allowed them to work in update panels, at release time these vanished much to the consternation of most people. ScottGu ("All hail ScottGu") promised a patch to ASP.NET would be forthcoming, and in the mean time Microsoft published source for sample validators. 6 months later, and still no sign of the patch on WindowsUpdate but it has appeared as a hotfix on Microsoft Connect (not that the Knowledge Base article linked to on the download page, or the extra KB article linked to in the readme inside the...
As any developer knows the platform they develop on has its problems. However when a representative of that platform promotes a narrow minded, badly focused viewpoint it doesn't help matters. "If you look at what you regard as the traditional professions — doctors, teachers, lawyers — their professional bodies can fire people, can investigate complaints, can impose penalties, and the ultimate sanction is to remove them from the profession, so you can't practice any more," Fishenden said. "It would be good, if we want to be respected as a profession, for there to be some method of ensuring the...