Probably in response to VMware’s Server, Microsoft announced Virtual PC to be free from now on. But….you still can only use it to virtualize Windows, not for Linux or Solaris, like VMware can.
Jul 142006
Jun 192006
Fully operational until June 2008, Bill Gates announced to leave Microsoft as of July 2008, and dedicate his time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read Microsoft’s official press release on this matter. Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie will be the new Microsoft leaders.
Personally I’m not sure if Microsoft will remain the Microsoft it is now. But then again, change would be a good thing.
Apr 292006
Looking at this MSDN page, I’m not sure what audience Microsoft is trying to reach? The “offer” is already ending tomorrow, so I think it was a big success: I only read about it today!
Apr 262006
Microsoft is adding their Office product line to the Genuine Software Initiative, to lower the number of illegal installations of Office, like the initiative also lowered the number of illegal Windows installations (*cough*). Will this be the final push for people to switch to OpenOffice.org?
Read Microsoft’s press release about the OGA.
Jan 252006
Microsoft has released Expression Interaction Designer (“Sparkle”) and Expression Graphic Designer (“Acrylic”) as CTPs. Both are based on Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF or “Avalon”) and the products are supposed to enter the market Macromedia (Adobe) Flash is in. Whether Sparkle and Acrylic will be Flash killers remains to be seen, but it sure makes the market a lot more interesting.
Nov 102005
Microsoft is giving away the Express 2005 editions of Visual Webdeveloper, Basic, C#, C++, J# and SQL Server 2005. For a year. That means: if you download and register one (or more) of these products before November 6, 2006, you don’t have to pay for them, and you can use them forever without paying a dime. You can find all the information on this page. Go to the manual downloads if you want ISO-images of installation CD’s, all other downloads are socalled websetups.
Nov 062005
Tom wrote about free courses for Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. Be quick, the offers is supposed to end at November 17.
Nov 012005
I just bought a datacable for my cellphone. It’s an USB-cable that converts the USB connection to a serial-connection (since the cellphone has a serial port). When you connect the cable, and the cellphone is “on”, you will have an extra com-port, that you can select in the software. Connecting the cord resulted in an extra com-port and removing the cord removed the extra com-port from the device-list. But the software did not detect the phone (please connect your phone first). USB is supposed to be plug&play, but as a last resort I restarted the PC, and to my surpise: the software recognised the cellphone. So the advice “I all fails, just reboot your machine” even works when connecting plug&play devices…
Oct 282005
The beta-experience is over, Microsoft has finished Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Both Visual Studio and SQL Server are available already to MSDN subscribers. The .NET Framework can be downloaded here.
I already signed up for the Vista and Office12 beta experiences.
Sep 212005
My first impressions of Opera:
– it’s fast, especially the back-button is lightningfast.
– tabbed-browsing: closing the last tab you opened will return you to the previous tab, and not (like Firefox) to the most right tab.
– tabbed-browsing: when a non-active tab has new content, the title changes color.
– no getting-used-to time needed. It just works like it should.
– compatibilty (certificates, etc.) is okay.
– not sure if I like the panel-bar
Update 23-09-2005: Opera does not work correctly with postbank.nl.