Laxminarayanan Sampath's blog: Microsoft

Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts

Immortal documents

We all use various storage devices for information storage & retrieval; albeit knowing their limited life time. Now Microsoft goes one step further in storing documents for posterity. As per the research patent filed, the R&D promises to store vital data for longer periods of time perhaps even generation next. For more details, see here http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300636_msftimmortal22.html

USB drive and Vista performance

There has been talks on how much memory is optimum for Vista to run
properly on a system and the most likely reply has been 512 MB. Now in
case you don't have this memory size or bit lazy or fear to upgrade the
memory, here is the great news.

Vista has a technique called SuperFetch which uses your USB drive as a secondary memory to boost the performance.

Sure you have questions like what happens in case I unplug the USB
halfway, what is the security of data in the flashdrive and so on.
Click the URL below to find the solutions.

Windows Vista Team Blog : Windows ReadyBoost

Testing ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer

so u wanted to know how those MS people test their software before shipping?
here is a simple yet nice article to peek into
Testing ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer

Windows Products and Technologies History: Windows Desktop Products History

Ever wanted to know how the grandpa'pa'pa's of windows xp looked like?
Windows Products and Technologies History: Windows Desktop Products History

Is this the REAL challenge to Microsoft desktop market?

Is this the REAL challenge for all those Win ** desktop? Are we seeing the beginning of intrusion?

Evolution of Programming languages

Nice posted on programming languages

Yet Another reason why I LOVE google

Today I was searching for an article to describe usage of UML with .Net,. all searches pointed to Sridhar's article on msdn but msdn didn't have it :((
Google came in to help, just used cached copy link to view the article.
Just another reason why I (read ALL) luv google

Btw, here is the article
Generating .NET Code Using Visio Enterprise Architect's UML

Language wars

Seems the C# and VB.NET war is never gonna end.
Or is it MS wanted to be this way? ;)
A well-deserved smack back to some C# zealotry

Why does Add/Remove Programs take long time to display?

Ever wondered why the "Add/Remove programs" dialog took so much time to display?
Here's an explanation, rather good guess
How does Add/Remove Programs get the size and other information?

ABout Monad in Longhorn

Hmm something about Monad in longhorn- been hearing this for past somte time now
need to look at it closer later
Monad

What are these directories called 0409 and 1033 in MS intallations?

Ever wondered why MSDN or Vstudio has 1033 folder, and not any other number?
Well here is the answer.
What are these directories called 0409 and 1033?

What to expect in longhorn

What to expect in longhorn and Yukon
Windows Server System Magazine - File Systems Get a Makeover With WinFS