Bill Gates is stepping down from his day-to-day duties at Microsoft to focus more on his charitable work: http://www.microsoft.com/pr... Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates Working full time at Microsoft through June 2008, Gates then will continue as chairman and advisor while increasing ......

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Well, I've officially entered the Geeks with Blogs .Net game design contest. Why do I need to win this? Well, my last console video game was a Nintendo 64 Super Nintendo. Yes, really. Stop laughing. I can kick your butt in Donkey Kong Country. I think I even still have a framed Blockbuster Video game contest prize around here somewhere.... that'll impress ......

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I'll definitely be all over Jeff's announcement of a GWB game design contest. Prize is a XBox360!! Now I just need to decide what game to do... Classic arcade game?Remake of a popular flash game?Puzzle game? Take a dive into DirectX?Stick with Winforms? Any suggestions welcome ......

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You have got to go check out these documents just posted by Microsoft on their press release page. My favorite quote: "In short, the Statement of Objections claims Microsoft has failed to create Technical Documentation that the Commission did not read, and for which no competitor has sought a license, all to address a problem about which no customer has ever complained."

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They don't have a live video feed from Steve Jobs' keynote, but according to some sites reporting from inside the keynote, Apple just announce availability of Intel-based iMacs, shipping today. Also announced the new MacBook Pro, an Intel duo Core replacement for the Powerbook. Dual processor, 4-5x faster than its predecessors, and the “fastest ......

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Scott Kuhl has a post that talks about some of the problems associated with a blog “main page” like here at GeeksWithBlogs. There are other problems, though, when you subscribe to a main feed through an RSS reader. I subscribe to several Main Feeds, including blogs.msdn.com, weblogs.asp.net, and geekswithblogs.net.

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Your Microsoft license key is tied to the organization name that you enter when installing CRM. Good reasons for this, of course. This would normally mean that to install a development server without having to purchase a new license key, it needs to exist in an independent domain. (Because the CRM Organization Name is used to create the Active Directory OU.) ...

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Mark Pearce describes how to debug a .Net Windows service from Visual Studio: To do this, you need to emulate what the Service Control Manager (SCM) does when it starts your service — in other words, invoke your service’s OnStart method. In VB, this looks like: ...

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One of my favorite recent blogs is Jensen Harris' excellent blog on the Office 12 user experience. As a former (and still occasional) instructor, I am very interested to see how they've re-thought almost the entire user interface for the next version of Office. I wasn't fortunate enough to get picked for the Beta 1 for Office 12, however. (Actually, its worse than that. I didn't even bother to sign up because I thought the Beta 1 would be available to MSDN subscribers. Oops.) I was very in

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Hello World! I've been lurking around the blogosphere a little too long, and have a bad habit of posting long rambling discussions in other peoples' blogs. I guess I finally need a place to place my OWN rants and comments. I'll be making posts about...

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