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Microsoft trims MVP benefits, allows shareholders say on executives' pay

MVP PerksIt is too bad about losing some or almost all of the MVP award benefits. Many MVPs are quite upset over it, but we have to remember that MS can pull the plug on the entire program at any time. I'll miss shopping at the Company Store most. Hopefully,...

Tags: Benefits, Microsoft Corp., shareholder, MVP

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Debug Inspector 1.23 (Windows)

Debug Inspector is a Visual Studio Extension on Visual Studio Gallery, a stand alone Studio EXE for unmanaged deadlock detection, and soon to be a SharpDevelop IDE AddIn, that allows you to view the call stacks of multiple threads at the same time, plugs in to the internals of the...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Monitor, Microsoft Windows, CLR, MVP, .Net, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Monitors & Displays, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-11-01

The MVPs of Open Source

As the week ends, an important question.Who are the MVPs of open source?Are they the advocates? The maintainers? The stalwart community members? The CEOs of open source software companies? Or is it someone else entirely?I think it is. The MVP of open source, to me, is the person who can...

Tags: General, Development, Implementations, Strategy, Infrastructure, business models, MVP, open source

Blog posts 2007-01-12

Son of MSBlast on the way?

Son of MSBlast on the way?In a way this is goodEvery time one of these sweeps through another customer wants to talk about alterneatives to Winblows. In an odd way MS is Linux best advertising.Well, Ballmer, your game still isn't up...and neither is your software. :)Hey, No Ax, remember...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, MVP, Microsoft Corp., security, virus, S/W, Linux, Microsoft Windows, software, MSBlast worm

Discussion threads 2003-10-23

MVP 1.2 (Windows)

MVP enables consumers to play back and build their own digital music library. MVP supports playback of popular audio formats such as MP3, QDesign Music, WAV, and AIFF. It also plays back music videos produced in QuickTime and AVI. With MVP, users are able to record directly from CD to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, MP3, QDesign, MVP, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2000-12-05

MVP 1.2.37 (Mac)

MVP is the industryÂ's first cross platform for Mac OS and Windows all-in-one entertainment software application. Usethe MVP player for recording from CD to QDesign Music, mp3 and mp2 files, converting one file format to another,playback of digital music and videos, and playlist management and more.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Entertainment, Q Design, MVP, Advertising & Promotion, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-06-27

Additional Resources

Office 2010 Beta 2: More than just a bunch of pretty icons

Of course its better, they stole ideas fromOf course 2010 is better, they stole (oops, innovated) most of the new ideas from Office MVPs that built add ins to previous versions. (There is a very silent revolt going on in the MVP ranks over it and many long term...

Tags: Numbering, Microsoft Office, Office MVP, ribbon, Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)

RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Strengths and weaknesses

Nice articleIts nice to see a balanced article like this. I consider myself an OS agnostic user as I used Windows for years and tried a Linux Desktop OS like Ubuntu a few times and only recently (last 2 years) has Ubuntu taken over as my primary OS.One of the...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, default theme, task bar, Ubuntu, Linux, Microsoft Windows, software, hardware, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

SharePoint: The team that makes the donut(s)

No wonder they're successfulThey have a process, they watch actual humans use the product, and accept feedback.RE: SharePoint: The team that makes the donutsAs a long time SharePoint consultant my impression is that the SharePoint team is totally out of touch with enterprise customers. SharePoint 2010 is the same old...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, SharePoint 2010, team, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Microsoft starts selling PC hardware, third-party software via its online store

Wow, 90 days of technical support.Because nothing ever goes wrong with a computer after 90 days!Seriously, Microsoft. Get a better service plan.RE: Microsoft starts selling PC hardware, third-party software via its online storeThey have to be kidding. So who do you go to if something goes wrong with...

Tags: PC, online store, software, Microsoft Corp., hardware

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

SharePoint rolls on, gathers no MOSS

Next week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas is officially sold out, just another sign of the insatiable appetite for Microsoft’s still-imperfect suite. Cold calling sales reps at lesser companies will look on with envy as each attending prospect or customer shells out a list-price $1,199 for the pleasure of hearing a...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., MOSS, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Tim Walters

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Custom PC makers finally get Windows 7 preinstallation kit

Still lateOne of the Microsoft MVP's that speak for Microsoft said in the Windows 7 Preinstallation Forum that the OPK would be released by the end of the month. That was back in August.10 days is not enough time to prep images for preinstallation!This is one of a hundred...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Microsoft trims MVP benefits, allows shareholders say on executives' pay

Microsoft is trimming some of the benefits it is offering to participants in its Most Valuable Professional MVP program.It's also introducing a say-for-pay provision to its shareholders. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Shareholder, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-09-21

ReserveDV 0.8.0 (Mac)

iEPG Recording software build for GV-1394TV/M2 or M3 or GV-MVP/IDV (DV/TV Tuner Box from I-O DATA Corp.).

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, MyCometG3, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-05

The Essentials Series: Why You Need to Defragment

Authored by Microsoft MVP Greg Shields, this tech report is a call to arms for Windows administrators, reminding them why defragmenting is so important. Everyone wants better system performance and efficiency. Everyone wants a lower cost of ownership. This report details exactly how an administrator can get it fast....

Tags: Fragmentation, Diskeeper Corp.

White papers 2009-09-01

Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter

a few things missing from your listnice list, a little heavy on the zdnet side though (gee, color me surprised). but what the heck is that jr rafael/raphael dude doing on there? have you seen his police record?missing from your list: @eSarcasm geek humor gone wild. fyi, here's a better...

Tags: Twitter Inc., technology expert

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Will the 'real' Windows 7 testers please stand up?

Will the 'real' Windows 7 testers please stand up?Can you tell me how long I'll have to wait for the pudding? :-) I agree with you on waiting for the finial version to arrive. I tried both the 32 & 64 bit RC versions on a 3 yr AMD...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, beta tester, RTM, Windows 7 tester, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

RNA Networks launches RNAcache

RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...

Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-23