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2009

Microsoft continue à se moquer de nous avec Windows Mobile 6.5

Gizmodo a testé Windows Mobile 6.5, ça ne donne vraiment pas envie. "handset manufacturers have done more in the last two years to improve Windows Mobile than Microsoft has, which borders on pathetic"

2008

Perl & PHP : plus rapide à installer sous Windows que sous GNU/Linux…

Et la marmotte vous allez me dire ? La marmotte en l’occurrence c’est Microsoft qui nous offre deux screencats censés démontrer la facilité de Windows et le gain de temps procuré comparé à une solution GNU/Linux

2007

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog : Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

Our aim for Search Server Express is to give you a free and powerful enterprise search product that’s incredibly easy for you to deploy.

NTLM HTTP Authentication is insecure by design

This write-up discusses a problem inherent to the situation of a connection-oriented authentication - authorization protocol (e.g. NTLM authentication) used with a proxy server that shares TCP connections among several clients

BizTalk Server Samples and BizTalk Forum

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We are a Biztalk Server Community site focused on providing free samples, labs, tools, and videos. Our goal is to help promote the use of Biztalk Server 2004, Biztalk Server 2006, and Windows Workflow.

APAC Hoster Evangelist : At last, Windows-optimized PHP 5.2.1 has been released!

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This release contains many fixes Zend has contributed to improve the performance of the PHP scripting engine on Windows as part of our collaboration effort to make PHP rock on Windows / IIS.

Walter Stiers - Academic Relations Team (BeLux) : March 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine now online

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The March 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. It contains a plethora of great resources, including articles on IIS7, certificates, WPF, WiX, profile providers, System.AddIns, streams, validation HTTP modules, scaling ASP.NET apps, BizTalk, Windows automation, Windows Workflow, asynchronous programming, Virtual Earth, and more.

Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye

If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won't go back either. The hardest part is paying for it -- everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny.

Vista EULA forbids virtualization - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

if you want to run Vista on Parallels, and want to keep within the terms of the EULA, you'll need to buy either the Business or Ultimate versions, whose EULAs allow for virtualized use

2006

SyncToy for Windows XP

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SyncToy is a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows XP that provides an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories.

Arbre de décision Microsoft InfoPath 2003 : comparaison des formulaires InfoPath avec d'autres solutions Microsoft

Cet article explique comment déterminer le produit ou la technologie Microsoft à utiliser pour créer des solutions clientes de gestion des informations. Il décrit le rôle joué par InfoPath 2003 de Microsoft Office en relation avec Microsoft Windows Forms et Web Forms ainsi qu'avec les documents dynamiques de Microsoft Office Word 2003 et de Microsoft Office Excel 2003

Windows Workflow Foundation Web: The Official Microsoft Windows Workflow Site

Windows Workflow Foundation is an extensible programming model and runtime components for building solutions on the Windows platform. As a platform component, Windows Workflow Foundation will be included with the WinFx runtime components 3.0. Windows Workflow Foundation will also be available as a downloadable component in the second half of 2006.

Introduction to Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Technology

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This series of articles on SharePoint is intended to help you understand the capabilities of the product, as well as provide tips and tricks, development ideas, information from Microsoft, information from the community, and perhaps some samples.

Implementing Rich Collaboration Infrastructure Using Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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Learn about the relationship and the differences between Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Use this information to decide whether to deploy Windows SharePoint Services alone or with SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

2005

WinFS Beta Released

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De quoi casser son Windows : "Microsoft has quietly released a beta version of WinFS, the file system originally slated to be part of Windows Vista, to MSDN subscribers. This beta release works on Windows XP and requires the .NET Framework version 2.0"

XAML

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Le XAML est le nouveau langage de description d'interface windows de Microsoft. Il sera introduit avec le lancement d'Avalon qui est la nouvelle couche graphique de Longhorn mais sera aussi déployable sur Windows XP et Windows 2003.

IE View - Launch pages in IE from Firefox

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The ieview plugin is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I use Firefox 99.99% of the time, but there are those moments -- particularly when testing new pages, or when viewing that rare IE-only page that's actually interesting -- when I need to see what things look like in IE.