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CodeProject goes .NET
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5 Dec 2000
Developer News
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| The Code Project has finally been moved to a new home running .NET beta 1. |
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Find Kent and win a Prize!
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28 Nov 2000
Developer News
33 comments
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| While waiting for that project to compile, or the coffee to brew, or the next installment to "Redmond Again", why not try and find Kent? |
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Microsoft Q&A;
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16 Nov 2000
Developer News
14 comments
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| Some of the Microsoft team have agreed to some one-on-one question and answer sessions. Now is your chance to ask the real experts on .NET! |
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Happy Birthday CodeProject!
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15 Nov 2000
Developer News
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| A quick thank you to everyone who has helped out, contributed, praised, criticized, pointed out the broken bits, helped build the working bits, and just generally hung out and enjoyed being part of something fun. |
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CodeProject does Redmond. Again.
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12 Nov 2000
Developer News
32 comments
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I will be spending the week at Redmond talking to the .NET team. Got questions? Got gripes? Autograph requests? Let me know I'll do my best to scout out the info.
Note: Due to connection hassles, the newsletter will be delayed. |
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Microsoft hacked
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27 Oct 2000
Developer News
24 comments
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| Microsoft's servers have been hacked, exposing the possibility that source code to its products may have been tampered with or stolen. Microsoft claims no evidence of damage has been found. |
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CodeProject does Redmond - Part 6
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25 Oct 2000
Developer News
58 comments
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| I popped over to Redmond to meet with the Microsoft team last week and will be posting daily installments each noon (US EST). |
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.NET on Palm?
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19 Oct 2000
Source: PCWorld
Developer News
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| Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft may port .NET and other Microsoft applications to Palm devices. |
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What's new at CodeProject
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4 Oct 2000
Developer News
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| Just thought I'd write up a few lines on what's been going on behind the scenes at the Code Project |
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'Pick the Faces' winner
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28 Sep 2000
Developer News
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| We have our five 'Pick the Faces' winners! Still wondering who the faces are? Then click here to find out. |
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C# is cool
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13 Sep 2000
Source: The Register
Developer News
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| The Register have done a simple word search in the .NET SDK files and claimed to have found the link between C# and the mythical Cool. |
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Tutorial Drive Winner
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11 Sep 2000
Developer News
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| Daniel Kopitchinski is winner number one in our first Tutorial drive. |
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Interview with Matt Pietrek
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28 Aug 2000
Developer News
16 comments
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| Ever wanted to ask Matt Pietrek a curly question? Now's your chance! |
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Office 10 beta released
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14 Aug 2000
Source: IDG.net
Developer News
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| A technical beta of Office 10 has been released to testers. Office 10 will serve as a stepping stone to Office.NET |
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Microsoft PDC 2000 in brief
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14 Jul 2000
Developer News
94 comments
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| Microsoft PDC 2000 is over. Check out the wrap up of what's in store for .NET. |
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C# Announced!
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26 Jun 2000
Source: Microsoft
Developer News
148 comments
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| Microsoft have released an introduction to C#, including a brief overview of the technology, as well as a 265 page C# language reference. |
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Microsoft unveils the Next Generation Internet
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23 Jun 2000
Source: Microsoft
Developer News
11 comments
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| Microsoft has announced it's new .NET platform. Based on XML and SOAP, and in combination with new smart internet enabled devices, the Next Neneration Internet will take the web to a new level. |
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"Hyperlinks" a licenced technology?
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21 Jun 2000
Source: Wired
Developer News
31 comments
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| British Telecom claims a patent on the use of hyperlinks, and has decided royalty free use of its technology must end. |
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Windows Me Goes Gold
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20 Jun 2000
Source: Microsoft
Developer News
4 comments
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| Windows Me, that latest, and possibly last incarnation of the Windows 9x family has been released to manufacturing. The OS should be available to consumers by September 14. |
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Whistler COM+ 2.0 on its way
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19 Jun 2000
Source: Windows SuperSite
Developer News
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| With the upcoming release of Whistler, the replacement to Windows 2000, Microsoft will introduce COM+ 2.0. Included will be a host of improvements focusing on scalability, low memory and memory leak management, component services, component sharing, and public and private componenets - just to name a few. |
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Microsoft ordered to break up
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9 Jun 2000
Developer News
69 comments
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| In a ruling in which the judge describes Microsoft as "untrustworthy" and "not credible" Microsoft has been ordered to split its company into two. Of the two parts, one will be responsible for operating systems, and the other for all applications including Internet Explorer, MSN and Office. |
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The next version of Windows 2000 goes beta
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8 Jun 2000
Source: WinInfo
Developer News
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| Microsoft is preparing to ship its first beta of Whistler - the upcoming replacement for Windows 2000. Four flavors will be available: Whistler Personal, Whistler Professional, Whistler Server, and Whistler Advanced Server. The Personal version is aimed at the home/consumer market and will be a replacement for Windows 98, while the other three versions replace the Windows 2000 versions of the same name. |
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Your Favorite Reference Books
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8 Jun 2000
Developer News
31 comments
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| I get a lot of requests from readers about which books are best for learning MFC, ASP, ATL etc, but with hundreds of books coming out each year, and technology moving ahead in leaps and bounds, keeping up with what's best is hard. Which books have helped you the most? |
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Web Services and the SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0
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7 Jun 2000
Developer News
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| Web Services represent the next stage of distributed application programming. They allow application logic to be distributed and integrated over the web in loosely coupled systems. XML and SOAP are the keys to this evolution, and so to help us get started Microsoft have released the SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0. |
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Internet Explorer and Netscape built using MFC?
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6 Jun 2000
Developer News
14 comments
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| Some shameless and halfway unreliable gossip has been passed in from a stranger in a dark alley. Allegedly Microsoft has been advertising that Netscape was built with Visual C++/MFC - but it seems that so too was Internet Explorer, except that Microsoft has been mum on that point. I wonder where this leaves the 'future of MFC' debate... |
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The Future of WTL
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5 Jun 2000
Developer News
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| The Windows Template Library (WTL) is a Godsend for those wishing to write Win32 GUIs without MFC. Recent reports suggest that Microsoft's release of WTL was a mistake and that WTL will be removed from circulation. However, posts to the ATL mailing list suggest otherwise. |
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Windows ME Release Candidate 1 'Official'
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24 May 2000
Developer News
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| Rumors abound that Window ME Release Candidate 1 is in fact the current build 2525.6. Reports say that Microsoft confirmed these rumors to testers. Comments at BetaNews suggest the release date for Window ME could be June 16th. |
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New patches for Windows 2000 and Outlook
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16 May 2000
Developer News
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| Microsoft have released a beta version of the Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 to MSDN subscribers, and have also released a patch for Outlook after the ILOVEYOU virus hit hard. |
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IE Cookie Jar
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12 May 2000
Developer News
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| A security flaw has been discovered in Internet Explorer that allows a site to read your cookies from placed by other sites. |
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Visual Studio Next Generation
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2 May 2000
Developer News
49 comments
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| Microsoft's next generation of Visual Studio has been unveiled and promises to make Windows DNA development even simpler. |
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Windows 9x and 2000 to be merged in 'Whistler'
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1 May 2000
Developer News
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| Microsoft have announced that the Windows 9X and Windows 2000 code will be merged to create a single product with two flavours: business and consumer. |
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Microsoft launches new PocketPC site
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22 Apr 2000
Developer News
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Microsoft have launched their latest hand-held companion the Pocket PC, and with it a new site that promises everything for the total Pocket PC experience.
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Backdoor in Microsoft's Web Server?
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14 Apr 2000
Developer News
5 comments
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| There were reports that Microsoft's IIS webserver contained a backdoor that used the password "Netscape engineers are weenies!". Microsoft have released two security bulletins in quick succession stating that there is no backdoor, but there is a potential problem with the dvwssr.dll library. |
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Microsoft to lose rights to Internet Explorer?
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11 Apr 2000
Developer News
16 comments
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| Evidently the US government is considering forcing Microsoft to grant royalty-free licenses to Internet Explorer, thus opening the programming code to customers and computer makers. |
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Active Directory bug in Windows 2000
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8 Apr 2000
Developer News
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| A bug has been found in Windows 2000 that means if a server attempts to host more than 51 IP addresses then Active Directory misplaces its directory objects. |
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Microsoft to go Open Source!
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1 Apr 2000
Developer News
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| Microsoft has announced that due to a combination of factors including a ruling by the DOJ, and the recent leak of the Windows 2001 ("Whistler") software, the next version of Windows will be an Open Source project. |
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Key executives leave CE group prior to Pocket PC launch
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24 Mar 2000
Developer News
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| Only weeks before the launch of the Pocket PC, several key executives, including Horel Kodesh, vice president of the appliance group, have left to join other divisions within Microsoft. Is this simply because these guys have done their job and are ready to move on to other things, or is it a reflection of internal unease within the CE group? |
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Windows 2001 out already?
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21 Mar 2000
Developer News
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| It seems a beta version of Micorsoft's next version of Windows, codenamed Whistler has been leaked and has spread through the net via and Internet. |
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Windows CE to go Open Source?
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16 Mar 2000
Developer News
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| Reports have it that MS is considering giving opening up its CE source to base developers for free, with an announcement possible as soon as April. |
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Win2000 and IE 5.0 problem
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15 Mar 2000
Developer News
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| Adding IE 5.0 with 128 bit encryption to a Windows 2000 system can cause lockouts. This is only an issue if you replace the standard IE 5.01 (bundled with Win2000) with IE 5.0 and the 128-bit encryption component (Ie5dom.exe). |
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Microsoft admits to bugs in Windows 95/98
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14 Mar 2000
Developer News
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| Microsoft has admitted that it has known for months about a problem in Windows 95 and 98 that causes system crashes, but decided the problem wasn't serious enough to warrant a fix. |
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Windows Millenium Edition delayed?
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10 Mar 2000
Developer News
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| Recent beta testing of Microsoft's consumer version of its Windows operating system is reported to be so buggy that there are concerns it won't make it on the shelves by its scheduled third quarter delivery date. |
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Microsoft Office 10 due out this year
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2 Mar 2000
Developer News
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| 'Office 10' is expected to go beta around June this year, and is expected on the shelves by the end of the year. |
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Is Microsoft working on Office for Linux?
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24 Feb 2000
Developer News
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| On Thursday at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover, the executive vice president of LinuxCare was quoted as saying that he heard there are 34 developers working at Microsoft to develop a version of Office for Linux. Microsoft have denied the rumor. |
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The future of Visual C++
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23 Feb 2000
Developer News
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| Sent in by an anonymous reader: "Early last year, Mike Blaszczak, Christian Beaumont, and Jim Springfield all left the Visual C++ group. Mike of course was the face of MFC, Christian and Jim were the ATL guys...it seems to me that Microsoft really has lost interest in VC++ enhancements, and moved their 'best and brightest' onto new projects." |
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Windows 2000 SP1 already out
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22 Feb 2000
Developer News
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| A day after Windows 2000 was released the first "Compatibility update" was released. This update fixes compatibility problems with some popular titles including Microsoft's own Frontpage, Tomb Raider III and Star Wars Episode 1, to name a few. |
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Windows 'Me' Next up
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18 Feb 2000
Developer News
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| With the release of Windows 2000 out of the way, Microsoft is now turning its attention to the next version of its consumer operating system, dubbed Windows Millenium Edition. |
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Windows 2000 Released
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18 Feb 2000
Developer News
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| Windows 2000, the most beta tested, the most anticipated, and in some peoples minds, the most delayed product of the past decade is finally here. We'd like to here from anyone who's managed to make it down to San Francisco for the launch - it looks huge! |
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63,000 bugs in Windows 2000
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17 Feb 2000
Developer News
6 comments
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| It has been reported that an internal Microsoft memo states there are 63,000 potential problems to be addressed in the final release of Windows 2000. |
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Visual Studio 7.0 delayed until next year
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15 Feb 2000
Developer News
20 comments
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| Microsoft will not release a new version of Visual Studio until at least next year in order to build in support for Windows DNA - but we get SOAP next month. |
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