VS.NET
The next major releases of VS.NET are code named
1.Whidbey which will ship with Yukon
2.Orcas
The new VS.NET will take advantage of Longhorn technologies
GO .NET !!!

Salary survey
http://visualbasic.ittoolbox.com/research/2003ITSalarySurvey.asp?i=20

IIS Data Compression
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/qos_utilbandwdth.asp?frame=true

IIS
Port80 conducted another survey this month and again concluded that IIS dominates the Fortune 1000 market. The new survey's results indicate that IIS has 53.7 percent of the market share. The next closest competitors are Netscape and Apache Web servers, with 18.6 percent and 16 percent of the market, respectively. Netscape continues to decline as a Web server choice for Fortune 1000 companies, losing 2.4 percent in the July survey. The survey data also indicates a general shift from Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 running on Windows NT 4.0 systems to Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS) running on Windows 2000. IIS 6.0

Fact from MS from annual financial analysts meeting
- Microsoft is increasing its research and development funding in fiscal year 2004 by 8 percent.
- Microsoft has shipped 130 million Windows XP licenses; 70 percent are XP Professional Edition.
- PC sales grew 3 percent in the past year, but Microsoft's client business grew 11 percent; overall, Microsoft grew 13 percent year-over-year, thanks largely to Licensing 6.0 and users migrating to XP Pro.
- Microsoft said 350 million PCs still run Windows NT or Windows 9x.
- Windows and Linux are the only server platforms that will grow market share over the next year. Currently, Windows Server owns 53.1 percent of the server market, compared with 16.7 percent for Linux. Next year, the mix will be roughly 53.7 percent to 19.2 percent in Windows' favor. Windows Server sales grew 7.7 percent in fiscal year 2003, compared with 19.2 percent for Linux.
- Today, 37 percent of developers use Microsoft .NET, compared with 34 percent for Java (a year ago the ratio was 25:30). More than 2.5 million developers use .NET technologies.
- Microsoft has sold more than 150 million Microsoft Exchange Server seats worldwide.
- 25 million unique users visit Microsoft Office Online each month. Microsoft has shipped 9.4 million Xboxes; each customer buys an average of 5 software titles for the device, and Xbox Live has more than 500,000 paid subscribers.Microsoft Office System products that aren't part of the core Office suite earn the company more than $1 billion each year. Microsoft Project alone generated $500 million in revenue in the past year. - Microsoft applied for 1500 patents in fiscal year 2003.
- Almost half of the email that goes through Hotmail's servers or 2.4 billion messages every day--is spam; in 2001, it was only 8 percent.
- MSN Messenger is the largest free Instant Messaging (IM) service on the planet, and more than 9 million people are using the service concurrently at any given time.

AOL
AOL looses 1 million subscribers ...Not to another ISP but because of faulty count of users.AOL has 25.4 million subscribers in the United States, down from a high of 26.7 million users in late 2002.

O/S wars
CERT Coordination Center's (CERT/CC's) 2002 OS advisories, Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Red Hat Linux both garnered 12 advisories, whereas Microsoft received 5 across all Windows versions. Linux vulnerabilities were growing 21 percent faster than those from Microsoft, with the open-source solution suffering 485 vulnerabilities in 2002 compared with 202 for Microsoft.

Microsoft
Microsoft's $53.5 billion in bonds, cash, and stock investments has
performed pretty well for the company, according to chief financial
officer (CFO) John Connors. In the last fiscal year, Microsoft's
investments earned 7.5 percent, and the company now has $49 billion in
cash and short-term investments. Not too shabby.

Longhorn
CEO Steve Ballmer's comments . "There needs to be periodic big
bangs," he said. "That's how we think about Longhorn."

MS news
In its first 90 days of availability, Windows Server 2003 has
outsold Windows 2000 three to one compared with Win2K's first 90 days

MS + AOL
After settling to use IE on AOL. now AOL plans to use MS products Interactive Program Guide (IPG) and Microsoft TV Foundation
Edition software for cable set-top boxes.
One day AOL is gonna regret this ;)

MS Shopping List
List of companies that MS bought over the years

Intel
Intel turns 35 this week ... powering 98% of all desktops

XPE
http://www.embedded-forecast.com
States that Embedded system manufacturers on average take 76 percent longer and spend over 300 percent more to develop and bring to market embedded systems using Embedded Linux as compared to Microsoft Windows Embedded.

SQL Server
Yukon Hits General Beta ... great now u can write sprocs in any .NET lang

Linux to power Munichs windows application
This is a screwed up case ....
Gartner has released a report where in there are details that all the 14,000 Linux PCs will be used to run VMWare to run windows application

MS
The company reported revenues of $7.25 billion, an 11 percent gain year over year.

RIP Netscape
Finally...finally Netscape is netscrape.. AOL retires NS.
Guess the mozilla guys arent too happy about that .. AOL to donate 2M towards mozilla
But the war is already won in the MS stables.
Great now i dont have to make cross browser application :^)

Ur Name
Find out the meaning of ur name here

People
People who influenced the future of computing

Women
For the uninitiated how to detect a woman ;)

Codenames
How the windows products got its code names :)

SQL Server Application Roles
Read more here

Microsoft System Architecture 2.0
MSA 2.0 just released read more here

010101010
Incas wrote in binary language !!! read it

My blog feed http://feeds.blogstreet.com/12667.rss

Remoting
Good remoting article here
Good article using remoting and com+ here

No Touch Deployment
Didnt realize that i was totally out of touch with winform development till i read this

found what my name means here

This is what can happen if u try to download the internet

waybackmachine
Check out how sites looked years back via this waybackmachine

waybackmachine

Googlemania
in google.com type "weapons of mass destruction" with the quotes and click "Am i feeling lucky" button

ADO.NET
Good article on in memory data manuplation (like using INNER JOIN on DataSet)

Software lives at the boundary between objective and subjective reality
- Don Box

Data Access using .net
Good article (PDF) here

Getting out is defanitely more difficult than getting in ... i know now ... 3rd day of anguish & torment

.NET Data Access Architecture Guide
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/daag.asp

Word Spy
didnt know what paraskevidekatriaphobia meant till i got to this site
Nice place to learn some new phrases

SCO Shares Linux Code
more here