Tag: microsoft

Microsoft Forums, RSS

It is amazing how it might come that Microsoft Forums‘ RSS feed appears broken on Google Reader with duplicated entries for each of the items. Regardless of whose the bug is, it seems to me that it is the Microsoft’s one, both are sophisticated applications of a large scale while RSS thing is just nothing…

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Buggy Microsoft Forums

It seems that everything is buggy nowadays. Some things – more buggy, some are less. I did not expect Microsoft Forums website to be so… so… of so improper quality. Especially compared to variety of popular forum software, free phpbb, google news etc. MS WYSIWYG post editor can stand no criticism at all, it is…

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Windows Live ID is not alive

I have been trying to download MSDN Community Distribution CD March 2008 for a week or so, which requires registration to access the download. OK, I was trying to register pressing Continue button to be taken to “Registration Required for This Download”. I had Passport account some time ago which I tried to use to…

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Fresh goodies from Microsoft

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (ISO, x86fre and amd64fre) Windows Server 2008 Standard (ISO, x86fre and amd64fre) Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Visual Studio Express Editions Download the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition All-in-One DVD MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 MSDN Library for Visual…

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Google search specifics

I am curious if Google has a bias against Microsoft websites in search results. It was rather unexpected to see this site first in search for _CONVERSION_DONT_USE_THREAD_LOCALE with following results from connect.microsoft.com and blogs.msdn.com (at least as relevant as I think).