A recent news.com article talks of MS starting to charge for the download of the new Office 2007 Beta. According to the article the reason is that due to the high download rates, it is costing MS a lot of money in bandwidth. This I think is a very bad move. The whole idea of public beta is to have public at large test the software and so help...

The news of HP taking over Mercury is all over the web now. In an article in SDtimes, Alan Zeichick talks about how the press statement does not mention the testing and QA tools that made Mercury so famous in the first place. I agree and knowing that so many people use these tools am not sure how it is going to affect the software testing...

There are going to be a series of webcasts by my fellow MVPs on Vista based upcoming technologies. You can register for the sessions at Webcasts by Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). The schedule and topics are also available in the same page. This is a good way to take a peek into this upcoming technologies from your desk.

There are going to be a series of webcasts by my fellow MVPs on Vista based upcoming technologies. You can register for the sessions at Webcasts by Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). The schedule and topics are also available in the same page. This is a good way to take a peek into this upcoming technologies from your desk.

I just installed Vista Beta 2 now. Since I got back from the US, which had been on my list of TODOs, but the download always was having some problems. I just got the whole thing downloaded correctly the day before yesterday. So I spent yesterday installing it. As usual, one of the drivers did not work, that of my network card. Looks like any...

I just installed Vista Beta 2 now. Since I got back from the US, which had been on my list of TODOs, but the download always was having some problems. I just got the whole thing downloaded correctly the day before yesterday. So I spent yesterday installing it. As usual, one of the drivers did not work, that of my network card. Looks like any...

The Indian government just came up with a new idea for fighting terrorism. Ban the Blogs!!! If you are in India, there is a high chance that you will not be able to read this post, unless you are using a proxy. That is the special gift to you from the Indian government. There has been a big reaction from bloggers and extensive media coverage,...

The Indian government just came up with a new idea for fighting terrorism. Ban the Blogs!!! If you are in India, there is a high chance that you will not be able to read this post, unless you are using a proxy. That is the special gift to you from the Indian government. There has been a big reaction from bloggers and extensive media coverage,...

Another shot into the Virtualization areana. Looks like Microsoft is giving away VPC 2004 SP1 for free. You can download this at Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 page.

Another shot into the Virtualization areana. Looks like Microsoft is giving away VPC 2004 SP1 for free. You can download this at Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 page.

Microsoft has this wonderful ability of having multiple teams develop similar features, but completely without any interaction, or so it seems. The one that is bugging me now it the RSS syndication abilities. The new IE7, has the ability to read RSS/Atom feed and also act as a syndication system. When I talked to the IE team, they said that...

Microsoft has this wonderful ability of having multiple teams develop similar features, but completely without any interaction, or so it seems. The one that is bugging me now it the RSS syndication abilities. The new IE7, has the ability to read RSS/Atom feed and also act as a syndication system. When I talked to the IE team, they said that...

I use the services of BlogFlux for email subscriptions to this blog for quite some time now. They also have service called Mapstats that allow you to look at your visitors with geographical information. Ahmed had recently posted an analysis of the browser and other stats that they track with Mapstats for Blogs reader. You can see the actual...

I use the services of BlogFlux for email subscriptions to this blog for quite some time now. They also have service called Mapstats that allow you to look at your visitors with geographical information. Ahmed had recently posted an analysis of the browser and other stats that they track with Mapstats for Blogs reader. You can see the actual...

The next beta of Internet Explorer is here. What’s new?? Well, from the page looks like mostly newer UI related stuff and lot of bug fixes. Anyway, I am just updating my Beta 2 installation.  Published from Microsoft Word 2007 Beta 2