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<sigh> I wish American Idol would let you vote to boot people instead of keep them. Then Sanjaya would have been sent home a while ago. That's why 13 year olds shouldn't have cell phones. But I digress. Anyway, here's what's been going on with Microsoft in the last 48 hours... Second Life has traced...

Microsoft went on the offensive today regarding the recent Vista pirating efforts coming out of China and other countries. The WGA blog posted a brief comment , while the PR department issued a wide-ranging press release . With the exception of products purchased by customers under volume license agreements...

UPDATE: Jim has responded to the hubub himself . Hey Jim, isn't having a blog great? Mary Jo is dead on the money about the reports regarding Jim's antivirus claim in Wednesday's phone conference. Scott's article was completely irresponsible , and he should have done more investigative work before posting...

Secunia continues to prove that it's more interested in staying in the news than it is in making sure the world's browsers are secure. Because what's the point in trusting them as a security company if they helped fix the vulnerability before RTM and no one ever knew about it, right? No,...

After a wonderful morning of deleting a flood of crap posts from spamming bastards, I'm turning off comments for my blog here. I'm sick of it. Until it becomes legal to hunt and destroy these people, they're gonna stay off. If you feel the need to contact me, do so with the Contacts link over on the...

DevSource is running a story about the new Longhorn Driver Model . It looks like it's going to have some really awesome stuff, like boilerplate code libraries, and a split kernel/user mode. Oh, and driver isolation... that's kinda nice... :) I've never written a driver before, and probably never will...

Note: I thought I’d start a new little gimmick on my blog here - I’ve got a bunch of feature requests that I’d like the developers at Microsoft to take a look at, and I’m sure a lot of the other bloggers and visitors to this site do as well. I gave up on trying to think of a catchy...

Well, I'm at the PDC, of course, but that's not really the point. The point is that a new feature of the Longhorn OS could have told me that. Walking around the convention center, I've seen numerous demonstrations of a new service that will ship as part of Longhorn - the Location Awareness service (or...

Dylan Greene is asking for OS-level sandboxing of applications in Longhorn on his weblog. Not a bad idea at all. As one of the comments on Dylan's blog states, a lot of this sort of thing is already a part of the .NET Framework, but only applications using the framework can use it. It would be nice to...