Monthly Archives: November 2007

Microsoft’s Online Environment

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft shared some interesting statistics about the environment for Microsoft.com and their internal corporate network. Online 130K Servers 435 Million Unique Users 280 Billion PAge Views 12 Billion E-mails Daily 6 B IM’s Daily Users/Site 140K End Users 550 Buildings … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2008 to RTM By End of November 2007

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s S. "Soma" Somasegar announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will release to manufacturing (RTM) by the end of November 2007, at a keynote address at TechEd 2007 Europe. This makes it the first of the "holy … Continue reading →

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Italian Semovente M41 75/18

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Here is a series of photos of an Italian Semovente M41 75/18 self-propelled gun that looks like it was recently restored by Oto Melara. This was a pretty successful vehicle that was mainly used in North Africa in 1942. I … Continue reading →

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NewsGator Jumps on the OpenSocial Bandwagon

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Glenn Berry

NewsGator announced today that we will be part of Google’s Open Social platform, with our Didja Hear!? application. There has already been good coverage of the announcement on Mashable, GigaOM, and Between the Lines. We also got some love from … Continue reading →

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What Happens When a SQL Server 2005 Express Database goes over 4GB?

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Glenn Berry

As you may know, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (which is free), has a database size limit of 4GB. It also has a limit of 1GB of addressable RAM, and it will only use one CPU (although it can be … Continue reading →

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“Hidden” Vista Fix From Microsoft

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has an update that is titled: "An update is available that improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista" I have actually installed this update on a couple of different Vista boxes with good results. I just wish … Continue reading →

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