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Speeding up Vista boots

I know it’s usually tacky to link blog, but this is too good to pass up. Phil Wheat posted a great tip yesterday on speeding up your boot time on Windows Vista. Here’s the post: Catching up on posts, and saw that Bryant Likes (over at my former Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:13 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows, Vista

Free Software for Students - Microsoft DreamSpark

Calling all students! Check out this video featuring Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as he discusses a new initiative called Microsoft DreamSpark targeted at offering Microsoft developer tools FREE to students: Bill Gates talks about Free Software, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:10 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows, Expression, .NET, XBOX, XNA, VS08, Community

Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007

For all the talk that I continue to hear about how Windows is not a safe operating system, I'm really glad to see independent groups such as ZDNet putting out studies such as this one: » Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007 | Zero Day Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:03 PM by Chris Koenig | 6 Comments

Filed under: Windows, Vista

Triple Launch 2008 - Mark your Calendars!

Here are the currently known dates for the Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Launch Events in South Central District: March 6 - Baton Rouge, LA March 20 - Houston, TX April 8 - Dallas, TX April 10 - San Antonio, TX This info Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 3:38 AM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows, Launch

Tablet PC Fun

Everyone always tells me how great the mac is for doing music. Here's a video of Hugh Sung, a concert pianist, using his Tablet PC for doing his music. Hugh Sung Website I'd like to see a mac do this :-) Read More...

Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 1:08 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Windows, Fun, UX

ALT.NET Conference 2007

Last weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the first ever ALT.NET conference , held in beautiful Austin, TX. Not only was it a great excuse to visit one of my favorite cities in the US, and see my Mom (who never thinks we bring the kids over Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:37 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Events, MVP, ASP.NET, Windows, Vista, Architecture, Ruby, .NET, TechFest, altnetconf

FarPoint’s Southern Fried Fall Tour

For those of you living in Louisiana or Alabama who really dig FarPoint, be sure to check out FarPoint's upcoming Southern Fried Fall Tour : Monday (10/15) in Huntsville, Alabama at the Huntsville New Technology Users Group Tuesday (10/16) in Birmingham, Read More...

Posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:47 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Windows, WPF, .NET

Houston TechFest and Houston BarCamp - This Weekend!!!

Looks like this weekend is going to be *very* busy for me :-) I'm presenting a 2-part session at Houston TechFest on Microsoft Expression Studio and Microsoft Silverlight, and then driving right over to the Houston BarCamp to present on Microsoft Silverlight. Read More...

Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 11:15 AM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows, Vista, Expression, Fun, WPF, Popfly, C#, .NET, UX, TechFest, BarCamp

Macworld: News: Apache losing ground says another survey

Technorati Tags: IIS , Windows , Server , ASP.NET A couple of interesting quote from an article in Macworld: “If the trend from previous surveys holds, IIS 7 should be the dominant web server for Fortune 1000 sites by 2011.” "Microsoft ASP.NET and ASP Read More...

Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 2:13 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: ASP.NET, Windows, .NET, IIS

Houston TechFest 2007

Michael Steinberg, John Ebeling and the rest of the HDNUG gang have put together a great program this year for the Houston TechFest . Brad Abrams , GM for the UI FX team at Microsoft (the folks that bring you Winforms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, and more) Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:53 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: User Groups, Events, Office, MVP, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Training, AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows, Vista, Fun, C#, WF, Internet Explorer, Mobile, WCF

WindowsClient.net

Hey all you WinForms and WPF fans out there - Microsoft just launched a new Web Site today at http://www.WindowsClient.net . This site is dedicated to the Smart Client programmer in all of us :) They've got some great aggregated news feeds, training/labs, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:29 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: Office, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows, Gadgets, Vista, WPF

Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 available for Download

Yesterday, Microsoft released a new, public beta of the next generation server operating system, code name "Longhorn". "Longhorn", besides being named after one of my favorite animals , represents some serious advancements to the Windows Server operating Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:49 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows