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In this commentary, I examine the iPhone's evolution into a true smartphone! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Which means that a bunch of inventive people have found ways to get the mp4 file *snicker* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In this exhaustive overview of Apple's iPhone 2.0 Software Update announcement, I explain how the company is making the iPhone an indispensible tool for all Windows users! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I think it would be great if you could configure the input method per application. Some apps work better with the onscreen keyboard, others work better with the block recogniser, and OneNote works really well with this handwriting recognition thing that I've installed. Now if the right input thingy would pop up as you changed applications .... Thanks for listening. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all, I am trying to make certain changes to the registry under the HKLM\Comm directory and according to Microsoft these are considered "protected from normal applications" (see below). However, under WM6 Professional, I have no problem making the changes I need to.* Its only on Smartphone WM6 Standard (considered two-tier protected?) that I can't.* I am using the Microsoft remote tools - Remote Registry Editor.* After trying to connect it says, "A connection could not be made because the device actively refused it" or something to that effect.* Any ideas?* Is the only way to get a certificate from the OEM? Thanks in advance Nick From the page titled, Privileged APIs: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa455835.aspx In Windows CE, the following registry root keys and their subkeys are protected from normal applications: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Init HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\WDMDrivers More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Yeah it's coming...it's even above .Mac More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Flash Player not suited for iPhone says Apple CEO wow, after this news article... The Trouble with Steve Jobs Though, I like what Techcrunch had to say about all this... "Of course, as Duncan speculates, this provides an opportunity forMicrosoft to swoop in and enable the iPhone with Silverlight. But isthat even imaginable?" More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vista SP1: Still lagging behind the Linux desktop eWeek, NY - 6 hours ago Like the HP Pavilion, it started life as a Windows Media Center PC. Now, I did not expect either system to be great with Vista. Neither one has the horses ... High time for Intel to get serious about graphics ZDNet Asia all 15 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vista SP1: Still lagging behind the Linux desktop eWeek, NY - 30 minutes ago Like the HP Pavilion, it started life as a Windows Media Center PC. Now, I did not expect either system to be great with Vista. Neither one has the horses ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Apple plans to make it easier to add programs to iPhones Detroit Free Press, United States - 4 hours ago On Vista, the latest and much-criticized version of the Windows operating system. Microsoft announced just before the weekend that its home and ultimate ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Apple plans to make it easier to add programs to iPhones Detroit Free Press, United States - 19 minutes ago On Vista, the latest and much-criticized version of the Windows operating system. Microsoft announced just before the weekend that its home and ultimate ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

MIKE WENDLAND Apple to open the iPhone for more programs Detroit Free Press, United States - 1 hour ago On Vista, the latest and much-criticized version of the Windows operating system. Microsoft announced just before the weekend that its home and ultimate ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

MIKE WENDLAND Apple to open the iPhone for more programs Detroit Free Press, United States - 19 minutes ago On Vista, the latest and much-criticized version of the Windows operating system. Microsoft announced just before the weekend that its home and ultimate ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Last November, I wrote a C program that can find large prime numbers (using the Lucas Lehmer test for mersenne prime numbers). Today, I installed Ubuntu 6.10 LTS in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and proceeded to install gcc, m4, autoconf and gmp. I also installed all of the patches available for Ubuntu and upgraded the kernel to the i686 version. I downloaded the source code for my program from my university's unix server using sch and compiled my program using GCC. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my program executed in a Virtual PC far faster than it executes on Windows. Here are some numbers: Testing all of the mersenne numbers ((2^x) - 1) between 0 and 2281 takes 1 second on Ubuntu and 3 seconds on windows. Testing all of the mersenne numbers between 0 and 3217 takes 5 seconds on Ubuntu and 10 seconds on Windows. Testing M21701 ((2^21701) - 1) takes 6 seconds on Ubuntu and 20 seconds on Windows. You could say that my program runs twice as fast on Ubuntu, but that would be wrong, because Microsoft Virtual PC does not have SMP support, so my these tests are being run in a single thread on Ubuntu and two threads on Windows (three if you include the main thread that waits for the other threads to terminate) with the exception of the test of M21701, which uses a single thread on both. Since I am using win32-pthreads for multithreading, I decided to do another run that would eliminate shared resources between the threads as a source of overhead by ensuring that each thread had a ton of work to do before needing to lock the mutex. So I tested all of the mersenne numbers between 2281 and 3217. It took 4 seconds on Ubuntu and 7 seconds on Windows. The variables here are the operating systems and the compilers. I am running Windows Media Center 2005 Edition with Visual Studio 2008 Professional and under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Ubuntu 6.10 LTS with GCC 4.03. I am compiling my program in Visual Studio 2008 Professional under release mode with all compilation flags that I could find set. That includes /Ox, /Ob2, /Ot, /Oy, /GL, /arch:SSE2, /fp:fast and /GS-. I am compiling my program on Ubuntu with the following command: gcc -m32 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=k8 -march=k8 mersenne.c /usr/local/lib/gmp.so There are no background processes running that are sucking up CPU resources and I did each test (particularly on Windows) several times to try to minimize the negativity of the results. The code is the same and the hardware is the same. The only other variable is Virtual PC, which should be harming performance on Ubuntu, not Windows. So would anyone be able to tell me, exactly what is making my program run so much slower on Windows than it runs on Ubuntu? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've been trying to fix my WM6*Professional*mobile phone as it wouldn't sync with Windows Mobile Device Center. I kept getting "ActiveSync encountered a problem on the desktop." with the error code 0x86000107. I tried everything, a device hard reset, uninstalling and*reinstalling Windows Mobile Device Center, Turn off all device security with Visual Studio, etc. Then just before i was about to give up i turned off the USB to PC*"advanced network functionality" and it started*working again :D As i couldn't find much information regarding the*error code*i'm posting my solution here. Start --> Settings --> Connections -->* USB to PC --> untick "Enable advanced network functionaility" If anyone has a better solution let me know. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds