Windows Vista™ Beta 1 is Available to MSDN Subscribers. Only 9 hours to go and I will have my copy downloaded. Also in Vista news here are the links to the Developer Center site and the IT Pro site ......
If you would like to install an add-on to your Windows XP installation you will be forced to verify that your copy of Windows is genuine. Check out the full story here. The thing I find interesting most interesting is that if you are found to have a pirated copy you will have the option to pay for a licensed copy, $99 for Windows XP Home and $149 for Windows XP Pro. Doing a quick check over at Amazon shows, $189.99 for Windows XP Home and $249.99 for Windows XP Pro. So why should I actually buy the ......
When I went to Microsft.com this morning at 9:47, I am getting a "Server is too busy" message. See it below. What's going on here?

Where have I been? Don't know if anyone really noticed that I haven't posted in about a week and a half. (no one loves me). Well there have been two events in which I have not been able to post. First I was in Charleston, SC for four days on a much needed vacation with my girlfriend of three year. The reason we went was to celebrate that fact. The second event was found upon my arrival of my new laptop. It is almost completely loaded and functioning (as you can tell by me blogging again). Well look ......
The official name of the next Windows client operation system will be Windows Vista. Here is the press release is here and the official website is here.
Biztalk 2006 Beta is now available for public sign up. Check out the news at Stephen's blog.
Microsoft will release the first beta of BizTalk Server 2006 in the next two weeks. In the same article they talk about the actual ship date of BizTalk 2006. I have seen countless blogs that have gotten the release date incorrectly. I would like to state that I mentioned this here, BizTalk 2006 release date, way back on June 12th ......
I am here at Panera, after having a craving for a tasty cold drink. I choose Panera over Starbucks, because Panera has free wifi. I love Starbucks, but I will always to somewhere that has free wifi and I need to get something done on the computer (like read blogs).
I have been thinking about the File and WSS (SharePoint) adapters, as they can be very similar in the way they are used to store information. When storing information you have to think about how this information will be accessed and used. There are two ways of accessing files in a file store or SharePoint; search and browse. If you use search then all your file can be 'stuffed' into one location as your search can take care of getting the correct information back to you. On the other hand you can ......
Yes that's right I have my own feature set in BizTalk 2006. Scott Woodgate talks about it here.