Microsoft will layoff upto 5000 employees worldwide

And just came the shocking news... : Ballmer's e-mail to employees regarding layoffs.

Dirty Fox... heading the risky business apps list

Ah... I thought I will give company to Mrinal.. and here it is.. a link to the article... check it out ... http://www.insidetech.com/news/articles/3605-firefox-heads-risky-business-app-list oh.. hi.. L(inux)users... where are yo?

VS2008SP1 on Win7

As you all know.. Win7 is out.. and my god it is.. faster beyond my expectations.. and definitely.. faster than my XPSP3(Oh I was so proud... about it :(). And just yesterday, I installed VS2008 SP1 on it nad it works like a charm.. not a single glitch in compiling my existing code and on top of that it looks better than Vista. It has got soft UI elements and somehow.. I felt really comfortable working with them when compared to Vista. Check out the sample running a demo WPF application.

And no matter... what they are saying, it was piece of cake to install VS2008 it took less than 10 minutes and YES I don't want to talk about how long it took to install SP1(I was running some heavy processes in background.. eh.. :P)

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2

Link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b2c0358-915b-4eb5-9b1d-10e506da9d0f&displaylang=en

Download Overview:

The .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 provides cumulative roll-up updates for customer reported issues found after the release of the .NET Framework 2.0. In addition, this release provides performance improvements, and prerequisite feature support for the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.

Please review the supported operating systems for this deployment package in the System Requirements section. The corresponding updates for Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 2008 are deployed via the full .NET Framework 3.5 service pack 1.

Just be careful, there is a follow up update patch - KB959209 needed, once you install .Net Framework 2.0 SP2.