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?

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.

CircuitCity short-circuited

I just came to know about this... very very sad :(
http://www.circuitcity.com/closed.html