I wish that I could attend Microsoft IT Academy, my university education sucks, not worth the money ;(
Gosh and golly, maybe it will be just like Star Trek's Starfleet Academy! Geeks of the Microsoft world, unite. First, Microsoft had ClubWin and ClubIE, and then the XP Associate Expert program. Now, the company has introduced Microsoft IT Academy, a breeding ground for young geeks-to-be who wish to be anointed in the ways of Redmond from an early age. Microsoft vows to "prepar[e] them for careers in high tech." Right.
In his state of the industry keynote speech at this year's COMDEX Fall 2001, Bill Gates set out his vision for a digital decade that will revolutionize the way companies do business, and how people around the world communicate, learn, and are entertained. Gates also announced to attendees that the Beta 3 release of Windows .NET Server is imminent.
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A next-generation wireless networking standard has been approved that will work with older wireless networking technology, allowing companies and consumers to keep existing equipment and possibly boosting the number of wireless connections in homes and businesses. The new standard, called 802.11g, was tentatively approved in a vote late on Thursday by an industry standards group called the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It promises data transfer rates of up to 54 megabits per second, compared with 11 megabits on the current 802.11b standard.
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One of the first things you are likely to notice when working with ASP.NET is the new file extension: ASP.NET pages use .aspx, as opposed to the .asp extension used with ASP. Additionally, when an ASP.NET page is requested, IIS hands off the request to the aspnet_wp.exe process; ASP uses asp.dll. ASP and ASP.NET can both be used on the same Web server. That is, a Web site or Web application within a site can contain both ASP.NET pages and ASP pages. Because both ASP and ASP.NET pages can be accessed from the same Web server, you are not required to port your existing ASP pages over to ASP.NET-compatible pages. However, there are many advantages to porting your application from ASP to ASP.NET.
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Sometimes a revolution in programming forces you to abandon all that's come before. To take an extreme example, suppose you have been writing Visual Basic applications for years now. If you're like many developers, you will have built up a substantial inventory of code in that time. And if you've been following the recommendations from various language gurus, that code is componentized. That is, by using COM (Component Object Model)-formerly Microsoft ActiveX-servers, you've broken your application into chunks of callable functionality. Of course, you're also likely to have a substantial investment in components, such as ActiveX controls, from other developers and other companies.
Notebook buyers looking ahead to 2002 can expect better processors, cooler graphics, built-in wireless connectivity, and a few radical new designs. Processors are always a hot topic with buyers. The talk at Comdex is that those buyers should be pleased next year, with all three major chip vendors preparing new products.
Of particular interest from Intel: the transition from mobile Pentium III M to the mobile Pentium 4 chip, expected sometime in the first half of next year. In addition to the new chip, which will launch at 1.5 GHz, Intel's supporting 845MP chip set will support DDR memory, too.
An industry standards group has tentatively approved new technology that will speed wireless Internet connections in homes, businesses and public places. Technology companies, through an industry standards group called the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), on Thursday tentatively approved a new standard called 802.11g that reaches data transfer rates of 54 megabits per second (mbps). The new standard is five times faster and compatible with wireless networking kits that use the popular 802.11b standard that is in use today. The 802.11b networking kits, built by the likes of Cisco Systems, 3Com, Proxim, Intel and Agere Systems, allow people to wirelessly connect their laptops together, so they can roam around the house or office and still surf the Web. The technology has become popular in the past few years, spreading to coffee shops, airports and hotels.
Justice Department told a federal judge on Thursday that its antitrust settlement with Microsoft will stop the company's monopolistic practices and asked her to endorse it without too much tampering. In documents filed with U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the department's attorneys said the settlement "will eliminate Microsoft's illegal practices, prevent recurrence of the same or similar practices, and restore the competitive threat that (other software) products posed prior to Microsoft's unlawful undertakings." The document, known as a "competitive impact statement" outlines the Justice Department's rationale for settling its three-year antitrust case against Microsoft.
IIS Lockdown Wizard version 2.1 works by turning off unnecessary features, thus reducing attack surface available to attackers. To provide multiple layers of protection against attackers, URLscan, with customized templates for each supported server role, is integrated into the IIS Lockdown Wizard. To keep the server completely secure, however, all hotfixes are required before and after applying IIS Lockdown Wizard to stay protected against known security vulnerabilities.
Only paying subscribers to Microsoft's developers program will receive the final version of its Visual Studio.Net developers software by the end of the year, while most members of its developers network will have to wait until Feb. 13 to get a copy, the company said Tuesday.
Several hundred thousand paying subscribers of the MSND (Microsoft Developers Network) will be the first to get their hands on the new software development tool next month, said David Lazar, the lead product manager for Microsoft's tools group. The final version of the software will be widely released two months later during the VS Live developer conference in San Francisco, he said.