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    Robert Fripp on Channel 9 Again
    This is really great. The way they went about making the sounds for Windows Vista is really cool. There are some really great ideas in this video like having calm music (you have to listen to the video to hear them) in the background while installing...
    Windows Vista Install Demo
    This is more for the technology enthusiast crowd than the developer crowd , but... Channel 10 has a video up today to start off Windows Vista Week (even a pretty new banner just for the occassion ;)) about installing Windows Vista . I've installed...
    Web Application Project (Visual Studio 2005) on Windows Vista RC1
    If you've tried installing it already, you know it doesn't work. Rich Mercer posted the answer, which is to run the msi as an administrator. Unfortunately, you can't just right mouse click and run as Administrator. For details on the work...
    MIX.06 Video on Channel 9
    Curious about the upcoming MIX conference? Not sure if you should be excited or not? Check out the video on Channel 9 about it .
    MIX.06
    http://www.microsoft.com/events/mix I won't go into too much detail and let the official site explain, but basically, Microsoft is going to host a really cool conference in Vegas in March. At its simplest this is going to be a great place for developers...
    New Microsoft Gadgets Site
    http://www.microsoftgadgets.com They've added a gallery for gadgets and forums. Looking good!
    Cool Gadgets Video
    C9 has a pretty cool video showing off the latest on gadgets . A few cool things they talk about: Gadgets will work in Windows XP Install packages for gadgets are just zip files with the exe, icon file and simple xml manifest with a .gadget extension...
    Atlas Client Framework
    Scoble mentions how Java kind of bashes the fact that Microsoft is building WPF to make a big move even more into smart client applications. You kind of get the sense that Scoble's going back and forth on which is better, web applications or smart clients...
    We Want Better Http-ness
    HTT-Penis! Definitely the funniest thing I heard from Don Box during his presentation! :P LINQ is really darn cool. Definitely changes data work as we see it today. Integrating data into languages (hence the name). Boundaries have been broken. I'm impressed...
    BillG Keynote
    I'm watching the Bill Gates Keynote at PDC right now (I'm not actually there) and it is VERY cool. Office 12 is lookin' really good. I can see the people lining up to write their own custom controls to mimic the new menus in the office line. Windows Vista...
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