December 2004 - Posts
In order to get a bit more control over my own blogging software, I'm closing down this weblogs.asp.net account and running my own blogging software at the following addresses:
MSDN Subscriber Downloads blog: http://www.boydtech.com/blog/index.php?cat=2
Personal blog, both work and personal items: http://www.boydtech.com/blog
I have a content announcement about to be published there now, and will be covering both MSDN and TechNet Online Subscription topics there. Thanks for updating your links,
Andy.
The November CTP build of Visual Studio 2005 has been published to MSDN Subscriber Downloads, and December is coming soon. Just an FYI, I'm afraid I don't have a date on the December CTP as yet.
And oh yeah, if I ever catch the guy who is spamming my feedback, I am going to kill you. Seriously, my laptop is heavy and I know how to use it. Loser.
OK, time to 'fess. While getting in yet another few hours of needle torture on the tattoo project that will never be over (TPTWNBO), I sync'ed a coughcough few tracks from Atom's server. Anyway, "I wanna be a Stormtrooper" was one of theirs, in an mc chris subdirectory. As it turns out, the track's author was in touch, his site is http://www.earstation.com/asc. Go there, download his songs, and buy his stuff - THE POWER OF MICROSOFT COMPELS YOU!!! THE POWER OF MICROSOFT COMPELS YOU!!! - errr, sorry - I forgot for a moment that I'm only allowed to use my Microsoft powers for good. And listen to "Making an Alanis of Myself", seriously, I nearly crapped my slacks.
And oh yeah, don't steal music.
I ask because my content calendar is starting to get filled with CTP builds for Avalon, Visual Studio 2005, Windows Server 2003 SP1, etc. In the past we have only really published major public betas in the MSDN Subscription, now we're practically publishing daily builds in real time. So, is this kind of content churn useful for people? (Given that VS is a 5GB download). I personally don't mind (now that I have a team to manage my content), but I am sort of wondering if these CTP builds are useful or if subscribers mostly are interested in public stable builds.
Look, to whoever's magical spam-bot is posting comments on every thread saying "Great Thread!!! Now come to my web site where hot midgets are personally anxious to make your naked acquaintance!!!" - This forum is M-O-D-E-R-A-T-E-D. I mean seriously, all I do is delete them but it takes me about 14 precious seconds of my life every day that I'm never going to get back. I mean, I was going to add Mac products and a free lifetime Xbox live membership for all MSDN Subscribers, but noooooooo, now I don't have time because I'm deleting
your posts. So too bad, you just
ruined it for everyone.
So, after a ton of work and re-work, we finally have the new UI finalized and rolled out into production for MSDN Subscriber Downloads. There isn't any new major functionality here, just an update to the current masthead look-and-feel, and some small bug fixes (we now take you to the correct logout page, for instance). Anyway, hope you like it; I'm just glad it's finally done.
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One of the questions that I get from time to time is, "why don't you post Mac products?". Currently Mac products are not included in the subscription, but from time to time the question comes up. However, many of the justifications for why customers need Mac products in their
dev/test subscription are pretty thin, so I'd like to ask if anyone can tell me what some valid
reasonable scenarios for using Microsoft Mac products in dev/test scenarios might be. If I can get some reasonable justifications (and not just because the packaging is cool), then I can see about adding these to our business discussions.
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