September 2004 - Posts
NEW DELHI - Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it would offer a low-cost, localized version of its Windows XP operating system in India to tap the large market potential in this country of 1 billion people, most of whom do not speak English.
By RAJESH MAHAPATRA
Well, a very good question and has been very much debatable always in MVP forums and exclusive meetings with MVP leads out here in india.
Now Microsoft is trying to make it clear to the community about "what is this community star program all about?"
according to the mission statement of Microsoft India ..
"The Microsoft India Community Star is a recognition program that strives to identify dedicated individuals within technical communities who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Community Stars are recognized for both their demonstrated technical expertise and an ongoing willingness to share the experience within technical communities. They are usually found active in newsgroups, online forums, user groups, actively writing articles and always inventing new ways to help their peers."
The Microsoft MVP Lead for India, Abhishek has started a revamp of this whole program to make it having more clarity and less disputes :-)
In this process, MS has got some nice comments from many MVPs and Community stars in India on this program.
You can find all those valuable comments here
Today I have got my VS 2005 Beta refresh and SQL Server 2005 Beta DVDs in a pack...Have to check up with the installation...Hmm..
from De-mystifying Dispose
Posted to : CLR Internals
via SBC
You can now download version 1.13 of C# Coding Standards for .NET.
Now Microsoft MSDN India Community Home referring to my www.mvpblog.com for all Indian MVP Blogs.
MVPBLOG.com is a bloglines aggregator for all Indian MVP blogs.
NAVY WEBSITE HACKED
Source : The Hindu
Hackers defacing the military websites of the United States and posting anti-war and anti-U.S. messages are not very uncommon, but a website owned by the Indian Navy has been made the target of cyber intruders. The Navy website www.nausena-bharti.mil.in went off the servers after a hacker Mowber posted anti-war messages.
http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/15/stories/2004091506311200.htm
Interesting facts about their server 
(From NetCraft)
OS : Linux
Server : Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
NetBlock Owner : Sterling Capital Pvt. Ltd
My MVP Buddy Sree has released his NewsReader 1.1 which can read Private news group posts over Proxies with NNTP restrictions.
Nice one to try...This was already checked with Borland, Linux, Weblogic and IBM newsgroups.
...I found this funny emotion in IE Pop-Up Blocker "Grrr!" 
I am wondering this is by design or the developer is so emotional while writing this message
for Pop-Up manager for IE.
Posted to : Interesting
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