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Only a university can have the time to do such a job !

Excellent article on MSDN Belgium

A few days ago I needed to install software from ISO images. There were two possibilies: burning the ISO images to a CD-ROM or using a virtual CD-ROM drive that can mount ISO images. My preference went out to the latter, so I decided to Google for it. And apparently Microsoft has an unsupported "Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP". The reason why it's unsupported became clear after downloading the product. It contains no setup (only instructions) and the interface is quite basic. But the software did its job very well.

In an interview with Betanews, Lisa Gurry, MSN Group Product Manager, mention the idea that Microsoft will launch a music service this year:

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MSN will roll out a music download service in 2004. We have no further details to share at this time on our download music service; however, MSN Music currently enables people to discover their own world of music online.

MSN Music currently employs unique SoundsLike technology and expertise from the MSN Music groups, so people can find and listen to their favorite music, discover and purchase music all online with complete artist biographies, discographies, music recommendations, promotional downloads, album previews, Billboard Charts and news all at their fingertips.

MSN Music delivers the best way to discover new music through its impressive breadth and depth of music content. The service offers more than 20 music styles, each with a variety of subcategories, resulting in a broad range of music content and preprogrammed listening stations for all tastes. Using this unique music-matching technology, MSN Music provides a huge variety of music and delivers the following key benefits and features.

MSN also offers MSN Radio Plus; this $29.99 per year subscription service allows unlimited access to 250 commercial free streaming radio stations with improved audio quality and utilizes the "SoundsLike" technology.

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Robert Scoble wants to be the relay between users/developers and the IE team.

In Longhorn Internet Explorer is looking good. Unfortunatly it's not available yet for Windows XP/2003.

Dino talk about a nice fix to have <TH> instead of <TD> in the header of a Datagrid.

Well done, but this is already in a rollup package announced in June. The difficulty is the fact that you can have the update only by calling the technical support.

Scott Galloway relay this too. "Incidentally, the hotfix package can only be obtained by calling support...why they can't just make the thing downloadable from ASP.NET is beyond me...Rob Howard - any particular reason? "