NEWS
Microsoft offers free .NET tool (vnunet)
If you code for love and not for money, Microsoft has a free, downloadable tool that might tickle your fancy. The company's Web Matrix initiative lets non-professional developers work with .NET's features -- kinda like Visual Studio.NET without the management features. Web Matrix also pipes users into the ASP .NET online community.
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Microsoft says .NET will impact Internet's evolution (SearchVB)
At last week's DCI Microsoft .NET conference, a Microsoft executive tried to define how .NET will impact customer relationship management (CRM), the Internet and the enterprise.
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Rejuvenate your desktop infrastructure
If you're thinking of overhauling your current client-server infrastructure because it is slow or out-of-date, hang on. See what you can get out of it first, desktop management expert Peter Briggs advised. "Don't throw PCs and servers away," he said. There's life in the old infrastructure, if you manage it wisely.
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Five-year-old wins MS proficiency cert
Remember the 7-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip who earned his Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certificate? Well, he's been "out-prodigied." A boy in Thailand just grabbed his MOUS. He's all of 5, an age when the only kind of MOUS most kids care about is the one who has a dog named Pluto. And now the inevitable question: Why? Does he WANT to get locked in a locker at school? "My father told me that if I passed the exam, I would get a new bicycle," he told a Bangkok newspaper. Something tells me this kid doesn't still need his training wheels!
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