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A. In beta versions of Windows, the system displays the version in the bottom-right corner. To enable this display on final versions of Windows, perform the following steps...
A. The system stores the usual background wallpaper bitmap in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper registry key. If you've enabled Active Desktop and selected a different background picture, such as a JPEG, the system stores this...
A year-and-a-half ago, I was ready to bet the farm on XML. I was sure there was just one way to improve Active Server Pages (ASP)—namely, a richer, customizable, application-oriented HTML. This new approach had to be good XML that Extensible Style...
Microsoft released Visual Studio.NET beta 1, and I read the documentation and tested the beta to see how this new development tool will change our lives. The .NET Framework, which is the infrastructure for the overall .NET platform, will be a...
In the last issue, I discussed Microsoft Office and its .NET-oriented successors, all based on the NetDocs technology being developed in Redmond. Microsoft, realizing that third-party support will make or break .NET and that the company must...
Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer recently admitted that although Microsoft was working as quickly as it could to deliver a Windows version that fully supports the new Microsoft .NET technologies, the full .NET User Experience is still 1...
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer has asked his employees to "significantly reduce" expenses and return to the "cost-conscious culture that marked Microsoft's early years." The message, which was...
In a bid to become the Microsoft of the Internet age, software giant Oracle is set to announce its plans for a future of Web-based software services. The company, which has been taking potshots at Microsoft, SQL Server, and the .NET strategy for...