Microsoft Humorous Quotes

• "640 K ought to be enough for anybody."
  -- Bill Gates, 1981
• "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs."
  -- Bill Gates - OS/2 Programmer's Guide
• "The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems." -- Bill Gates, OS/2 Notebook, Microsoft Press, 1990, p. 614
• "The Internet? We are not interested in it"
  -- Bill Gates, 1993
• "Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority."
  -- Bill Gates, Jul, 1998
  http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C23808%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.fs
• "We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993"
  Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
• In response to Java: "Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong."
  -- Bill Gates
• "Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free"
  -- Bill Gates
• "There are people who don't like capitalism, and there are people who don't like PCs, but there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
  -- Bill Gates
• "Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services"
  -- Mark Harris, Electronics Times
• "Microsoft does not innovate. It buys, imitates, or steals. It makes things difficult for software developers, and thus eventually for users."
  -- Richard Brandshaft, San Jose Mercury-New
• "There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful -- they make a lot of money -- but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good."
  -- Robert X. Cringley
• "A few weeks ago, a member of the audience at a [Bill] Gates speech in San Francisco asked simply this of the world's richest businessman: ''Can you make a list of things you won't be doing? ... I just want a little piece of something to pass on to my kids 20 years from now.''"
  -- San Jose Mercury News, 26 Oct 97
• "We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users."
  -- Paul Maritz, Microsoft group vice president
• "Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant."
  -- Jerry Pournelle, Byte Magazine
• "Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it."
  -- John Naughton, the London Observer
• "Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?"
  -- Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• "Microsoft's biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations."
  -- Esther Schindler, OS/2 Magazine
• "Microsoft - Which end of the stick do you want today?"
  -- Unknown
• http://www.slothmud.org/~hayward/mic_humor/mic_quotes.html

What is silverlight ?

Silverlight is a web based technology, launched by Microsoft in April 2007. Silverlight is considered as a competitor to Adobes Flash.

Silverlight applications are delivered to browsers in a text-based markup language called XAML. One important difference between Flash and XAML is, Flash is a compiled application where as XAML is text based. Search engines can analyze and index such content, which is a huge benefit for webmasters.

For regular internet users, Silverlight is a browser plug-in that supports video, audio and animations.

For web developers, Silverlight offers much more. Silverlight supports video and audio files without need of much programming. It allows them to handle events from web pages (like handle start/end of video playing etc)

Demo Links:

http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Controls

http://www.componentgo.com/projectservice/#/Views/Resolutions

Here are the steps to Install silverlight :

1. Open http://silverlight.net/Default.aspx

2. Open GET STARTED Page by clicking it.

3. Find out Download Silverlight Link (If already Silverlight is installed in your machine this link will not be appeared to you).

4 If you click on Download Silverlight Link, It opens Microsoft Silverlight Install Pagehttp://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx.

5. Click on Install Now Option then you can download the Silverlight Plug-in.

5. Then Install Silverlight By using downloaded silverlight plug-in installable setup software.

6. While Installing Silverlight you can see the progress screen as bellow.

7. Restart all of your browsers

Mouseless - an invisible computer mouse

The perpetual changes in computer technology & web has seen many evolutions, right from large room size CPUs to miroprogrammed slim netbooks, heavy bulky monitors to thin LCDs, few MBs capacity hard disks to trillion capacity HDs but in all these what remained nearly unchanged and un-evolved is mouse – moving it around to help us interact computer.

Mouseless is an invisible computer mouse project done in in MIT Fluid Interfaces Group headed by Pranav Mistry, this invisible mouse provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without actually needing a real hardware mouse, hence removes the requirement of having a physical mouse altogether but still provides the intuitive interaction of a physical mouse that everyone is familiar with.

New Features in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE and .NET Framework 4.0

New Features in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE

• Call Hierarchy of methods
• A New Quick Search
• Multi-targeting more accurate
• Parallel Programming and Debugging
• XSLT Profiling and Debugging
• The XSD Designer

New ASP.NET features

• Static IDs for ASP.NET Controls
• The Chart control
• Web.config transformation

New VB.NET features

• Auto Implemented Properties for VB.NET
• Collection Initializers
• Implicit Line Continuations
• Statements in Lambda Expressions

New C# features

• Dynamic Types
• Optional parameters
• Named and Optional Arguments

For More http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx