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Member since December 5, 2006

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    Ryan Rife

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  1. Review - Microsoft UniveRSS

    0.5.0.1 (Dec 5, 2006)

    I think you guys are missing the point. I'm pretty sure they're not marketing this as a legit RSS feed reader, but as an example of what is possible with the WPF and Vista. It's purely an example to show off to potential developers the kinds of things that can be done with a minimal amount of coding. They probably would have been better off doing a file browser or something that could be run w/o an internet connection, but that's just me.

  2. Comment - Five-digit fees from Sun's MySQL could actually save businesses millions

    0.5.0.1 (Jul 2, 2008 - 4:45 PM)

    WOW! MS SQL Server cost a fraction of that.

  3. Comment - Asus to show off keyboard-less UMPC

    0.5.0.1 (Mar 3, 2008 - 2:25 PM)

    Uh? How is this a new design?? They have several models of UMPCs that look nearly identical to that one.

  4. Comment - CES 'Better Questions' contest: Win Vista Ultimate, CS3, Zune and more

    0.5.0.1 (Jan 2, 2008 - 4:54 PM)

    DELETE

  5. Comment - CES 'Better Questions' contest: Win Vista Ultimate, CS3, Zune and more

    0.5.0.1 (Jan 2, 2008 - 4:54 PM)

    When will we see a radically new version of Windows Mobile that will compete with the iPhone?

  6. Comment - OpenDocument Foundation Dissolves, Leaving Projects in Disarray

    0.5.0.1 (Nov 15, 2007 - 9:57 AM)

    Yes, I've used MS's 1:1 tech support several times....it can be expensive for your every day consumer (assuming you don't have free tech support), but it's by far the best and they have the most intelligent tech support people I've talked to so far. I've even had them instruct me, over the phone, on how to manually rebuild a NTFS partition table using a hex editor after I accidentally formatted a critical drive at work.

    You'd also think that after 18 years MS Office files would be considered a "standard". They're well understood by now and there are millions or billions of documents in those formats....why would you want to switch to ODF when what you've been using isn't broken and pretty much universally accepted.