Microsoft’s Sacred Cash Cow

This week’s Seattle Weekly is running an article by a former Microsoft PM which contends that Microsoft is missing the boat by focusing on Windows and Office. He thinks that Internet services are the wave of the future.

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“…you need some fresh air.”

Ok, another entry in the way cool 404 page digest. :-)

The page can not be displayed because

you need some fresh air.

The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. Your ISP

has told us that you’re on-line several hours every day, and that

just ain’t right.

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Drug cards?

Tom Smith points at some campaign material about Medicare drug cards that makes my head hurt.

Of course, one of the people commenting on the post claims that compared to VA healthcare, it’s clear as crystal…

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Copying your cursor

I just had reason to draw a my current mouse pointer on a form. With help from MikeStew, I was able to come up with the following.

DECLARE integer GetWindowDC IN WIN32API ;
Integer hWnd
DECLARE short DrawIcon IN WIN32API ;
Integer hDC, integer X, integer Y, integer hIcon
DECLARE integer GetCursor IN WIN32API as GetCursorIcon && Not GETCURSORADAPTER()

hDC = GetWindowDC(ThisForm.HWnd)
hCursor = GetCursorIcon()
DrawIcon(hDC, 30, 30, hCursor)
*!* Note: If you don’t offset from 0,0, it draws on the title bar.

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Thinking outside the box

Josh has some really interesting thoughts in his post entitled “Blogs, Alpha Builds, Customer Community, and Legal Issues”. Not that everything he says is right on, as Scoble points out, but definitely food for thought.

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Visual FoxPro public beta

According to Ken Levy, the public beta for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 should be freely downloadable from MSDN any day now. The May letter I linked to above (you might need to check the archives) has 8 amazing reasons to want your hot little hands on it as soon as possible.

Keep your eyes peeled!

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