{"id":18663,"date":"2009-03-31T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/03\/31\/2009-q1-link-clearance-microsoft-blogger-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T10:00:01","slug":"2009-q1-link-clearance-microsoft-blogger-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090331-01\/?p=18663","title":{"rendered":"2009 Q1 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s that time again: Sending some link love to my colleagues. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mu\/\">     Microsoft Update Product Team<\/a>     has a white paper called     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mu\/archive\/2008\/10\/01\/a-new-resource-about-windows-update-is-available.aspx\">     Windows Update Explained<\/a>     (<a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/a\/9\/4\/a94af289-a798-4143-a3f8-77004f7c2fd3\/Windows%20Update%20Explained.docx\">direct download: .docx<\/a>)     which goes into how Windows Update works     and how IT professionals can customize it. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/arvinwu\/\">     Arvin Wu<\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/arvinwu\/archive\/2008\/10\/02\/some-excel-2007-limitation.aspx\">     compares Excel 2007&#8217;s limits against that of its predecessor<\/a>.     Sure, you can get basically the same information     from     the     <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/excel\/HP100738491033.aspx\">     Excel specifications and limits<\/a>     Web page,     but I like the historical comparison. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepto.com\/\">     Stephen Toulouse<\/a>     explains the RRDF: The     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepto.com\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=486\">     Redmond Reality Distortion Field<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/translation\/\">     Microsoft Research Machine Translation Team<\/a>     explains     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/translation\/archive\/2008\/10\/25\/politically-incorrect-machines.aspx\">     how mistranslations sneak into the system<\/a>.     That&#8217;s one of the consequences of using     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/translation\/archive\/2008\/08\/22\/statistical-machine-translation-guest-blog.aspx\">     Statistical Machine Translation<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     ::<a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhome.com\/\">Wendy<\/a>::     points out that in spite of the increased sense of panic     which has overcome the Western world over the past few years,     England     <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhome.com\/2008\/09\/26\/welcoming\/\">     welcomes bus spotters<\/a>.     See, public safety officials?     Don&#8217;t shoo away loser dorks; use them to your advantage. <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/ivm\/ice.html\">     Image Composite Editor<\/a>     not only stiches together panoramas, it also generates     formats that can be used by     <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/IVM\/HDView.htm\">     HD View<\/a>     and     <a href=\"http:\/\/livelabs.com\/blog\/seadragon\/silverlight-2-deep-zoom\/\">     Silverlight Deep Zoom<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/devenkamp\/\">     Deven Kampenhout<\/a>     tips us off that     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/devenkamp\/archive\/2008\/09\/22\/css-editing-is-sooo-much-easier-now.aspx\">     you can use Microsoft Expression<\/a>     to make CSS-tinkering easier. <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/wpfsdk\/\">     Windows Presentation Foundation SDK<\/a> blog     describes     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/wpfsdk\/archive\/2008\/09\/08\/custom-window-chrome-in-wpf.aspx\">     various ways applications get custom window chrome<\/a>,     and how you can do it with WPF. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brettroberts.com\/\">     Brett Roberts<\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brettroberts.com\/post\/2008\/11\/07\/Searching-audio-with-MAVIS.aspx\">     draws our attention to the use of MAVIS<\/a>     (the     <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/projects\/mavis\/\">     Microsoft Audio Visual Indexing System<\/a>)     at the     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalarchives.wa.gov\/\">     Washington State Digital Archives<\/a>.     MAVIS allows you to perform searches on audio files.     Okay, so right now all they have are committee meetings,     but still it&#8217;s a pretty cool use of technology. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/\">     The Visual C++ team<\/a>     has     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2008\/06\/05\/some-c-gotchas.aspx\">     some C++ puzzles for you<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mike_frieds_blog\/\">     Mike Fried<\/a>     expands on the same topic as     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/03\/21\/1922203.aspx\">     one of my previous essays<\/a>:     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mike_frieds_blog\/archive\/2007\/10\/23\/Milestones_2C00_-Cuts_2C00_-and-what-you-aren_2700_t-going-to-ship.aspx\">     You don&#8217;t know what you are shipping unless you know what you are not shipping<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     Scott Olsen     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ntdebugging\/archive\/2008\/04\/08\/hardware-bitflipping.aspx\">     debugs a crash and traces it back to a single flipped bit<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/crm\/pages\/bio-jim-jaag-glass.aspx\">     Jim Glass<\/a>     posts a short item on     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/crm\/archive\/2008\/06\/24\/microsoft-s-recycling-program-get-s-revamped.aspx\">     the high-tech sorters used to separate recyclables<\/a>.     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sehn.org\/tccThetruthaboutrecycling.html\">     Longer article<\/a>.     <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008884612_recyclingqampa19m.html\">     Q&amp;A about recycling in the City of Seattle<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/kevinremde\/\">     Kevin Remde&#8217;s &#8220;Full of I.T.&#8221; blog<\/a>     (great name, Kevin)     reminds us that     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/kevinremde\/archive\/2008\/12\/22\/windows-7-even-dhcp-can-be-improved.aspx\">     even DHCP can be improved<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/office_sustained_engineering\/\">     Office Sustained Engineering Blog<\/a>     answers the provocative question,     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/office_sustained_engineering\/archive\/2008\/12\/12\/why-doesn-t-office-just-fix-all-of-the-bugs-before-they-ship-it.aspx\">     Why doesn&#8217;t Office just fix all of the bugs before they ship it<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnguin\/\">     John Guin<\/a>     gives     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnguin\/archive\/2008\/08\/21\/saying-goodbye-to-our-intern-leads-to-a-reason-why-a-bug-did-not-get-fixed-in-office-97.aspx\">     a real-world example of postponing a bug<\/a>.     (Which, as he notes, did get fixed eventually.) <\/li>\n<li>     Robert Mitchell has a series on the     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/askcore\/\">     Ask the Core Team blog<\/a>     on <i>The Four Stages of File Growth<\/i>:     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/askcore\/archive\/2008\/12\/26\/the-four-stages-of-file-growth-part-1.aspx\">     Part&nbsp;1<\/a>,     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/askcore\/archive\/2008\/12\/29\/the-four-stages-of-file-growth-part-2.aspx\">     Part&nbsp;2<\/a>,     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/askcore\/archive\/2009\/01\/06\/the-four-stages-of-file-growth-part-3.aspx\">     Part&nbsp;3<\/a>, and     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/askcore\/archive\/2009\/01\/07\/the-four-stages-of-file-growth-part-4.aspx\">     Part&nbsp;4<\/a>.     (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model\">The fifth stage is <i>acceptance<\/i><\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnmullinax\/\">     John Mullinax<\/a>     lets us know that     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/\">     Surface<\/a> devices are now available in retail     channels.     And as an extra bonus, when you buy a Surface device,     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnmullinax\/archive\/2009\/02\/16\/first-microsoft-surface-retailer-unveiled-order-now.aspx\">     you also get a yacht attached, absolutely free<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     On the     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mmpc\/\">     Microsoft Malware Protection Center<\/a> team blog,     Peter Ferrie posted an interesting story about     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mmpc\/archive\/2009\/02\/17\/we-read-their-forums-too.aspx\">     the lengths virus writers will go to<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tonyschr\/\">     Tony Schreiner<\/a>     shows how to     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tonyschr\/archive\/2007\/01\/19\/ie-automation-amp-tabs.aspx\">     open Web pages in a tab in IE programmatically<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <b>Updates<\/b>: Fixed name of product <i>Microsoft Expression<\/i> (no &#8220;s&#8221;). 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