You heard me. Here are the dates:

Operating System
End of Life Date

Windows 2000 Professional
July 13, 2010

Windows 2000 Server
July 13, 2010

Windows XP SP2
July 13, 2010

Windows XP SP3
Still Supported

Windows Vista
April 13, 2010

Windows Vista SP1 & SP2
Still Supported

There you have it. For those still on older versions of your service packs, it is time for you to update your [...]

Here you go! Promotional videos of Windows Phone 7 Series.
Demo: Phones for a “Life in Motion”
See how Windows® Phone 7 Series reorganizes the phone, Web and applications to deliver a mobile experience that will help make the most of customers’ busy lives.

Partner Support for Windows Phone 7 Series
See what Microsoft partners are saying about Windows [...]

I have some time to sneak in while waiting for my flight at the airport in Singapore, so I decided to post the most ridiculous bug I’ve ever come across.
The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows 7 [...]

Finally, all 13 chapters are done. Now I can compile them into 1 big post with all the videos. I highly recommend every developer to watch these videos even though you’ll not be writing Functional code.
Edit: I totally forgot to link back all the chapters. Click on the links on each chapter for the original [...]

I encourage everyone who is still sitting on the fence about whether to learn a functional language to read this Beautiful Code – The Manifesto article written by Lau B. Jensen.
To summarize, his point of writing beautiful code essentially avoids a lot of the pitfalls you get from Imperative languages.
Beautiful Code is…

Concise – Free from [...]

Finished my presentation on “What’s new with .NET Framework 4.0″ last Saturday at CTU 2009v2. I hope everyone enjoyed the talk. Here are the slides and demo available for you.
CTU2009v2 – What’s new with NET Framework 4.zip

Disclaimer: What I write in this post does not represent my company, the community, Microsoft, or its employees. These are my independent thoughts of the current state of the Microsoft community in Singapore ONLY based on my own observations.
Where do I even start? How about last week when I was speaking at the recent event at [...]

I’ll be speaking at the Community Technology Update (CTU) 2009 II event on “What’s new in .NET Framework 4.0“. I’ll be covering the following:
This talk give an overview and cover as many changes in the .NET Framework 4.0 as possible in the time allocated, from the BCL (Base Class Library) to various interesting additions like [...]

I just mentioned about Connectify a few posts ago. Here’s a free application, Virtual Router, that makes use of the same Virtual WiFi technology on Windows 7 to create a Virtual Router out of your laptop or PC. As pointed out by various people, it only supports WPA2 which it seems to be a limitation (or [...]

A few days ago, Microsoft Research released a news article, “Exploding Software-Engineering Myths“, debunking several software engineering myths and discovered/confirmed a few beliefs using actual empirical data.
The biggest problem for several researchers and software engineers were  a lot of their hypothesis and conjectures are based on anecdotal and personal experience. These were seen to be true throughout [...]