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  1. Re:Purely money motivated on USDA Services Moving To the Microsoft Cloud · · Score: 1

    About inbox rules:

    They should never ever switch order. If you can reproduce this reliably, let me know and I'll file a bug. However, by default, inbox rules are created with an additional predicate of "stop processing more rules." This keeps more than one rule from processing any single message (*normally* this is a good thing).

    If you want multiple rules to process in order, then make sure "stop processing more rules" is not checked on those rules.

    Also, I just tested this running Firefox only on my test Outlook.com account. We're committed to supporting a wide range of common browsers across platforms--not just IE/Windows.

  2. Re:"Best with IE" or not? on Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hello there! I work on the Outlook Web App team. The version of OWA shipped in Exchange 2010 SP1 is supported in (and works equally well in)...

    - IE 7+ (note that IE6 is not supported)
    - Firefox 3+
    - Safari 3.1+
    - Chrome 3+

    This is the version of OWA included in Office 365.

    Source:
    http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/bb899685.aspx

  3. Re:I think its BS... on Salesforce Uses Chatter To Monitor Employees · · Score: 3, Informative

    Has anyone actually looked at the product in question?

    Salesforce Chatter is like an internal Facebook. Everything is presumed to be "public" (internally public, that is). Unlike email in a company, there is no presumption of privacy here. No spying or anything.

  4. Re:sounds like a safety law suit jackpot and not a on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 3, Informative
    Ah, but it is a patent thing, because the guy who invented the saw is a former patent lawyer.

    Stephen Gass, an Oregon native, invented the SawStop's flesh-detecting saw brake in his barn. Gass left his career as a patent lawyer to try to license the device to tool manufacturers, who turned him away. Gass went into business, designing and selling his own saws, which have set a new standard for safety in the industry.

  5. Re:10,000,001th server booting in 3...2...1... on Google Envisions 10 Million Servers · · Score: 1

    I think the assumption is that Google still has less than 1 million servers (Google it, most people think they have 1/2 million right now), so this is architecting for more than they need.

  6. Re:Apple is not donig "Exchange". on A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support · · Score: 1

    It doesn't use WebDAV, it uses Exchange Web Services, which is a standard API for developers to build their own Exchange clients.

    I know this because it works with the Exchange 2010 RC, and Exchange 2010 no longer includes WebDAV.

    In fact, the Apple web site states (correctly) that it requires Exchange 2007, because Exchange 2003 didn't have EWS.

  7. Re:How does this *free* Mac users? on A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no single "Exchange Protocol." What you might be talking about is MAPI, the protocol Outlook uses to talk to Exchange (and the oldest protocol Exchange supports, I believe). MAPI is full documented on MSDN, and there are a number of open source implementations of MAPI (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPI).

    However, the Exchange support in Snow Leopard doesn't use MAPI, it uses Exchange Web Services, which is also open and documented on MSDN.

  8. One thing that's incorrect on A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article says:
    "Apple built its support for Exchange using WebDAV..."

    Untrue. The Exchange support for Snow Leopard was built using Exchange Web Services, just like the next version of Microsoft's client, Entourage.

  9. AV for consumers will be free on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft is soon to have free-for-consumers anti-virus and anti-malware software as well:
    http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

  10. Oblig on Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches · · Score: 1

    Obligatory Simpsons Reference:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo

  11. Yay on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    Yay!

    But now how will people figure out how to play Video Professor or install AOL?

    Oh well...

  12. Re:Will it work nicely with Thunderbird? on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps IMAP was not enabled in that Exchange setup...it definitely works, though.

    However, to answer your original problem (Firefox and HTML mail), Exchange 2010 does support Firefox (and Safari) using all the features of OWA that IE does, including HTML mail compose.

  13. Re:Will it work nicely with Thunderbird? on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exchange works great with IMAP, even if it doesn't exactly follow the delete/expunge model of deletion (but then again, neither does Gmail).

    I've used Thunderbird with Exchange 2007 with no problems.

  14. Re:NO CHANCE for this to work on Exchange Comes To Linux As OpenChange · · Score: 1

    http://www.microsoft.com/protocols/

    Actually, it does fall under that category.

  15. Re:Quite a letdown... on Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you've ever done an experiment like this (there are smaller scale versions), they are very weird. I can't imagine a full body experience.

    Example:
    The one I have done involves sitting behind someone, eyes closed, and having your nose stroked (by a third party) while you stroke someone else's nose in front of you. After a few seconds, your brain "clicks" and you feel like you have an incredibly long nose. This is because of the feedback loop where your brain feels something on your nose and your finger simultaneously, and your mental body image just changes instantly.

  16. Re:BUY BUY BUY! on Microsoft To Buy Back $40bn of Its Shares · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seriously though, my MacBook Pro is one of the best Windows machines I've ever used, simply because the hardware support is dead simple. The drivers are solid, and I can download them from one place.

  17. Re:In Soviet Russia. on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    Peace and non-violence aren't the same thing.

    The Constitution allows for peaceful assemblies, not non-violent assemblies.

    Granted, "peaceful" is up to interpretation, but just because it's non-violent doesn't make it peaceful. I would disagree that blocking bridges in downtown MSP is peaceful.

  18. Re:Disruption != peaceably assembling on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    The Constitution doesn't say "non-violent assembly," it says "peaceful assembly."

    Peace is not simply the absence of violence.

    To be sure, it's up to interpretation as to what a peaceful assembly is and is not. My interpretation is that blocking bridges in a major metropolitan area is not peaceful (even if it's not violent).

    From WP
    "Peace can be a state of harmony or the absence of hostility. "Peace" can also be a non-violent way of life. "Peace" is used to describe the end of a violent conflict. Peace can mean a state of quiet or tranquility -- an absence of disturbance or agitation. Peace can also describe a relationship between any people characterized by respect, justice, and goodwill. Peace can describe calmness, serenity, and silence. This latter understanding of peace can also pertain to an individual's sense of himself or herself, as to be "at peace" with one's own mind. peace can be also the living of the family calmly together without any quarrels."

  19. Re:Disruption != peaceably assembling on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    He didn't physically stand in front of and block traffic traffic.

  20. Re:In Soviet Russia. on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 0

    Peaceful assembly?

    From the org's website (http://www.nornc.org/):

    "How we get there (the strategy):
    1. Start Strong - Throw all of our energy into the first day. We'll kick this off right and stretch the militarized police state out so far that it can no longer contain and suppress our voices and desires.

    2. Transportation Troubles - This includes blockades downtown (at key intersections), on bridges (10 bridges over the Mississippi River in the metro area), and other sporadic and strategic targets (busses, hotel and airport shuttles etc)."

    If these idiots *aren't* allowed to protest, perhaps there's a chance they won't ruin it for the peaceful protesters. One big problem in situations like this is that a small group ruins it for everyone else who was protesting peacefully.

  21. Re:Disruption != peaceably assembling on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 5, Informative

    From: http://www.nornc.org/

    This isn't a peaceful assembly if you ask me:

    "How we get there (the strategy):
    1. Start Strong - Throw all of our energy into the first day. We'll kick this off right and stretch the militarized police state out so far that it can no longer contain and suppress our voices and desires.

    2. Transportation Troubles - This includes blockades downtown (at key intersections), on bridges (10 bridges over the Mississippi River in the metro area), and other sporadic and strategic targets (busses, hotel and airport shuttles etc)."

    This is the group that the Star article describes as having been arrested.

  22. Wha? on Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How exactly does Google Earth predict *anything* at all?

    What it seems is someone wrote software to analyze the electrical grid, and they use the Google Maps API to visualize the geographic data.

    Yay.

  23. Fluff piece on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He really doesn't know anything about the internals of the Windows kernel or the Mach kernel, he's just assuming that since the NT kernel is "monolithic" and the Mach kernel is a "microkernel" then the latter must be better, and the reason it's better is it is "smaller."

    If you want to know where the real problems with Windows lie, they're in the API and the shell, not the kernel. The NT kernel is perfectly fine. See this Ars write-up by someone knowlegeable:
    http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/what-microsoft-could-learn-from-apple.ars

    I'd like to point out that Microsoft employs one of the original authors of the Mach kernel, Rick Rashid. He runs Microsoft Research. Look it up.

  24. Re:Surprised? on Gates Foundation Vs. Openness In Research · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Please read TFA people...
    Some quotes:

    In a memorandum, the chief of the malaria program, Arata Kochi, complained to his boss, Margaret Chan, the director general of WHO, that the foundation's money, while crucial, could have "far-reaching, largely unintended consequences."

    Many of the world's leading malaria scientists are now "locked up in a 'cartel' with their own research funding being linked to those of others within the group," Kochi wrote. Because "each has a vested interest to safeguard the work of the others," he wrote, getting independent reviews of research proposals "is becoming increasingly difficult."


    They are pointing out a general fact about research funding, and then saying that there's a lack of diversity in Malaria research/funding, because most of it is coming from the Gates Foundation. Maybe if Sergei and Larry would stop buying 767s (and NASA airfield landing rights) they could fund competing research.

    (just flamebait fun on the goog guys...could have easily used Michael Dell)
  25. Re:Microsoft will borrow money to buy a losing Yah on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 1

    That's still pretty damn good. A lot of these kinds of deals involve stock only, no cash.