“Microsoft is readying a test version of software for bringing its .Net Web services plan to mobile devices. The software maker said on Tuesday that it has posted a test version of its .Net Compact Framework, a programming infrastructure for writing mobile device Web services software, along with additional mobile device tools, to its Web site. The .Net Compact Framework works in conjunction with Microsoft’s Visual Studio.Net tools to let developers write Windows-based Web services programs to run on cell phones, personal digital assistants and other wireless mobile devices powered by the company’s Windows CE and Windows CE.Net operating systems.” Read the rest of the report at News.com.
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That .NET really will be a “cross platform” framework just like MS promissed?
Letsee:
Win 98
Win NT
Win 2K
Win XP
Win CE
Has all the existing operating systems covered. Microsoft didn’t lie!
w00t w00t
</sarcasm>
:o)
Does really every second sotry on OSNews have to be on .NET? You could as well go found DotNetNews.
Why not publish something really useful (and still MS-centric) like: how to copy your Win95 boot partition to another drive and then boot from there? Because that’s what I have to do, these days: my hard disk is dying, (more and more bad sectors each time I run Scandisk), so I have to salvage my stuff on another drive, but I am not quite sure how.
My idea was to do a simple copy of al the stuff on the dying disk to the good one, and then, perhaps with fdisk, make the partition on the new disk bootable.
I think this should work with Win95, as long as I don’t want to boot into my previous version of DOS (and if that version of DOS was older than 6.x, I think). This should work as long as the io.sys and msdos.sys can be located anywhere on the boot partition.
But what about WinNT and Win2000?
>Does really every second sotry on OSNews have to be on .NET?
Yes. It is the “next big thing” IMO. No matter if it comes from Microsoft or Sun.
> how to copy your Win95 boot partition to another drive and then boot from there?
It will work. I have done it in the past. Just make sure your destination is a PRIMARY partition.
>But what about WinNT and Win2000?
They will need re-installation on the new partition.
Happy?
:o) Yes.
The state of that disk has something to do with a certain review…
You could take the new drive and install windows 95 (and any other windows oses you have installed), then set the old drive as primary again (just put them as primary on different ide cables) and copy everything over to the new drive. Switch them again and your set.
this would most likely work, but I definitely loathe reinstalling Windows and the necessary drivers, and configging the hardware again. And expecially, I finally got working my CD burner, I don’t want to risk to get in trouble with it once again. (I have a HP 9150i, and Easy CD Creator just never ever worked with it)
You wouldn’t have to reinstall all of the drivers. You just get the system to the point where it say ok, an os is here then copy the files. Your old drivers and settings overwrite the install defaults (no need to patch anything at all). Its not the fastest method, but it always works (unless you make a mistake).