Windows Archive

"Windows Update Services is an example of how Microsoft is making good on its promise to continue to improve security and increase automation around the patching and updating experience," Microsoft's Steve Anderson told TechNewsWorld.

A fascinating and ambitious open source project, Wine attempts to solve the complex problem of running Windows executables on Linux.

In this episode of the .NET Show Quentin Clark and Anil Nori share some of the architectural concepts of WinFS, and how it changes the way programmers and users will interact with the information they store on their systems. Later Mike Deem walks through some code that shows how to code against this new file system in order to make information easier to work with. Elsewhere, Mike Harsh shows how to use the RegionMaster Controls sample from WindowsForms.net to create non-rectangular applications, like Windows Media Player, using Windows Forms.

This document contains summaries all of the services available for the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. The services are listed in alphabetical order by display name. Following a description of each service, a table lists key information about the service.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told attendees of the Gartner IT Expo on Monday that Microsoft will release an alpha test release of Longhorn later this year.

The article explores the attribute-based programming model provided by Indigo for writing Web services. Compares and contrasts the Indigo programming model with the ASP.NET Web services programming model, then walks through a series of code samples in which a synchronous, unreliable, request/reply, and stateless Web service is transformed to be asynchronous, reliable, bidirectional and stateful—all through attributes. The downloadable sample, written using Avalon, contains a client for the service.