Microsoft

Via The Register comes news that Microsoft has joined the ASF and contributing to PHP under the LGPL. In the words of Anonymous, "lol wut?"

I was taking a look at the new design of coldacid.net in IE8 beta 1, simply to find that it doesn't look right with the new rendering engine. Putting the browser into IE7 emulation mode, it comes out looking just fine, however, and I already knew that it works with Firefox 2 and 3. It's pretty interesting. Likely things will work just fine by the time IE8 final rolls out, especially given that the site (or at least the front page of it) is nearly perfect HTML and CSS (and the only validation errors wouldn't affect the rendering anyway).

As a big thank-you for attending the Toronto launch of Visual Studio 2008, I got in the mail today a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate as well as a CD containing a bunch of Live products (including a 90-day subscription for OneCare).

Now, I just need to get a new computer, one which can run a version of Windows newer than 2000.

So I attended Energize IT today, and did I have a good time! While I didn't really pay attention to the security keynote, and skipped the virtualization one, the rest of the day was great. I got to hang out with other game developers in the GameCamp track, as well as spread the word farther about TIGC.

Earlier in the month, while wheedling about providing feedback, I mentioned that I would be more or less getting Office 2007 in the mail. Well, unfortunately Microsoft decided to use CanPar as the delivery service, and CanPar screwed me.

One of the great things about attending Microsoft events, especially their launch events, is that you almost invariably walk out of the place with some quality software for free. Back in 2005 when the latest version of Visual Studio was released, attendees of the launch event received a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, and a download for BizTalk Server 2006. But with the launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007, there wasn't any software being handed out. What happened?