Microsoft will drop Windows XP out of mainstream support today, with the ageing OS moving into extended support as previously announced.

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To my surprise, Sreejumon, my fellow MVP from Kerala emailed with a link to the content published in Mathrubhumi daily newspaper about Microsoft MVPs from Kerala. Unfortunately, they have featured only few of the MVPs and the bios are copied from Microsoft India MVP site.

I also don’t know the date in which the article appeared and I hope I will be able to know the date soon and borrow the paper from somebody to have a real look at the matter.

I received an email from Microsoft with the following statement

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

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A number reports have suggested that Microsoft co-founder and formerly the richest man in the world, Bill Gates will step down from his daily involvement in Microsoft – the world’s biggest software producer. Although Mr. Gates will remain Chairman of Microsoft, his involvement in the company will be reduced to “special projects” and his focus will shift to charity work and concentrating on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Renowned for being a Harvard dropout who made good, Gates set up Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, partnered by Paul Allen, currently owner of the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Seattle Sounders soccer team. Microsoft developed what was for many years entirely ubiquitous software for the PC – MS-DOS.

The company went on to develop equally ubiquitous software utilizing what at the time was a revolutionary graphical user interface. Its Windows and Microsoft Office solutions have continue to dominate the PC software market as they have for several years. Likewise, with a few notable exceptions, Microsoft has either dominated or played a major part in each field it has entered, including becoming one of key providers of web hosting server Operating Systems.

Although he maintains the record of being a self-made billionaire at the youngest age, he is no loner the richest man in the world, nor even in the US. Investor Warren Buffett and Mexican telecommunication’s tycoon Carlos Slim Helú now rank before him in the list of richest people.

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I recently installed .NET Framework 3.5 and now whenever I try to install an executable file a message box prompts which says Regasm.exe not found. Microsoft should prevent these kind of issuesfrom happening to reduce the pain of developers. I will update this post once I fixed this issue.

Update: I resolved the issue temporarily by uninstalling .NET Framework 3.5.

Now you can design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, Microsoft’s second release of the Silverlight platform. The biggest change from Silverlight 1.0 is the inclusion of a compact version of the .NET Framework, complete with the .NET Framework 3.0 Common Language Runtime.

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