Visualanand

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

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.