Don't get too excited, although I don't personally have authority to dismiss this, I have word that this is a completely FALSE rumor (sorry, I can't back that up-- at least do yourself the favor of being skeptical).
VS2010 made some improvements to this (RC is available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx). Now you can tear off tabs from the main window and place them on another screen, or tile them on the same screen. Also, now there's functionality to split a file into two viewing panes.
A small bug: if I want to search for "basket", I'll type "basket" + TAB + [ZIP] + Enter. It looks like your overloading the tab key though, so it selects the first suggestion when I hit tab. You might consider handling suggestions the way Google does on their homepage, that seems to work well.
Microsoft would be foolish to not give away free developer tools. You don't need to purchase anything to use .NET; you can download an ide that comes with a C#, VB.NET, C++/CLI compilers off the bat:
Even though I don't own any Apple products, I'm still glad they are around for this reason. More competition in the marketplace is good for me, the consumer, which should go without saying.
However, I'm not sure Android is a good example of your point. I think Android had been in the works for many years before the iphone was released (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Hist...). In fact, Apple multi-touch patents are holding it back at the moment.
Is this meant to be used in lieu of a feed reader, or in complement? At some point you should work on nice error pages, by the way: http://www.socialreader.net/blah/
This is funny, but I doubt there is any actual security flaw. I expect that Microsoft will verify these transaction later on with the vendor and throw them out.
I'm sure that is true. That's part of the reason it take so long to get paid; they're waiting until the window to return the merchandise expires. My BoA rewards program does the same thing.
The six cents balance marked as "available" was also from fake transactions. Those transactions cleared after 60 days. If the system was automated, those transactions should have been canceled. I don't think they will actually do any checks until I try to withdraw the money. I don't plan to try that though. I think the part about blocking another person's transactions is actually the interesting part.
I hate to be pedantic, but I think "negatively correlated" would be more correct. Even though people know what you mean, it gives the phrase less meaning in case you meant to use the technical definition.
It's slower, though. It takes longer to search through the index than to just run the program in the windows directory. For programs I run frequently, I place 1 letter shortcuts in the windows directory. That way, to launch a program I just type Win+R+[char]+Enter. You can also launch shortcuts on the taskbar using Win+[0-9], but if you already have an instance it will just show you the existing one .. which is useless because that's what Alt+Tab is for.
Edit: You can also assign shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+[char], but those are more awkward to use, and also will focus an existing instance instead of creating a new one.
Those shortcuts are cool, but for programs in the path, you don't need to wait for search. You can hit the Win key, paste a long command line, and press Enter immediately. Or just throw down "cmd" or "regedit" before the menu has finished fading in, it still works.
Feel free to correct me, but I believe the trust was funding for the ~$5B project that BrisConnections was beginning. If the trust was dissolved, BrisConnetions would be unable to complete their project. In order to protect their project, they purchased Bolton's voting rights.
Bolton sold the rights to the contractor that was to build the toll road:
> Bolton had already sold his voting rights to Thiess John Holland, the design and construction contractor for the Airport Link
BrisConnections is the one that raised the money in trust (which was why they were meeting about dissolving the trust).
> BrisConnections, backed by Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Macquarie Bank, raised A$1.23B ($1.16B) in July last year through the sale of an unusual equity security called a stapled unit.
Thiess John Holland bought the voting rights so that they wouldn't lose the contract with BrisConnections if it went under (which the dissolution of the trust would have caused). To them it was a deal since there was a lot more than A$4.5million at stake here.
Bolton:
1. Bought a controlling share in the company/trust
2. Brought about a situation that would cause the company/trust to collapse (which a lot of other investors were in agreement with)
3. Sold his controlling share's voting rights off to someone that had an interest in seeing that BrisConnections didn't go under.
4. Still holds the shares that he's going to owe $1 on for the next to 'periods,' but separated the shares and the payment for voting rights so that he gets to keep the money and just let the other business die in debt.
Edit: Confirmed http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/14850981422 (Microsoft official Twitter)
Quote: "Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont. Just FYI."