OT - MS technet

vicmilt wrote on 1/14/2007, 4:45 AM
Coming as I do, from a "directorial" background, as opposed to a "techie" background, I live in constant terror of my computers.

I stumbled across this site and haven't even scratched the surface of what's available, but I thought you'd be interested in knowing that it even exists. It's called the Microsoft TechNet, and what's nice is that it's a series of live lectures, targeting IT professionals. This particular page addresses "Malware" and it's eradication. Malware is all that tracking garbage that can clog up your system. Check it out and (why not) report back on other lectures on this site that might be of interest and/or use to "videoguys" like us.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=359

BTW, as an aside... can anyone tell me the compressor they might be using to get such GREAT full screen playback over the internet. We have truly almost arrived, and this video indicates that for industrial use, the CD is almost not necessary. Of course, for clients w/o internet, the CD continues to rule supreme, but it's days are numbered. (Great - another delivery technology about to go extinct, and another dozen or more "big jobs" I won't be able to show. Ah well....)

v

Comments

farss wrote on 1/14/2007, 5:15 AM
Microsofts customer support and knowledge bases are explemplary. As a part time software developer I've had nothing but great help from them. Sure their code is as buggy as anyones but you can search for and find the bugs, usually with a workaround.
Got a problem, don't know how to do something? No sweat, get onto their MSDN user fora and post a message. No one from the userbase helps quick, the forum moderators reply and not some trite RTFM comment either, more like "Sorry our documentation was hard to understand, here's the code you need to make this work, please copy and paste it into your application". I've had that level of assistance on more than one occasion and the response was within 12 hours.
And what does this cost? Nothing, yadda, free, to anyone. And yes you can pay for and get faster service.

Bob.
DrLumen wrote on 1/14/2007, 10:05 AM
It was really helpful back in the day of the cryptic 0x0E:012311:12321 type BSOD errors.

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