Archive | February, 2009

26 Megabytes – Not So Painful .Net 3.5 SP1 – But What About All The Non “Genuine” Windows Installs?

by Scott Kane on February 28, 2009 in Anti-Piracy, Audio Software, BizSpark, C#, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Microsoft, Starting an mISV, VB.Net, VisualStudio, Windows

share Mike’s enthusiasm for this little discovery because, as Mike points out…

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A Developer Says He’s “Speechless” That I Am Targeting Vista And Win 7 With .Net. But Does He Know His Onions Or Have I Flipped My Biscuit?

A Developer Says He’s “Speechless” That I Am Targeting Vista And Win 7 With .Net. But Does He Know His Onions Or Have I Flipped My Biscuit?

by Scott Kane on February 21, 2009 in Audio Software, BizSpark, C#, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Microsoft, VB.Net, VisualStudio, Windows

Recently on the Business of Software forums in a discussion a developer (who anonymously posts as “Rich ISV” for whatever that is worth) said he was speechless that I would purposefully target Vista And Windows 7 and force XP users…

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Goodbye Web 2.0 Road?

Goodbye Web 2.0 Road?

by Scott Kane on February 20, 2009 in General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

Goodbye Web 2.0 Road

When are you gonna go broke
When are you going to scram
You should have become an architect
So you could make money from Obama’s big plan

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Grab A Beta – Help Out Fellow ISV Mike Wilson!

by Scott Kane on February 19, 2009 in Audio Software, C#, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Microsoft, Starting an mISV, VB.Net, VisualStudio, Windows

Mike Wilson has announced he’d like some beta testers, with an offer included for those that submit quality bug reports, for his forthcoming application InstaTrans…

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Back And Thanks To Those Who Wrote Asking About "Black Saturday"

by Scott Kane on February 15, 2009 in Starting an mISV

Just a brief post and a thankyou to those people who enquired as to my safety during the recent bushfire disaster we experienced here in Melbourne. I appreciate your concern. If I’ve not gotten back to you as yet I certainly will do so in the coming days.

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