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• Is IIS7 on Vista not serving static content?

  If you add IIS7 and ASP.NET on Vista, many of the common HTTP modules are not installed by default – including the one for static content. The problem is that it doesn’t return a 404 or other error, but rather zero-byte files. If you’re seeing empty files returned for CSS, images and JScript files, this is likely the culprit. (You’ll all see the Static Files handler for * being mapped to the DefaultDocumentModule). The answer is to go into the Windows Features dialog and make sure that the Common Http Features are checked off. Hope this helps. Posted Jul 02 2008, 02:10 PM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: Software Development, Vista, Microsoft, .NET, Programming, Knowledge Base

• Why is Microsoft charging for Office 2007 Beta downloads?

  A lot of people are up in arms about Microsoft's decision to charge for new Office 2007 beta downloads . Existing beta testers can download the upcoming refresh for free; this is simply for new users. Since the end of May, Beta 2 has been downloaded more than 3 million times...That's 500 percent more than what was expected," the representative said. "The fee helps offset the cost of downloading from the servers." Marc suggests (ever so slightly) that maybe it's just a ruse to get more people to download it . Others have questioned why, if bandwidth cost was the real driver behind this decision, Microsoft didn't turn to BitTorrent or other P2P solutions. (RedSwoosh, who I wrote about last month, did in fact swoosh the link - but the C&D is inevitable). Personally, I agree with Leo's assessment in the latest TWiT podcast : this isn't about bandwidth, this is about controlling the beta. That is, they don't want to make the beta private or otherwise... Posted Aug 02 2006, 11:18 AM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: Technology, Software Development, Rants, Vista, Microsoft