I thought Thanksgiving morning is for adults to be sleeping in. Instead, not only are the kids up at the crack at dawn but one (the eight year old) is playing games on Vista and asking for Starbucks, while the nearly 4 year old is clamoring for princess attention. And Angus is eating hats and everything else he can find....

CLR/Rotor

1. Today, we begin where it all started...1999 for me and the CLR with the very welcome addition of a new CLR blogger Patrick Dussand who is the Lead Architect of the CLR/UIFX group and the Chief Architect of the .NET Frameworks. He relates
How it All Started...Aka The Birth of the CLR. Since we haven't heard from Chris Brumme in a while, here's hoping Patrick will fill in the gaps for us CLR wonks.
2. Maoni introduces him. While there, check out Part 2 of his series on hangs

Workflow

1. article over on MSDN for Creating Custom Activities in WF [via Mike Taulty]
2. Mike also talks about CallExternalMethod in WF

Vista

1. Jim Alchin on ReadyBoost in Vista
2. Speaking of my son playing games on Vista, Microsoft has a new effort called Games for Windows that Robert points to here. It's Microsoft's intentions to right their wrongs re PC Gaming and make Windows Vista an excellent gaming experience. There making it a requirement that these games have to run on Windows and XP. That is what I am finding with Direct/X 10 and the two Games for Windows titles I have bought so far

Misc

1. 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS [via Scott]

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