A life of the senior

Recently I played a bit with the  Microsoft Azure Information Protection  add-in for Outlook which  helps classify, label and protect sensitive data in your organization, based on a simple and intuitive end-user interface and IT policies. And here is what I see in Outlook: a ribbon UI error which comes from the MS add-in It is a shame for MS developers to produce such software being a well-known industry leader.  BTW Also noticed, the add-in itself was not built on top of VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office). Interestingly, but the Microsoft team decided to use a third-party framework called Add-in Express which is a competitor of their own development toolset packaged with Visual Studio.

More and more developers nowadays use virtual machines for testing their software or reproducing the real environment for testing. This year I switched to Windows Azure too. Of course, I installed all the required software including a well-known Microsoft Office suite. To save some money I keep the cloud VM turned off for the weekend and keep it working for the working days. But how surprised I was when I switched the VM off and then, after some days of absence, turned it on. Typically you'll  see a dialog for activation the software anew. But not for Windows, only for Microsoft Office : It's allowed to activate the Microsoft Office anew. So, you can click the Next button to see the following window: You have to repeat these steps each time you want to keep the machine off and turn it on when required. There is a difference between turning the virtual machine off in the VM itself or in the Azure Management portal. The first option keeps the machine running under...