I just happened to read an item on the Inside Port 25 site by fellow blogger Matt Asay that Microsoft has a new web area for helping people to learn to develop software using the free Visual Studio Express Editions. You can find the site linked below:
Visual Studio Express Editions Beginner Developer Learning Center
The Windows XP Suspend/Resume feature is generally a statistical event in my experience. Sometimes it works and often times it forces a reboot that causes problems if you have Word, Excel, or PowerPoint open as part of the suspended processes. This was such an issue for me that the last two notebook PCs I bought for my office and home were an Apple iBook G4 and an Apple MacBook (respectively). Mac OS X resumes from sleep about 99.999% of the time. I was shocked the one or two times it did not resume properly over the past two years. With Windows XP, I’m shocked when resume actually resumes.
So, far, Windows Vista’s sleep/resume feature on a Dell Latitude D600 (3+ year old notebook) seems to be behaving quite well (much better than XP Professional). So much so that I’m considering buying a Windows notebook when they start appearing with the Sidenote LCD and ReadyDrive flash drive features.
Here’s hoping that Sleep/Resume is working better on your Vista box than it did on your XP box.