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[via Stef and Microsoft-Watch]

“But on Thursday, Microsoft revised its schedule. Now Microsoft is promising that Office 2007 will be available to volume licensees "by the end of year 2006," with retail availability in "early 2007."

Company officials declined to provide further details. They also would not say whether the retail launch of Office 2007 is still on for January.”

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Scott Harris and Maike Ammerlaan wrote a MSDN article about how to use disposable WSS objects. A very usefull article that shows that you cannot always rely on the garbage collector to release objects quickly. A must read for every SharePoint developer!

“Several of the Windows SharePoint Services objects, primarily the SPSite class and SPWeb class objects, are created as managed objects. However, these objects use unmanaged code and memory to perform the majority of their work. The managed part of the object is small; the unmanaged part of the object is much larger. Because the smaller managed part of the object does not put memory pressure on the garbage collector, the garbage collector does not release the object from memory in a timely manner. The object's use of a large amount of unmanaged memory can cause some of the unusual behaviors described earlier. Calling applications that work with IDisposable objects in Windows SharePoint Services must dispose of the objects when the applications finish using them. You should not rely on the garbage collector to release them from memory automatically.”

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4 weeks without a PC or blogging.. it’s been a long long time since my last post. But I had a good reason for that!

Four weeks ago (May 24th), I got married with Arienne and we had a super day! After the party we gave, we had some days rest before we took the plane to South Africa for 3 weeks. What a country that is! We made a trip by car from Johannesburg via Pelgrim’s Rest to Kruger Park. Then after that to Hluhluwe, Durban, Drakensberg and back to Joburg again, in total about 3500 km’s. Did you ever hear an elephant breathing next to your bed at midnight?.. we did

Anyway, below some pictures we made. I’m full with energy again to make some interesting blog postings soon!

black rhino in KP

female lion in KP

1 of 400 buffalo’s

elephant at 10 meters from our car…

Four of the ‘Big Five’.. we did see the leopard, but it was to quick to make a picture…