Browse by Tags
All Tags » Windows Vista » General musings ( RSS)
-
|
As IT Pro’s we are at the frontlines everyday. Well it’s good to hear from some real IT Pro’s that have decided to trial a Podcast Series called “Coalface Tech” and it’s hosted by James Bannan from APC and Mark Wilson in the UK . Both are...
|
-
|
Today is a big day for Microsoft. Today we launch our Life without Walls campaign to reconnect with consumers and remind them and us why Windows is so important in our everyday lives. It’s about connection. Connecting...
|
-
|
A lot of my friends have never used Vista and have poor perceptions of it as an Operating System. These perceptions seem to be worldwide too. so we showed Vista to a group of people who had never seen or used Vista before and we called it...
|
-
|
This topic has been floating around a few blogs for awhile now and I decided to give it a go on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61P. After all it’s 64-Bit; has 4GB of RAM and supports Hyper-V. And as I begin to prepare my sessions for TechEd Australia...
|
-
|
At Microsoft we have a number of initiatives at work now to help reduce our impact on the environment and help to stop global warming. I know through talking to many of you in the IT sector that there are a wide range of opinions on this issue. ...
|
-
|
Something which by turns amuses and annoys me is they people seem to have become very fond of Windows XP only since the arrival of Windows Vista. Now... I'm an old hand at this, and I first heard it when I was working to upgrade my company's supplied...
|
-
|
I don't know whether to be angry or frustrated, and whether the target should be journalists who make mountains out of molehills, or the people in Redmond who give them the molehill to start with. Here's the story. The Windows update software changes...
|
-
|
Windows Live writer is proving popular. I've been using it in beta for a year and there are only two things that I don't like I can't seem to get a UK English spell check. The "Auto-save" feature is off by default. The Auto-save is matters at this point...
|
-
|
Back in March I wrote that 64 bit Vista marked the end of the line for my Lexar 32bit Cardbus adapter. It got lost in the post on the way from Hong Kong. I gave it enough time to be sure it really was lost and the e-bay seller sent me another which arrived...
|
-
|
Microsoft Surface Computing has been unveiled at the D Conference and I have to say Wow! I saw this technology demonstrated at a technical conference in Seattle this past February by the Microsoft Research team but I didn't think it was going to be happening...
|
-
|
In the spirit of Frank's post about bad signs I couldn't resist doing one of my very own. This morning I decided to grab some breakfast in the bistro at work and this is what I stumbled onto.... Hmmmm..What is going on here? Maybe the fact we lost a bunch...
|
-
|
The Council for the Australian Federation (CAF) held its third meeting on 12 April 2007 in Canberra, ahead of the meeting of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) on 13 April 2007. In the meeting Communiqué, the following appears under the heading...
|
-
|
So here's a funny story for you. The other day I was in Brisbane presenting at the Brisbane IT for Plant Control Symposium . The event was run by the Institute of Instrumentation Control and Automation . Wow! What a mouthful. Anyway I presented a session...
|
-
|
There are some bits of humour which are so well known they become the basis for other jokes. One that sticks in my mind was Not the Nine O'Clock News's parody of a chat show at the time religious leaders were outraged by Monty Python's "Life of Brian...
|
-
|
A long time ago, in a company far far away, I ran a Novell network (2.15 !). The other administrator and I checked had Supervisor powers on this network and we found that it was nearly everybody. So we removed all of them. Our director threw a fit - so...
|
-
|
No sense denying it, I like Mary Jo Foley linking to something I wrote . Although being cast as a member of the thought Blog Police seems odd. I doubt if many people think of me as someone who filters what he says inside Microsoft :-) I searched for an...
|
-
|
Well I'm not actually thumbing but catching a plane to Las Vegas today to see my niece and my brother. I haven't seen my niece for about 13 years so it will be great to catch up. I've been up in Seattle for the last week and a bit sipping the latest kool...
|
-
|
A little culture to lead into the weekend. A quote from Voltaire no less. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Someone sent me a link to story " Rivals Attack Vista As Illegal...
|
-
|
Well as a lot of you know I've been doing a fair few Screencasts on Windows Vista lately. So I thought it was time to give you some guidance about how I have been producing these and what tools I've been using. First of all thanks to Chuck for providing...
|
-
|
The Consumer electronics show starts in Las Vegas on Monday. The internal rumor mill has been going crazy and we've been told not to blog about .... well I can't tell you what obviously. Bill Gates is delivering a keynote speech on Sunday night - 6:30PM...
|
|
|