Posts Tagged ‘Windows Vista’
How Close Are You To Ditching Cable?
In: Technology
16 Mar 2009In my house, we are big media consumers. If you think about music, movies, television, web video and podcasts, between the three living beings in our house, we consume enough for our block I am sure. There are many different ways for media to snake it’s way into your home, but my question is [...]
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- Tags: Media Center, Windows Vista, Xbox 360
Debunking Rumors: Microsoft giving up on Vista….
In: Technology
11 Nov 2008 Microsoft announced Windows 7 and are apparently giving up on Windows Vista, the failure…right?
Well, if you pay attention to dates, and I do, then it looks like we have a huge list of failures on our hands, let’s take a look at a few of such familiar utter software failures, shall we?
Here we go, [...]
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- Tags: Adobe, iPhone, OS X, Windows Vista
The Vista Badmouthing Turns to Pure Lies….
In: Technology
3 Jul 2008I recently read this article, posted on Digg.com, and really just want to post my own experience in this exact situation…
Picture this, you just bought built a brand new computer and want to install the brand spankin’ new Windows Vista Ultimate, you plop down $300, and away you go! What does $300 get you? A [...]
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- Tags: Linux, Windows Vista
Windows XP Officially Out Of My Rotation…
In: Technology
22 May 2008I can’t say that this was an easy decision for me. I had long loved and had great affection for my self built P4 2.4Ghz box running Windows XP SP2 that I had been using for years. The computer had been rock solid and even when I brought home my new 64-bit Vista HP powerhouse, [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Missing DVD Bug in Windows Vista Still Exists???
In: Technology
7 Apr 2008I still get regular comments on this post about the DVD bug I found in Windows Vista in January 2007. I thought it would be a good time to revisit this post and discuss this bug a bit further.
If I find it still exists, I will use my new position at Microsoft to try and [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista
In yet another session of having a friend moan about Vista at me because I work for Microsoft, I thought I would do the entire world a favor and post this nice, tiny little tutorial. So you hate User Access Control (UAC) I get it, many do. But seriously folks, it takes 2 seconds to [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista
Linux Fanboy switches to Vista? oh boy…
In: Technology
27 Feb 2008Yea yea, I work for Microsoft and I have been writing a lot about Vista lately. That also means I have been using Vista a lot lately. I have been using it on two work machines (32-bit Enterprise on desktop and 32-bit Enterprise on Tablet Laptop) and two home machines (32-bit Business on home server [...]
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- Tags: Linux, Microsoft, Windows Vista
Windows Vista x64: To stay or not to stay?
In: Technology
27 Feb 2008Everyone that knows me well, knows that my machines are in a constant state of flux. I love to play, I am a true geek and I test and test till I can’t take it anymore, then I test a little more.
My most recent testing scenario has been living with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition [...]
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- Tags: 64-bit, Microsoft, Windows Vista
Still Undecided about Windows Vista?
In: Technology
21 Feb 2008Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable—broadcast LIVE over the Internet on Wednesday, March 5th. The subject? Windows Vista adoption and deployment. On the panel with Mark will be independent industry experts and IT pros from organizations that have already deployed Windows Vista—all openly discussing known challenges, [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista
Strange things happen when you can’t sleep. Last night I laid down completely intending to get some good sleep and making a stab at going to work this am. About 1 AM I finally got up and went down to the office to plink around.
Last night’s grand adventure? I decided to install Windows Vista [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista
The Plunge… Windows Vista and a New PC
In: Random
15 Feb 2008 It’s amazing how much cheaper computers are these days. I had been working out what I was going to do for a few weeks now, today the decision was made and I decided to upgrade my aging 2.4Ghz P4 to a new machine running Windows Vista.
There are several reasons behind this decision. First I [...]
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- Tags: HP, Microsoft, Windows Vista
HTC Mogul as an Internet Connection
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5 Feb 2008I recently got the HTC Mogul phone and service from Sprint. I had been using it sporadically as a network device via Bluetooth on the Macbook Pro in OS X 10.5 Leopard but had not tried it tethered in Windows Vista Ultimate in Bootcamp. I decided to try it USB so I wasn’t marrying the [...]
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- Tags: Leopard, Mac, Microsoft, OS X, Windows Vista
OS X, Vista, Bootcamp and Virtualization
In: Technology
19 Jan 2008 So very much to blog about, it’s been a very busy few days for me from a tech perspective. I will start with my adventures with running Vista on a Mac and then get to the mobile phone and gadget stuff.
So I joined a team at work. I am a Microsoft Vista Champion. So [...]
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- Tags: iMac, Macbook Pro, OS X, Windows Vista
Even The Good Linux Evangelists Are Delusional
In: Technology
9 Dec 2007I found a fantastic article on apcmag.com by Ashton Mills tonight about using Linux as your OS completely and how it fares against Windows. While I have to say that this is one of the most complete and honest evaluations I have ever read, it still falls way short in the reality department, for example:
After [...]
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- Tags: Linux, Microsoft, Windows Vista, Windows XP
An Open Letter to John C. Dvorak about Vista’s Death
In: Random
14 Nov 2007First I have to disclose that this isn’t entirely an open letter. I did mail it to him also, but who knows if it will get read. I just read an article he wrote entitled "Vista Death Watch" about how Vista is a dead product. For starters, Vista is not a dead product, and I [...]
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- Tags: Vista, Windows Vista
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