wow - pretty cool new feature to peek at the desktop. windows key + arrow keys are very cool as well

i haven't even begun to dig through all the goodness that was posted on the e7 blog about homegroups, but i had 7 computers running windows 7 beta over the holidays and this was one of the main features i played around with. also streamed to my xbox 360...

the first (and possibly only) full rap song i have memorized is "sucker mcs" by run dmc. on take a bite outta rhyme, lords of brooklyn and everlast turned it into a song. on "in the beginning there was rap" wu tang clan covered it. if you go over to youtube...

i recently received two netbooks for our upcoming cwug windows 7 loadfest and have been doing some testing with windows 7 home premium and windows 7 ultimate on them. we're looking to provide the community with these kinds of experiences as well. two...

i just recently learned that someone i met at a church conference a year and a half ago is the vice moderator of our denomination (the internet and facebook are pretty powerful indeed!). byron wade talks about what you want to give or receive this christmas...

in windows 7 beta there is a boot to vhd feature which allows you to start a vhd and may avoid the old school option of dual boot. however with windows vista there are a couple great things with dual boot. 1) if you dual boot windows vista with an...

when sam (my son) was 3 he was running windows xp in beta with a simple web game i had created for him (webpages with shapes, colors, letters and numbers - hyperlinks below the correct answer and a sound file to ask a question ("find the 6, sam"). it...

this evening i was looking at the various options - around $300-350 for netbooks. netbooks are interesting because they can run either windows xp, windows vista or windows 7 beta and they are larger than my current phone to make typing and using them...

last night steve ballmer kicked off ces 2009 and introduced the windows 7 beta. it is available today on msdn and technet and will more broadly available on friday. now that it is officially unveiled, a number of internal folks will begin dogfooding ...

i was thinking of someone who taught me the value of my time when i was much younger (and had time to spare!) today as i setup another 15 computers with windows 7 at work. "dr. bob" as he was known to me, was technical, an entertaining presenter, and...

on my way to 700 installations of windows 7, i've decided i won't include virtual installations using virtual pc, virtual server/hyper-v or other virtualization products (it doesn't seem fair to count them). i will however be counting reinstallations...

build #63 today but i'll pick up 15 more on sunday in preparation for a demo monday. i saw the acer netbook at walmart this evening. besides what i'm assuming is very limited space on the hard drive, it looked pretty nice in the display case. also saw...

i had an xbox 360 finally fail and sent it in for repair (during the holidays - so my xbox became the family xbox) - i wanted to see what the process looked like since i've heard of the "red rings" both through game store visits and individuals. i created...

i think i win the geekiest airline passenger award this past week - i brought three laptops with me to redmond for the mct summit. 1 running windows 7 enterprise, 1 running windows home premium and 1 running windows server 2008 and hyper-v. so i get out...

the springboard series has released a number of videos that explain a number of features in windows 7. the first one i watched was on application compatibility . showing the same work that went into fixing an application running on windows vista and then...

i've installed windows 7 on dell, lenovo and hp computers and today i just completed the installation on two new dell latitude e4300s. desktops and laptops, tablets and notebooks, haven't installed it on a netbook just yet, but that can't be too far away...

last night i installed my 60th build of win7 and just completed my 61st build. ran the windows experience index and noticed the new scale of 1 to 7.9 more on this shortly...

still my favorite installation trick from windows vista is the use of shift+f10 during the installation to be able to access a command prompt. this wasn't windows vista specific - it existed in windows xp as well, but i discovered it during the beta of...

back to counting - my 57th build of windows 7 and my first use of the latest version of windows easy transfer.