Thanks to Mr. John Baker for the following information on Readyboost. You can see his blog at http://blogs.technet.com/johnbaker Windows Vista ReadyBoost Requirements Supported Form Factors and Busses ReadyBoost supports USB flash drives...

Novell Religion I have met several people here that are religious about Novell. They love Everything RED! I am not going to try to change their minds. It is not worth the time. I am in the keynote here at GWAVACON and a Novell VP of marketing is...

Apparently the directions to Download/install the Office 2007 that we are giving away at our events isn't very clear. When you download it, you are prompted for a trial key, don't use that one use the key give out in your kit from the event. Also be careful...

www.skysurprise.com If you are running Vista, go to this site, you can get free access to T-Mobile hotspots until April 30th. We were passing out sickers with this on it today, now it's on my blog for anyone to find out about. Go enjoy!!

I am in NYC tonight for an Exchange partner event tomorrow. I had a little time tonight to walk around Time Square. I love the lights and all of the signs. As I thought, Vista is everywhere. Right about the ESPN Zone is there show us your "WOW" Vista...

At our launch event on Tuesday in Memphis, Matt Hester ( http://blogs.technet.com/mathewms ) demoed the speech recognition of Vista as our last demo of the day. The crowd went wild. The people I was standing around just couldn't believe that was Windows...

My co-worker Chris Henley is getting some great press lately. Here is a big story: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0207730.htm Check out his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/chenley

I am getting ready to do a webcast this morning on Exchange 2007 Recipient Management, Policies, and permissions. Come join the fun. If you can't join live the same link should get you to the recording of the session. If I get a bunch of questions...

January 30th is they day they will be availble to the public. They being Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007. Our team Microsoft Across America does seminars for many different customer segments in the US. We will be doing Launch events in 59 cities...

There is a new Microsoft Partner in Ft. Worth. The owner Greg Kane use to work with me many years ago when I owned a consulting firm in Dallas. Here is his contact information. I hear he is still a great programmer. Greg Kane Nautilus Business Group...

I had a friend send me this story. It sounds very interesting. I have Charter for my ISP, I hope it doesn't happen to me. http://netsecurity.about.com/od/webbrowsersecurity/ss/charterhijack.htm What do you think about this? Would you be upset?

About once every 6 months or so I go MSN search or Google my name. Everyone does it right? Well I put in "John Weston Microsoft" it was amazing how many hits came back. My two blogs, events I have done, webcasts, Radio shows, user groups all kinds...

I am just amazed at all of this viral marketing. Here are some more. http://vistatestdrive.com allows you to test drive vista in a virtual machine. www.vistaparty.net if you are in the San Fransisco area, a user group is giving a party in honor...

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml Funny!

I saw this article today on fellow Microsofter and fellow sailor. Very scary. I hope is his OK. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/MISSING.TMP here is a second article http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16577699...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117019715069692873.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace We moved up from #7 last year to #1 this year. Cool!

Well yesterday was our first Launch events. Exchange 2007, Vista, and Office 2007. We had great questions from the audience. Our content is technical. It still amazed me how many people haven't seen that much of Vista yet. We showed how to deply it using...

I keep finding these sites. Here is another one. yes cool, our as my teenagers would say "Tight" it is a way for companies to showcase software they have built around Vista, not too much up there yet, but I love the community nature of it. Make sure...

http://showusyourwow.msn.com/?id=53648 click on the link and vote for my picture!!

UPDATE BELOW I have been getting request for the slides that we show at our events. This is only for people that attend our events!! Just kidding. Really, go to the hidden share off our main www.technetevents.com http://www.technetevents.com/resources...

www.showusyourwow.com is a new site we just put up. Watch the opening video from Billg. Cool stuff. I just uploaded a picture of kids sailing. 19,000 other people have already uploaded a video or picture, go look around, oops, you will be lost for...

Yep, Launch is coming!!! Besides all of these launch events, Launch Day January 30th is coming soon. I learned of a new program where we, the MS Employees get to sign up to go demo Vista at local Computer Stores. I have signed up for the Best Buy in...

I blogged about this a couple of weeks ago. MSNBC and news.com had articles back on 1/18 about it. Here is the deal. Buy Vista Ultimate. Then get up to two copies of Home Premium for $49.99 each. here is where you get exact information on how to...

I spend 5 hours last night and 12 hours today at the Best Buy by my house. It was lots of fun. I got to train the floor staff on how to demo Vista/Office and all the upgrade options, pricing and the features of it. This morning we handed out t-shirts...

I have now done two TechNet radio recordings. The first one had over 2,000 hits Since it came out last month. Amazing! My second one will go live on the web this coming Tuesday. Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/default.mspx...