My colleague James O'Neill has a really simple step by step blog post on how to use the new deployment tools that come with Vista to create an SP1 Vista image.  He makes it sound so easy!  * it actually is*  The coolest part of the entire image creation process was that it was done completely...

  TechNet Resource for Windows Vista SP1  

My colleague James O'Neill beat me to this one.  SP1 for Office is finally here, and none the sooner as I was ready to destroy my laptop and beat it with a sledgehammer because of the stability issues with Outlook. Funny story, a lot of the bad rap that Vista has been getting has actually been due...

Thursday was a busy day at Microsoft.  RC1 for Longhorn is now out and available for download.  To read up on some analysis about the update, check out James O'Neill's post . Going over to the other side of the "pond," Keith Combs mentions some good news around virtual machine VHDs...

I received some emails regarding my article on a Vista Search bug . The article stated that the bug would be fixed in SP1, but it was unclear on what settings would change. The original article read, "As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the start menu settings so that the search bar...

I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. In the XP days, I was a huge Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of new features but rather, it gave visibility to mainstream...