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re: Movie Maker and DVD Maker in Windows Vista

Why? — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:49:23 GMT

I am attempting to make a video in Windows Movie Maker. Can anyone tell me why I have unwanted pictures appearing when I preview my video? These are pictures that have NOT been copied into my collection &/or into the storyboard/timeline?? They ONLY appear when I preview. When I go back to the timelne or the collection thinking I copied a picture in error, the unwanted picture is NOT there.

re: New Windows Standard Theme in Windows Vista

Clip Frames — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:18:53 GMT

It's mostly ok on the window with the photos, but on the shot of the control panel there's a distinct difference betwheen the color of the sidebar and the window border, and I can't decide wether it looks good to me or not.

re: Buy a PC Now, Upgrade to Windows Vista After Launch

Business Phone — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:19:13 GMT

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re: Introducing Alex Heaton, Our New IT and Business Blogger

International Business — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:25:13 GMT

The general public believes this because during a downturn it takes longer to sell homes because there are more homes on the market.

re: IE7 for Windows XP Launches Today

AlexeyBurlachenko — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:43:11 GMT

Nick ty for answer, one more issue,

we are using JDE open world... it's not normally working with WEb interface under IE7, some buttons it not working properly...

may be I can ask you by e-mail?

my mail just in case a_burlachenko at mail.ru

re: Buy a PC Now, Upgrade to Windows Vista After Launch

DCMonkey — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:42:54 GMT

HKLM,

I believe you need an OS DVD to take advantage of Vista's "Windows Anytime Upgrade" so that you can install the "premium" features, so it was probably going to happen anyways.

re: Buy a PC Now, Upgrade to Windows Vista After Launch

hklm — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:15:19 GMT

This gets into a very taboo subject for a MSFTie doesn't it Nick?

3) I saw something encouraging on a Dell blog that I have seen MSFT always afraid to talk about and even lash out vindictively when it is discussed and I can prove this.

MSFT tries to coerce their 300 OEM named partners into agreements that ensure that millions of your customers who do not enjoy the ammenities of the backups and custom installs of an enterprise IT machine with 6 figured CTOs who also have managed to screw up enough on ocassion to allow the 2nd biggest railroad in your country the US to go down over Blaster merely because they didn't get around to updating with hotfixes--a bozo move the elementary school kids on my street are smart enough to avoid.

Here's a topic I'd like some Nick White clarificaiton on: There are about 300 Named OEM partners. These are presided over by one Scott Di Valerio (accountant not trained in software but apparently trained in squeezing money out of millions of people for OEM machines with pre-loaded windows and no effective way to recover and decoy crap discs and partitions that don't work if you have had extensive experience comparing them to real OS's and I have).

For the past 7 years millions of your customers were left up a bad creek. Not backed up the way you do it, they couldn't boot to Windows for software glitch reasons, and when F8 options were fully exploited they had no Windows XP and won't have Vista media to access what would have fixed them (Rapair Install or Win RE's Startup Repair).

When asked yesterday at Round Rock, your platinum partner Mr. Dell's company claimed that you insisted for years they not supply your customers with a legitimate way to recover that had any chance of efficacy so the joke recovery cds and partitions go out from your OEM named partners after your customers pay their hard earned money for what you're peddling in this thread--pre-installed Windows OEM.

Let me say that again Nick.

*Pre-installed.* No MSFT media IE no OS copy of Win XP or Vista and the way things are going Blackcomb/Vienna/Figi either.

As you know well, your last financial report showed a drop in 20% of retail sales and an increase of 20% in OEM preinstalled OS sales as a chief source of MSFT income.

I want to show you something that recently appeared on the Dell blog that I'm trying to confirm counter to the culture of "leave our customers without a way to recover Windows" that MSFT has nurutred for years.

How many of your OEM partners are doing what Dell says they are going to start doing--i.e. shipping a real OS on media instead of that junk that doesn't work nearly 100% of the time you all force them into using?

http://www.direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2006/10/17/3132.aspx

Update: Thanks to Direct2Dell reader Steven and a couple of Dell employees for pointing out a mistake I made in my original post. When I wrote this, the OS media was listed as an option in the configurator for $0. I mis-read the number, and for that mistake, I apologize. Also, though this been in the works for some time before now, it's now official. For U.S. consumer and small business customers, all systems will now ship with an operating system disc. This change will take effect in Europe by later next month. In Asia, things are unchanged—we've always shipped OS discs with systems there.

When is MSFT going to put its concern where it's Wagner Edstrom spinning mouth is and provide a legitimate way with efficacy for your customers to recovery the OS?

BTW do any of you are your Windoz maven collegues want to take my challenge Nick? How about the gang at File Core Services, Jill, Dan, and set up, Darell Vinny and the rest--and you.

We break Windows and make BSOD stops--you all try recovery with OEM recovery discs or partitions and I'll use an XP CD or Vista DVD--one with all the OS code on it even though many of us are learning startup repair is a work in progress that won't be made at Redmond Washington any time soon.

Tell me when you're ready. We can radio 9 tape it and send the pod cast to Scoble's new podcast company at www.podtech.net

HKLM

re: Buy a PC Now, Upgrade to Windows Vista After Launch

hklm — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:10:30 GMT

Nick--

I'd say doing those things instead of letting the confusion multiply would be appropriate Product Managing for a product manager on the Vista Launch team and no time like the present as multiple synchophants fan out to talk about Vista Office upgrades and discounts and carefully avoid the dirty little secret that MSFT wants to keep OEMs from providing OS discs for XP or DVDs for Vista.

1) Can you clarify the exponentially metastasizing confusion on the Vista newsgroups as to the Vista Eula. Robert McLaws said you were planning to do that. MSFT Redmond isn't spinning you too are they the way they seem to have been spinning Paul Thurtott?

Pretty nifty Nick--you give those guys access, load them up with gym bags full of swag and toys and then tell them to say whatever you all want.

Why all the sneaking around and suberfuge? When you're going to screw people just tell them to line up and enjoy it--it's a screwing from Redmond Arrogantsoft.

How about a straight up Nick White article 1/2/3 etc. with some precision and clarity conferred on that Raiders of the Lost Ark engima enshrouded in mystery EULA your lawyers and everyone with the least software engineering ability at Redmond used to craft the thing.

Please read and enjoy Ed Bott's blogs on your EULA or on How MSFT Damages the Customer and his Legit Vista to Protect their Revenue Stream:

A sneaky change in Windows licensing terms

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156

Get facts, not spin, about Vista’s new license

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=158

October 19, 2006

"Forbidding Vistas: Windows licensing disserves the user "

http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/10/19/forbidding_vistas_windows_licensing_disserves_the_us

Ed Bott at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=84

UAC Good; SPP Not So Good

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/

2) Any comments on the law suits that are starting to slide into federal district court against WGA and SPP because your coders can't write it to distinguish accurately between pirated copies and genuine?

Also when the author of one of the most definitive books on Vista that has sold nearly a million copies calls you all to try to work to clarify what you all won't or can't or are afraid to why not give him someone with quality that knows what they're talking about rather than your Wagner Edstrom PR flacks who don't or some bottom feeder who knows nothing more than "Yippie Kah Yah WGA"?

HKLM

re: Closure of RC2, Feedback Handling in the New York Times, and Licensing Information for Windows

Nightcrawler — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:57:24 GMT

I don't like the Vista EULA any better than the rest of you but you have a choice. Accept Vista with it's EULA or maybe a rewritten one by the time it comes out or don't buy it. Protest with your wallet. Use XP for another few years but don't threaten with pirated copies of Vista. Using pirated OS's is much worse than anything Microsoft is doing. It makes you a lawbreaker and as such you deserve censure.