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Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:15 PM

Now available on Technet and MSDN – RC of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

Hopefully the title is self evident. The servers are taking a real pasting right now, so you might find it best to give it a little while for things to calm down Now if you want to install machines quickly you can copy the contents of the DVD to a BOOTABLE
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:36 AM

Now available on ebay … I’ll have a slice of that !

I’ve been pretty enthused about IE8 since it got to Beta 2. Yes there are some sites which need to be put into “Compatibility view”, which would be better called “IE 7 view” as it renders sites correctly which rely on IE7’s departure from standards. There
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Monday, April 27, 2009 12:05 PM

XP mode for Windows 7

Sometimes I feel I’m an old man longing for some golden age which only ever existed in my memory… and I felt like that over the weekend when I heard about “Windows XP mode” for Windows 7. This seems to have gone out through members of the media before
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:52 PM

Warming to Action Center

One of the paint point of running any Beta OS (including windows 7) is that one or two drivers can be a bit … flakey. With Vista I blamed a lot of trouble on Nvidia’s drivers during the beta and they only seemed to come right just after release. By comparison
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:23 PM

Things that work with Win 7 which didn’t work under Vista

Though the beta of Windows 7 we have been telling people that if something could be made to work on Vista, expect it to work on 7. Obviously this is not a guarantee – some things break with service packs never mind version changes, but as an expectation
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:10 PM

Resource monitor again – how fast is a broadband connection

I like the resource monitor in windows Vista, but in 7 it has a number of tweaks (not least, with the new less intrusive UAC you don’t have to OK starting it every time) One of the nice things about gives the information which was in the old (Vista /
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:06 AM

I need a human chkdsk to beat Murphy’s law.

As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been having laptop problems, and like my (once) trusty Dell D820 is going back for a 3rd time. Yesterday morning as I was rehearsing the demo I was to do for a large audience in the afternoon the fan span up to “turbo”
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Monday, April 20, 2009 10:30 PM

Windows7 and batteries, revisited.

I blogged a few weeks back that you could check on the state of your battery from the command line in Win7… And I said “I pinched this battery out of another laptop because when the original was 14 months old, and was getting about 30 minutes run time”
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:55 PM

Google Street View : photography and the breakdown of common sense.

Working for Microsoft, and holding views on privacy which border on paranoia, you might expect me to to be doing a gleeful little dance at the news that Privacy International have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Information Commissioner about
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:23 PM

Imminent Death Of Twitter Predicted: A case study, the Malaysian F1 GP.

First to explain the title “Imminent death of X predicted” is a snowclone , and its entry* in the Hacker’s dictionary sticks in my mind Hugh Macleod proposed “ All online social networks eventually turn into a swampy mush of spam." as Hugh's law , and
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