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Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:12 PM

Windows 7… “Media for everyone !”

From the betas of Windows Vista until the start of September I ran the Ultimate edition of Windows, rather than the enterprise edition. We had a perfectly good enterprise edition as a network installation, but in Vista there one some features missing
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Monday, January 19, 2009 2:40 PM

Songsmith again.

Amazing how a Picture goes around , I found it on Eileen’s blog she found it on Jon’s blog .  Doing tech-desk duty at the BETT show last week I had the pleasure of directing questions on Songsmith to Eileen (I’ve got it but haven’t sorted out an
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:34 PM

Songsmith – there goes a chunk more time !

Embarrassing personal revelation time. I sing in the car, in silly voices. Anyone who hasn’t heard me doing “Winston Churchill sings Dido’s ‘White Flag’” has had a lucky escape. I mention this because the folks in Microsoft research seem to have been
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:13 PM

PowerShell and Windows Media Player, part 1

Stange bedfellows you might think but why shouldn’t media be scripted ? I was thinking this a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to run a video before I started a presentation. If the Presentation is due to start at 10:00, and the video is 3 minutes I want
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Friday, May 30, 2008 10:39 PM

A little bit of Microsoft Honesty.

  I like Vista. And I like the fact that with Ultimate I can have a 64-bit, domain joined , Tablet enabled, Media Center PC. (IN XP these were 4 products). I like media-center.  But one aspect of media centre drives me nuts, and that's its determination
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 9:12 AM

Humphrey Lyttelton. 1921-2008.

On the Roadshow we have been in Cinemas so it seemed appropriate to have a round of IT professional's film club, an idea which we lifted from Radio 4's "I'm sorry I haven't a clue". I've never really taken to any other Radio station: I can remember
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Monday, April 07, 2008 4:37 PM

SD cards (again)

I was about to say some things about Vista and TV when I realized I had actually said them a few months ago When your TV programmes are FILES there's a different psychological relationship to them compared with TAPE . VHS cassettes were something you
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Friday, June 29, 2007 2:56 PM

Open source lobby: "We'll get the EU to stop your telly"

For some reason media seems to be on my mind at the moment.... The BBC i-player is to go live at the end of July. This follows Channel 4''s "4OD " service (I'm a bit peeved the that it's not available on Vista today, but C4 tell me it's in the Pipeline)
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 12:19 PM

PowerShell , VB , Media Center and SQL

I hesitate to describe myself as a dilettante (1) programmer. Not because it isn't true but because we have a running joke in the office about vocabulary deficiency. Eileen said to someone "What's it like to be surrounded by People more Erudite (2) than
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Friday, April 27, 2007 12:53 AM

TV Indirect to your phone...

Well, well here's serendipity again. While Eileen was posting about " TV-Direct to your phone" I was noticing something in the options for Windows Media Player 11 on Vista, when I had my phone plugged in. There was a setting "Convert Music, Videos and
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Monday, January 08, 2007 9:28 AM

A good day to be a fake doctor ...

I mentioned we had something big planned for the CES show in Vegas, and that something is Windows Home Server. There was a nice teaser site, The Center for Digital Amnesia Awareness which now has the information on it. On 10 has a video which explains
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:44 PM

Microsoft at CES

The Consumer electronics show starts in Las Vegas on Monday. The internal rumor mill has been going crazy and we've been told not to blog about .... well I can't tell you what obviously. Bill Gates is delivering a keynote speech on Sunday night - 6:30PM
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Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:43 AM

Zune news. No FM transmitter (yet) it seems.

I'm going to stick my neck out and be (I think) the first Microsoft blogger to tell you where to get details of the Zune. It's widely known that Zune will have wireless functions and that means for the US market it needs FCC approval. Some people who
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Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:16 PM

Would Apple sue Scoble's new company ?* . Don't Google for Podcasts. And other stuff from my weekend reading.

Before I was working for Microsoft, I read Douglas Coupland's book "Microserfs" . I visited Redmond in1997 and was amazed how close it was to the book. Half a dozen pages in Coupland writes "WinQuote ... gives continuouse updates on Microsoft's NASDAQ
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Monday, July 24, 2006 7:51 PM

We’ll know more Zune.

OK, OK I was wrong when I said My gut feel is that if we are [working on a player], it won't be branded Microsoft. Chris Stevenson told Billboard that there is a music player in the works and it will appear under the brand name of Zune. Chris is listed
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