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Friday, September 14, 2007 10:34 AM

"Perfidious Microsoft"

I don't know whether to be angry or frustrated, and whether the target should be journalists who make mountains out of molehills, or the people in Redmond who give them the molehill to start with. Here's the story. The Windows update software changes
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:22 PM

This must be hardware ... mustn't it ?

Windows Live writer is proving popular. I've been using it in beta for a year and there are only two things that I don't like I can't seem to get a UK English spell check. The "Auto-save" feature is off by default. The Auto-save is matters at this point,
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:06 PM

ExpressCard (not express delivery), travel and Benchmarks.

Back in March I wrote that 64 bit Vista marked the end of the line for my Lexar 32bit Cardbus adapter. It got lost in the post on the way from Hong Kong. I gave it enough time to be sure it really was lost and the e-bay seller sent me another which arrived
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Friday, April 06, 2007 5:11 PM

Friday Humour... put the computer back in the box.

There are some bits of humour which are so well known they become the basis for other jokes. One that sticks in my mind was Not the Nine O'Clock News's parody of a chat show at the time religious leaders were outraged by Monty Python's "Life of Brian",
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Friday, March 30, 2007 6:23 PM

The Numpty paradox: trying not to insult customers

A long time ago, in a company far far away, I ran a Novell network (2.15 !). The other administrator and I checked had Supervisor powers on this network and we found that it was nearly everybody. So we removed all of them. Our director threw a fit - so
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 04, 2007 3:50 PM

Ooh 'eck. Now I'm the blog Police ?

No sense denying it, I like Mary Jo Foley linking to something I wrote . Although being cast as a member of the thought Blog Police seems odd. I doubt if many people think of me as someone who filters what he says inside Microsoft :-) I searched for an
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Friday, January 26, 2007 6:48 PM

Another lesson in FUD, from a past master.

A little culture to lead into the weekend. A quote from Voltaire no less. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Someone sent me a link to story " Rivals Attack Vista As Illegal
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
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
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Monday, September 25, 2006 11:41 AM

On Compatibility

Pentax have just released a fantastic new DSLR . Before anyone jumps to the usual conclusions about us Microsoft folks being paid in huge sacks of gold, after my recent holiday, its going to take time and careful management of the pennies before I can
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:38 PM

The first rule of Politics. Microsoft and the EU

Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay know a fair bit about politics, which was how they came to write the hugely popular "Yes Minister" series . They wrote that the first rule of politics is "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied". A lot
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Friday, August 18, 2006 1:36 PM

Feeling Stupid (part 1)

Two quotes for the day I am the final silence The last electrician alive And they called me the sparkle I was the best, I worked them all .... and Roy : There's only two of us now. Pris : Then we're stupid and we'll die. The second is the from Blade runner.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:35 AM

Excitement - you can't beat it, you can't fake it

As I've mentioned over the last couple of days I'm at Tech-Ready - it's the event Microsoft runs twice a year in Seattle for it's technical field staff. On Monday we had the keynotes with Steve Ballmer and Kevin Turner . We have tradition of one-off videos
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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:00 AM

Small details are important.

I've already mentioned that I am testing an interim build of Vista. One of the things that we have changed in this build is the way the OS deals with public and private networks. Vista can recognize a domain network and the chances are you only connect
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Friday, May 19, 2006 7:02 PM

The Mis-appliance of science pt1 – talking about the benefits of Vista

Talking about cost of ownership on its own is nuts. There, I’ve come out and said it. There are two sides in most economic decisions, the gain side and the cost side. You can’t make a decision based on just one. So anyone with a budget should ask Can
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