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Monday, June 16, 2008 2:19 PM

How I get the server 2008 I want: #3: Vista look and feel

I'll be the first to admit that Servers don't need to have the nice look and feel that we get with Desktop Operating Systems. But since the core of the OS is common to both it is possible. In Windows Server 2003 we had the XP Themes Service and if you
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:28 PM

Doubts and Powershell, Hyper-V KeyValue pairs and Hash tables.

I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities; that they have a demon on their shoulder who whispers "You're not really, that good" ... "They'll find you out one day". I was talking
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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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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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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:46 PM

Remote Server Admin tools for Vista

Hard on the heels of the news of management tools for Hyper-V , I find that the folks in Redmond chose a UK public holiday to release all the Admin tools for Windows Vista to manage Servers. The package is described in KB941314 - which doesn't seem to
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:28 PM

Manage Hyper-V from Vista

I nearly leaked this ahead of time; as part of the Release Candidate for Hyper-V we have released a version of of the management console to run on Windows Vista SP1. (No, to the best of my Knowledge we don't have plans of a version which runs on XP or
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:20 AM

Vista SP1 now on Windows update.

I'm in Birmingham for the Windows Server 2008/SQL Visual Studio Launch. We British Microsofties tease our American colleagues for saying that they are "Super-Excited" about things, but I even I'm feeling the excitement - or maybe it's a combination
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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:04 PM

While you were sleeping ... an attack on bitlocker etc

I'm always suspicious of people talking down security vulnerabilities, but I don't like to see them over-hyped  either; so I'm going down the former path. You are allowed to be skeptical. A couple of people have mailed me this morning about this
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Friday, February 15, 2008 12:38 PM

Vista SP1 update is now on Technet and MSDN

It's no use trying to pretend otherwise, we didn't do a great job on making Vista SP1 available. Some of us in the field  ( Keith for one, Matt for another, Daniel for a third) felt the heat from customers and we did our bit to get the update out
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:43 PM

Deploying Vista SP1.

For the last year I have been saying that the mentality of waiting for a Service pack is a way of thinking which belongs to the 1990s (wait 6 months might make sense, but a service pack is not the milestone it was). Still, SP1 has released and whilst
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Monday, February 11, 2008 5:10 PM

More news on Vista SP1

As I forecast when I posted the news of Vista  SP1's release the delay in making it widely available has caused some " impatience" . Mike Nash has come back with an update on the availability. Late Friday we made SP1 RTM available to individuals
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:06 AM

It is done.

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have released to manufacturing . Actually it caught me by surprise because I was expecting it to happen later this week. Alex Hinrichs breaks the news on the Windows Server blog with pictures of the
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:32 PM

Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Perhaps it's a bit strong to say "if complete and utter chaos was lightning, Jeff Jones would be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards' " (as a favourite quote has it) but you must
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:44 PM

Strings, strange forces and being misquoted

When I was in my teens, my school Physics class was taken on trip to the Royal Institution, and the star speaker we saw was Eric Laithwaite . He demonstrated a famous experiment of his (lifting a spinning gyroscope which was too heavy to lift when at
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:12 PM

On the superiority of Windows vista.

One of the ways to divide I meet is break them into the "Stallers and Installers". I meet plenty of people who have installed are running Windows Vista. No OS is perfect, but those who have made the move to Vista seem to be happier there than they were
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