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Friday, October 16, 2009 4:02 PM

Microsoft Security Essentials

Somehow, in all the other activities of the last couple of weeks I missed the release of Microsoft Security Essentials which is our FREE* anti-virus / anti-malware product aimed at home users. (We have the more business oriented Forefront Client Security
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Monday, May 04, 2009 3:31 PM

Windows 7 XP mode: helpful ? Sure. Panacea ? No.

ComputerWorld have an interesting piece up about XP Mode for Windows 7. Saying that it “could create support nightmares, analysts said today” They quote Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft as saying “I think that this will help the uptake
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Sunday, May 03, 2009 3:16 PM

Virtual Windows XP … picking myself up off the floor.

Someone gave me a definition of insanity as “trying the same thing over and over again expecting different results”.  I guess trying something you expect to fail is somewhere between insanity and scientific thoroughness. Anyhow, that’s how I came
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 02, 2009 11:33 PM

Exploring Windows XP mode for Windows 7

Windows Virtual PC is on Technet for people to download, the Windows Virtual PC  page says it will be available to everyone on May 5th, but the  evaluation guide is available already I’ve installed it and started to play. I’ve only got one application
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Friday, May 01, 2009 4:20 PM

Easy transfer is not a sign of weakness

Someone from the office (no names, no pack drill) told me they had read my post from yesterday where I mentioned Windows Easy Transfer.  They felt that it might not be quite the done thing for a technical person to use it but since I was using it
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Friday, May 01, 2009 11:49 AM

Clarifying: the new virtual PC, Windows XP mode for Windows 7, and MED-V

There is an interview with Scott Woodgate,  published as  press release on press pass   entitled Helping Small Businesses With Windows 7 Professional and Windows XP Mode. After starting to speculate about this a little too soon, I want
Posted by jamesone | 7 Comments
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
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:41 PM

Window borders...

My carbon footprint has got worse: after the travel of the Road-show, I popped up to Leeds last night to talk to BCS. A round trip of 400 miles. While I was there Dave threw me one of those questions... the kind where you know the answer. You know that
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:59 PM

Product life cycles (and Virtual Server 2005)

It's always nice when someone says James O'Neill, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, reveals that Virtual Server 2005 support will end in 2014 - except that then people come and demand to know why you're revealing product plans. So, lets start with a basic
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
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
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:38 PM

Vista's desktop index and PowerShell.

Vista's desktop index has changed the way I work. I've stopped worrying about folders, any more than I worry about URLs for Internet content. It's either obvious or I find it with search. So... since I have all of my stuff indexed. I should be able to
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:46 PM

Getting a better PDF experience

Lets get prejudice out up front. I pendulum between liking Adobe products (e.g. Lightroom), admiring the technology but hating the way it's used ( Hugh has it right when it comes to flash use ), and getting thoroughly ticked off with PDF. e.g. Microsoft's
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:13 PM

NTBackup - restore for Vista

I'm not quite sure when it appeared, but this evening I noticed a link on the restore dialog box in Vista " Learn how to restore from backups created on Older versions of Windows ", there are 32 and 64Bit versions. I considered using a Virtual Machine
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:26 PM

On Time-zones...

Spring is here, Spring is here ... I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring, yes I do, don't you ? course you do. Actually when I look at the weather it's doesn't look like spring. But unlike Tom Lehrer , the one thing that makes spring complete
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:03 PM

The mouse James Bond would have.

A week or so ago I wrote about daft voices, and I feel like this should be in the voice of Sean Connery. (Which ish eashy to do. You jusht shubstitute mosht of the esshh shoundsh ....) I was given a new Wireless Presenter mouse 8000 - and it seems like
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
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