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• I think Engadget’s Windows 7 review is unhelpful

  Engadget’s Windows 7 review here Engadget recently published a review of Windows 7 RTM. I think it’s flawed, because the reviewers seem to have encountered problems with Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer 8, yet the review did not disclose any reason... Posted Aug 14 2009, 06:15 PM by admin with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Windows, x64, Windows 7 RTM Upgrades, Windows 7, Windows 7 RTM

• Build the Perfect Windows Vista PC, Part 2: Design Considerations and Parts...Parts...Parts

  In part 1 of this arc I presented a view of the discovery and requirements analysis process that goes into building a perfect PC - where learning how a PC was going to be used and by whom was the goal. That process drives context and provides not just... Posted Mar 14 2008, 03:34 PM by admin with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Windows, Opinion, Vista Networking, PC, Personal Computers, Windows Vista Ultimate, Ultimate, Computers, 64 bit, x64

• Build the Perfect Windows Vista PC, Part 1: Discovery and Requirements

  BBAMF64 - Big, Bold, Agile, and Massively Fun What, you thought that a four-letter word for intercourse wasn't "talk"? I thought I'd share a small arc about what it is to build not just a computer, but the perfect PC . A lot of IT professionals... Posted Mar 07 2008, 03:05 PM by admin with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Opinion, Vista Networking, PC, Windows Vista Ultimate, Ultimate, The PC

• Vista, It is what it is...

  Next to, "You today, me tomorrow..." it is what it is has to be my favorite saying. Windows Vista is what it is... and while it is just an operating system , it is at the center of a pretty important ecosystem and relevant to nearly all of us... Posted Feb 21 2008, 05:54 PM by admin with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Opinion, Solve PC Problems, The PC, Snark Attack

• Scratching my head...

  I just don't get it. What in H.E. Double-Hockey-Sticks are people doing that has caused so many to have so much trouble running Windows Vista? Some Background: I need to share a different perspective - the only one I know and that is the one shaped... Posted Feb 20 2008, 06:03 AM by admin with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: people, Vista, Windows, Drivers, Windows Vista Performance and Reliability Monitor, Windows Vista Service Pack(1), Personal Computers, Windows Vista Ultimate, Ultimate, Quick Tips, trolls, Testing, Solve PC Problems

• Gritty Nits - Fix Internet Explorer 7 Crashes in Vista

  A lot of you may have seen Internet Explorer crash "Internet Explorer has stopped working" when closing the browser in Windows Vista. It happens all too often and while it no longer takes the operating system out with it, it is still annoying... Posted Jan 29 2008, 06:19 PM by admin with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Opinion, Windows Vista Performance and Reliability Monitor, Personal Computers, Windows Vista Ultimate, IE 7, Fix IE, Fix IE 7

• What's Wrong With Windows? Why Live Matters...

  "People don't want a waitress and a cook - people want a chef that is also a nutritionist!" - Windows Live may well be all of these... Technically there isn't much wrong with Windows at all - it's a great operating system and it... Posted Dec 29 2007, 10:31 PM by admin with | with no comments Filed under: YAB, Vista, Windows Vista, Windows, Opinion, Windows Live

• The Case FOR and AGAINST Windows Vista

  Did you ever wish you were wrong? I mean, really wrong? When BETA 2 for Windows Longhorn Vista shipped, I installed it as I had many previous development and testing versions of the new operating system. I wrote, and crazily so, that Vista was going to... Posted Dec 27 2007, 07:01 PM by admin with | with no comments Filed under: YAB, Vista, Windows Vista, Opinion, Vista Security, Personal Computers, Windows Vista Ultimate, Computers, Windows Vista Business

• Skewered by the SKU

  Perhaps too much has been written about the number and type of SKU's Microsoft released for Windows Vista - so why I am adding to the din now... Many attempted to explain why the larger number of available SKU's was bad, or what one would be trading... Posted Dec 16 2007, 08:30 PM by admin with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Windows, Opinion, Windows Vista Ultimate, Business, Windows Vista Business

• Vista's Asshats!

  In the context of Windows Vista, an "Asshat" is a person who steals the operating system, uses it illegally, never patches it - ever, and then complains about it endlessly and publicly. There are of course, degrees of Asshat-edness, orders,... Posted Dec 12 2007, 06:54 PM by admin with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: people, Vista, Opinion, Windows Vista Performance and Reliability Monitor, asshats, trolls

• Hardware as a Service - Selling a Lifestyle

  Selling a lifestyle that includes and uses personal computers, provides that computers are delivered as turn-key companions that are connected to a wide range of secure-only communications, personal and team productivity and entertainment services. Hardware... Posted Oct 23 2007, 09:04 PM by admin with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: why Blog, Vista, Features, Windows Vista, Opinion, Vista Security, Outlook, Vista Networking, Local Builders, Windows Vista Ultimate, Exchange 2007, Outlook 2007, Customer Colleagues, HaaS, Hardware as a Service, Computers

• Windows Vista's Preview Pane in Explorer

  Windows Explorer in Windows Vista features a lot of enhancements over previous versions of the operating system. Among my favorites and one that I have found very useful, is the Preview Pane - a view available under the Organize menu option in the top... Posted Sep 17 2007, 05:41 PM by admin with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows Vista Ultimate, Quick Tips, Preview Pane, Views, Windows Livedows Explorer

• Ending the Blame Game - Driving Your Own Car!

  Ed Bott, in a discussion thread in response to one of his blog postings about " No more Vista whining, please " revealed something very troubling - Ed twice stated that he was offered and could make "Big Bucks" if he wrote articles... Posted Aug 23 2007, 03:36 PM by admin with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Windows, Opinion, Vista Security, Personal Computers, Windows Vista Ultimate, Ultimate, Customer Colleagues, Support, Jim Louderback, Training

• Outgoing PC Magazine editor Jim Louderback, Trashes Vista on His Way Out

  Outgoing PC Magazine editor Jim Louderback, trashed Windows Vista as he exited the magazine for his new role as the CEO of Revision3. Thank God for Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, where he P0wned Jim and his lame assed parting shot at Vista. There's... Posted Aug 20 2007, 04:48 PM by admin with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, Windows, Opinion, PC, Jim Louderback, Revision3

• Hidden Exchange 2007 - Outook 2007 Connection Tests and Monitoring

  Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007 feature a less well known set of connection and monitoring tools. To access the tools, CTRL-Right-Click the Outlook 2007 System Tray Icon. See figure below: The tools provide a couple of useful means to examine and assess... Posted Jul 06 2007, 09:21 PM by admin with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Vista, Windows Vista, MAPI, Outlook, RPC over HTTP, Sync, Vista Networking, Exchange 2007, Outlook 2007