Ozzie Rules Blogging

In Darwin i wanted to show off VSTO in Visual Studio 2005. So the night before I fire up Visual Studio and do the normal File>New Project>Office>Excel Work book. And I get the error: “A compatible version of Microsoft Office Excel 2003 is not...

Been playing with the Windows Vista startup recovery console and while i got the recovery console to load the Winre.win but it wouldn't see any of the drives. Turns out you need to put the Toshiba Raid driver on a USB Key and load it at the "Detecting...

I am going to do a bunch of flying over the next couple of days and would like to listen to some Webcasts (WMV files) from my smartphone with my headset. This being the case i needed to convert the WMV files to WMA. My first try was to use Windows Media...

Soon Microsoft will be in Australia interviewing interested and qualified candidates for software development positions working on our major products in the USA at our corporate headquarters in Redmond Washington. If you are interested, or know someone...

Just finished rebuilding my Vista machine and needed to install Virtual PC and remembered Dougie mentioning Virtual PC 2007 (beta Release Candidate) is available. A quick search turned up the Virtual PC guys blog: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is...

Anthony Borton reminded me not only did i forget the VSTS User group - there is a meeting tomorrow morning! The Queensland VSTS User Group www.qvstsug.org Anthony Borton [anthonyb@abtraining.com.au]

I have been working with the folks at MITN and we have just confirmed the Windows Vista launch for Mackay to be Feb 23rd. Since we only have an hour to go through an entire new operating system and Office Suite this will be pretty high level but areas...

1-Day ISV Virtualization Summit Technical decisions are as far reaching as business decisions. This 1-Day Summit specifically for Technical Decision makers is designed to provide you the necessary knowledge and technical details of Microsoft Virtual Server...

Scott Barnes unfortunately can not make tonight's GoldCoast Usergroup meeting so Anthony Borton is stepping up with the first developer presentation in Australia on Windows Longhorn! A developer’s introduction to Windows Server codenamed “Longhorn” In...