As I recommended today, friends don't let friends download bad things from peer to peer . So wait until the official downloads to the Release Candidate (RC) of Windows 7 are available. As noted online today, the Windows 7 RC posted today (April 30th...

This question today came in on moving data from one mail client to the next… How can I export my contacts and emails from thunderbird to outlook? The UCLA knowledge base has a step-by-stem guide on moving messages from Thunderbird to Outlook: converting...

As Brandon just posted on the windowsteamblog.com this afternoon, the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is "on track for April 30th for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th." "Many...

A quick post with few interesting links and stories from the reading pile before I head off to my next spate of discussions: As I posted on twitter , when I clean install the next public Windows 7 build on PC at home, I'll use WMIC to grab a list of my...

Of interest today from The Morning Bridge, a news feed of coverage of what's happening in multiplatform companies (across cable, satellite, telco and wireless operators), Zenith provides a "DTV Help Guide" for the last mile to the Digital TV...

A couple of similarly themed questions today: "I've lost my password and secret question of my account e-mail. Where do I get help to regain my password as soon as possible? and "Today, while I was using Windows Live Messenger, I automatically...

Sitting through lunch today between meetings and mail, I thought about what every self-respecting geek waiting for the release of Windows 7 : what should I do in order to prep one of my older computers for this new OS? Today, I thought I'd start with...

A few links of interest today… a quick post as I need to get through my email. Busy week. You've no doubt seen the latest Microsoft Windows commercials . Well, BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl has a bone to pick with the math in his article, Mac vs. PC...

Ever see the movie Groundhog Day ? Well, I feel like I'm re-living a past event. We have reports that Pakistan is changing their daylight saving time … but unfortunately all we have are news reports at this time (as noted here on the dailytimes.com.pk...

This week the Windows 7 team posted on delivering a quality upgrade experience for Windows 7, noting that many people are running the Windows 7 Beta full time just as many of us do daily at Microsoft. And the team is encouraging users to revert to an...

The new "I'm a PC" commercial, with Giampaolo… As noted on Engadget … "Armed with a $1,500 budget, he walks out of Fry's with an HP HDX 16 that features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB drive...

How fitting that my reference to this blog post was my 1,000 tweet on Twitter … but here are a few of my recent favourite tweets from others on Twitter. A quick post as we hang with the kids this weekend on a gorgeous day: a few of my recent favourites...

I have no intention of leading you astray this April 1, although I am happy to point you to this past article in which I answered your questions on how I work at the office. As I noted in my post about the kick-off of Microsoft Answers beta and Windows...

(I've republished this post today due to a server issue that seems to be happening with the link to the original post.) How I Work: M3 Sweatt No matter what anyone tells you, there’s still a bunch of paper in this digital world. M3 Sweatt, Windows...