From the Dr’s office: Windows 7—A Healthy Choice

Dan Fay — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:25:40 GMT

Sometimes you need doctors to give human consumable descriptions – and Bill Crounse’s post on Windows 7 – summed up my experiences with Windows 7 much more eloquent then I could :-)

I especially love the DirectAccess feature – which let’s me have access to all my corporate resources (web sites, SharePoint, file shares, etc) while working from home or on the road - no need to VPN/RAS into corporate.

Windows 7—A Healthy Choice

Let me be perfectly honest. At some level, an operating system is just an operating system. Whether you hang out in the C-suite, in the IT department, on the ward, or in the operating room; you just want your computer to work. Having said that, I think anyone who truly enjoys computing as I do and how the personal computer helps us do our work (communicate, collaborate, locate the information we need, improve clinical practice, patient safety and the quality of patient care) will simply love working with Windows 7. Why?

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Windows 7 Federated Search Providers

Dan Fay — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:39:34 GMT

I just updated two of my machines to Windows 7 RC and one of the neatest features is the ability to have Federated Search Providers – simply run an XML configuration file (.osdx) to add a search provider to your machine and you can search directly from windows explorer.

So for fun I created two: One to search the Microsoft Research website and one to search my blog. I also created one to search against internal SharePoint sites…really handy.

BHandler has a post with some links to other .osdx files and David McGhee has other ones…

Windows 7 Federated Search Providers

Microsoft MSDN Blogger, David McGhee, is recommending adding Windows 7 Federated Search Providers from the Windows Seven Forums. (Support: How to Video & Implementer's Guide)

MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers - Windows Live

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From the Dr’s office: Windows 7—A Healthy Choice

Windows 7—A Healthy Choice

Windows 7 Federated Search Providers

Windows 7 Federated Search Providers