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July 2005 - Posts

Vista Beta 1: Applications Compatibility

Posted Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:52 PM by Hilton Locke
By now, if you haven't been scared off of running Vista Beta 1, nothing will scare you, so I might as well share this: the Tablet PC Experience Pack won't install on Vista Beta 1 either. I actually reported this to the responsible team a while back, but Read More...
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Vista Beta 1: How to get Aero Glass visuals on your Tablet

Posted Saturday, July 30, 2005 3:02 PM by Hilton Locke
https://blogs.msdn.com/kamvedbrat/archive/2005/07/30/445346.aspx (update 8/2/05: fixed title for consistency with my other Vista Beta 1 posts) Read More...
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Vista Beta 1: Tablets and device drivers

Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:38 PM by Hilton Locke
The number one, primo, super-duper, first, most annoying issue Tablet users will find with Vista Beta 1 is: lack of driver support. Vista is undergoing a lot of changes under the hood, and this means that a lot of device drivers will have to be rewritten Read More...
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Vista Beta1 is done!

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:24 PM by Hilton Locke
Well, that wasn't too long to wait was it? Tablet users: you will likely want to approach Vista Beta 1 slowly, as this is primarily an infrastructure release for us and many of the user interface items (read: Tablet PC Input Panel, Journal, et al) are Read More...
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Usage scenarios and Pain points

Posted Monday, July 25, 2005 3:22 PM by Hilton Locke
Our user research team just published the results of an internal survey of 4500 Microsoft tablet users, asking what their top Usage Scenarios and Pain Points were. Some of the results were: Usage Scenarios: (in no particular order) note taking web browsing Read More...
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Sometimes, I wish people would send me free stuff...

Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 5:53 PM by Hilton Locke
I can't say that I have any power to get you into any beta of anything, but it would be cool to leave anonymity for a little bit. Check this pic out Wow! But then after thinking about it a little, I am happy for my anonymity. I wonder what it'd be like Read More...
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Pictures of the IBM X41 Tablet

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:56 PM by Hilton Locke
Courtesy of Terri Stratton. http://thetabletpc.net/reviews-convertibles.htm p.s. I am deep into Longhorn Beta 1 testing right now - we are under deadline to get Beta 1 out the door. I promise to post more soon! Read More...
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Tablet Avalon blog!

Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:34 AM by Hilton Locke
Check out our Tablet Avalon team blog at http://blogs.technet.com/tavalon/ Welcome to the blogosphere guys! Update: found them! link above is now updated Read More...
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Tablet Bloggers need more hits

Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 6:53 PM by Hilton Locke
http://www.windojitsu.com/blog/index.html is the blog of Shawn Van Ness, one of our newest, yet most (industry) experienced, Program Managers. Visit Shawn's blog to get good technical insights into developer-oriented matters, like Avalon's Ink support Read More...
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About that "additional testing" notation in the KB article...

Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 6:29 PM by Hilton Locke
I just heard about some conspiracy theories floating around our recent memory leak fix . Said theories revolve around the line: "Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing." To be clear, Read More...
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New Motion 8.4" Tablet announced

Posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:50 PM by Hilton Locke
Lots of news this week - apparently the holiday weekend is no longer just for movie premieres! http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc_ls.asp http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000810049665/ I haven't used this particular model yet, but will Read More...
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Memory leak fixed

Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:14 PM by Hilton Locke
We released a hotfix today that addresses KB895953 . http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/8/e/a8eccb84-a587-4c37-9eec-199bc374ad7e/WindowsXP-KB895953-v4-x86-ENU.exe Thank you for your patience while we got this through the process. Update: if the Read More...
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LH on Tablet update

Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:00 PM by Hilton Locke
Been clearing my plate of various tasks that have piled up. LH installed on my M1300 finally. Don't try this at home unless you have revved your BIOS (still in testing). LH installed on my Tecra M4. A few device drivers to install yet, but should be done Read More...
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