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Two great Vista posts

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:16 AM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/02/two-great-vista-posts.aspx'; I enjoyed Matt’s recent blog post on “ The Vista Schoolyard Bullies ” where he analyses some of the Mac/PC propaganda and provides some very good thoughts on Read More...
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Vista goes pink

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:54 AM by stevecla01
Microsoft Japan takes a new approach to Vista – pinkifying it! spotted by Long Read More...
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Sony bows to the public

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:54 PM by stevecla01
Good on Sony in the first place for offering to liberate laptops of their bloatware and second good on ‘em for listening to customers who said charging $50 for the privilege was outrageous. I first saw this on The Guardian blog and sighed. So near Read More...
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Dell PRODUCT (RED), XPS One Now Available in UK

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:11 PM by stevecla01
  Dell PRODUCT (RED), XPS One Now Available in U.K., France and Germany - Direct2Dell - The Official Dell blog Do I bit the bullet and buy one as I said I would or will I struggle to get it pas the gadget police? Hmmm…..anyone know where I Read More...
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Vista SP1 released

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:31 PM by stevecla01
Finally Windows Vista SP1 is iout there and available to all via Windows Update. Check out Nick White's post on the Windows Vista Team Blog which has more details and an update on the drivers situation. As Nick notes, the "standalone installer" Read More...
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UltimatePC.com

Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:54 PM by stevecla01
This is one of those Microsoft websites that springs up that you never hear about. Nice design, good content and worthy of a spot on microsoft.com if you ask me (they didn't). UltimatePC.com is built by the Vista Ultimate team to showcase what people Read More...
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Sony nixes bloatware and trialware

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:02 AM by stevecla01
With both my Vaio SZ and TZ I wiped them clean on arrival and built them from the ground up with Vista Ultimate. It was a total nightmare getting all the drivers and some of the more useful 3rd party software reinstalled (e.g. WinDVD). Now, finally, the Read More...
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(RED)MOND

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 11:24 PM by stevecla01
This is what greeted me this morning when I pulled in for an early meeting in Bld 121 on the Redmond campus. Nice :) Read More...
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Vista SP1 is go

Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM by stevecla01
  SteveB announced it has gone to RTM today at the FAM. Seattle PI has the news [update] more detail and release info from Mike Nash Read More...
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Windows (Product) Red

Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:59 PM by stevecla01
    Now official and Robert McLaw s has some great images and coverage. Love those banners on campus . Read More...
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Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh Publicly Available

Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:51 PM by stevecla01
The latest Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh (mouthful eh) is now publicly available . Personal experience would suggest if you're using Vista, give it a whirl. Definite improvements though as usual, not for use in production environments etc etc. Read More...
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Windows Live Photogallery - panoramic video

Posted Sunday, December 30, 2007 8:34 PM by stevecla01
Hats off to Long who's found a whole load of Vista/Office/Live videos on YouTube . This one shows a feature I have talked about a lot on my blog and Angus regularly shows it in action on his. I guess the videos aren't as cool as the Apple/PC videos from Read More...
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Does Allard have the midas touch for Windows?

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 11:06 PM by stevecla01
Interesting post by Joe Wilcox about Zune and reaction from kids who got it for Christmas. Of more interest to me was this line:   Zune marketing is excellent, and there are strong ties to XBOX 360   I agree. Zune marketing and XBOX marketing Read More...
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Ask Jack on Vista

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:49 PM by stevecla01
Some sense breaks out around Vista with Jack Schofield of The Guardian responding to a reader request about buying a new PC There has been something of a backlash against Vista, but this has also been true of most new Microsoft operating systems. I'd Read More...
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Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate announced

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:31 PM by stevecla01
Nick White over at the Vista team blog just announced that RC of Vista SP1 is going on Microsoft Connect today and to MSDN and Technet subscribers tomorrow. It will then go public next week. The highlights:   The size of the standalone installers Read More...
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