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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:43 PM

More Win7 Previews

Previews of some specific parts of Windows 7 which are of interest to me: Audio Media Center
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:40 PM

Win7 Previews Starting To Appear

Windows 7 is being unveiled for the first time at PDC and the initial previews are starting to hit the net. Here is a sampling: Gizmodo (covers Device Stage with lots of pictures) WinSuperSite (lots of pictures of the shell) Ars Technica (mostly new UI)
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Monday, October 13, 2008 10:48 PM

Windows 7 Will Be Officially Called... "Windows 7"

After Millenium, XP, and Vista comes... Windows 7. Yep. Not a lot of imagination in this one. As unexciting as the name is, I'm excited that we're finally starting to talk about it. It's shaping up to be a really nice OS. I can't wait until you all get
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:02 PM

Cause of "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet Site" found

Perhaps you, like me saw a rash of sites giving the error "Internet explorer cannot open the Internet Site" yesterday. At first I thought one of my machines was messed up. Then I saw it on another machine. This one running XP. A virus perhaps? I can't
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:49 AM

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta Is Available

At long last, there is a preliminary fix for the corruption issue that has dogged WHS since its release. The WHS team released the fix with its Power Pack 1 beta. See their blog post for details and a link to download it. In addition to the corruption
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:04 AM

Update on Windows Home Server Corruption Issue

The WHS team has an update on their blog regarding the corruption issue. In short, they fully understand the issue and are working on a fix. The issue is at a low level of the operating system and so requires a lot of testing to be sure that the fix works
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Monday, March 03, 2008 4:04 PM

Drobo + Windows Home Server = Goodness

I've been using Windows Home Server (WHS) for a little over a month now. While there is still an issue with data corruption if you work on files directly on the server, as a backup tool, it is great. The system is practically foolproof. Install the server,
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:14 PM

Trying Windows Home Server

Over the weekend I installed Windows Home Server on a spare box that I had. So far, I'm impressed. The interface is very slick. Installation of the client software called the "Connector" is easy. Go to a share on the server and install. All connections
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Monday, December 17, 2007 9:29 AM

Vista SP1 Release Candidate Available to the Public

Vista SP1 RC1 has just been released for public consumption. If you want to try it out, you can do so here . I'm running this on most of my machines without incident. This includes my Media Center at home. So, from my few data points, it seems quite stable.
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Friday, August 17, 2007 8:15 PM

XP Machine Can't See Vista Computer - Solution

I'm at my brother-in-law's place and had to troubleshoot a network issue. I didn't see quite this situation on the web so I'll post it here in case it can help someone else. The issue was that his laptop (XP) couldn't see his desktop (Vista). The easy
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:34 PM

Windows Live SkyDrive Is In Open Beta

Windows Live SkyDrive is now open to the public in beta form. From what I can tell, it is basically 500 megs of drive space on the web that you can use to store personal documents or things you want to share. This isn't the first time something like this
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:06 AM

Vista Performance Update

We just released two update packages which improve the performance and compatibility of Vista. As far as I can tell, they aren't on Windows Update yet so you'll have to go get them manually. The most significant in my mind is improvement for file copies
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:14 AM

List of ReadyBoost Compatible Devices

I've been interested in ReadyBoost for a while now but it's hard to find out which devices will work and which will not. Performance specs do not provide enough information to tell because often they list speeds in only bursty situations. Some manufacturers
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 12:00 AM

How We'll Avoid the Animated Cursor Bug Next Time

Michael Howard provides a very insightful look at how the animated cursor bug bypassed the numerous security measures in Vista. He dicusses the -GS flag, address space randomization, static analysis tools, and fuzz testing. He also talks about the steps
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:44 PM

Why Windows Can't See 4GB of Memory

Interesting post by Hilton Locke about why installing 4 GB of RAM on a 32-bit box doesn't actually give you 4 GB of RAM. Instead it gives you something like 3 GB of RAM. A 32-bit operating system should be able to access 4GB. Worse, a 64-bit operating
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