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Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air

Roughly a year after my Windows Vista installation on a MacBook Air (MBA), it is time for an update. Running Windows 7 for quite some time on my personal laptop and on my office systems, I decided it was time for an upgrade. Vista runs great on the MBA. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 10:41 AM by Volker Will | 14 Comments
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Virtual HPC Cluster Deployment on Hyper-V

The blogs on windowshpc.net are picking up steam. Great to see more and more folks from the product group starting to post! I missed one from a few days ago but wanted to bring it to your attention anyway. Yutong Sun posted a blog entry about using Hyper-V Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 11:34 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Apple has passed Dell in the classroom

Tim Cook, Apple's COO, mentioned it at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium a few days back: "We just received word on Monday that Apple surpassed Dell as the number one supplier of portables to US higher education for 2007." I Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:58 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Installing Vista on a MacBook Air

Unable to resist I got myself a shiny, slim new MacBook Air (MBA). While I am used to Mac OS X, I wanted it to run Vista so I can also take it to work. My MBA has a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and a 64GB solid state drive and I bought a SuperDrive . Here's Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:57 AM by Volker Will | 43 Comments

Office 2008 for Mac

The coolest Office Suite ever is available in the stores now. If you watched Steve Job's keynote at MacWorld today, you have seen it already. If not, check out the website and the Mac Mojo blog. My favorite feature is the Notebook view in Word. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:23 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Stunningly aluminum

I agree with Jason , absolutely stunning . If Microsoft does Office for Mac, why doesn't Apple make keyboards for Windows ( I mean, with all the keys I would need...)? I'd buy 2. Virtually Yours Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:56 PM by Volker Will | 4 Comments
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Beta Update of Parallels Desktop for Mac is available

The mail just arrived in my inbox. Looks like some real good improvements are heading our way. ( More... ) Tags: Parallels , Vista Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:16 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Vista and Leopard race to the line misses the point

iTWire misses the point - again: "For Windows users, who happen to constitute 90% of desktop users on the planet, they will finally have a system that affords them a level of security that Mac users have enjoyed for many years." You can't compare Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:29 AM by Volker Will | 2 Comments
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Parallels to support Vista?

Wonder where they are with their project to support Vista. as guest on a Mac. Benjamin Rudolph kind of promised Vista or ACPI support for that matter in Parallels before Vista ships. Uuhhh. Let’s hope we stick to our current ship date. Can’t Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:39 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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MACBU and MSTSC and RDP 6.0 :)

Today I meet with Brian. Brian is Product Manager in the MACBU (Mac Business Unit). Brian and team work on Microsoft products for the Apple Mac. Definitely a cool place to work. Everyone seems to have at least one MacBook (Pro) or better. Channel9 did Read More...
Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 8:56 PM by Volker Will | 3 Comments
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P2V migration from Bootcamp to Parallels

Even reading this good write up of a physical to virtual (P2V) migration of Windows on a Mac is painful. Since all settings seem to be lost afterwards anyway. Maybe a new install would have been painless. Tags: Apple , Mac OS , Bootcamp , Parallels , Read More...
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 5:14 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Bootcamp on the new Mac

Rest assured, I will not - at least not now - write the 12,337th blog about how I installed Windows XP or Vista on a MacBook. I was totally tempted to use Bootcamp before the box arrived. Even after I unpacked it, it briefly crossed my mind to scratch Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:52 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Favorite Mac app of the week

This week my favorite Mac app is SeisMac . Wonder if there's a similar app for Windows. "SeisMac is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that makes your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop's Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:25 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Switching from Windows to Mac

On PCMAG.COM I found an article about a guy – kinda like me – kinda switching from Windows to Mac. Interesting to see others making almost exact the same experience from first unpack to the installation of Firefox and beyond. Would be interesting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:49 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Better Mac ads

In a recent post I mentioned the new Apple Mac ads . Thanks to Scoble I found some ads on YouTube that I like even better. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:44 AM by Volker Will | 3 Comments
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