When I get a new computer I always do a couple of things immediately upon getting to the Windows Desktop. One of those things is enabling the showing of extensions and hidden files. You should do it too, it can save tons of headaches.
Open windows explorer either via the taskbar shortcut or by computer [...]
Since this is the week Windows 7 is getting released and I’m hosting a Windows 7 Party, I thought it would be great to share some of my favorite new features in Windows 7 with my readers.
The Windows 7 Sidebar in the past has been more or less static. In Windows XP, you were given [...]
Since this is the week Windows 7 is getting released and I’m hosting a Windows 7 Party, I thought it would be great to share some of my favorite new features in Windows 7 with my readers.
The overhauled task bar in Windows 7 is definitely an eye-catcher. One of the new features is collapsing previews. [...]
Since this is the week Windows 7 is getting released and I’m hosting a Windows 7 Party, I thought it would be great to share some of my favorite new features in Windows 7 with my readers.
Windows Update in Windows 7. Do you remember XP Windows Update? You always had to go through Internet Explorer [...]
My father was pre-ordering the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade today. He needed to know if he should get a copy for my mother’s computer which currently runs Windows XP. She uses it for work primarily and because of that, uses the Cisco VPN client. I have a number of computers running the Windows 7 RC [...]
I got an email from Microsoft today asking me to take their Windows 7 RC survey. While I was taking it, you could see the mind set of the people who wrote it and the company behind them. Let’s just say it was slightly geared towards people who were not very technical. It also asked [...]
I’ve been wondering about the price of Windows. I’ve seen a couple of blogs that think the signs point to a release somewhere between August and December. I think that’s a good guess because if Microsoft misses Back-To-School and Christmas again, they’ll end up in a hole they can’t get out of.
Anyway, so the price [...]
Microsoft has a pleasing blog setup that has the Windows 7 team write up posts about development of Windows 7. On the 19th of November, a post about the history of the Taskbar and the ideas they used to improve it was posted. The post was generally great. It explained the trade offs about disk [...]
Today, Microsoft put up a blog post on their Windows Vista Team Blog, Introducing Windows 7. The official codename of Windows 7 is: Windows 7. I bet you didn’t see that coming.
Anyway, if you look at the comments on that page, you’ll see some critisiem about the numbering of Windows. Honestly, I don’t think it’s [...]
Please, I beg you. Stop selling multi-touch when talking about Windows 7. Don’t even mention it, never ever again. Here is my reasoning.
When the iPhone came out, it made a splash in a pretty big market of the same stuff. Phones. Why was it any different? You could touch it and when they said you [...]