Category: Windows
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Windows Live OneCare is a POS
Windows Live OneCare is a fantastic idea. Write buggy insecure software and then charge the people who buy your software extra if they want to buy OneCare, which is supposed to protect them from the errors you created in the first place. Anyone else see a conflict of interest here? Why fix the software, when…
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My move from OS X to Vista – Day 4
I know, I know, I didn’t post anything yesterday so this should be Day 5 but I wasn’t using the Vista machine yesterday, I was using the Mac for a Keynote presentation I was giving. Powerpoint has nothing on Keynote. Today I wanted to run Second Life on the Vista machine but ran into the…
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My move from OS X to Vista – Day 2
It is taking me a while to get into this Vista machine. On the Mac, I live in browsers (I generally have 4 running) and email. The browsers on Vista are pretty much the same as they are on the Mac but the email experience is very different. The main choices I have for email…
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Another Vista bug?
I have discovered another issue with Vista which may well be a bug. If not, then the OS is certainly not behaving as expected. On a pc the standard key combo for switching between apps and windows is Alt + Tab. Vista is no different. On holding down Alt and pressing Tab you are presented…
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My move from OS X to Vista – Day 1
This is my first blog post from within Vista – I’ll try to put up a post a day on the move across. Of course I am also moving from a Mac to a Sony Vaio so I will also be referencing that move in these posts. The first thing I had to do when…
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Switching from OS X to Vista (kinda)
Microsoft gave me a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista Ultimate and Office Ultimate installed to try out. I have been toying with the Vaio but not using it heavily. To be fair to Microsoft, I’m going to try to switch as much as possible of my work from my MacBook Pro to the Vaio to…
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Vista Explorer crash
I found another bug in Vista this morning. In an attempt to tidy the desktop, I right-clicked on the ppt file Microsoft left on the desktop and chose Send To -> Documents to move this file off the desktop. Windows Explorer crashed. Reproducibly. And then restarted itself. I dragged the file into the Documents folder…
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Vista really does have driver issues!
Well, the Vaio Microsoft sent me yesterday arrived today! It is a SZ series, core 2 duo with 2gb of ram, and a 120gb hd. It came with goodies like a HSDPA card from T-Mobile – not sure if that will work in Ireland and a memory card adapter for reading SD, XD and MC…