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We recently had a chance to pick the brain of Dr. Mark Russinovich on Sysinternals , His book, Windows Vista, and DRM. Mark is the chief software architect of Winternals and co-author of the Windows Internals book. Mark is also the individual who gave Sony a black eye for its DRM Scheme . Windows Connected...
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Today I am headed to Seattle for a two day Windows Vista Beta 2 Lab. This event hosted by Microsoft for Featured Communities and other notable sites will give us direct access to the product teams and gives us a chance to provide feedback from our communities to the Windows Vista teams. This is also...
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Microsoft early this morning released an early copy of Windows Vista 5381 to its Connect web site for beta testers. This build is the bulid they are driving towards Windows Vista Beta 2, as reported by a number of sites. This means that the build number for Beta 2 will probably have the same major version...
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Gartner, in a report published yesterday , is saying that Microsoft will not hit the ship dates they currently have set for Windows Vista. They are saying that in their opinion, based on past experiences with OS dates, Windows Vista is likely to need 9-12 months of work to iron out the bugs after it...
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Today the Windows Vista beta held a chat with the Shell team who provided answers to many questions from the Tech Beta community. We learned that the February CTP won't be that much different from the current betas, but that changes are still coming for Windows Vista. Dona [MSFT] (Moderator): Q: [60...
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One of the big concerns of anyone considering moving to Windows Vista is “How many of my applications will work on Windows Vista?” We have spent a lot of time trying to answer that very question for our company so I will share with you some of the common problem areas we found for applications to help...
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Hopefully, you have heard of some of these or maybe even all, but if not then let me introduce you to ten tools that every admin should have. In no particular order… 1.) VMWare / Virtual PC / Virtual Server Virtualization products are great because they allow you to test everything you want/need without...
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Lately in the newsgroups for the Windows Vista beta and a number of different online forums people are disabling one of the key pillars of Windows Vista’s increased security, UAC (User Account Control) formerly UAP (User Account Protection). This is really rubbing me the wrong way as it is ultimately...
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Internet Explorer 7.0 is not expected until next year, but there are some things you can be doing to now to prepare for it. This post will look at a couple of the things that you can do today to prepare your sites. 1. CSS Cleanup. Microsoft issued a call to action , asking developers to help “clean up...
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Microsoft has published the 0.5 draft of the Windows Vista Software Logo requirements. The goal of this document is to give ISVs and other developers an opportunity to provide feedback on the Windows Vista Logo Program for software. Future drafts will contain more implementation and testing guidance...