Category Archives: Vista

Thoughts on Microsoft’s Vista launch event

I spent Tuesday hanging out near the airport for the Microsoft Vista launch event. Supposedly there were around 3000 people there, or at least that’s what they said at the keynote, and while the intent was, supposedly, to boost awareness … Continue reading

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Why is backwards compatibility still an issue in the age of virtual machines?

You know, with the decision to make Virtual PC free, it strikes me that Microsoft could have made some bigger steps away from the path of compatibility with Vista. As it is, I’m running MySql 4.1 and Macromedia Studio from … Continue reading

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The power of Windows 3.0 lives on!

This is kinda funny – Kate Gregory discovered that the system icon in a window’s top left corner isn’t as missing as it first appears to be in Vista.  I wonder if this was a plan to help “legacy” users … Continue reading

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