I have just read Paul Thurrott’s article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1 and, although I don’t always agree with Paul’s assessments, I have to agree with him on many of the items that he raises here. I hope that some of these can be resolved by the release of Vista.
For balance, here’s Paul’s […]
Archive for the 'Windows Vista' Category
Is Paul Thurrott right this time?
Published by September 22nd, 2006 in Windows Vista, Windows, Blogs and Microsoft. 0 Comments
Robocopy now part of Windows Vista
Published by September 19th, 2006 in Windows Vista, Utilities, Windows and Microsoft. 0 Comments…also discovered via Tim Sneath’s blog…
I see that the Robocopy command line utility has been upgraded from a mere resource kit utility to a fully fledged member of \Windows\system32\. Read Tim’s full post here.
I also have been using Robocopy for many years and drop it into the system32 folder of every new machine. It is […]
Windows Vista Secret : Open Command Prompt Here
Published by September 19th, 2006 in Windows Vista, Windows and Microsoft. 0 CommentsTim Sneath has posted a great Windows Vista tip:
Here’s a trick that I don’t think many people are aware of. Right-click on any folder on your Windows Vista machine while holding down the shift key. You’ll see an extra context-sensitive menu item there: Open Command Prompt here. Just click on this menu and a command […]
Introducing Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
Published by September 19th, 2006 in Windows Vista, Windows and Microsoft. 0 CommentsMicrosoft has introduced a replacement to the Windows XP recovery console called the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) that ships on the Windows Vista DVD. The WinRE team blog has published the following introduction:
Introducing Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
The Windows Recovery Environment (aka Windows RE aka WinRE) team would use this blog to share information, tricks and tips about WinRE with support professionals and […]
Jim Allchin Rallies the Developers behind Vista
Published by September 18th, 2006 in Windows Vista, Software Development, Windows and Microsoft. 0 CommentsJim Allchin, in charge of a little product at Microsoft known as “Windows”, has written a call to action for developers to start getting their hands dirty in Vista goo. Here’s an excerpt:
What do you need to do to be ready? First of all, make sure your application is compatible. We have made tremendous investments […]
No More Features in Vista
Published by September 15th, 2006 in Windows Vista, Windows and Microsoft. 0 CommentsThis graphic, from James Senior’s Views on Vista shows that no new features have been added to Windows Vista post beta 2:
Neowin has some links to the publicly available downloads of Windows Vista here:
Windows Vista RC1 Available to the Masses
Get busy testing!
If you’re testing this on VMWare you might want to have a look at Joel Spolsky’s post about the issues that he encountered here:
Installing Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation
I have not tested this scenario myself, […]
Paul Thurrot reports that Windows Vista is on track for a October 2006 RTM and that Windows Vista RC1 will ship early in September.
Session 0 identifies the locally logged in user on Windows operating system. Since I intend to write this blog on Windows and software development issues, I felt that this was an apt title.
I also chose the title Session 0 because it relates to one of the main topics that I intend to blog on: Windows […]
