The Minority Report

As loyal readers of The Minority Report know, I stea…uh…quote from Ghacks regularly enough and this morning when I read their tutorial on burning DVD’s using Imgburn I thought I would throw my two cents in. I use Imageburn almost weekly and it’s never let me down. It’s freaking awesome!! There isn’t too much that [...]

I like this quote from ChannelWeb about Vista: Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) channel partners believe that once Windows 7 arrives, already-weak market demand for Windows Vista PCs will decline even further, reaching the approximate level of interest that exists today for sightseeing tours to Chernobyl. Vultures Circling Windows Vista’s Corpse – Software – IT Channel News by [...]

I blogged the other day, Windows Vista sUACks, that I hated the UAC prompts in my newly loaded Vista. I’ve been following the Windows 7 team with interest about how they are going to handle UAC. I found this list from Rafael on which EXE’s in Windows 7 will be able to auto-elevate without actually [...]

I read every single post that the Engineering Windows 7 blog puts out there. I think that Microsoft couldn’t have picked a better individual then the former Office head, Steven Sindofsky. I think it’s obvious that he and his team are on the ball and that Windows 7 is going to be one of the [...]

Looks like the cat might be out of the bag for Windows 7. Mary Jo Foley and Ars Technica are reporting on a slip of the ol’ upload key that got caught. Looks like Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 will be release in May 2009. This will allow for plenty of “testing”, not like there [...]

It seems like this Rafael character came out of nowhere and burst onto the Windows 7 scene with a bang! It was after PDC ’08 that this cat found an elaborate protection scheme of some Windows 7 beta features and published his findings. He then goes on to write a utility to do all of [...]

I got nothin. Another Windows 7 leak hit the dark side of the Internet a few hours ago. Windows 7 Build 7057 is already downloaded on various Bittorrent portals by thousands of users. The leak does include the 32-bit edition of the upcoming Microsoft operating system. The Windows 7 News website has posted information and [...]

I’m hearing reports that SP1 fixed a lot of Vista issues. I’m hoping Vista SP2 goes even further. Regardless, I’m waiting for Windows 7. Well…waiting to install it as I’ve downloaded the Beta and 18 keys… ;) Microsoft released on February 19 the RC build of both Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 to [...]

Finally! I’m too damned lazy to look it up but Cringely finally tells me that a SKU is a “stock keeping unit”a SKU is a “stock keeping unit”. Now I can sleep at night. The six faces of Windows 7 |Notes from the Field | Robert X. Cringely® | InfoWorld Well, the word is out. [...]