The Minority Report

I was a little bored with the typical Windows wallpapers and I’m tired of my Darth Vader’s lightsaber wallpaper, so I went asearchin’ this morning and found the above badass Windows Logo from Skyline a blog that is seemingly abandoned….right now (ya’ll thought mine was dead too. Fuckers.)

Pretty slick! Ninemsn, the Australian-subsidiary of MSN with an identity crisis, has come up with a pretty interesting and rather cute way of explaining Windows Live to the masses using liquid blobs morphing and connecting the different products and services on offer. In addition to the 30-seconds television commercial, there’s also a pretty casual and [...]

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 continue enjoying snipping from george’s world today. He notes that Internet Explorer 8 is now a high priority update from Microsoft. I have updated servers today and noticed the same thing. Now the adoption rate of IE7 from IE6 wasn’t that significant at first but I don’t remember how they flagged IE7 vs. IE8. [...]

Like yesterday where I joined the Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 announcement bandwagon, I’m joining in the chorus announcing the release of Microsoft Windows Vista SP2. Like I mentioned previously in my Microsoft Windows Vista sUACks post, I think Vista UAC sucks ass but the thing that frustrated me the most was the INCREDIBLY SLOW network [...]

I just started reading this blog and it touched a nerve today with this salient observation: According to one recent article, Windows 7 will provide a 29% reduction in the amount of clicks one will use for UAC. Interesting. I can reduce that number by 100%. Just turn the darn thing off! Problem solved. Windows [...]

Charles Babcock over at the fine publication InformationWeek posted an article on Linux Gaining Strength during this econolypse. Virtualization of the data center also aids Linux use in that Linux runs as a guest under a hypervisor on a Windows Server host. Instead of buying additional Windows licenses, Windows administrators can often create virtual machines [...]

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 [...]

There is the story of the Novell NetWare server that got drywalled into a room and wasn’t rebooted for 5 years and now the Mars Odyssey makes it 5 years without a reboot. So…….perhaps that explains the previously lost Mars missions? They were using Windows? there are at least 12 missions to Mars that have [...]

Update:  *blush* seems I covered this one already… Oh just release the frakin’ service pack already. Seriously, do we need an announcement for the Alpha, Beta, Release Candidate and Omega?? Just fucking SHIP!! As you probably know, the Windows Client team has been developing Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, representing [...]

I have stated before that I use RDP on a daily basis. I basically like RDP now, but I used to hate it. I liked that VNC was an actual take over of the real screen of the target computer. It was easier to use and there weren’t any gotcha stuff like installing software with [...]

Secrets…and gold dubloons…arrrrgh. I bet what’s inside Windows 7 Vault is dirt and some empty bottles…(The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault

Looks like the boys in Redmond are cooking something good. Looks like a “low cost, low price and low functionality” server is joining the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family. Welcome to the neighborhood boys. You may have heard that earlier today Steve Ballmer referenced we are working on an addition to the Windows server Family [...]

I mentioned the other day on my Calista Diet post about the GPU virtualization technology. I found this video this morning after checking my stats for the night. Full motion video over RDP. Pretty sweet. This ain’t your fathers Remote Desktop… p.s. Try doing that shit using VNC. Shows a Vista-based host using Calista Virtual [...]