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Where Are the Vista Killer Apps?
Mary Jo Foley
writes "Will the usual cast of Windows software vendors be leading the next-gen Windows client parade? It's more likely that a new crop of developers, including Mercedes-AMG and Allscripts Healthcare, instead, will be at the front of the ..."
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta - now available for download
Keith Combs
writes "The parade of new utilities and tools continues. If you were paying attention, you noticed the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor was posted to microsoft.com, then promptly disappeared. I hate it when that happens, but I’m sure we found a bug that needed to be corrected. Well, it’s back and you can download it right now.
Please keep in mind this is beta code so your mileage may vary. There’s a bunch of information in the form of a FAQ at ...
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Windows Vista Beta 2 and latest WinFX Beta 2/RCO have been posted.
Marc Mercuri
writes "This version of WinFX has a new Go Live license attached (the first since January). There's enough new since January that you'll want to make the jump to the May bits.
If you want to use Infocard, this is also the drop for you. This is the first broadly available build that has Infocard bits that work with IE7.
Find both Vista and WinFX here.
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Common BSOD Error Codes Explained
Rodney Buike
writes "The dreaded Stop Error, affectionatley known as the Blue Screen Of Death, or BSOD, causes nightmares for most PC users. Stop Errors usually mean something major is wrong and troubleshooting them is never enjoyable. This list of the top Stop Errors and the usual cause will get you going in the right direction...
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Why I Love Monad Reason #249
Peter Provost
writes "I love being able to quickly bust out little scripts like this…
[1] MSH> gci -r -i *.csproj | foreach { $xml = [xml] (get-content $_); write-host $_.Name - $xml.Project.PropertyGroup[0].ProjectGuid }
And have it produce this output…
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ForceUpdate batch file for kickstarting the Windows Update client...
rclaus
writes "After getting questions from a number of people on the recent tour on how I used a “cattle prod” batch file to kickstart the Windows Update client – I decided to write up a post about where I sourced the information and how I use it.
The post is over on the Canadian IT Pro blog… Check it out!
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Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Rodney Buike
writes "Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for ..."
Two Useful Tips
Ed Kaim
writes "I've come across two solutions for common Windows problems that may help.
First, if you always get "an error has occurred in the script on this page" dialog boxes when using Windows Media Player, go into Internet Explorer and clear your temporary files. Not sure why it works, but I have less interest in figuring it out now that those dialogs have stopped.
Second, if you are running ActiveSync and ...
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Vista Beta Nominations
trobbins
writes "What you haven’t had Steve nominate you for the Vista beta? He has only 500 nominations – can we do better than that? Hop over to here and have him nominate you.
Click here to have Steve nominate you..."
Microsoft Windows Live Search Engine (Beta)
Will Asrari
writes "Microsoft Windows Live search is available. Pretty cool slider for results preferences and a very clean interface.
Check it out for yourself...
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What's New in Vista - GUI
Rodney Buike
writes "Well if you haven't heard of the new GUI, aka Glass, then you must be living under a rock. The biggest thing users will see in Vista is the new, ultra-beautiful GUI. If you have the hardware to support it, namely a DX9 card with at least 128MB ram, you will get the new ..."
Why Windows Vista will suck?!
Erwyn van der Meer
writes "eWeek runs a story with the title "Why Windows Vista will suck". It links to the full story by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on DesktopLinux.com. Although I have my fair share of criticism of Windows Vista, this story is very biased and sometimes plain wrong.
For instance, it states ..."
Paul reviews latest Windows Vista build
Robert Scoble
writes "So, the Windows Vista December 2005 CTP (Build 5270) is here. This is a big one! Paul Thurrott said it was so big that it took four parts to properly cover it. I’ll have a Tablet PC running the latest Windows Vista and some other stuff on it at the geek dinner next week if you wanna take a look (unfortunately my Tablet PC doesn’t have a good enough video card to run the latest glass theme, but everything else is there).
Paul’s conclusion? ...
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New in Windows Vista: OrdinalIgnoreCase for Win32
Michael Kaplan
writes "I have talked many times in the past about Ordinal and OrdinalIgnoreCase sorting behavior and when you might want to use it (such as here and here and especially here, for example).
I went to great lengths to point how the reason that the managed 'OrdinalIgnoreCase' functionality was important to help mimic the OS behavior with regard to symbolic identifiers.
Of course there was one problem: no Win32 function exists that allows..."
File and Registry Virtualization: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Windows Connected
writes "With Windows Vista, Microsoft is evangelizing the use of “Standard User” accounts for most all users. You will also hear these accounts called LUA, or Least-privileged User Account. Running as LUA users will enable a much more secure environment and help to ensure that machine configurations remain stable. In order to ease the application compatibility woes that this major change is sure to generate, Windows Vista introduces a bridging technology know as File and Registry Virtualization (called affectionately “Virt” here). This technology makes it possible to...
Here’s the good news first:...
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Windows Vista Decemeber CTP Now Available to Beta Testers
Windows Connected
writes "Microsoft has just posted (10:28am PST) the Decemeber CTP build 5270 of Windows Vista and Longhorn Server. They have also made available updated Step-by-Step guides and other utilities.
You will need to obtain new keys and you will also need to download a new version of the Microsoft Beta Client
The following are available now or will be shortly with this release:...
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Will my software break under Windows Server R2?
Steve Lamb
writes "As John Howard mentions in his post Windows Server R2 is entirely based on Windows Server SP1 - it simply adds features and includes some code updates. The design goal of R2 was to bring additional features without changing the Kernel so as to ensure maximum application compatibility and minimal integration testing cycles for you.
There are three virtual labs you can access for free to enable you to try the new features for yourself right from your browser - they cover ...
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Windows 2003 Functional Levels - Forest
Rodney Buike
writes "Windows 2003 expands on the mixed mode/native mode functionality of Windows 2000 with functional levels. Windows 2000 included the ability to run NT4 BDCs in a Windows 2000 AD domain if it was in mixed mode. Windows 2003 includes this and expands on it to include forests. There are 3 forest functional levels and 4..."
Force Group Policy Updates
Rodney Buike
writes "Group policy is a powerful feature that allows you to secure your domain, control the desktop enviroment, deploy applications and more. There are times when a policy has been edited and needs to be forced.
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The Real Future of Windows: "Singularity" ?
Raimond Brookman
writes "Microsoft watch writes that Microsoft research has been building a new micro kernel based OS from scratch. And it's all written in managed code!
Not completely in C# though (and not in VB.NET either ), but also a portion in Sing# which is a derivative of Spec#, which is derived from C#. The main goal of the research project is to ..."
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