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For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . Six weeks ago I was sitting at Starbucks (until Java U comes to Oakville...) working on my laptop when the manager started talking to me. It...
For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . I am not going to lie to you. Windows Vista has some serious hardware requirements, and like most versions of Windows ever released the minimums...
For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . As the old saying goes, if I had a dime for every person who has come up to me and told me why they are not moving to Windows Vista, I would be a...
Because I am beta testing Windows Server 2008 (and have been for about a year now) I have had access to Windows Vista SP1 for a while now, but honestly I have been a bit hesitant to make the jump too quickly. When I am on tour I live by my laptop, and...
If you like so many others have made the jump to Windows Vista then this update is for you. Click here to install Hotfix 941649, which claims to improve the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. It includes the following improvements...
I have known Richard Campbell for some time now and every time we meet up we have the same discussion that I should do a segment for RunAs Radio (Once upon a time it was for .NET Rocks Radio) but we just never seemed to follow up. This week-end we caught...
One of the great supporters of the IT Pro community in Canada is Rick Claus of Microsoft Canada. Rick has been a great inspiration to me and to my career over the past few years. If I had to point to a single moment in time that has most positively altered...
For those of you playing with Vista, stick these fixes on. While you wait for news of Vista SP1 rest assured that the team are hard at work addressing some of the more common issues with the current Vista release. Two packages have been released to address...
‘Is that a time machine? It looks like a time machine!’ I momentarily thought I was in the movie Pursuit of Happyness, but the man asking me the question was just making a joke. I was standing at the gate waiting to board my plane in Houston, and the...
Here we are. July has past, and as we look out onto August I see something more than just another month. July has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. I moved from Montreal to Toronto, and though I have accomplished much this past month the reality is I...
A funny thing happenned on the way to truly secure portable computing... A couple of months ago I made the decision to use the new Windows Vista BitLocker feature. For those of you who don't know, BitLocker is a new feature in Windows Vista (Enterprise...
I was invited to discuss the business value of Windows Vista with Stuart Crawford and the Calgary Small Business Show. Check it out at http://www.calgarysmallbusinessshow.com !
Windows Vista just fed me this message. I thought it was funny! "This version of Virtual PC 2004 is known to have compatibility issues with the version of Windows you are running. This program was created by Microsoft . Contact Microsoft about upgrades...
As I addressed the group of MITPro members last night at our meeting (Monitoring Active Directory Security using MOM) I realized I have unintentionally written a catch-phrase into my vernacular. I am sure that few of you have not heard me say (or write...
One of the benefits of being an active part of the IT Pro community is that you get invited to beta test everything, and if you are smart you will pick and choose the things that most interest you knowing that they may be more advanced but in the earlier...
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