Windows Now

CEDIA has come and gone, and while Microsoft has put out a press release talking about all of the new Windows Media Center HTPCs coming out , I have not heard Word One about the WMC TV Pack . Not a feature list, nothing. But, since the last communication I had from Microsoft is that my NDA expired three...

I know I haven't been posting as much lately, and for that I apologize. As of late, I have been distracted with a project that I haven't been able to talk about. Fortunately, it has officially launched, and I can take the wraps off something I'm very excited about. AMD has been wanting to reach out to...

I'm a huge fan of Mary Jo Foley, but I can't help but feel that her latest article is a huge slap in the face . Murdock noted that while Solaris has a lot of features its users consider cool and exciting, its developer community is much smaller and less vested in Solaris than is the Linux community is...

Several weeks ago, I posted a letter from AMD Executive VP Henri Richard (pronounced En-re Ri-shard) to the employees at AMD, regarding their internal adoption of Windows Vista. Today, he gave bloggers an exclusive video conference call about said adoption, and other AMD-related topics. Ironically, today...

Jim Allchin made the leap into blogging today by relaunching the Official Windows Vista blog at it's new homepage, windowsvistablog.com . Yep, Jim even has a profile ... I hope his Inbox is ready for the deluge of e-mail he's gonna get. The new design looks awesome. It was done by Telligent System's...

Holy crap, it's been a busy week. Launched a new site , practiced my interview skills on one of the top guys at Microsoft, spent 2 days with the people that beat up Vista every day... absolutely crazy. First off, I wanted to thank everyone for all their positive comments about the site and its design...

Joe Wilcox has a long and interesting post about Windows juxtaposed against the offerings of Web 2.0 companies, in respect to Microsoft's recently announced Software Protection Platform. He thinks that Web 2.0 companies have the better business model. Web 2.0 business models are great, but I don't...

One of Microsoft's most hated UI decisions for Windows Vista was the decision to black-out the titlebar when a window is maximized. Well, rejoice, for the UI team has listened... and offers a compromise . In Vista, we are really trying to reduce the amount of high contrast visual noise in the UI...

You know, there has been a lot of controversy lately (from developers I respect who should know better) about the news that Visual Studio .NET 2002/2005 will "mostly work but be unsupported" on Windows Vista. They claim that the answer "Just move your environment to Virtual PC and develop...

DISCLAIMER: Proceed at your own risk. Chris finally put his money where his mouth is. He's been unhappy with Vista's inconsistency issues for ages. So he decided to do something about it . He created a registry patch that redirects system calls to legacy fonts (Tahoma, Arial, Times New Roman, etc) to...