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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...

Introduction Before I go into this post, I have to explain my intentions. I respect NDAs very much, and I always have. I’ve built my career as a Microsoft commentator on acquiring as much access as possible, through playing by the “rules”. When someone asks me not to talk about something...

Microsoft recently posted a Knowledge Base article about programs that are affected by Windows Vista SP1 . I was extremely surprised to see that the list was so small, and with the exception of a couple programs, were almost entirely limited to security software vendors. Kudos to Microsoft, and hopefully...

Say you've got a server running Windows Server 2003 x86, and you have no CD-ROM drive, and no physical access to the box. The only way to get to it is through RDP. Now, say you want to move it to 64-bit to be able to add more RAM. It should be as simple as mounting an Windows Server x64 ISO and starting...

This afternoon I had a very interesting conversation wih Dave Wascha, Director of Microsoft’s Windows Client Partner Platform group. Apparently, Microsoft can't release stats about Vista sales due to the SEC or something, so I'm going to look into that. He gave me a bunch of other stats that you may...

I've been dealing with a Vista issue today that hasn't seen a lot of visibility (hopefully until now). Now that Vista's out, a lot of hardware vendors are rolling out their BIOS and driver updates. All of my Vista machines are 64-bit, and so far the experience has been pretty good. Well, today I was...

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...

I was briefed earlier today on Visual Studio support on Windows Vista , and I wanted to clear the air... because there seems to be some confusion. Visual Studio 6.0 - Supported on Windows Vista Visual Studio 2002 - Not supported on Windows Vista Visual Studio 2003 - Not supported on Windows Vista Visual...