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Windows Vista Beta 1

  • The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control

    Posted to Weblog by Robert McLaws on 09-06-2007
    TechNet Magazine has a great article this month about UAC . UAC was not deliberately designed to be the most annoying feature in the history of Windows. Rather, this set of technologies was designed to set us on a path where users do not need to expose their systems to potentially malicious code as frequently...
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  • My Windows Vista Experience Thus Far

    Posted to Weblog by Robert McLaws on 10-06-2005
    When I was at PDC 2005, I had the pleasure of meeting Jerry Pournelle. I talked about " journalistic integrity " this morning... well, when it comes to journalism, it doesn't get much better than Jerry. In his PDC opening day article for Dr. Dobb's Journal, he quoted me as saying : Robert McLaws of http...
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  • Installing Vista on VirtualPC or Blank Drives

    Posted to Weblog by Robert McLaws on 07-28-2005
    The Release Notes for Vista specify that you can't install Vista on a "RAW" or unpartitioned and unformatted hard drive. That's exactly the kind of drive that VirtualPC creates when you set up a new OS. Fortunately, the release notes have a work around. Setup in this release of "Longhorn" versions of...
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