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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...

Looks like I'm the first one to catch this. Microsoft put up a Q&A on PressPass with Brad Brooks . He's the CVP of Windows Consumer Product marketing, and he announced that Microsoft is dropping the price of retail-packaged product (RPP) versions of Windows Vista when the SP1 version hits the shelves...

Wired has an article up about how to speed up Vista . While they have a couple OK tips in there, there are a couple of suggestions that caught my attention as colossally BAD. I tried to edit the wiki page to reflect this, but I was rebuffed by the original author. So much for community contributions...

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...

By now you're aware that the Windows Vista SP1 Beta has been released to beta testers for a thorough shakedown. I just wanted to give anyone who still has UAC on a bit of warning. If you right-click the installer and select "Run as Administrator" first , then it won't take nearly as long to extract the...

I haven't been a real big fan of Microsoft's PR machine post-Allchin. It seems like as soon as Jim left and Windows Vista was released, the heavy-hitters at Microsoft went on vacation, and the second string PR people have been running the show ever since. For example, last week Microsoft stunned the...

While Microsoft is seemingly on a crusade to stamp out talk about the future (even going so far as to hire an acting legend to detect "MS-BS" with a $2 horn ), that hasn't waned our enthusiasm for digging up evidence of the future anyways. Microsoft has pulled some pretty dumb moves lately in the name...