Posted by Mike Halsey in guides and how to's, windows 7 on 24. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Yesterday I published the article Why Windows 7 search is the way it is, and what lies ahead, in which Dan Plastina, the group manager for the Find and Organise features within the Windows 7 beta explained why the search, organisation and library features in Microsoft’s latest operating system turned out the way they did.
Despite [...]
The browser ballot screen for European users of XP, Vista and Windows 7 has finally been revealed by Microsoft, and will be rolled out to users across the EU via Windows Update from 1st March.
This comes about because of an anti-trust case instigated by Opera about the ‘unfair’ bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. Late [...]
2009 was a big year for Mike Halsey after the release of his book, the Windows 7 Power Users Guide and interview requests started coming in. Now the new year is already off with a good start as the latest, and biggest of these is with the IEEE organisation in the January 2010 issue of [...]
It’s Christmas time again and all those people who already have Windows 7 on their PCs, or who will be getting a new Windows 7 PC for Christmas will be looking forward to seeing if they get any Windows 7 goodies in their stockings. Here I thought I’d run through some gifts you can share.
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It’s been a tense time but the first review of my book was published overnight. Digitizor.com are an on-line magazine saying they’re “your guide to everything technological”. The’re article base is extremely wide (hopefully so too is their readership). They emailed me last night to say they liked the book so much they wanted to [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows on 11. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
So the rollout has begun and every PC user in Europe running XP, Vista or Windows 7 will shortly see the new browser ballot screen, if they’ve not seen it already. Last night I got my update and along with it, a few surprises.
The first surprise was the apparent optionality of the update. In Windows [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in Technology on 10. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
It’s very unlikely that Windows 8 will see the implementation of 3D technologies, especially as it’s due out of the door in only two and a half years, but the next big thing, at least according to everyone who’s got a vested interest in making money from it, could have some extremely useful repercussions for [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in Technology on 08. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Is the day of the PC finally coming to and end? Are the wars over what operating system or browser we use finally over? If so then we should all hail a wonderful future… right!?
In the last few years we’ve seen a monumental shift in the way we interact with the internet, and in what [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in software picks on 27. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
Installing software is always a chore, especially if you’ve recently installed a new version of Windows (or reinstalled). Now a new service called Ninite aims to take some of the pain out of the process, with free software at least.
What this service does is creates a custom installer for you that will automatically install the [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 7 on 23. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
A year ago I published an article entitled “Windows 7 and the Death of Search” in which I criticised the new search facility in the then forthcoming Windows 7. There are a great many reasons why this new way of searching came about, and why Microsoft changed it from the multi-level drop-down search of Windows [...]
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