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 8 on 17. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
Yesterday I wrote about how Microsoft now have an opportunity to bring all of their platforms and services together to form a seamless connectedness that would not only make life considerably simpler for millions of people, but that could also turn around the company’s fortunes.
The Zune software, on the PC and the Zune HD has [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows on 16. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled a quite remarkable product, and one that’s certainly taken the tech-world by surprise, a fully-featured new smart phone OS that appears to have every angle covered.
This is quite an achievement, especially when you consider what type of company Microsoft is. As it’s such a behemoth there are a huge number of very [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows on 15. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
At a press event in Barcelona, Spain at the World Mobile Congress event, Microsoft have unveiled the new Windows Phone 7 Series, and it’s very different from any version of Windows Mobile that’s come before it.
Full multi-touch is supported including pinch-zoom and the whole UI, from what we’ve seen so far, looks to have been [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in software picks, windows 7 on 11. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
One of the biggest problems with Windows 7 is that the architecture is so radically different to XP as to make upgrading impossible. You can only do a clean install if you want to move from one OS to the newer one. The reason for this is that if Microsoft allowed you to upgrade “in-place”, [...]
Posted by Mike Halsey in cloud computing on 07. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
This week it came to light that there have been senior people at Microsoft who have blocked, or tried to block new products from the company on the grounds that they hadn’t come from their own department.
Now it’s widely known that different departments within Microsoft don’t talk to each other. Examples of this are SkyDrive [...]
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