Oct 1, 2006 | blog
So it’s sounding like the media is starting to believe that Vista will actually ship when Microsoft said it would.
Right on schedule, Microsoft says there is one more beta release for the main Vista beta team. After that, the next build for an external release will be the RTM.
eWeek has a good article that discusses this along with many aspects of what MS has been working towards with the Vista product.
Link to Just One More Release Before Windows Vista Goes Gold
Sep 30, 2006 | blog
The Virtual PC 2007 beta program starts October 11th and will run trough March 30th, 2007. According to Bink.nu, beta nominations will be accepted throughout the entire beta period. Should be a good upgrade, and a fun beta to participate in.
Link to Bink.nu | Microsoft will start Virtual PC 2007 public beta program in October
Sep 28, 2006 | blog
The Windows Live Writer team has issued an updated beta that fixes a few issues and provides a flexible new tagging option. Here is a summary of the changes in the latest beta:
- Tagging support
- Support for Blogger Beta
- Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
- Improved startup performance
- Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
- Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
- Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
- Custom date support for Community Server
- Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
- Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
- Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
- More robust image posting to Live Spaces
- Improved style detection for blogs
- Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
- Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
- Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts
I’m working on customizing the tagging option for Technorati as shown in the tags below. You have the ability to edit the HTML code for the tags – looks good so far!
Check out the Windows Live Writer space for more details.
Sep 27, 2006 | blog
This morning, I’m at Microsoft’s office in Bloomington, MN for a seminar on remote access.
Should be a good session, covering different technologies to enhance remote access to corporate networrks.
I’m in early, hoping to get one of the 50 freebies that were to be given away, but looking forward to the information. From the handouts, it looks like we’ll be covering Citrix, Terminal Services, Security, SSL VPN (the best VPN for torrenting), bandwidth, and server management.
Sep 22, 2006 | blog
Have a gripe about the Windows Vista User Interface? Give Microsoft your opinions and help build a better product.
Microsoft is accepting feedback from anyone, not just their beta users, on the UI in Vista. You can read more about the program & forum in the BetaNews article linked below.
Link to BetaNews | Microsoft Taking Vista UI Feedback
So it’s sounding like the media is starting to believe that Vista will actually ship when Microsoft said it would.
