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I have a Palm Treo Pro arriving tomorrow. It was a pretty tough decision to purchase the device. The primary reason is because it is an expensive device. But in the end the funding came through in some unexpected ways so I made the plunge...
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I recently had the opportunity to take a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad W500 (model 4061-2KU). This machine is really similar to my ThinkPad T61p in many ways, but there are some improvements that have been made in some key areas. Video The W500 I...
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WARNING – this is a progressive download video. It is not streamed. Therefore the entire 400MB video is downloaded and played if you click the big START button above. What’d you expect for 60 minutes of video? If you want to download the video and play...
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Infrastructure Development & Operations · Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 · System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Hotfix Rollup Package (KB954641) (x86 Systems) · System Center Data Protection...
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Regardless of the hiccups today on activation of the Apple iPhone 3G, you have to hand it to Apple and at&t on what appears to be a pretty decent product launch. I mean after all, how many people played “sick” or “hookie” today in order to stand...
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I received a flurry of questions via email when I posted information the other day that I had 8GB of memory in my Apple MacBook Pro . At the time of my post, I had only intended to boot the OS and see that it appeared to work correctly, recognize...
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I’ve been listening to our customers a lot lately. I get a lot of good feedback here, but it’s no substitute for the direct frank conversations we’ve had at the live events, launch events and conferences like MMS or TechEd. One of the complaints...
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Everyone has a blog, including my dog . For the past few years the debate on whether blogs are journalism has been discussed. Are they? What’s the difference in writing for a magazine or online publication and a blog? Someone...
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Walt Mossberg was filmed talking about a lot of interesting subjects a couple of days ago. He went on a bit of a rant about the lame broadband connections most people have in the US. In fact, he singled out Verizon. I thought that was...
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A recent Wall Street Journal article, " The New Workplace Rules: No Video-Watching " written by Bobby White highlights the fact that many people are watching videos at work. It's even more interesting that the heaviest consumption of those...
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Here are the notes I took during my Windows Vista Ultimate x64 installation on my HP 6910p notebook . The notes below were written primarily for my team but I like to share. In case you were wondering, the HP 6910p has performed remarkably well...
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This morning I installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 VL on my Lenovo ThinkPad T61p. The VL stands for volume license and it allows me to activate via our corpnet KMS server or through MAK key activation. The bits I installed are likely...
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NEW YORK - Verizon technicians are upgrading FiOS with next-generation electronics to dramatically enhance the speeds, and thus the capabilities, of Verizon's all-fiber-optic FiOS broadband, video and voice network. Known as gigabit passive optical network...
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Yesterday Baldwin Ng delivered a nice webcast on the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment v2.0 release. This webcast is now available for on demand viewing so you can watch it with the Live Meeting wrapper. Or download it and watch/listen later at your leisure...
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Matt Hester beat me to it. Well, not really. We'll just let him think he did. Matt posted some information about the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment v2.0 release so check out his blog post. I was going to post some information this weekend but backed...
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I took another step towards running a pure Windows Vista household. During my discussions this weekend with the fine folks at the AICPA Tech 07 Conference, I mentioned one of the barriers for my household is the HP All-In-One software for my printer....
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Just when I was about to write off my lowly single cpu Dell Pentium 4 desktop machine, it gets a reprieve. In this case, the reprieve comes from an unexpected source, Windows Vista HDTV recording. As you'll recall, I purchased the HDHomeRun product a...
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I tossed a laptop on the trash today. It was old, and the motherboard was toast. I stripped what I wanted and chunked it into the trash bin. This particular laptop is about five years old. I have another one that is still in working order that is about...
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Virtual PC 2007 is a great virtual machine execution environment. John Howard, Virtual Machine PM blogs that we have released it to the web and it's currently propagating across the microsoft.com cluster complex. This is the core tool I use for my job...
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It was a sad day. After a couple of years of non stop service, I flattened my Small Business Server (SBS). I feel so naked without the strength of ISA Server guarding the perimeter. I feel depressed that I'm back to pop3 downloads instead of the rich...
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Lets face it, our new deployment tools rock. However, one significant customer feature request has been missing from the portfolio. Every time I do a deployment tool session around ImageX, BDD, WAIK, etc., the question of multicast support comes up. And...
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As you know, we started our US Windows Vista, Exchange Server 2007 and 2007 Office System launch events last week. If you have not already signed up for one, go to http://www.microsoft.com/business/launch2007/signup/default.mspx and do it fast. Many of...
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Usually we discuss hurricane or typhoon force winds in the warm tropical climates of the world. Well, unless you haven't been paying attention, Seattle and surrounding areas got hammered about 24 hours ago and a lot of essential services are still being...
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FYI, there was a rather serious storm last night in the Pacific Northwest area of the US. As a result, many people are without power and that is having an impact on a variety of services. As I understand it, we won't be delivering the 10 webcasts that...
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