October 29th, 2008

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What software should I install on my PC? | Windows Vista for Beginners

Some great software recommendations for your Vista PC, some from me!
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Improvements to fonts in Windows 7

Besides Windows Classic, another popular question when a new version of Windows is announced is whether or not the “Add Fonts” dialog is there. In fact this is such a quirk it’s the first and one of the top problems on Aero Taskforce. Well, I’m both glad and proud to say that the “Add Fonts” [...]

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Windows 7 and light sensors: let there be light

Once in a while, we all leave our lairs to use the laptop in alien environments commonly known as the “outdoors”. One of the forces of evil we face outdoors is of course the sun who wrecks havoc on our fragile LCD displays.
One of the new subsystems Windows 7 adds are sensors, creatively called “Windows [...]

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Design principles for Windows 7

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If you’ve never seen Hillel Cooperman’s presentation “Getting Users to Fall in Love with Your Software” from PDC 2003 for what was then Windows Longhorn, then you’re missing out. Fast forward five years to PDC 2008, Samuel Moreau gave an updated but very similar presentation in motive but today titled “Design principles for Windows 7“.

In [...]

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Microsoft Boku at PDC 2008

For everyone who hasn’t seen Boku before, this is a Microsoft Research developed game for the XBOX 360 (and presumably PC too) aimed at kids to teach them about programming via a entertaining and casual manner.
The last time this was shown was at TechFest in 2007 where it was still in pre-beta. Today at the [...]

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Live from PDC08: Rick Rashid

Hello from day three at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Join myself and 7 other Microsoft bloggers - Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Kip Kniskern, Mary Jo Foley, Rafael Rivera, Tom Warren, Todd Bishop and I. The focus of this keynote is Microsoft Research, and apparently reveal a few interesting secrets.

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Why does my Run dialog say that tasks will created with administrative privileges?

“I don’t know what happened, but now when I open the Run dialog
on my Windows Vista machine by typing Windows+R,
there is a shield under the edit box that says This task will be created with administrative privileges .
What’s going on?” One my colleagues Read More……(read more)

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Limiting the Applications of Network Participants

Most network administrators would care less of what applications are put into play. In fact, most of them would rather address the firewall and network security issues before sitting down on the actual workstations individually and check which applications should be enabled and which should go.
Such is a common practice in companies that place [...]

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Windows 7 DWM cuts memory consumption by 50%

If you didn’t think the performance benefits of using Aero Glass could get any better, then see this. At PDC 2008, Anantha Kancherla presented a session on “Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware” where he presented a mindblowing fact about the Windows 7 Desktop Window Manager.
Because Windows 7 can take [...]

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Windows 7 DPI scaling: my 7 is bigger than your 7

You may not know it, but you are very likely to be using a high dots-per-inch (DPI) display today, especially if you use a laptop smaller than 15-inches. The fact is, if you use Windows XP, or even Windows Vista, you are actually not getting the most out of your monitor. If you have to [...]

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