All Posts Tagged With: "windows"

Microsoft Working On XP For OLPC

Microsoft’s software engineers are “working hard” on a slimmed-down version of Windows XP for the One Laptop Per Child project, but company officials say there is still much work to be done. James Utzschneider, GM of Marketing and Communications of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group, says in his blog that contrary to earlier media reports [...]

December 6th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued

Get A Mac Misprint

Recently, PC World did a piece on how the fastest notebook to run Windows Vista was a Macbook Pro. Since that article has made it into the public, the Apple marketing department has jumped all over the opportunity to cash in on the review.

If I were Microsoft, I’d get Apple off my back and disable [...]

December 6th, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued

Windows Home Server Now Available

Just an FYI for those interested. Windows Home Server is now available to the public for purchase. Windows Home Server software, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, Best Buy.com, Buy.com, Circuit City.com and CompUSA.com. According to Microsoft, Windows Home Server will be shipped to customers and available via other leading retailer Web [...]

November 5th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued

Image Previews In Win XP

Each time I reformat my machine, one of things I like to do is make sure I enable Image Previews within the MyComputer windows explorer view. Each time I want to enable this feature, I can’t seem to remember the process. Here, I’ll document the option you need to change to make sure this feature [...]

October 23rd, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued

Digg Labs ScreenSaver

Digg has turned their popular Digg Labs applications into desktop screensavers. The applications can be downloaded from their respective pages:

Arc
Swarm
BigSpy
Stack

The screensavers are available for Mac and Windows users and include Adobe Flash 9 if you don’t have it installed. On the Mac you’ll need at least OSX 10.4 and on Windows you need either Windows [...]

October 16th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued