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1.2 Ghz VIA C7-M processor, 512mb/1GB of ram, 30GB HDD, 7'' screen (touchscreen in some models), ethernet/wlan/bluetooth/2xUSB, card reader, DVI-I, HD audio and 2x times battery life (4.5 hours). no touchpad :( coming soon in the form of a 400$ Everex cloudbook in a store near you :O More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Office 2007 SP1 auto-installs confuse Vista, XP users Computerworld, MA - Dec 13, 2007 Harder explained what Vista users experience in a blog post today. "On Vista in the Windows Update Control Panel Applet, the Office 2007 SP1 will appear as ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

There is a game called 'Uplink' on Steam. It's some kind of strategic game where you have to hack stuff. Did anyone play it, is it fun? http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=1510&l=unknown&cc=BE More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I know, I know, it's Christmas and we're all supposed to full of season's joy etc etc - and I was. And then I saw ElfYourself. Isn't this just taking it all a bit too far? Thank goodness it takes a long time to load. Me, as a dancing elf. I think not. Sabot as a dancing fairy, maybe. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP Slashdot - 21 hours ago An anonymous reader passes us a blog posting, which may be just a bit tongue-in-cheek, about the pros and cons of upgrading from Vista to XP. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OK, I wanted to download the new RC of Vista SP1 but I saw this: Windows Update Automatic Update will automatically update your machine over the next several days with the prerequisites updates provided you have the Windows Update Automatic Update feature enabled. When the service pack has downloaded a pop-up notification will inform you that updates are ready to be installed. You must click on this notification and choose to install the service pack at this point. The service pack will not silently or automatically install itself. So my question... is there anyway I can get the service pack without waiting days for Windows update to give me the required prereqs updates? If not... that totally blows because I want to play with the RC. [C] Link More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss the word of the year, Vista SP1 RC public release, Vista's first year, the death of Plays4Sure, and Opera suing Microsoft! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Picked this from Slashdot. Now I'm still listening so hard to comment on it (content starts around 14 minutes after intro by museum ceo) but the subject will probably interest people like me for who C64 was the introduction to computers and has stayed in the hearts of many for the unique character of its sound that's become popular enough to be found in some pop music. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Holy crap, this is ... wait for it ... freaking AWESOME! More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Is this all media hype A decade ago it was Microsoft at war the Apple, then Microsoft at war with Linux - now its Google vrs Microsoft http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/technology/16goog.html More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx That blogger reviewed Windows XP and he believes that the Microsoft Windows team outdid itself when it was working on the successor to Windows Vista. According to him, in Windows XP, Microsoft fixed all of the flaws that Windows Vista had and created the best release of Windows ever. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

ok...*what is up the lack of a plain/ordinary, every other forum seems to manage adding one.. button for blindly quoting a users post...like doesn't seem to exist here? nor does it seem to work when you even go as far as typing it aswel. :s and*I know about the quote icon that takes everything somene has posted and puts that in a quote for your reply, thats err nice and useless at times, do I really need to explain why? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP Slashdot - 33 minutes ago An anonymous reader passes us a blog posting, which may be just a bit tongue-in-cheek, about the pros and cons of upgrading from Vista to XP. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

system restore is not functioning. When i*right click*into it it has no properties. When i click on it it says that it has encountered a problem and must close. What should i do for this issue... More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I have a bunch of files in a folder and I would like to add a prefix to their names. E.g. there are image files named like dsc0001.jpg dsc0002.jpg etc., and I want to rename them like 20081215dsc0001.jpg 20081215dsc0002.jpg I know an*easy way to do this in mc under Linux, but I would like to learn it in Windows, too. Can you help me? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I remember when I was first introduced to graphical OSs, with Macs, it was standard practice for people to have windows of open folders permanently on their desktop, with reference to common applications, or personal documents. Also you had these Apple menu apps where calculators and other mini programs were used above regular programs. But overall, the desktop was more than just a task manager, but an environment for organizing what you were doing. Currently in Windows there are many ways to achieve something similar. You can add a toolbar to the taskbar to reference to a folder, and have it open up like a cascading menu, if you keep it shortened to its title. You can keep a sidebar gadget on the desktop for permanent display, and bring it to the top to use. However, none of these things are promoted by the Windows design. The use of toolbars has been limited, no longer easily able to drag a toolbar from the taskbar to another side of the screen, and most people don't even notice you have the capability. So even though this is extremely useful, most people even those who are aware of the ability to do it, don't do it. The sidebar is neutered , doesnt have auto-hide ability, and if you want to bring a gadget to the top, you have to bring all of them to the top first. Even though you can get really cool sidebar apps, people won't make extensive use of it, and nobody will use sidebar apps in a way like the Apple menu programs like calculators or puzzle games, even though that would be a good use,*because the design doesn't support it well. I think it would be great if one thing Windows designers worked on was improving the Windows experience, in that regard, as a user environment. Plus, imagine things like minimizing Windows Media Player to the sidebar in its compact form, and restoring it from the sidebar to its normal windowed form. Ditto with*Live Messenger or Live Mail, where the compact gadget state is an alternative form to minimization. Or--OneNote. Add to that, the ability to easily minimize folders to the sidebar, and you're on your way to having an interface that promotes all these cool and useful features. -- Then, make the taskbar congruent in some way to the sidebar, so things can move between them (like notifications and system tray apps were originally supposed to ---and like different minimized forms of Media Player --taskbar, and sidebar; and do that with minimized folder menus) I don't think you'll be able to greatly improve the Windows interface without thinking along these lines, and making the OS a more integrated environment. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hi, I used to*use Urge subscription, but since they were converted to Rhapsody I absolutely hate it.* Any suggestions for other good subscription services that would work with a 30GB Zen Vision:M? BTW, I don't want this to turn into a flame fest.* We all have our preferences.* I used both pay-as-you-go and all-you-can-eat subscription services, and I would never use a non-subscription service again.* If I did I would need to pay thousands of dollars for the amounts of songs I listen to.* So no-one is going to convince me that subscription services are not a good idea.* Plus, I can still "own" a song if I wanted to by paying the $0.99 if I really really wanted to.* Phew, now*that that is out of the way, any suggestions? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Flight Simulator X Service Pack 2 just came out and brings both visual improvements and performance improvements in DX10 (along with general improvements that benefit both DX9 and DX10 modes). first famous game that goes faster, as it always should have been, in DX10 mode! now my 3870 has somethings for its teethes! hoorey! a few interesting links: FSX: SP2 and DX10 Performance Flight Simulator X Acceleration/SP2 - Water DX10 vs DX9 FSX Acceleration/SP2 - DX9 Bloom Versus DX10 HDR FSX DX10 - Self Shadowing VCs (DX9 vs DX10 Update) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hi, 9ers! Now, CBT is Ver.9.9.9.9! Let's*enjoy it at Sandbox! :) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

NO NEW FORUMS! Just playin'...but no, seriously...* :) More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IBM Recommends Windows XP CNET Blogs, CA - 9 minutes ago If you shop online for a new Windows computer, every manufacturer recommends Vista on their web site. For home use they all suggest Vista Home Premium, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I added the tag around everything...it keeps aligning my table to the left. Any suggestions? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

I just ran across this on MSN Video.*Visual Studio Shell has rocks in. I don't play WoW anymore, but that is freaking cool. It'll be interesting to see how many of the (wanna be) addon builders pick it up. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds