Windows Vista

Famous Last Words: Windows Vista Won't Need Antivirus

November 10, 2006

BetaNews has slapped the headline Allchin Suggests Vista Won’t Need Antivirus on an interview with Microsoft’s Jim Allchin, in which he describes new security features in the OS. Hunh? Well, read what he says: My son, seven years old, runs Windows Vista, and, honestly, he doesn’t have an antivirus system on his machine. His machine [...]

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Not Frippertronics

November 9, 2006

Musician Robert Fripp is probablyÂ today’s Ã¼ber-geek composer.Â One of my favorites,Â he worksÂ with electric guitars and tape loopsÂ to create lush soundscapes.Â His music is anything but raw — architectural, intellectual, spare…Â but notÂ emotional. Â Imagine my delight to learn that Fripp is the composer of the new sound schemes on Windows Vista!Â Long Zheng has written a very cool blog [...]

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Revision Support in Windows Vista

July 31, 2006

Ken Fisher, on Ars Technica, has written about the new “Previous Versions” feature in Windows Vista.Â This feature allows you to roll back to a previous version of a file.Â Huzzah! My advice?Â IgnoreÂ Ken’s “Security Concerns”, and embrace this concept.Â Available on VAX/VMS in the late 1970′s, this is one of the most useful enhancements [...]

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Windows Installer Updated

July 25, 2006

Over the weekend, I installed the latest Windows Vista build.Â While not substantially different from the previous one I installed, it was exciting to see that it’s a little faster, and a little more stable.Â In other words, what we’ve got now is likely feature complete, and the folks in RedmondÂ have started to turn their attention [...]

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Will Vista Ship in Q1 2007?

April 20, 2006

Ouch! Paul Thurrott slams Windows Vista for broken promises, and suggests that Bill Gates should step down. My contention that the February CTP was not feature complete, and Microsoft is far from shipping Vista is also confirmed: Back in early December 2005, Microsoft promised that it would ship a feature-complete version of Windows Vista internally [...]

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Microsoft Max

September 13, 2005

max, originally uploaded by Alec Saunders. Microsoft ‘Max’ was demoed at the PDC today, and is available for download. Intended as a preview of the future of Windows applications, this is a gorgeous photo organization / sharing application built on the Windows Presentation Framework (formerly known as Avalon), and Windows Communication Framework (formerly known as [...]

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