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Wednesday, Jan 13
The Gear We Used At CES
Let's get this out of the way: MacBooks. We all use them. Except for Rosa.* It hasn't always been this way—a few of us are recent converts—but the fact of the matter is that Windows Vista couldn't handle the multitask demands of the field—running 3G while switching from Photoshop to a video edi...
Sunday, Dec 20
How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
Windows 7 and Windows Vista In Windows 7 and Vista, the Network and Sharing Center is where we'll be spending our time. (Here's Microsoft's own guide, if you wanna check it out.) It's pretty simple in Windows too, actually. Either in the Windows Explorer address bar, or the Run command type:
Opinion: How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
Windows 7 and Windows Vista In Windows 7 and Vista, the Network and Sharing Center is where we'll be spending our time. If you're in Windows 7 or Vista Home Premium, you don't have access to that, so you'll need to registry hack it up. Open up regedit, and look for this:
Wednesday, Oct 28
Opinion: Windows 7 Guides: The Best Of
Microsoft says that Windows 7 is the "seventh" major Windows version, which it isn't, but whatever. Adding to the mystery, the Windows 7 version number will actually be 6.1, the same as Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft has included the option to use BitLocker Drive Encryption without a com...
Wednesday, Aug 5
Windows 7 Review: You Can Quit Complaining Now
In short, Windows 7 is what Windows should feel like in 2009. Media Player still sucks to use, though "Play To" and internet streaming features are nifty The mess that is Control Panel—after all that UI work, what the eff, guys? Microsoft Windows 7]
Windows 7 Review: You Can Quit Complaining Now
The public opinion of Windows Vista—however flawed it might have been—clearly left a deep impact on Microsoft. While we've got final Windows 7 code, it's hard to look 2 1/2 months into the future to predict what the Windows 7 launch will be like. However, based on this code, and the biggest OS...
Saturday, May 16
Opinion: How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook [How To]
• A Windows XP/Vista PC or a Mac to prepare the flash drive Getting Windows 7 This is the annoying part, but it's not necessarily that difficult. Here are some guides, by OS (some linked for length): • Windows XP • ">Windows Vista • Mac OS X (courtesy of Ubuntu, funnily enough):
Monday, Jan 19
Why You Should Go 64-Bit With Windows 7
Basically, anyone geeky enough to read this. If you have an Intel Core 2 Duo or newer processor, you've got a 64-bit CPU, and you should install the 64-bit version of Windows 7 to play with. (Here's how. You've got like 5 days left, BTW.) Microsoft itself is pimping 64-bit over 32-bit now and note...
Thursday, Jan 15
Opinion: Dealzmodo Hack: Revitalize Your Windows Mobile Phone
Core Media Player: Its development has been discontinued, but the app is perfectly usable as is. What is it? It's a barebones media player that'll handle almost any codec, audio or video, that you throw at it. In other words, you can encode video for mobile consumption however you like, some...
Opinion: Dealzmodo Hack: Revitalize Your Windows Mobile Phone
This is where Windows Mobile feels the most out of date; its interface is a classic example of design by committee, only this time the committee was made up primarily of the visionaries responsible for Windows Bob, Windows ME, Windows Vista and possibly the Pontiac Aztec. The solution? Sk...
Friday, Mar 21
Opinion: 5 Takes on Windows Vista SP1 [Roundup]
Anandtech: "Compared to where we were a year ago, our general recommendation for Vista is unchanged. We are however impressed with the progress of the x64 versions of Vista over the past year, after feeling like it was lagging behind Vista x86 from beta up through the release version of Vis...
Wednesday, Feb 13
Mossberg Reviews Vista SP1: "Don't Expect Much From It" [Windows Vista SP1]
Today, Mossberg takes a look at the lukewarmly anticipated Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. It's an odd little beast of a review, its flat, monotonal surface covering a bed of barbs. (Most of 'em are true.) Here's the sharpest one (bold is mine): SP1 doesn't resolve some of the most annoying f...
Wednesday, Dec 26
Battlemodo: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 vs. Shipping Vista [Vista Vs Vista SP1 RC1]
Microsoft just rolled out the first publicly available release candidate for Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista, and we snapped it up, eager to see if it's faster than the currently shipping version of Vista. To test its speed, we ran a series of benchmarks on exactly the same machine, first wi...
Friday, Dec 21
Opinion: Microsoft Year-End Report Card: B- [Microsoft Report Card]
Let's cut the blather about new functionality and early-adoption growing pains and all that: New operating systems are supposed to run smoother than older ones. In my own life, three Vista machines proved unable to meet the mobile rigors of blogging in the field. I had used both Macs and PCs...
