- Posted by SondreB on October 17, 2009
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Using Windows 7 and Windows Virtual PC has it's benefits. It's useful for managing a few virtual machines and you get decent graphical quality on the virtualized machines (Windows Aero Desktop). The biggest issues with Windows Virtual PC, is the fact that it cannot virtualize 64-bit OS. That means ...
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- Posted by SondreB on August 9, 2009
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Part of Windows 7 is a completely new platform for Location and Sensors. This is a framework that tries to remove the old legacy of COM-ports for communication with external devices. Even a lot of today's USB devices, still rely on the COM protocol to communicate with the PC. The Location and Sensor Platform in Windows 7 improves this with a modern architecture for arbitrary hardware sensory input.
Read more to learn how you can program against sensor devices on your own...
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- Posted by SondreB on May 3, 2009
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Learn about the new Virtual Windows XP, which enables full backwards compatability for Windows 7.
With the Windows Virtual PC functionality built into (separate installation) Windows 7, users will be able to run multiple types of virtual machines - which makes life simpler in regards to backwards compatibility of software.
Read on to see how my adventures with the latest release candidate of Windows 7 went...
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- Posted by SondreB on February 8, 2009
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We are daily faced with an information overload. It's not easy to be living a good digital lifestyle when you have a bunch of computers and digital devices. Learn how you can improve your home network and enter the Digital Lifestyle of 2009...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 5, 2008
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As of late Microsoft have started a new path in their design and user experiences (UX). This is starting to become evident in their Windows Live Essentials package, Windows 7 and their websites. Why is this so important that I’m writing a blog post on the subject? Let me start with some background o...
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- Posted by sondreb on April 30, 2008
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PC World ran an article on 18 Features they think Windows should have, but doesn't, and that they think Microsoft should borrow and steal to add them as features in Windows. While the list is great, there are alternatives and mistakes in the article. Here is my own list of alternatives to the 18 fea...
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- Posted by sondreb on March 25, 2008
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Today I decided to upgrade our Windows Server 2008 with the release candidate 0 of Hyper-V (the virtualization engine from Microsoft) and I stumbled upon various issues. The first mistake I did was to download and run the patch without reading all the knowledge base and read me files... not a good...
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- Posted by sondreb on February 7, 2008
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If you have read my blog before, you might have read my post about Internationalization and localization. Here I go again with the same topic but this time I'm covering 4 different Microsoft products: Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Windows Live Services (Beta) Microsoft SharedView Beta...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 15, 2007
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Recently I made my first publicly released Windows Vista Gadget, named Lyrics Player. This is a mashup gadget that is based on the work by Jonathan Marston. The gadget have already seen more than 9000 downloads and received good reviews. What it does is integrate with your Windows Media Player libr...
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- Posted by sondreb on September 1, 2006
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The old Windows Catalog has been revised, redone and renamed to Windows Marketplace and has been designed and built by Vertigo. On this service you can purchase and download software (and most importantly: games), you get World of Warcraft at a 20% discount at the moment (customers have rated it...
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