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Breaking the Vista Customer Experience

Pito, you're dead right on this : "I’ve written in the past that I thought at 60,000 feet, Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X are more or less the same in terms of ease of use. The one huge (and probably crucial) exception to this is the initial user experience. I can only imagine what my 80 year old father...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-29-2007
What is Bill Gates' password?

Last night's Daily Show, with Jon Stewart interviewing Bill Gates about the Vista launch was fun. Jon: What's your password? Bill: <laughs> Jon: You don't have to answer that. Is it 'Gates'? Bill: I'll tell you later. Jon: Hey, do you have pets? Bill: Well actually, we keep...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-30-2007
Where did the Windows Vista wallpaper images come from?

Raymond has the answer .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-25-2007
Windows Vista and Office 2007 now on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

If you are an MSDN Subscriber, come and get your Vista and Office 2007 .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-16-2006
Vista start up sound

Here's a short NPR segment on the new Windows Vista start up sound. The story includes playbacks of the start up sounds from Windows '95, Windows 2000, Windows XP as well as the new Vista sound that was whittled down from some 2,000 candidates.

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-13-2006
Windows Vista releases to manufacturing!

According to the Windows Vista team blog , Windows Vista has released to manufacturing (RTM): "And just what is this so-called RTM? It’s the major milestone where we can confidently say that Microsoft is done with Windows Vista and will be handing it off to our industry partners: PC makers...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-08-2006
FeedDemon 2.1 Beta integrates Windows Live Writer

Nick Bradbury announced the beta of FeedDemon 2.1 earlier this week , the feed reader I've been using for years now. I noticed this snippet in the new features list: Integration with Windows Live Writer . From the release notes : "If you don't already have a blog publishing tool configured...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-20-2006
Vista and Synctoy

I took the plunge over the weekend and clean installed Vista RC1 and Office 12 ( 2007 Office ). All working sweet, except for SyncToy (latest version is 1.2) which doesn't run on Vista. I found this post by Ed Bott , citing a comment left by the SyncToy program manager at Microsoft on one of Ed's...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-28-2006
Get your Vista RC1

Neowin has the links to the Vista RC1 goodies . Via Scoble .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-07-2006

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