Posts Tagged ‘Vista’

Shape of things to come

Get post on Sean Alexander’s blog which containted a video shown at CES 2007 during Bill Gate’s speech. Watch here: It contains a vision of PC that will be avialable this year sporting Vista as the OS they ship with. There’s some nice designs in there. Wish I had all...

The Venice Project Beta-Test – Take 2

So, last night I tried to the The Venice Project Beta to work, but ran into a Vista-related issue (software conflict). It was stuck in my mind, so this morning I woke up early to figure out what the problem was before I went to work. So, first of all,...

3D RSS Reader (Vista)

UniveRSS is a application being used as a WPF showcase by Microsoft. It represents your RSS feeds as a uiniverse of rotating cubes, the size highlights the number of unread articles. Comes complete with source code. Unfortunately my Vista box is out of action at the moment, so I can’t...

Windows Vista Activation Keys

Great post on Mark Wilson‘s blog about how Windows Activation works on Vista. There are two types of keys: Multiple Activation Keys (MAKs) which are valid for a defined number of installations and Volume Licence Keys (VLK) where a client runs his own Key Management Server and “leases out” keys...

VB6 – The language of the future !

Came across this on Andy’s blog: Apparently the only language that Windows Vista currently supports is VB 6. This blog post goes into the detail, however it appears that the following are the Microsoft development environments that Microsoft will be supporting when Vista is launched: Visual Basic 6.0 (supported) Visual...

Vista hates my Rock

Been playing with Vista over the last few days, trying to make it run on my laptop, but I can’t even seem to get it to walk, let alone run. Installation was pretty smooth nd I must say, the new UI does look very nice. HOWEVER .. I seem to...

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