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• Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard: Which features should be compared? (Updated)

  I'm working on a multi-part Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard comparison ( read the introduction here ) and am curious what you guys (and gals) would like to see included. More specifically, as you think about the various features or each OS, which need... Posted Jun 15 2009, 11:33 AM by pthurrott with | with 113 comment(s) Filed under: Mac, Windows 7, SuperSite, Commentary

• Exclusive: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit from Windows 7 Starter

  No word yet on whether the other lame limitation--the bizarre inability to change the desktop wallpaper--will be fixed as well. To be honest, this is a bigger issue than the 3 app limit, which sounds horrible but doesn't actually come up all that... Posted May 22 2009, 10:34 AM by pthurrott with | with 267 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, SuperSite, Commentary

• Some site updates: Windows 7 TV tuner support, Office 2010 tech preview

  I made some minor revisions to two articles that may be of interest. I'm never sure how to promote these things, since they're small changes and don't necessitate re-reading the entire article. This seems like a good way to do it. Windows... Posted May 14 2009, 12:14 PM by pthurrott with | with 62 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Microsoft Office, SuperSite

• Questions for Keith Curtis?

  I'm going to publish Part 2 of my ongoing interview with author and ex-Microsoftie Keith Curtis in just a bit ( Part 1 is here ) and I thought it might be interesting to get some reader questions to him for Part 3. If you're not familiar, Curtis... Posted Apr 17 2009, 09:42 AM by pthurrott with | with 38 comment(s) Filed under: Alt. Windows, SuperSite, Commentary

• Potential Windows Live Writer competitor

  thenitetechs over on Twitter linked me to an interesting competitor for Windows Live Writer called Zoundry Raven , which I'm using to write this post: Zoundry Raven is our next generation WYSIWYG blog editor that makes posting to your blogs easier... Posted Nov 26 2008, 12:40 PM by pthurrott with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, SuperSite, Commentary

• Fourth ‘Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition’ give-away is over

  Thanks to the several hundred people who participated in my fourth give-away for my latest book, Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition . I’ve already notified the winners, so if you haven’t received an email from me, sorry, but there’s always next time. I... Posted Nov 15 2008, 02:40 PM by pthurrott with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, SuperSite, Book: Windows Vista Secrets

• And the winner is…

  Last weekend’s Gears of War 2 Zune 120 contest is over, and after conferring with the winner, I can report that Chad Smith of Vancouver, British Columbia has won. I’ll be sending Chad the Zune device this week and, if last weekend was any indication,... Posted Nov 12 2008, 11:58 AM by pthurrott with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Xbox 360, Video games, SuperSite

• Back to the home page redesign

  At some point this week, it occurred to me that I could redesign the site header as part of the wider site redesign which will soon include, I hope, a home page redesign as well. Here’s one idea I was working on that I like quite a bit, if just for the... Posted Oct 31 2008, 11:51 AM by pthurrott with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, SuperSite

• Some notes about the site layout changes

  This evening, I posted what I think will be the final top-level "activity center," which is what I'm calling the main navigational pages in the site, and the items you see in the new Windows 7-style toolbar across the top of each page. ... Posted Oct 24 2008, 08:34 PM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, SuperSite

• The return of Digital Media Core

  I've been working on a few Digital Media Core articles lately (ripping DVDs, Media Center Extenders specifically) and will hopefully have those up soon. I know it's been awhile. I've tested all three of the modern (i.e. Vista-class) Extenders... Posted May 20 2008, 05:19 PM by pthurrott with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Digital media, SuperSite

• Site work, part deux

  In keeping with yesterday's post about work on the site design , I made a few small changes today.... The What I Use page was finally updated (I had done this mostly a month ago but there was a screwy formatting problem). I also updated the Windows... Posted May 18 2008, 06:39 PM by pthurrott with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: SuperSite, Content

• Site work

  In what I should obviously admit to myself will be a never-ending ongoing process, I'm going to spend a bit of time working on the site layout and design this week. I kind of like the way the site looks now, but I think I'm going to change it... Posted May 17 2008, 11:03 AM by pthurrott with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, SuperSite

• XP with SP3 slipstreaming, part 971 (Updated)

  So I've been spending in inordinate amount of time creating slipstreamed XP with SP3 discs lately. (See my previous post, Preliminary Windows XP Service Pack 3 slipstreaming guide , for more info.) It's not really the way I want to spend my time... Posted Apr 30 2008, 07:45 PM by pthurrott with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: XP, SuperSite

• Live Mesh

  Penton's vaunted Web publishing system is hosed this morning, meaning I can't publish my WinInfo article about Live Mesh yet. But this is important. So I'm going to post it here (unedited) for now and then mention a few changes I see coming... Posted Apr 23 2008, 11:45 AM by pthurrott with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, SuperSite, Cloud computing, Developer

• Airline Travel: Your source for regurgitated blog posts ... or something

  I've gotten a lot of questions about the "pingback" stuff in my blog's Comments sections. I'm not a Community Server expert, but I'd love to know how to prevent them from appearing. If you do know, please, drop me a note. In... Posted Mar 25 2008, 12:02 PM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, SuperSite