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Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition on the way…

My wife and I are getting ready to ship out copies of Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition to the people who won the giveaways I’ve had so far here on the site, on Twitter, and via the Windows Weekly podcast. I have 30 copies on hand currently. (Well, 29. I gave one to my mom.) But I’m expecting another...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-22-2008
Picking a Microsoft document sync solution

Obviously this is fodder for a future article, but here's a mile-high view of Microsoft's three document sync solutions. Right now, the company makes three: Live Mesh (pre-beta "technical preview") Windows Live FolderShare Beta SyncToy 2.0 For starters, they're all free. The first...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-14-2008
Taming Microsoft Word 2007’s File Associations and Document Windows, Part One

The other day, I sort of randomly posted about a number of the stupid little Windows Vista issues that bother me on a regular basis. It wasn't really that random. I had just recently had dinner with a couple of friends, also Windows enthusiasts, about some of this stuff and it was obviously in the...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-31-2008
There's a Velociraptor in my PC

A Western Digital VelociRaptor , that is. My desktop PC is almost two years old now. (I purchased it back in October 2006.) It's an HP Pavilion m7690y tower machine with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, so it's getting a bit long in the tooth, though it's been very reliable overall....

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-31-2008
I bought a new MacBook ... to run Windows. Why?

Through a long and circuitous route, I ended up at the Apple Store in Braintree, Massachusetts yesterday, and bought a MacBook . The where, what, and why of this transaction may be of interest. (Or it may not. I will at least point out that among my blogging pet peeves are the incessant morons out there...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-16-2008
In the can

At approximately 12:49 pm this afternoon, about 12 hours later than anticipated, I finally finished the initial writing phase of Windows Vista Secrets 2nd Edition and FTP'd the final chapter to the publisher, while uploading a backup copy to Skydrive. I'm not sure what the writing experience...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-24-2008

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Browse by Tags

Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition on the way…

Picking a Microsoft document sync solution

Taming Microsoft Word 2007’s File Associations and Document Windows, Part One

There's a Velociraptor in my PC

I bought a new MacBook ... to run Windows. Why?

In the can