http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000332052b,00.htm PeterI's Blog - Client taming - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:40:19 +0000 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:40:19 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) Well the Windows 7 beta is out there and the big question is if you should install it? As always with Windows Beta programs you will need to be careful. If you are currently running Vista then unless you're a developer I'd suggest that you skip this versi... zdnetuk/10011842 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10011842o-2000332052b,00.htm Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:16:55 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) Wednesdays keynote here at PDC was given by Rick Rashid from Microsoft Research, some interesting highlights of the reams of facts and figures that were given here - Microsoft Research is modelled on an academic structure like a university faculty - 15%... zdnetuk/10009650 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009650o-2000332052b,00.htm Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:31 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) If you're at the PDC, I can only suggest that you check the Microsoft Research Area. There are some great demos being given of Microsoft Chess. Chess is a tool Microsoft have created to help track down so called "heisenbugs". These are usually bugs where ... zdnetuk/10009636 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009636o-2000332052b,00.htm Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:22:39 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) Microsoft announced Windows 7 and the new R2 version of Server 2008 today during the keynote speech. Initially Windows 7 looks similar to Vista, but there a lot of new features that have been added. Under the skin, Microsoft has been working hard. Boot... zdnetuk/10009633 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009633o-2000332052b,00.htm Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:13:22 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) PDC Day -1 A couple of months ago ZDNets editor Rupert Goodwins asked me if I'd like to go to Microsofts Professional Developer conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. PDC is a odd Microsoft conference in that it's a conference where Microsoft like to show so... zdnetuk/10009615 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009615o-2000332052b,00.htm Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:01:36 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) So Apple have launched the "iPhone"[1], it's half the thickness of my current Windows Mobile based phone (a T-Mobile branded HTC Tytn) but otherwise it's the same size. I'm presuming that the network throw in around a £200 subsidy on the phone and with... zdnetuk/10004767 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10004767o-2000332052b,00.htm Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:14:32 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) Belkin have gone up in my estimation by leaps and bounds, I have one of their small wireless routers at home (cost around forty quid). Recently it's started to give up the ghost, sometimes it works all day, othertimes just for half an hour, it hangs a... zdnetuk/10004593 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10004593o-2000332052b,00.htm Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:10:15 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (P) Recently I've changed my IE home page over to live.com for me it seems to give more relevant results. Amazingly it seems like Microsoft may actually now have a better search engine than google. It's only missing one big feature for me, the google news pag... zdnetuk/10004528 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10004528o-2000332052b,00.htm Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:53:53 +0000