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Running the Professional version for a few days. I liked the “Easy Transfer” wizard that made moving personal files … well, easy so my first taste of Win7 is positive so far.
I also like the stability (so far) of the OS. It allows me to install and use most of the software I had running [...]

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For the longest time, it was a burr embedded in my side.
With ISA servers standing guard in front of our Exchange Server 2007 installation and having a UCC (or SAN) SSL certificate installed, Outlook (2003 and 2007) users on Windows XP were having the hardest time getting access to Exchange via Outlook Anywhere.
As it turns [...]

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Being that I’m a senior controller on the VATSIM network, I have to work with Zulu time (also known as UTC or GMT) all the time so I set up an additional clock to be shown on my Vista x64 machine only to find out it’s off by one hour.
At first I thought it was [...]

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Um?
One would think Microsoft had received enough elbow pokes for Vista without actually creating that problem?

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We’re having a telephone conference call conversation with a vendor who will try their best to sell us a Network Access Control “solution,” as they say.
To be sure, this is a good thing to have in one’s arsenal, but I’m loathe to buy something that Windows 2008 includes for free—Microsoft doesn’t make too many things [...]

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I’m sure everyone knows by now that you can logon to (say) a domain member Windows (XP or Vista) laptop with domain credentials even when away from the domain—without access to a domain controller, to be precise.
Thanks to the How-To Geek, I found out you can increase the number of logons permitted before that laptop [...]

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Found an interesting little tidbit this morning.  Administration in the Windows world is filled with such interesting little tidbits, some of which pass from merely interesting to hair-pulling interesting.  In this case, it was more of an annoyance than anything else.
Due to my incessant, conscientious laziness, through Group Policy, I’ve turned off the Windows firewall [...]

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Thanks to Chxta, I found a link to Guardian (UK) article by Charlie Brooker lambasting those funny but invidious commercials we’ve all seen by now.
The first shot across the bow:
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they [...]

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I installed Microsoft latest browser, IE7 and it blows up each time I start it up.  Without fail. Which ironically means there is at least one Microsoft product on my laptop which acts the same way each time you execute it.  Pish!

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