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Thursday
Nov162006

Zune and Windows Vista incompatible

First the Music bought online (DRM protected) won't play on the Zune, and now it seems that the Zune doesn't work with the new OS Windows Vista (at this moment). Well, that's just great. :D

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Wednesday
Nov152006

Microsoft FireFox 2007 Professional Edition

Microsoft has released their latest Internet Browser, and the new features are phenomenal.

Microsoft FireFox 2007 Professional Edition

Microsoft FireFox 2007 Professional Edition

LOL

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Monday
Nov132006

Microsoft Vista RTM Leaked

Microsoft released the RTM (Ready To Manufacture) of Windows Vista. This new operating system (which was delayed numerous times, and stripped of intended innovations like WinFS, and Windows PowerShell) is supposed to be the next best thing that could happen to you. Well, I have to see that for myself first. I played around with some beta's in the last couple of months, and I can't say that I'm impressed. But maybe, the RTM will surprise me. Today I stumbled onto a leaked RTM iso file on the Internet which holds all versions of Vista (both 32bit and 64bit versions). This means that I could test all versions of the OS. With no valid license key it's possible to evaluate Vista for 30 (or 60) days, so I will start to evaluate within the next couple of days, and see for myself if there's any need in upgrading my Windows XP Professional PC to Vista. I'll keep you posted on the evaluation. UPDATE: I installed Vista in Parallels on my Mac Book Pro. The installation took about 30 minutes, which surprised me a little. I choose the Ultimate Edition of Vista, which is supposed to be the most expensive version of Windows Vista. Within Parallels, you have the possibility of installing the Parallels tools. They enhance the user experience of the virtual machine, and install the appropriate drivers for video and the network adapter. After installing the tools Vista isn't able to shut the OS down properly. After selecting 'Shutdown', the virtual machine crashed. Same thing happened on earlier beta versions of Vista. This means that an Parallels update for this 'Vista' issue is imminent. Apart from that it seems to work fine. Perhaps, I should try VMWare as well as a testing environment. Too bad that VMWare doesn't work on my Mac Book Pro :( If all goes well, I'm able to get an official MSDN-key for Vista later next week. Let's see if this version will accept the key, so that I'm able to experiment a little longer than the initial 30 days.

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Sunday
Nov052006

Internet Explorer 7 annoyances

I noticed today that Internet Explorer v7 showed up as a critical download (according to Microsoft). Since I like to experiment (I know... it's wrong), I decided to give it a try. What can happen? I use Firefox as the default browser. I played with IE7 in Vista RC2, and seemed (!!!!!) to work fine. After installing it, I might have lost all my bookmarks, or perhaps I didn't have any to start with in IE6 :) . Anyway, that's something to remember when I upgrade IE on my laptop from work. Here are some annoyances I ran into:

  • Clearview Lame ass anti-aliasing. I thought I had some sort of eye-disorder. (can eventually be switched of in the advanced options, and it needs a restart of the browser).
  • Anti-phising More pop-ups asking stupid questions... Somehow it wanted to check my own website against a phishing list.... disabled it immediately.
  • Flickr bagde Can't get it to work in IE7. Not even if I remove all security restrictions. So if you don't see any pictures in my flickr badge, it means you're using a fucked-up browser. Solved: I needed to install the Flash player component AGAIN especially for IE7 (/me wonders why IE7 doesn't mention that it doesn't have the necessary components to view the page correctly)
  • Menu bar Is disabled by default, and if you enable it, it's not at the top of your window (???)
  • ....
Strangely enough, WordPress seems to work fine, since I'm using IE7 to write this post. (correction: when I wanted to submit this post, there was an error on page according to IE7....) Well, back to good-old Firefox 2.0, and leave all the IE7 annoyances behind me :D. Conclusion: Microsoft created a great (visual) copy of Firefox. Too bad that they had the urge to add bugs and annoyances to it. I can hardly wait for Vista and the new Office suite :)

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Friday
Sep292006

Apples iPod vs. Microsofts Zune

As many might have heard (or not); Microsoft is going to launch a mp3/movie player. It's supposed to be THE Microsoft answer to the iPod, and it's called 'Zune'. BBSpot did a rather rather weird comparisson/benchmark of the two. BBspot - Digital Music Player Showdown: Apples iPod vs. Microsofts Zune For those who don't care to read the test: the iPod wins :)

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