PowerShell is a complete replacement for any of Microsoft’s DOS or Windows command line interpreters. It is a full fledged object oriented system administration scripting language. With PowerShell knowledge you would run circles around any sysadmin that works predominantly from through the GUI, as well as be able to get Windows to do things that [...]
Getting started with Powershell
March 28th, 2008 ·
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Games for Windows Live Marketplace likely
March 7th, 2008 ·
From Eurogamer: Unangst said Microsoft would "continue to invest" in Games for Windows, which apart from giving its games an Xbox Live-style service layer with friends lists, Achievements and the like, also insists that games be easy to install, support widescreen displays and include parental controls.
It all sounds promising. The one thing I was most [...]
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Responsible browser vendors are hard to come by
January 28th, 2008 ·
Mike Davies works as a web developer for Yahoo Europe and has some insightful comments on the Internet Explorer rendering switch (see source).
When a user upgrades from IE7 to IE8, they will be upgrading from IE7 to IE7. When a user upgrades from IE8 to IE9, they will be upgrading from IE7 to IE7. Notice [...]
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Facts from Microsoft
January 22nd, 2008 ·
Apparently they have not processed my 200+ logs I sent to them:
Windows Vista users generally experience 20 percent fewer application “hangs” than those running Windows XP.
Source (Microsoft)
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Avoid spyware by running applications with SetSAFER
October 30th, 2007 ·
Everybody who’s ever tried it knows the problem. Life as a regular user on Windows is a pain: who wants to switch users just to install software, sometimes even to run it? However running software as a non-admin increases security. It’s impossible for spyware to install itself into the system when it is not allowed [...]
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