July 2005 - Posts
Hilton Locke gives Tablet PC users a few pointers: "Vistais undergoing a lot of changes under the hood, and this means that a lot of device drivers will have to be rewritten or updated to work under Vista. This is not unheard of in the history of Windows
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Chris Lanier points us to the Windows Vista Beta 1 Release Notes: "Features Not Included in Windows Vista Versions of Windows The following components and features are being phased out and are not present in this beta release of Windows Vista versions
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James Proud has written a piece about Diamond: "Diamond will be based on Windows Vista like the past versions of MCE have been based on XP. Because of the complexity and how advance the UI is, it is said that Diamond will have its own special Aero Tier.
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In the past 24 hours there have been dozens of publsihed stories that a Microsoft employee blurted out a time frame regarding the release of Windows Vista; this date was interpreted as a a delay in the Windows Vista release. I'm tired of these non-news
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The Release Notes for Vista specify that you can't install Vista on a "RAW" or unpartitioned and unformatted hard drive. That's exactly the kind of drive that VirtualPC creates when you set up a new OS. Fortunately, the release notes have a work around.
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Summary: For developers building applications for mobile computers, Microsoft Windows Vista is a huge advance. Read about the new auxiliary display, advances in power management and network awareness, and the new ubiquitous Tablet PC capabilities in all
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This document provides a high-level description of the deployment process for Microsoft Windows Vista, formerly code-named WIndows "Longhorn", in the Beta 1 timeframe. It includes an introduction to the tools and processes involved in creating a deployment
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The next major release of the Windows client operating system, Windows Vista (formerly code-named "Longhorn"), will be available in 2006. Windows Vista will deliver major improvements in user productivity, important new capabilities for software developers
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Microsoft also incorporated, for instance, a networked projection feature for mobile PCs that will allow business users to connect a laptop to a projector over a network to display a Micosoft PowerPoint presentation, for example, or to share a presentation
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Microsoft's Brad Goldberg, General Manager for the Windows client, noted that what's new in Windows Vista Beta 1 over previous pre-release editions is largely focused on IT functionality, including security, deployment, manageability, reliability and
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Cnet has a set of images of Windows Vista.
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Q: Microsoft today released the first public test version of Vista. What's the audience for this test release? Allchin: This beta isn't really for even tech enthusiasts. This beta is to test out some of the capabilities that we've got, if you will, in
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Microsoft has passed a major milestone with the release of its first full test version of Windows Vista, the next generation of its flagship operating system. As earlier reported, Microsoft is making available a beta version of Windows Vista to some testers.
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James Proud has let everyone know "Tommorow at around 3pm PST, that is 1am Thursday GMT time, Longhorn Build 5112 will be released to testers." No, it looks like the Windows Vista name is not going to be on the build. Regardless, this event should be
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John Dvorak can be a real poop at times. He probably thinks he is being cute in the latest story, Windows Vista: Where's the Buzz? Well, he certainly turned his negativity toward the Windows Vista name but is it justified? Hardly. According to John Boy,
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According to Chris Roper, from ign.com: Vista, Inc and Microsoft are in talks regarding the Windows Vista name. "Microsoft may find itself in a bit of trouble for naming its forthcoming operating system Windows Vista (formerly known as Longhorn). US-based
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Paul Thurrott from WindowsIT Pro provides an explanation of the name change in his story, Hasta la Vista, Longhorn: How Microsoft Explained the Name Change to Employees, Partners "According to internal Microsoft documentation, the company's decision to
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""Windows Vista" may not be the best name in the world, but it does express what Microsoft hopes users will find in the new OS: not just solutions to problems but a new way of looking at things. Indeed, a system where metadata makes information much easier
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Yes, so why did Microsoft release the Windows Vista name so early in the cycle? This is a great question. "New name means a fresh start, at least from a marketing perspective. Windows Vista is a clean slate, while Longhorn is scribbled with graffiti.
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BetaNews is reporting that the Longhorn client is named Windows Vista but (for now) Longhorn Server will not carry that moniker.
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Tyler ponders the Beta program by Microsoft. "How would such a Beta work if some were offered invitations, and others could freely download the Beta? From the looks of it, recipients of the invitations are active members in other Microsoft Beta programs,
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"Windows Vista includes the "Desktop Composition Engine" which flips the window paint problem on it's head--shifting the burden of painting (or should I say repainting) windows from the software to the hardware which will make for much improved user experiences
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According to the new Microsoft Windows Vista Website, "Windows Vista Beta 1, targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3rd 2005."
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Microsoft Monitor reflects on the Windows Vista name in the post The Room with a View. "Since, Microsoft executives have shown tremendous restraint--so much so, restraint is looking more like the marketing approach to Windows Vista. I like it. Take as
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I just checked the link for the announcement and it is live.
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Microsoft has decided on an official name for Longhorn: Windows Vista. That's according to sources close to the company who requested anonymity. They said that Microsoft unveiled the name in Atlanta on Thursday at the company's internal sales event, known
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Gartenberg says that Microsoft will battle in the coming months for the hearts and mind of their users. How will Microsoft win my heart with Longhorn as it relates to digital media and most specifically music, photos, movies and TV? What do you think?
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Microsoft extended its Early Bird 15% discount to those registering for PDC 2005. Offer lasts through July 30th.
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Just weeks before the Beta 1 bits are expected to hit, Microsoft has committed to some specific metrics around the kind of fundamental improvements Longhorn will deliver. For the past several years, Microsoft has been promising that Longhorn would deliver
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I had dinner with Brad Goldberg last night. Brad's the general manager in the Windows client group and he's tasked with both the business and consumer strategy regarding Longhorn. It's clear that Microsoft is going to start ramping up the Longhorn volume
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Robert Scoble is thinking about making T-shirts for the PDC showing the best bad name for Longhorn. He provides four whimpy ones to get everyone started. Personally, I like the name Longhorn. Come on now. Admit it. Your head is just not on straight. Longhorn
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Loren points to the Longhorn Tablet PC: Advances in Creating Ink Enabled Applications session at PDC and wonders "What other Tablet stuff might there be? Maybe there'll be a Tablet BOF--though I haven't seen anything here yet. And I assume the Tablet
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Paula Rooney from Computer Reseller News writes Stripped-Down Longhorn Beta On Tap " Microsoft's first official beta of its next-generation Windows software, due this month, will lack many of the user features planned for the final code. In Longhorn,
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InfoWorld writes Longhorn beta will have near-complete Indigo "When Microsoft releases the first beta of its Longhorn version of Windows, it will include a nearly complete version of the product's Web services-based communication framework, code-named
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Don MacVittie, Curtis Franklin Jr., Bruce Boardman, Mike DeMaria, and Lori MacVittie wrote Microsoft Lays Out Enterprise Roadmap. "The most visible Longhorn features revolve around the presentation layer, where file icons will be tiny pictures of the
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Mary Jo Foley asks, "Will 'Chimney' Make It Into Longhorn?" "Microsoft says it will release the technology in early 2006 as a separate upgrade under the name "Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003." But officials also say they are planning
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CNet News is reporting Don Box's Spoutlet post titled Dare on Indigo: "Don Box, the chief architect of Indigo, said in a blog on Thursday that XML developers that favor the simplicity of REST will be well cared for once Indigo comes out next year. "Indigo
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Flickr has an image of a Longhorn Datasheet. The image shows Sidebar (Toggle Sidebar too), New Start Menus, New Explorer Views, and UI Changes.
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James Proud asks an interesting question. Will we learn the names of the twenty lucky bloggers who will be part of Team 99 before we learn about Beta 1 or vice versa? Well, I am not on the list. There are better people than I. Loren and Lora were on the
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Shy Cohen points out that there will be 21 Indigo sessions at this year's PDC. His talk will be on Indigo: Writing Reliable and Transacted Distributed Applications.
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commnet.microsoftpdc.com includes the PDC 05 Abstracts. You will want to use IE, forget trying to view these with Firefox because the page looks like a mess.
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Mary Jo Foley explains "Longhorn now officially supports the Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0 syndication formats (in addition to RSS 0.9X, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0). But don't expect the Atom bits to make it into Beta 1 of Longhorn."
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Paul Thurrott is stating July 27, 2005 is the internal date for a public beta of Longhorn. "As far as the Beta 1 schedule goes, Microsoft's test teams are required to complete testing by July 22, but they need to achieve the "0 active bug" designation
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Three segments are available on this page. "I call this the Longhorn Keynote because of all the "keynotes" being given here this weekend (about 10 a day), this is the first one for "us." I sat with Aaron Coldiron from MS. The lead speaker was Mike Sievert,
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It is important to not take this out of context. "In a partner panel at its worldwide partner conference, one VAR stated concern that the bulk of migration work is done and wondered what opportunities could help partners bridge the gap between now and
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James Proud states, "the new Longhorn version MSN Messenger is rumoured to begin beta testing soon." Now, will I get to be a new tester? Sniff.
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According to Tom's Hardware, Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSat) "is essentially a benchmarking tool designed into Windows, which generates scores based on system performance. It will analyze the graphics subsystem, the processor, the memory, the
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This piece of news is actually from June and a post after TechEd 2005, but it seems like a good idea to post. "New component : Restart Manager. It will be responsible to save the state of the computer and restart services."
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Windojitsu.com (Shawn Van Ness) writes, "The big news in Beta 1 (aka the May CTP) is that InkCanvas and its associated object model are now all part of the mainline Avalon assemblies, PresentationCore and PresentationFramework -- TabletCore and TabletFramework
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M-Dollar provides Information about new AD features in Longhorn Server emerge Read only DC. This is a read-only copy of a read/write DC that does a on way copy. The read-only DC is designed with a branch office model in mind. The read-only DC can authentication
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You may have trouble getting to these screenshots of build 5203, but give it a try. There are 21 images. Terence's Wonderland walks through reasons Longhorn build 5203 is not beta 1. "The Beta 1 branch was 50xx-51xx. Build 5101 is currently in escrow
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Don Box's blog gave a congratulations to David Pallman on getting his book to stores. The book, Programming Indigo : Code Name for the Unified Framework for Building Service-Oriented Applications on the Microsoft Windows Platform Beta Edition (Pro-Developer
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From the Tablet Avalon Blog: "Over the last few years,the Tabletteam has been busy developing a new Tablet client platform for Avalon. We’ve integrated our code directly into the Avalon assemblies, which makes inking available anywhere Avalon is."
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Adam Barr publishes part 4 in his series on Monad. In this post he walks through script blocks.
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Mary Jo Foley writes about Meeting Space. "While Windows officials did not discuss what has changed between the alpha build Microsoft released this spring at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (Build 5048) and 5086, they did demonstrate a feature
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According to Geekzone, invitations to Longhorn pre-testing are being sent out. Yeah, leave me out in the cold again. I kept checking my mailbox all day today. Empty. It was another true Charlie Brown moment *sigh*
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Here is a bit of good news. Mary Jo Foley writes, "Beta 1 of Longhorn is still on track for this summer, Sanjay Parthasarathy reiterated that Longhorn Beta 1, which will not include the new user interface bits, is due this summer. Beta 2, which will showcase
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Tim Sneath points to two Avalon Applets, Avalon 3D File System Visualizer and 3D Channel 9 Guy.
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Five new sessions were announced this morning. A list of the session tracks is available on the MSDN PDC05 Events website.
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"In Longhorn Server there will be a DC Admin and a separate Domain Admin. This means the DC Admin will not automatically have all privileges in the domain." Source: Ω水瓶Ω
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In this chapter from his upcoming book, Programming Indigo, David Pallmann discusses how service, data, and message contracts are created in order to build interoperable services. (50 printed pages) Read the chapter on MSDN.
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You might be thinking that we have not even finished 2005 to start making 2006 predictions, but John is ahead of everyone. He's thinking that there are several metrics to watch before contemplating the return of the technology stocks. Microsoft Longhorn
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According to several stories, Longhorn security is being arranged to make data on stolen hardware more difficult to access. "The first stage of enhancing security in Longhorn centres on the use of Microsoft's Trusted Platform Module 1.2, a chip already
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TechWorld published an eight question interview with Paul Flessner: Q: What sort of impact has the Longhorn delay had on this, wrapping all this server and developer technology together? A: We have had some very ambitious plans and we have pared them
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James Proud discloses Taranna will be the main home for the Longhorn Beta.
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James Proud has written an article describing Aero. "Glass is one of, if not the biggest and most beautiful Aero component. Glass will provide realistic effects in the Longhorn UI in a number of different ways. Aero Glass will utilize the latest graphical
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Paul Krill from InfoWorld has written a piece about patents and Indigo. "Planned for inclusion in the Longhorn client version of Windows in 2006, Microsoft bills Indigo as a new breed of communications infrastructure based on Web services, with interoperability
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Part of the reason Longhorn is going to be a success is because it will give all of the geeks a reason to buy new cool toys. "Gateway is shipping three new lines of 64-bit business desktops built around Intel’s BTX cooling technology, two of which can
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Paul Gielens writes, "Indigo is an extension to .NET 2.0 and a subsystem of Longhorn. Once Indigo ships it’ll be available on WinXP and Win2003 as well. Ari explained the three pillars of Indigo namely Productivity, Interoperability and Service Orientation
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Sullivan writes about LUA in Longhorn: "If a LUA account runs an application that then attempts to access resources that are denied, Longhorn attempts to prevent the application from breaking by providing a virtual sandbox in which the application can
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Part II of the Bill Gates Live! Post Colin also demonstrated the long-anticipated Windows Longhorn. He showed how Longhorn made use of the graphical power to render better interface. He proudly showed the audience how the Window Explorer was minimized;
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