Guy Adams on Technology
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Those who follow me on Twitter will already know that I plan to follow in the footsteps of Kevin C. Tofel from jkontherun and replace my Windows Server 2003 file server at home with Windows Home Server. I will go a little more in depth into the installation and my impressions in the coming week [...]

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Here is an interesting concept; a site called Blind Search created by Microsoft employee Michael Kordahi as a free time exercise removes all the branding from three of the most popular search engines. Google, Yahoo and the much talked about Bing are used to generate search results which are displayed in three columns, from those results [...]

Last week I posted about Vista SP1 being made available to MSDN and Technet subscribers, well Microsoft have made the service pack publicly available. Before you set off in the direction of Microsoft remember that it is only a release candidate which means it will change before the SP1 is launched ready for the prime [...]

For those in desperate need of the first service pack for Vista the wait is almost over. Nick White of the Vista Team blog posted yesterday regarding the release: Today we’re making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to TechNet and MDSN will have access to [...]

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I posted about a Windows Mobile 6.1 rumour a while back but it now the Boy Genius Report has confirmed that 6.1 is alive and well with some screen shots of the new operating system.       Along with the obvious new interface there are several features: Copy / Paste Domain Enroll in Settings (Enrolling [...]

Vista since its release has taken some fairly large criticisms for some pretty high profile places and people, in certain cases for good reason. Well some of you may or may not heard (if not where have you been?) that Apple have released their new operating system; Leopard. Since it hit our shelves I have been reading the reviews and news [...]

I read an interesting article over at PCMag.com yesterday about the general mood at the CTIA, wireless and entertainment show 2007. “The one thing that brought many of the new handsets and much of the new software I saw at the show together was a love of Windows Mobile.” Its an interesting article but it [...]

Its not a myth, its simple fact that the mobile browsing is one of the biggest let downs when using Windows Mobile. Well Pocketables have written a mobile browers comparison which is very interesting and well worth a read. In my opinion the mobile browsing experience won’t be good enough until its comparable to the [...]

WMExperts posted an article regarding an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 due to be released in February and shipping on devices in May. The upgrade will be intended for smartphones and gives the user a scrolling interface similar to what Microsoft and Vodaphone developed for the Palm Treo v500.  pocketinfo.nl reported that 6.1 is going to be [...]