Archive for the tag 'Microsoft'

Jun 11 2009

Windows Home Server Project

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 so [...]

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Jun 09 2009

Blindsearch; are you brand bias?

Published by Guy under Miscellaneous

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 you [...]

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Dec 12 2007

Vista SP1 RC now publicly available

Published by Guy under Operating Systems

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 [...]

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Dec 06 2007

Vista SP1, Release Candidate (RC)

Published by Guy under Operating Systems

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 those [...]

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