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Windows 7 RTM – Expanding Windows Files Hangs at 21% – WAIT!

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Windows 7, microsoft | 9 Comments »

A while back I posted a message about the Windows 7 Release Candidate install appearing to hang whilst expanding windows files. Well, I just wanted to let you know that this also appear to be happening on Windows 7 RTM / ...

Upgrading Windows 7 RC to RTM / Final

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Windows 7, microsoft | No Comments »

For those of you who have been using Windows 7 RC and are now wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 RTM / Final, you will no doubt be faced with the message that you cannot upgrade from the RC to ...

Microsoft and Yahoo join forces to tackle Google

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in SEO, microsoft | No Comments »

Well, it's been a long time coming, but it has finally happened.....Microsoft and Yahoo have teamed up in the search and web advertising arena. After several take-over offers from Microsoft were refused by Yahoo over the last year, the final deal that has ...

Microsoft bouncing back? …. Windows 7, Bing, Windows Mobile 7

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Internet Explorer, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, microsoft | 5 Comments »

Microsoft have gone through the ringer in recent times.  They have had the relative failure of Windows Vista (which I have to say I thought was ok), the rise of the IPhone and other Windows Mobile competitors, the dominance of ...

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Uk Lunch Event in July

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Expression Web, Silverlight, microsoft | 1 Comment »

UPDATE: Expression Web 3, Sliverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 have now been released, which you can read about in my post, "Expression Web 3 Released" here. I received an email this morning inviting me to an exclusive launch event for Silverlight ...

MSDN & Public Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Downloads Finally Here!

Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in Betas, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | No Comments »

UPDATE: The public version of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 can be found here. Today sees the waiting over for many people, myself included, for the release of Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010. According to Mike Ormond the beta will be ...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta Release Next Week…..Maybe.

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, visual studio | No Comments »

Many people, myself included were gvery exicited this week as we were expecting the release of Vsiaul Studio 2010 Beta from TechEd, however, now Mary J Foley has posted on her blog stating that she believes that Visual Studio 2010 ...

Windows 7 First Impressions…

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Betas, Windows 7, microsoft | No Comments »

First, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I know its late and I want to apologise to anybody that reads this blog regularly.  It has been a while since my last post because I have been very busy with my day job, but ...

Windows Installer XML (WIX) – Open Source from Microsoft

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in WIX | 1 Comment »

To those of you who already know of WIX (Windows Installer XML), it will be old news. But, for those of you who don't, I thought I would introduce you to it. Windows Installer XML was released some time ago to ...