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 / Final. When the installation reaches the Expanding Windows Files stage at 21% (some people …
Tag Archive: Microsoft
Aug
07
Upgrading Windows 7 RC to RTM / Final
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 RTM. However, the workaround available to upgrade from the Beta to the Release Candidate is …
Jul
29
Microsoft and Yahoo join forces to tackle Google
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 now been reached will see Microsoft’s search engine Bing powering Yahoo’s search, with the …
Jul
28
Microsoft bouncing back? …. Windows 7, Bing, Windows Mobile 7
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 Google on the search arena and their own Internet Explorer being hit in the browser …
Jul
01
Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Uk Lunch Event in July
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 3 and Expression 3. Unfortunately I am out of the country, but the launch …
May
18
MSDN & Public Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Downloads Finally Here!
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 available to MSDN Subscribers today, with a public download following hot on its …
May
14
Visual Studio 2010 Beta Release Next Week…..Maybe.
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 Beta 1 will be released next week. Although this is nothing concrete, it certainly seems …
Jan
25
Windows 7 First Impressions…
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 I am hoping to write more in 2009. I downloaded the public Windows 7 CTP …
Apr
01
Windows Installer XML (WIX) – Open Source from Microsoft
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 the open source community by Microsoft. It allows for the creation of Windows Installer …