Anyone that’s done system administration or application troubleshooting on Microsoft Windows platform anytime in the last 10 years has heard of SystemInternals or even if they haven’t they’ve benefitted from the work that Mark Russinovich and David Solomon have done. And, unless your head has been in the sand for the past 2 months you know that a great advocate of the users of Windows systems has been absorbed by the collective. A lot of people are still speculating and sysinternals has some answers about whether this is good or bad for the Microsoft consumer. In the past I’ve learned a lot from Mark’s posts on his blog, and while I’m generally of the mind based on many past experiences, that this is not entirely a good thing. Only time will tell. While we’re waiting to find out be sure to read his first post at Microsoft.
Can you remember the last time you actually thought that Microsoft was actually doing something cool? Well according to an article on SlashGear We might be seeing technology like this within the next year. Cool indeed! Imagine the practical implications and what this could to for the sex/porn/webcam business medical and healthcare fields.
Well this is pretty cool, I’ve just installed Windows Live Writer beta and am making this post using its nice WYSIWYG interface. This is a winning app. It allows posting to multiple blogs, automatically detected the blog software for each type, and displays your post using the style indicated by the blog. If you change your theme, the interface changes to support it. It also has built in spell checking support for image uploads and mapping.
I highly recommend that anyone using other free blogging tools at least take a look at this software.
I’ve been using Vista Beta 2 and its interim CTP releases as my primary OS for about 2 months now. It looks like MS is going to ship another beta a release candidate of Vista soon. This despite the two post Beta 2 interim releases which were still not as baked (IMHO) as any previous OS’ beta 2 I’ve used. I do have some perspective on this as I’ve been beta testing MS development tools and OS’s since NT 3.0. I’m a big fan of Vista overall, but relative to what it is promising the product just isn’t ready yet. I can’t help but think that the Windows group’s definition of Release candidate is somehow out of line with the industry. Foisting a build that isn’t truly ready for real world apps Allowing us the privilege of using a complete more usable build is a something I am really looking forward to.
I read this article that covers a lot of the information I’ve been looking for on how to improve not only this blog, but several others and improve their visibility.
