James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
On current events
Eileen wrote Recently "Companies are still in the dark about Real Time Communications, some people...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/11/2006
Updates on a couple of Vista bugs.
I mentioned a few days ago that the Windows Media Player in Vista no-longer supports my smartphone....
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/09/2006
A new trick for Vista
I mentioned recently that Windows Vista has some new features in Task Manager, and showed the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/09/2006
Not technical for once
A few oddments that I wanted to blog: technical content, it will resume shortly. (1) Spam...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/08/2006
Short cut keys in Windows Vista
One of the things I tried ages ago was pressing the Window key and each other key on the keyboard....
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/07/2006
Free LCS exam voucher ....
I clean forgot to blog about this on my return from tech-ready. I blame the jetlag... Last year I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/07/2006
Vista’s Scheduling and Defrag
One of the things that is new to Windows Vista is the Scheduling service. Out has gone the old AT...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/07/2006
This week’s cartoon
Some complaints about Microsoft are valid, Some aren't. Anyone can get Microsoft Beta software....
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/04/2006
The one minute guide to Microsoft anti-malware
One of the best sessions I went to at Tech-Ready last week was one which didn't deliver what it...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/04/2006
Thoughts on the beta life of Vista and 2007 release
Like Darren I've updated from to build 5472 of Windows Vista and I've also updated to the "Tech...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/02/2006
On powerpoint ...
Inspired by Darren's recent post Tagged as Microsoft Office Powerpoint
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/28/2006
Microsoft Research and Photography
One of the talks we had here at Tech-Ready on Wednesday was from Kevin Schofield. Kevin's General...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/28/2006
Landlord! IE7 for Everyone !!
The IE team have announced on their blog that when it is finalized, IE 7 will be pushed out via...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/27/2006
Excitement - you can't beat it, you can't fake it
As I've mentioned over the last couple of days I'm at Tech-Ready - it's the event Microsoft runs...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/26/2006
Live Communications server now supports SQL 2005 SP1
I don't like posting mails to my blog, but the following extract from a "Good news" e-mail which I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/26/2006
We’ll know more Zune.
OK, OK I was wrong when I said My gut feel is that if we are [working on a player], it won't be...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/24/2006
Changes to TechNet
Since this blog appears under the TechNet brand , it seems a good place to spread the following...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/23/2006
How not to be read ...
Eileen posed a question in her blog recently. "with everyone over the age of 6 using IM for social...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/21/2006
Cartoon 4.
I'm afraid this one is a bit big, so you'll need to click on it and open it larger.
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/21/2006
More virtualization goes free: more help for the environment
We've announced Windows Server 2003 DataCenter Edition R2 - which is quite a mouthful. There are two...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/21/2006
Small details are important.
I've already mentioned that I am testing an interim build of Vista. One of the things that we have...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/20/2006
Cartoon 3
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/14/2006
iPod Killer ? Only if it has a French accent.
This Friday the BBC carried a story Microsoft has said reports that the company is planning an MP3...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/10/2006
More tales from the dogfood bowl. Moving to the new Vista build
Earlier this week I was reminded that there is pain in being a beta tester. Some of that is peculiar...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/07/2006
Cartoon 2.0
Following on from last week...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/07/2006
Using Vista’s Diskpart
[Updated to fix formatting issue] Earlier this week I moved build 5384 (Beta 2) of Vista on a 60GB...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/07/2006
Disappointment with the latest internet explorer
Talking to others who have upgraded to Build 5456 of Vista, it is clearly better than the Original...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/06/2006
More on the Vista command prompt
When I made my "Vista Cool wall" post, I said there were some new command line tools. I came across...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/06/2006
A whole new kind of Driver problem
Once again a combination of Scoble and the BBC have alerted me to rather cool-sounding piece of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/06/2006
High Performance Computing: broad reach.
I almost missed the release Compute Cluster Server (CCS) happened at the start of June; I wasn't...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/30/2006
More on Bill ...
The news earlier this week that Warren Buffett was giving $37bn to the Gates' Foundation has thrown...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/30/2006
Backup in Windows Vista: all change, all change!
Three small things have led up to this post During the roadshow someone approached me and mentioned...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/27/2006
New Roadmap for Unified communications.
The following information has appeared on Presspass about the Unified Communications road map which...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2006
10 worst and 10 best of Microsoft
Over at Microsoft-watch, Mary-Jo Foley gives her list of Microsoft's top 10 flops, and I have to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2006
Firefox tops list: IE nowhere to be seen
In a previous post I admitted a small heresy for a Microsoft person. I quite liked firefox; past...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2006
Mobile devices on Windows Vista
Last week I followed up on Jason Langridge's posts about new HTC devices and the Motorola Q. , which...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2006
On the late arrival of Vista...
Recently someone in Redmond caused a bit of a stir with a blog piece about causes for the delay in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/22/2006
Microsoft don’t do prize draws, sorry
Our Chief Security Advisor in the UK has sent out an advisory this morning. We have seen a huge...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/22/2006
Adobe, yet again.
I notice from reading Mary Jo Foley that Adobe have put out a statement about Microsoft’s support...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/22/2006
Vista security tips
I promised Arthur that I would tell people about the Microsoft Unified Communications and RTC user...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/20/2006
More on filing vista bugs
Good news. I'm given to understand that the two things I hoped were easy to fix in my "Time to start...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/20/2006
Bye Bill, Bye Robert ... is this the end ?
Most Microsoft people get asked “Do you know Bill Gates” when we tell people where we work. We don’t...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/19/2006
More on interesting devices
Thanks to RSS, I read Jason Langridge’s blog, I’m a bit nervous about posting two back to back...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/17/2006
The Motorola Q ...
Jason Langridge likes the Motorola Q. – he keeps lamenting the fact that only works on US networks....
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/16/2006
Bill Gates announces that he stepping down in 2 years
I’m watching the web conference now. Bill began by saying, “Today I work full time for Microsoft and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/15/2006
How to get the Road-show slides
After each of the Roadshows I’ve been asked – sometimes by people who came via this blog “How do I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/14/2006
RSS in the Enterprise
Before IE7 and Office 2007 Beta 2 I used Attensa to bring RSS Feeds into Outlook, I liked the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/14/2006
Vista: just connect to my home network, Please !
Somewhere in doing the upgrade to Beta 2 of Vista it began to behave oddly. It was happy to connect...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/13/2006
Time to start a Vista cool wall
On “Top Gear” – the BBC’s motoring show. They have a cool wall where they classify cars as...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/06/2006
File those Vista bugs !
I’ve only just posted about Scoble collecting bugs Last week when I described installing the newest...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/06/2006