Microsoft seems to have found it’s pot of gold with the release of Windows 7. It seems to be getting universally positive reviews. My experience with it is still that it just works, which is what I want from an operating system. After all, let’s face it – all it is is an OS. Amazon reported record breaking pre-orders in their UK store which other news outlets reported reported record breaking pre-orders at Amazon (possibly misrepresenting the UK store limitation). Microsoft is even promoting 3rd party PCs on their website [...] Read the rest »
Microsoft Kills the Sidekick
This story has been kicking around a couple of days – T-Mobile Sidekick users appear to have lost all their personal data. Sidekick is a Microsoft product (through Danger, which they bought) and the data is on their servers, not T-Mobile’s. Now the rumor of choice is that it was a failed SAN upgrade and Microsoft didn’t have a backup strategy so there weren’t any backups. It’s hard to imagine this happening at a company like Microsoft. We don’t expect them to be run like a fly-by-night operation. Yet they [...] Read the rest »
Reviewing My Backup Strategy
The days of using a few floppy disks to backup important files are long gone. In going through my website I realized that the information about my backup strategy was a bit dated and didn’t reflect how I do things. Going through everything in order to write this article would also help me be sure I had a bulletproof backup strategy. The goal is to have a solid backup solution so I never have to use a file recovery tool like Data Rescue II. So here goes… My Backup Philosophy [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #44: Long Overdue Edition
Egads! It’s been over 2 months since the last trail log. I also came across an old comment where I’d being doing the trail logs weekly. A week, two months, barely a difference. Unfortunately the real world has been intruding on the quest more than I’d like so while there have been a lot of changes (Windows 7, Snow Leopard, more…) I haven’t really had the chance to dig into the new features they offer. Website Changes The most recent change was to the design of this website. It was [...] Read the rest »
