I doubt this is the first place you’re reading about it, but Microsoft released Windows 7 RC1. The release candidate will have a fairly long life as a free OS, running without any limitation until March 1, 2010 at which time it will begin shutting down every two hours. It will completely expire on June 1, 2010. The March 1st date is well beyond most guesses for the official Windows 7 release date. I’m still running the beta version on my bare metal windows machine and I’m quit happy with [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #38: The OS Edition
So far this year I’ve built a couple computers, one with Windows 7 and one with Windows Home Server. I’ve also fought some OS X patching battles and hardware problems. The new Windows Home Server is running well and has been nice and stable. With all the disk that’s now in it I was able to turn on file duplication for the video share which has 4.3 TB of data. Eventually I’ll turn off the file duplication but I want to get a feel for performance with it turned on. [...] Read the rest »
Internet Explorer 8 Gets It Right
I’ve forever ignored a problem Internet Explorer had when displaying this site. It displayed correctly (meaning the way the CSS said to) in every browser I used except IE. Now IE 8 gets it right (at least the IE8 I’m running on Windows 7). The problem was the way IE displayed the picture I put in the top left of many posts. This is how IE 7 and earlier used to display them. Notice the text starting at the bottom of the picture. This is the way every other browser [...] Read the rest »
Windows 7
I hadn’t considered Windows 7 for my PC build. I started planning in December and had pretty much ignored the stories about when the beta would be available. I didn’t want to be running beta software on a PC I had just built and I didn’t want to have to worry about software compatibility and whether the problem was hardware or software. I just made a u-turn and did a fresh install of Windows 7 on my newly built PC. It was abrupt because I wanted to flatten the Vista [...] Read the rest »