November 2006 - Posts

The Ready Summit Tour is over, so what did I learn?

The Ready Summit tour is over. I delivered my final presentation today to a small audience in Canberra. It has been a busy month that has taken me and the rest of the team presenting all around Australia from Sydney to Brisbane to Perth to Melbourne to Read More
posted Wednesday, 29 November 2006 9:55 PM by mitch | 1 Comments

Happy Birthday Frank!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Frank, happy birthday to you! Read More
posted Saturday, 18 November 2006 5:40 PM by mitch | 0 Comments

The Rebuild Process Begins

The next week is going to see me rebuilding all of my PC-style devices to a common Windows Vista + Office 2007. I've started the process today on my Fujitsu Tablet PC (T4210) and so far the results have been encouraging. The following things work without Read More
posted Thursday, 16 November 2006 3:10 PM by mitch | 0 Comments

Reflections on User Account Control and Virtual Store Redirection

In the "Windows Vista Security Enhancements for Developers" session that I have been presenting over the past few weeks (in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth so far) one of the topics for conversation has been User Account Control (the UAC team blog). UAC Read More
posted Saturday, 11 November 2006 4:58 PM by mitch | 2 Comments

Office 2007, Windows Vista and .NET 3.0 all RTM!

It has been an amazing week this week with Office 2007, Windows Vista and .NET 3.0 all were released to manufacturing. What is special about this is the fact that all of these products/tools integrate tightly so it is really a major achievement getting Read More
posted Thursday, 9 November 2006 7:12 PM by mitch | 0 Comments

News on Windows Vista retail licensing terms and conditions.

One of the Thought Bubble post responses sent me on a bit of a crusade to find out more about the licensing for Windows Vista. In particular there *was* as clause that effectively meant that you were only allowed to re-install the retail package once Read More
posted Monday, 6 November 2006 8:10 AM by mitch | 0 Comments

Post Summit - Sydney

I've done the pre-summit post, now time for the post-summit post. No, the Sydney instance of the Ready Summit didn't go for four days, it has just taken me three days to get around to posting up this quick debrief. Overall I think the day went really Read More
posted Monday, 6 November 2006 7:58 AM by mitch | 0 Comments

Pre Summit - Sydney

I'm sitting on the "SIRIUS" waiting for it to depart to Darling Harbour where the convention centre which will be hosting the Ready Summit is. Yesterday I met up with Andrew Coates, Scott Fletcher and Deeps (the team). I decided to catch the ferry because: Read More
posted Thursday, 2 November 2006 5:53 AM by mitch | 1 Comments