Eengstro on June 10th, 2007

I witnessed my first Windows Vista bluescreen today. The box was in the middle of being put into Sleep mode when it was awakened again, and blam: a bluescreen. (It could be said that we had a vista of a bluescreen…) Unfortunately, the bluescreen didn’t stay up long enough for me to actually read it [...]

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Eengstro on May 17th, 2007

In addition to Windows Vista, we also have Microsoft Office 2007. I fired up Word, and my first thought was:
Where’s the damn menu bar?!
Hmmm. Obviously I need to play around with it more.

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Eengstro on May 17th, 2007

We just got a new box in the house, with Windows Vista Business installed, and I’ve gotten to play around with it a bit.
First impression: Too Much.
Too much eye candy. Sure, Aero is pretty — very pretty — but there’s so much going on that it’s distracting. Visual Overload. Fortunately, there’s a so-called “Classic” theme, [...]

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