Windows 8 RTM’d on August 1st 2012 and will be made available to developers and techs on August 15th. “General Availability” meaning retail packaging and OEM hardware sales will commense on October 26th. The President of the Microsoft’s Windows group said: While we have reached our RTM milestone, no software Read more…
The new OUTLOOK.COM looks very similar to Windows Mail in Windows 8 (and to a lesser degree Outlook 2013) with an ultra clean “metro” layout. Microsoft said the new web interface has 60% fewer pixels than Hotmail and as you can see in plain screen shot below, I don’t think Read more…
…global market share fell to 16.9 percent from 18.8 percent a year earlier. Meanwhile, Samsung smartphone shipments surged 172.8 percent to 50 million units from 18.4 million. Market share rose to 32.6 percent from 17 percent a year earlier. Quarter on quarter, Apple share fell from 24.2 percent, erasing most Read more…
BACKGROUND: Every machine I install the lastest Windows Update Agent on results in a 800B0001 error when getting updates “FROM YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR” but have no problems when getting “UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE”. This is the same as: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerwinclient7rc/thread/e64bdfef-f92a-4924-85f1-6b858ec81c59 All of the machines in question are Win 7 64Bit Enterprise Read more…
It sounds like yet another important legal body is rejecting Apples (often viscous) claims and ordering Apple to undo the damage with prolonged advertising favouring Samsung! Note that Apple actually manufactures very little (if anything) and that Samsung is a very very important OEM which engineers and manufactures such things Read more…
Yes, you can get Windows 8 to display all Control Panel and Admin Tool apps in a single folder by: Right click on the desktop and select New, Folder Highlight this folder and press F2. Call the folder: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and press enter. Double-click the icon to view all the shortcuts
XP I understand but Vista is hardly old. Vista has only 8% market share and that was likely a large factor in Microsofts logic.
There are two ways to change the favicon in a Sharepoint 2010 / MOSS site. The easiest (by far) is to simply change the FAVICON.ICO file in your Sharepoint folder. For me that path was C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES Note that after I changed this, I cleared my IE9 cache Read more…
I spent the last 30 minutes trying to locate the damn thing! Very frustrating. It is NOT on connect.microsoft.com microsoft.com/office microsoft.com/office2013 microsoft.com/office15 … From what can tell so far there are only two options for the beta: www.office.com/preview which requires that you sign up for a free Office 365 account and Read more…
Apple has not only stopped submitting hardware to Green Electronics Council’s EPEAT certification program but they are taking the EPEAT certification off but may be removing the EPEAT branding from its existing products. Ordinarilly, joining or leaving certification program would not be large news item, but this one is because the Read more…
Well this was a minor annoyance I could have done without. Fortunately the solution is very simple. If you are trying to SHARE a Calendar in Outlook and you receive the dreaded: Calendar sharing is not available with the following entries because of permission settings on your network Read more…
I have seen this error before but not had the time to troubleshoot it. The error basically means that your out of Windows resource memory (not to be confused with your servers physical RAM). Below is a good explaination from an MSDN Blog: What is Pool? First, Pool is not Read more…
This took me a bit of searching through settings and blogs but I found that if you start your music and then go to the home screen the device will not stop playing. In my case I am using a Samsung Galaxy S III and have enabled the motion detection, Read more…
Since December 1998, when on impulse I bought the original iMac from CompUSA, I’ve used Apple gear. No longer. Late yesterday, I replaced the last fruit-logo with another, fulfilling my pledge nearly a month ago to boycott Apple… … Rotten to the Core Sadly, in 2012, Apple is the company Read more…
LTE is the standard and 4G is the class. I know that is cryptic so here are more details: 4G is the acronym for the Fourth Generation if celluar data communications which is largely defined by a minimum speed requirement. LTE is the acronym for Long Term Evolution and its Read more…
Microsoft just announced that Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7 are all elligible for an upgrade to Windoes 8 Pro, for just $40. That is between half to a quarter of the usual upgrade price. Microsoft is also providing Media Center for free to those who take advantage of Read more…