Jun 27
NBC is going full strength on Beijing Olympics by giving users online coverage to all its sports. However, only Vista users would be able to enjoy this. In an excerpt:
NBC announced two significant technology partnerships with Microsoft and Wavexpress today to provide 2008 Olympics coverage over the web. The new initiatives embody a natural evolution for Olympics coverage considering the times—but they’re available only to users of Vista or Silverlight.
Powered by Wavexpress’ TVTonic Internet video service and client, NBC Olympics on the Go will allow owners of Media-Center-capable Windows Vista PCs (that’s Home Premium and Ultimate) to download “up-to-HD” coverage on a sport-by-sport basis. Users can chose from a number of channels in Wavexpress’ TVTonic client that NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Games will be categorized into, and the NBC Olympics on the Go client will be able to access event coverage roughly 12 hours after an event ends. Ars Technica confirmed with Wavexpress that users will not be able to keep downloaded coverage indefinitely, though videos will remain playable at least for the duration of the games.
Head over to NBC Olympics for their coverage.
Source here.
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Jun 27
Bill Gates is wearing an Apple t-shirt. Funny, I just found this over at Flickr. Whether it’s photoshopped or not, we may see more of it as he is going farther away from Microsoft and to his other commitments.
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Jun 27
Bill Veghte, Microsoft Vice-president, quoted the launch date of Windows 7 by saying:
You have told us you want a more regular, predictable Windows release schedule.
Our plan is to deliver Windows 7 approximately three years after the January 2007 general availability launch date of Windows Vista.
You’ve also let us know you don’t want to face the kinds of incompatibility challenges with the next version of Windows you might have experienced early with Windows Vista.
Our goal is to ensure that the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward.
The more Microsoft announces the release of Windows 7, the more users would wait for it instead of upgrading to Windows Vista.
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Jun 27
Do you want to use the same picture for all Vista users? The following are the steps to do it:
1. In the run command type gpedit.msc
2. Click Computer Configuration, then Administrative Templates, followed by Control Panel, and finally User Accounts (Image above)
3. Right-click on Apply the default user logon picture to all users
4. Click on Properties
5. Click the “Enabled” button (See image below)
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Jun 27
Wintel no more.
The term “Wintel” was coined earlier when Microsoft and Intel was inseparable from each other. Intel and Microsoft has been tight for so many years helping each other out with every release of their product. Intel has installed and implemented every generation of Microsoft’s Windows while Microsoft has promoted Intel at every chance they get.
That relationships seems to end as Intel snubbed the biggest Windows launch ever by skipping the adoption and probably waiting for Windows 7 instead.
Even when Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, is frequently meeting Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, it has not compelled the hardware giant to implement Windows Vista to its 80,000 employees.
It was reported that Intel made a comprehensive report of cost benefit analysis on migrating to Windows Vista and found out it brought little uptake to their present Windows XP installation. New York times has reported on this but the person who revealed about the comprehensive report remained anonymous as it could bring damage to their relationship with Microsoft.
The biggest problem with Vista is their hardware requirements and putting in an additional 200 to 300 USD on their hardware requirements multiplied by say Intel’s 80,000 employees would cost them 16 to 24 million dollars on hardware alone.
Nonetheless, Intel has profited billions of dollars on sales from their Microsoft installed computers and spending a few tens of a millions looks very small in preserving their “Wintel” relationship with the software giant.
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Jun 26
This is an interview done on Steve Jobs a while back where he talks about Microsoft’s lack of originality. Everyone knows that, no big deal. He should have figured out how Microsoft racked up the dollars despite being un-original.
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Jun 26
nVidia ForceWare WHQL drivers has been certified for Windows Vista. The highlights of the release are as follows:
# WHQL-certified for Windows Vista
# Supports GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs.
# Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI Technology with GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs.
# Supports CUDA™ Technology.
# Supports Folding@home distributing computing application.
# Supports HybridPower, a Hybrid SLI Technology, on the following GPUs and motherboards:
Make sure you are using the latest release version of the driver from nVidia before proceeding with the installation. You would be able to check the version from the nVidia website found here.
Download the software here.
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Jun 25
This is a video on disabling Windows Vista startup sound.
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Jun 20
I found this picture over Flickr which is a Windows Vista Fatal Error T-Shirt. Cool! and the model too!
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