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Finally I can announce that over the last few months we have been helping National Rail Enquiries in the UK develop the official Live Departure Board Sidebar gadget for Windows Vista and today the gadget is available for download from this page at Windows Live Gallery: ...

I have been testing speech recognition in Windows Vista and so far I am fairly impressed.   I managed to write this blog entry using Windows Live Writer without use of the keyboard or mouse.  OK, it took quite long time but I got there in the end and I am hoping that over time it gets a lot easier.  As you can see it includes ...

  One of the notable changes in Vista from XP is that Windows Updates can only be accessed using the option in the Start Menu. Trying to access http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com merely prompts you to use this 'local' option. Initially I did not see what difference this could cause to updates, given that both should result in the ...

  Conchango has been working intensively over the past two months with Microsoft and Associated Newspapers to create an application that allows users to to read the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday using advanced screen reading technology. The application launches today. It has been dubbed "The eReader". The application is built ...

Today I finally got an Adminpak installed on my Vista laptop!! Up until today I've been using an additional Windows Virtual PC - which I'll probably keep for now - running on my laptop to do normal day-to-day admin stuff.  I have installed on there my Exchange, SQL and other application tools, resource kits and little extras you ...

As we slowly start to roll out a couple of Vista RTM deployments to some of our developers it transpires there's a couple of little niggles that not many people have taken note of: 1. Last night Keni tried to install Visual Studio, but it kept failing saying it can't copy a certain file.  Even though ...

Right now I'm in the process of upgrading a Dell Latitude D820 to Windows Vista RC2 - currently running RC1.  I installed RC1 Build 5600 as a clean install about 2 weeks ago. Now I know that most self-respecting IT bods will never really do in-place upgrades .. I figured lets try the "what-if" factor. When I tried to kick ...