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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 ...

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 ...

I starting installing Beta 1 of Windows Vista - aka Longhorn - today using MS's Virtual PC. I hit a couple of snags even before the Virtual PC booted, so I thought I'd share a couple hints and tips: 1. You won't be able to mount the ISO as-is in Virtual PC - It moans about saying the file is not a valid ISO. Here you have two options: a. You ...