Good info about how Vista supports dual monitors. (more…)

• Surprises inside Microsoft Vista’s EULA
  An excellent read about the crazy restrictions in Microsoft’s Vista EULA.
• After month, no rush to adopt Vista
  Amazing that anyone is surprised at this. Enterprise needs much more time to deploy an OS than home use does. Getting it earlier than the home users really amounts to an extended beta period. I personally can’t see any chance of deploying Vista earlier th

Yesterday I posted a tip on how to access Vista’s On-Screen Keyboard. If you have the Business, Enterprise, Home Premium, or Ultimate versions of Vista, then you have another option to the On-Screen Keyboard that Vista offers. Called the Tablet PC Input Panel, this program is designed to allow tablet PC users to input information in a few ways, including writing words or characters by hand, or by tapping on an on-screen keyboard. You don’t have to be running a Tablet PC to use it, the functionality is now built into Vista (instead of being a separate version of Windows as XP Tablet PC Edition was). (more…)

Amazing that anyone is surprised at this. Enterprise needs much more time to deploy an OS than home use does. Getting it earlier than the home users really amounts to an extended beta period. I personally can’t see any chance of deploying Vista earlier th (more…)

An excellent read about the crazy restrictions in Microsoft’s Vista EULA. (more…)

• Vista marketing ramping up
  Some are getting free laptops, others a Vista marketing kit (with USB drives I’d love to use to boost my Vista memory). Anyone get any swag?

Your keyboard has stopped working for some reason, and you need to do something before restarting that requires the keyboard. What do you do? Well, Vista has an on-screen keyboard that you can use by just clicking with your mouse (of course this assumes that your mouse is still working). I saw a related tip over at Tweakvista, but their solution was to make a shortcut ahead of time. Great if you’re the type that plans ahead for unlikely situations, but I was more interested in the “didn’t plan ahead, I’m screwed now” scenario. (more…)

Some are getting free laptops, others a Vista marketing kit (with USB drives I’d love to use to boost my Vista memory). Anyone get any swag? (more…)

• Vista Still Using Older OS Code
  So it not only will have security holes in the new code, but will share the holes still not found in the old code. How nice…
• Windows Vista Activation Cracked Yet Again
  Another activation hack, yet one more of many to come.

Another activation hack, yet one more of many to come. (more…)