“I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll give them a tour of the Mac Lab and explain what we do. They’ve always found it very interesting and so I thought I’d share a virtual tour of our Mac Lab.”
D. Weiss via Juha
Tag: Microsoft
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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab
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Microscott vs. Microsoft
“A computer workshop company on Sherbrooke St. in NDG is called Microscott and has a logo that uses the same font as Microsoft.”
Came by this googling for what I saw on Webpark.
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Easy fix for corrupt XP boot
“[Many] “Missing or corrupt HAL.DLL,” “Invalid Boot.Ini,” or “Windows could not start…” problems can be fixed with these five shortcut steps:
- Boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console
- Run “Attrib -H -R -S” on the C:\Boot.ini file
- Delete the C:\Boot.ini file
- Run “Bootcfg /Rebuild”
- Run Fixboot
It really can be as simple as that!”
InormationwWeek via Juha
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Matroska ja Windows ME
Matroska Pack Fullin asennus Windows ME:hen ei onnistu, vaan se ilmoittaa, että on käytettävä Lite-pakettia. Sen asennus kuitenkin kaatui runtime erroriin. Seuraavat ohjeet käsin tehtävään asennukseen löytyivät CoreCodec.org:sta.
- Asennetaan FFDShow 20041012 (SSE- tai SSE2-versio, mikäli suoritin näitä tukee, muussa tapauksessa tavallinen versio).
- Asennetaan Haali Media Splitter.
- Ladataan VSFilter ja kopioidaan avatusta paketista VSFilter.dll:n ei-unicode-versio C:\Windows\System32-kansioon.
- Suoritetaan komentokehotteessa: C:\Windows\System\regsvr32 vsfilter.dll
- Asennetaan CoreVorbis.
- Asennetaan Media Player Classic:sta ME-versio (siis versio, jonka nimessä on 98me, eikä 2kxp).
- That’s it.
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Gates too rich for tax computer to handle
“Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, said the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.”
Yahoo! via Juha
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XP Minimal-Requirement-Test
“The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP. Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM. But that had to be beaten!”
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XP On Your Thumb Drive
“Fred Langa offers a step-by-step and illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive.”
InformationWeek via Juha
Holy shit, you can boot an OS from a thumb drive?! That is so… five years ago.
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Running Windows On New Macs?
“Windows Vista will support EFI [(Extensible Firmware Interface)], and Apple has said it has no plans to directly block Windows from working on the new boxes.”
Without hacking, XP won’t work because it has no built-in support for EFI.
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Tracking down uptime in Windows XP.Windows XP:n toiminta-aika selville.
- Open a Command Prompt window.
- Type the following command:
Systeminfo | Find “Up Time”
TechRepublic via Juha
Ja suomenkielisessä järjestelmässä tämä kaipaa säätöä, koska myös Systeminfon tuloste on suomennettu:
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Microsoft to ship all OS bits with every version of Vista
“Microsoft plans to market several versions of Vista but will distribute all of the OS bits with every product shipped so users can easily unlock and step up to more full-featured versions using electronic keys, sources said.”