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May 16 Windows 7 RCToday I spent some times on installing Windows 7 RC. The experience was smooth, I encountered no problem at all when I install it on my 2 years old Lenovo X60s. My X60s is on 945 chipset and Aero effect works well on it. The first difference that I notice was the taskbar. It’s a very much welcome addition. You can easily launch application from it, also getting application status from it. For example you can see a progress bar on it when you are downloading files on Internet Explorer. There is another feature that I guess a lot of people are dying for, that is a finer control over UAC. Personally I do not have any problem with the UAC at all, even on Vista. However I do agree it’s annoying to repeatedly ask you the same question. Most people avoid that by completely switching off the UAC, right now on Windows 7 you can preserve the security while having less prompt. You can setup the UAC in a way such that the UAC will only prompt you for confirm IF the modification was trigger by a program. That is, if it’s trigger by you, pressing a button, it is NOT going to ask you the same question again and again. I am installing various beta product right now, such as sliverlight 3. I am going to give more review later. (This entry was my first post composed using Windows Live Writer.) September 07 Silverlight 1.0 released!Check it out at silverlight.net!
Also MS is working with Novell to bring silverlight to linux! Read here. September 30 Windows Vista RC1 upgradedJust get my IBM X41T installed with Vista RC1. Installation was smooth. It recognized my Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2 Encoder, which allow me to run MCE and view live TV. Previously beta 2 does not recognized the device. Vista also recognize my notebook as TabletPC. Although most hardware buttons are not working, I discovered a feature that is new to me, that is "Flicks". By using "flicks", I can swing my pen horizontally from left to right to denote a "forward", right to left for a "backward", which is actually a "mouse gesture" feature. I haven't tried this feature thoroughly but I think it will be a very good one and increase the usability of applications. It is good that if Microsoft allow developers to extend it. It currently support 8 direction swing which maps to 4 navigation action and 4 editing action (copy/paste/etc). May be this is not a new function but I just discovered it. August 30 GPRSI was using Peoples GPRS for a month and everything was great, speed is ok, EDGE supported. Combined with my hw6965 I am able to get on MSN all the time and be alerted when there is new mail arrive. Checking email on the road is great!
However my mobile number are subscribed thru Sunday, I would like to consolidate my bill and use one SIM card, therefore I switched to Sunday 5 days ago. During these 5 days, it is like nightmare. The GPRS mysteriously disconnected while the signal is showing full. MSN keep disconnect every minute. On IE, you never able to load one whole page, all pages timeout in the middle and EDGE is not supported. You can't even get a signal at urban area like Central... Terrible isn't it?
Finally I terminated the Sunday plan and will switch back to Peoples. August 09 HP hw6965I'm back, WM5! I bought the hw6965 few days ago. I love the little iPAQ very much, reminded me the time when I just bought the classic iPAQ. Hw6965 is a Blackberry like device, quad-band, wifi bluetooth plus GPS device. It suits my needs very well. The keyboard is lovely. In fact, I'm using it now to type this blog entry, with the new live spaces mobile. And the GPS is nice, it allow you to attach the GPS info to a picture when you take one with the built in 1.3mp cam. PS. If you plan to buy English version like me, please note after installing chinese viewer (ce-star / monster), the GPS stop working. It throws LtoManager.exe unknown exception. Please let me know if anyone knows the cure. January 06 My Dopod 900Just bought a Dopod 900, to celebrate my MVP renewal!
 Data migration was so smooth, good job, Microsoft!My next target for my Chinese New Year gift includes D200 and Xbox 360. I really feel like I am working for Microsoft as when I finished all programming works, go home watching MCE TV, tired of the show and start the Xbox 360 for games, carrying WM5.0 device all day. The only non-MS device I have now is digital camera and portable game device. When will Microsoft produce Xbox-mobile and DigitalCam.NET?
Lastly, I want to thanks all my friends, MS employee, for the support and love during my MVP period, thanks for your help and understanding! Looking forward for a great 2006. Best wishes to all of you! December 22 Super cool portable computerJuly 05 Professional"The rifle is the first thing you learn, because it lets you keep your distance from the client. The closer you get to being a pro, the closer you can get to the client. The knife, for example, is the last thing you learn." Leon - The Professional
Are you close enough to the client? March 10 HK being ranked 7th globally on ITHong Kong is being ranked 7th on the Global Information Technology Top 10: 1. Singapore Japan is 8th... Well done HK! |
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