June 2006 - Posts

Vista baton handover...

A month or so ago I recieved the baton from Rocky and, after I cleaned off all his security germs I used it to fill TechTalkBlogs with as much Vista chatter as I could.  With Tech.Ed 2006 fast approaching, the time has come for me to hand the baton Read More
posted Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:38 AM by darren | 4 Comments

NetFx3 is Live

I forgot to blog about the new .NET 3.0 website: A great resource for all your daily WinFX... oops, I mean .NET 3.0 goodness Read More
posted Monday, 19 June 2006 9:16 PM by darren | 0 Comments

.NET 3.0 and Windows Card Services (WCS)

The word is out, Soma has announced on his blog that WinFX will officially be badged as .NET 3.0.  In that same entry he also mentions the new name for InfoCard - Windows Card Services.     http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/06/09/624300.aspx Read More
posted Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:36 AM by darren | 0 Comments

Vista Vibes #10: Andrew Coates

NOTEAndrew is a member of hte DPE team and is based in Sydney. How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)?   I don't have a desktop. My primary tablet (M200) is still running XP with Office 2003. My demo box is a Toshiba Read More
posted Friday, 9 June 2006 6:24 AM by darren | 1 Comments
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Innovations Day - Canberra, Are You Ready?

Tomorrow is the first of the three Innovations days where we will host ~150 Canberrans to show them the latest Office12 and Vista bits.  Today we had rehearsals for all the presentations and all that I can say is that this is going to totally rock!  Read More
posted Thursday, 8 June 2006 9:22 PM by darren | 1 Comments
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Meeting Jay Ferron and preparing for Innovations

This week we've had the Vista Touchdown training in Melbourne where we've taken 30 local ISV's and introduced them to Vista.  Yesterday we looked at Vista itself and explored the new UI, Security model and feature-set of Vista.  I love going Read More
posted Tuesday, 6 June 2006 6:46 PM by darren | 0 Comments

Vista Vibes #11 - Melbourne Touchdown Day 2

Here are two of the participants for the Vista Touchdown event in Melbourne: On the left is Darren Bennett and on the right is Hugh Dixon and they are both from Listech. I asked them each a couple of questions about their feelings of what they've Read More
posted Tuesday, 6 June 2006 6:40 PM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #10 - Melbourne Touchdown Day 1

Here are two of the participants for the Vista Touchdown event in Melbourne: On the left is Matt Robinson from Sage Technology and on the right is Mark Killmer from Infosys.  I asked them each a couple of questions about their feelings of day Read More
posted Monday, 5 June 2006 11:22 PM by darren | 1 Comments
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65 Mistakes in Vista

Here's a fascinating list that has been put together by Chris Pirillo where he attempts to list all of the things that are broken or just terribly frustrating within Vista.  I found the list useful not so much for learning about font sizes and crap Read More
posted Thursday, 1 June 2006 1:18 PM by darren | 0 Comments

Vista Vibes #9: Dave Glover

NOTEDave is a member of the DPE team and is based in Melbourne.  It also appears that Dave has lost his login/password to the Corporate Challenge website, so if you find it lying around somewhere, please return it to him so that he can get Read More
posted Thursday, 1 June 2006 4:47 AM by darren | 1 Comments
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