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  • There is a marked difference..

    Yesterday, I un-installed Microsoft Office 2007 from my Vista installation. Wow, did that take a time to complete or what. The purpose was to install the newly released Office 2010 Beta. First attempt – please uninstall FrontPage 2003 and Access server database. More time passed. Second attempt – it...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Nov 20 2009
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  • Compatibility worries..

    I wrote a brief piece about FrontPage 2003 and Windows 7, about how FrontPage files will not keep the association with the parent program. Well, ICQ doesn’t allow me to sign in either, but ICQ will release a version which will work, but Microsoft have no intention of ever releasing a new version of FrontPage...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Aug 15 2009
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  • That darn start menu..

    For the months leading up to the release of Windows 7 RTM, I have been working out ways to try to emulate the old Classic menu. It was an important feature of earlier Windows versions. I like stuff in small compartments, and being able to create folders in the old menu which would flip out revealing...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Aug 14 2009
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  • Windows 7 FAQ..

    Round colorful thingummybobber here: 1.. Where is the START button? We believe that the START button was far too recognizable as a feature of XP, and so we decided to give it a new look. Also, we wanted to make it more of a challenge for support people to give a description of what you would first click...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, May 29 2009
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  • High End? Not exactly..

    ‘Mike’s Window’ is written in Windows Live Writer which is running in Vista 64. This is the OS which everybody loves to hate. I do have Windows 7 64bit  RC installed too but I prefer Vista. This is my production PC.. Biostar T6100-939. AMD 64 3500+ (single core), 4 x1gb Kingston value RAM, MSI nVidia...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, May 9 2009
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  • Win 7 Editions..

    Microsoft are clearing up the confusion that was ‘Vista’ versions. Windows 7 Starter is clearly aimed at ‘Netbooks’ and will be supplied only with new machines. Windows 7 Home Premium has a feature set much the same as Vista Home Premium, and will be marketed as the primary OS for home users. Windows...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Tue, Feb 3 2009
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  • Windows 7 – is it ‘King’ material? In my opinion..

    The news is that Windows 7 will skip from Beta 1 to RC very soon. The beta testers have been sending in reports to the MS Beta team as the rate of one every fifteen seconds. So, is Windows 7 working well? It certainly should be by the time that the RC is released. However, ‘working well’ does not always...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Jan 31 2009
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  • Windows 7 questions..

    If you hover the mouse over the Internet Explorer icon in the Start Menu, a flip out menu appears.. If you hover the mouse over the Microsoft Word 2007 icon in the Start Menu, a flip out menu appears.. Start Menu flip-outs are possible.. If you attach a folder to the Start Menu and hover the mouse over...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Thu, Jan 29 2009
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  • This is my Windows 7 Start Menu..

    .. but the list of programs shown is not definitive yet. Some of the entries exist because I am trying them out on behalf of some of my local clients. So far, there are twenty eight icons showing and the icon size is set to ‘small’. They have to be small otherwise I could only have ten program...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Jan 23 2009
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  • Say your goodbye’s..

    .. and don’t look back because it is not allowed. You will move forward. You will adopt new ways to work even though the new ways do not make it easier for you. They are trying to make it easier for you, and you must see and agree to that. The alternative? In time, there will not be an alternative...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Jan 16 2009
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  • 48 Hours later..

    and I had six hundred and four hits on my ‘Windows 7 Quick Launch’ piece. I have had this many and more hits on other pieces which have appeared in this blog, but never is such a short time. This tells me that at least six hundred and four people wanted to find out how to get this feature back, and that...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Jan 12 2009
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  • Windows 7 so far..

    I do like it and it works very well on my aging computer, but I have to say this.. Regarding the removal of some features which I and many more see as ‘ease of use’, I am seeing  the present response as 'take it or leave it', a response which has brought nothing but bad press re Vista, IE7...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sun, Jan 11 2009
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  • Windows 7 Beta 1..

    .. is earmarked for release on or around January 13, 2009 after having been previewed at CES a week earlier. TechNet and MSDN download sites should get it at around the same time. I have a feeling that both servers will be put under much strain as news of its appearance quickly filters from one tech...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Dec 3 2008
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  • Microsoft drop the Vista brand!!

    Yes, it really is true. The next incarnation of Windows will not be called 'Vista'. It will be called '7'. Need some time to take that in? Did you think that it would be called 'Vista' The anti-Vista brigade claim that this is conformation that even Microsoft think that Vista...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Oct 31 2008
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  • Names, Schnames..

    There is a bit of a do about the name of the next Windows version. My last post told you that it will be called Windows 7, and Mike Nash explained why it will. Do you care what it will be called? Isn't it more important that the version does as you want and/or expect? The Windows version which actually...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Thu, Oct 16 2008
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  • It's Official..

    The Microsoft project known as Windows 7 will be called Windows 7. Mike Nash says: The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows. We've used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or "aspirational"...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Tue, Oct 14 2008
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