Archive for the 'longhorn' Category

Vista/Longhorn Theme for XP

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

I am using the object desktop vista theme but if you don’t have that then check out this theme for standard windows xp.

If you don’t want to try the new Windows Vista Beta 1 on your system, but you’d like your Windows XP desktop to have a nice-looking Longhorn/Vista theme, here’s something you might want […]

Vista on a Tablet

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Colin Walker pioneering with Vista on a Tablet

Craig Pringle links up Colin Walker who is placing the new visat beta on his tablet..

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Colin Walker has decided to install Windows Vista Beta 1 into a second partition on his tablet and dual boot it […]

vista screenshots

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Paul Thurrot’s has a collection of screen shots for the forthcoming longhorn release. Ooops I mean Vista not longhorn.

WINFS an update to windows vista

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

the unofficial microsft webblog points out Paul Thurrott comments on how WINFS will be an update to windows vista.

“Even though Windows Vista will not include WinFS, it will still include virtually all of the end user search features that Microsoft had originally promised. Microsoft describes this feature—which is essentially instant desktop search—as “Find My Stuff.” […]

FutureMail

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

FutureMail lets you send messages to yourself and have them delivered on any date and time you choose.
Use FutureMail to send yourself reminders, notes, or any information you want to have in the future. You can even share your future items in a public RSS feed or your own FutureMail Blog.
Its Free!

Windows Vista link dump

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Windows Vista link dump
A collection of interesting stories about longhorn – I mean windows vista

C9Park: the story behind Vista
The Mac guys start calling Vista names already
Windows “Vista” already facing a lawsuit