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Vista SP1 & Windows Server 2008 both RTM

Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 have finally been RTM. For those of you also on the W2K8 beta program you will be able to download from the connect website. Unfortunately Vista SP1 hasn't been made available to beta testers on connect yet. http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive...

Posted to Damien McGivern (Weblog) by Damien McGivern on 02-05-2008
2008 is going to be a busy year! - Events

I've just blogged details about the up and coming Belfast Community Launch for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, as well as some details about the official Microsoft Launch in Belfast later in the year and details about a Microsoft event on deploying Vista and Office 2007...

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 01-11-2008
Uninstalling Applications that do not appear in the Add / Remove Program

I recently instaled an appliaction (Laptop version of CRM Client which installed an instance of MS SQL Server 2005 express on to my machine which I wanted complete rid of, after uninstalling the application I was dismayed to find that the SQL express instance was still installed. The SQL Express instance...

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 07-10-2007
Dave Northey

Dave Northey joined Microsoft Ireland ten years ago and has worked in both Consultancy and technical Pre-Sales. He currently works within the Developer and Platform Group, where he focuses on the underlying infrastructure (Windows Server & Client, Active Directory, Management & Security products...

Posted to Speakers (Gallery) by Damien McGivern on 05-19-2007
Slaine's Multiple XBox Live Gamercard Gadget

I've created another Vista Sidebar gadget, this time to track all your XBox friends using there Gamercards There are a few gadgets already out there but they did meet my requirements, so I quickly put one together, using the same principles I used for the World of Warcraft gadget (HTTPXMLRequest...

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 04-24-2007
Slaine's World of Warcraft Realm Status Vista Gadget

Last October I started my first Vista Sidebar gadget, and got a bit stuck in getting the alpha transparencies in the popup to work correctly see My first Vista Sidebar gadget . Due to getting a couple of emails from people to see how I was getting along with this, so I sat down and cracked on with it...

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 04-18-2007
"Orcas" March CTP Released

Well that's my weekend blown... The next version of Visual Studio has been released as a Community Technology Preview (CTP). There are two ways that you can download the CTP, the individual componants or as a Virtual PC image . My personal choice would be for the Virtual PC image, which will save all...

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 03-01-2007
Windows Vista Talks - Links

Thanks again to Dave for coming up and talking about Vista last Tuesday. He's listed the web sites that he mentioned. Link to Dave Northey's Blog : Windows Vista Talks

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 10-26-2006
My first Vista Sidebar gadget

A while ago I did build a Konfabulator Widget (now Yahoo Gadgets) for World of Warcraft ( Slaine's WoW Realm Status Widget ). This widget went off to the Blizzard - Realm Status pages and returned the status of your favourite server. With playing around with Vista of the last couple of weeks I've been...

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 10-24-2006
Laptop Graphic Drivers on Vista RC2

I've got a Dell Latitude D820 @ work and I was a little disapointed with the Windows Aero performance once I installed Vista RC1 and RC2. According to my Windows Experience Index I was only getting a 2.1 which was the score I was getting for the graphics. Now these things have GeForce GO 7300 which honestly...

Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 10-23-2006

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