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• The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Sep 06 2007, 07:24 PM

  Filed under: Windows Vista Beta 1, Windows Vista, User Account Control, Windows Server "Longhorn"

  TechNet Magazine has a great article this month about UAC . UAC was not deliberately designed to be the most annoying feature in the history of Windows. Rather, this set of technologies was designed to set us on a path where users do not need to expose
  

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• My Windows Vista Experience Thus Far

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 06 2005, 02:00 AM

  Filed under: PDC 2005, Windows Vista Beta 1

  When I was at PDC 2005, I had the pleasure of meeting Jerry Pournelle. I talked about " journalistic integrity " this morning... well, when it comes to journalism, it doesn't get much better than Jerry. In his PDC opening day article for Dr. Dobb's Journal
  

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• Installing Vista on VirtualPC or Blank Drives

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jul 29 2005, 01:35 AM

  Filed under: Windows Vista Beta 1

  The Release Notes for Vista specify that you can't install Vista on a "RAW" or unpartitioned and unformatted hard drive. That's exactly the kind of drive that VirtualPC creates when you set up a new OS. Fortunately, the release notes have a work around
  

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