Paul Mooney

Windows Vista Launch Tulum Mexico

The Irish in Windows Vista

Microsoft Ireland plays a central role in the launch of Windows Vista and 2007 Office

The European Development Centre has been working on a number of different development projects for Windows Vista. The Dublin based team has had sole responsibility for the design, development and delivery of the date and time control panel’, time zone data and the new date and time reference user interface. They also delivered the Regional and Language Options control panel applet in Windows Vista which allows users to configure how Windows displays numbers, dates, time, set location, choose keyboard, install additional display language support and change system locale ensuring that Windows Vista will work in all European cultural environments.

The EDC also supported the new Windows Smartcard Framework by providing a quality certification programme for vendors that wish to develop modules for this new architecture. Testing the European wireless and ISDN network drivers that are included in the Windows Vista product was also done here as was the development of the scanning feature into Vista Media Center

The WOW Starts Now

View the Live Webcast: 4:45 EST, Jan. 29, 2007

Windows Vista Home /

Windows Vista in Bulgaria

Windows Brings Consumer Vista to Bulgaria

Yea, Bulgaria gets it!

I thought today was the big Edelman splash in NYC, but Bulgaria grabs the Morning Headline.

Windows Vista is the best dang OS ever.....till the next one comes along.

PC Revolution

Preaching From the Ballmer Pulpit

Steve Lohr keeps rewriting the same story over and over, but his publisher contunies to pay him so the advertisers must be pleased.

Microsoft is where it is today because of its Partners, the PC revolution happened through communities of enthusiast building faster and cheaper machines with more and more memory.

The creation of an Operating System is a political, social as well as a technological challenge. Standards and specifications are the result of cooperation between many Partners competing in a economic system.

Google doesn’t write drivers, somebody has to understand the transition and action of code to the flow of electrons through intricate circuits.

Towards the Vista

Looking towards the vista of outer and inner space from the Observatory and Cenote at Chichén Itzá in the Yucatan.

Hafnium

Intel Says Chips Will Run Faster, Using Less Power

Chips that run faster and use less power, how are they going to do that?

By shrinking the wafer thickness down to 45 nanometers and using hafnium to insulate the near pathways of the intricate microprocessor.

......but is it going to work?   Looking into Intel’s new fab

Googlebombs

Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs

Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

Googlebombing is one of those things that everybody knows about, but just doesn't talk about or even want to know about.

Google will always tell you it's completely algorithmic, but a month ago I linked to Mike Hall's post about Beta Testers for Halo3 and within 48 hours he was at number 2 on Google and I was at 5. I got thousands of hits and emails for about three days and then noticed that Mike and I had vanished from Google's return for Halo3 Beta Testers. We didn't just drop in the ranking, we disappeared all together.

A quick word about Googlebombs

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Ships

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

Scott Guthrie´s Team has been working long hours just to show the Windows Vista Team how software is made.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 delivers a rich client-side AJAX library that provides cross platform, cross browser support for a core JavaScript type-system, JSON-based network serialization stack, JavaScript component/control model, as well as common client JavaScript helper classes.  ASP.NET AJAX also delivers a rich server-side library that integrates AJAX functionality within ASP.NET, and enables developers to easily AJAX-enable existing ASP.NET 2.0 sites with minimal effort

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

CodePlex Project

Windows Vista Syncs

10 reasons not to get Vista

The 11th reason might be that you already have it installed.

Windows Vista isn´t going to make your two year old laptop run better and certainly would´t help that three year old Pentium PC.

Social Media Crush

Big Media’s Crush on Social Networking

It has always struck me as hilarious that the same people who are offended by the Web 2.0 term like to say social networking.

The WWW has always been social from the first newsgroup, IM and webcam to the comments on my blog and yours. 

When you blog and read blogs you do get to know people from their voice, but you need to be yourself to find your voice.

So what is social networking?  Ask a VC and his PR Team.

UXMAL

UXMAL, a new markup language? Maybe the next 2.0 buzzword or another trademark infraction by Apple? How about an ancient city of the Mayas about 40 miles SW of Midera Mexico.

Better Together for Developers

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Windows Vista User Experience

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Windows Vista Launched in NYC

I arrived bright and early this morning for the New York City Launch of Windows Vista, Office System 2007 and Exchange 2007 at 7:56 AM, but a thousand New Yorkers were there ahead of me! The sign-in system and temporary work staff were overwhelmed.

At 8:48 Steve Ballmer himself walked by me on his way up to his Keynote, soon after that they told everyone to go on in to the Keynote and register afterwards.

I found the overflow room with two giant screens and settled down to watch the show.

Steve did what Steve does best, but then our own Joes Thomas came on stage and gave a fantastic demo of Office 2007. Then Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO said he’d like to ask his buddy Rob Jackson out to tell us more about security in Windows Vista. Rob did the MSDN talks in the NY metropolitan area for years and now he’s breezing through Keynotes with Steve, Bill is probably calling him now for advice on programming.

It was a great day for the NY Tech community; we always have fun when we get together. No sign of Edelman PR, they say they get blogging, but there was no place for bloggers at this event.

Edelman Experience Index

Setting Expectations

Few seemed to have noticed Richard Edelman’s Friday afternoon before a three day weekend post about his PR firm’s latest scandel; handing out laptops paid for by Microsoft, AMD and Acer to current and prospective clients and associates.

Plain and simple it’s wrong for Edelman PR to boast they can deliver the blogisphere for their clients campaigns.

Microsoft has given hardware, software and SWAG to influencers in the community many times over the years as has AMD, but it was never done so clumsily and publicly before. What set off the laptops for bloggers scandal was the appearance that Microsoft was bribing bloggers and Edelman stood idly by as the flames burned.

Sending Mac zealots Windows loaded PC's is analogous to sending the iconography of one religion to devotees of another; blasphemy!

The truth is Edelman’s Me2Revolution Team is attempting to assemble a stable of bloggers who will be useful to them in future campaigns and this has been done at Microsoft's expence.

AMD lent a few Acer Ferrari laptops to the BlogHaus at CES and I checked their Windows Experience Index, it was 2.8. How are you going to persuade anyone that Windows Vista is a great OS without a GPU optimized for DirectX 10? 

Pay iTunes

Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs

DRM has yet to be a problem for me as I listen to Jazz ripped from CD’s remastered from the original recordings that like myself are from NYC in the ‘50’s. I have never owned an Apple computer because you can’t take them apart and put them back together. Since I was three years old I’ve been taking things apart and putting them back together, that’s how I learn how machines work.

I used a Mac just last week in the BlogHaus, Doc Searls say’s he uses a Mac just because it works. They do work fine, without any significant performance improvement from my Windows Vista laptop.

I use software from many different ISV’s, but Mac users have very little if any choice when it comes to software programs. In 1991 I visited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic the CCCP and there was very little choice when it came to consumer products. Apple reminds me of this when they say here is Browser, oh you have photos, here is iPhoto, you want music, pay iTunes.

Cisco Answers

More Answers on Cisco iPhone Trademark Issue

First, a very brief recap. Our property (the iPhone trademark) is being used without our permission. We filed suit to stop this. It is as simple as that.

1) Has Cisco maintained its rights to the iPhone trademark? Cisco has used its iPhone trademark in all ways necessary to maintain it and keep it valid. We are not a litigious company, but we will act when our property is used without our permission.

The Apple faithful need a reality check, we all use Cisco routers and less then 10% of us have ever owned an Apple computer or iPod.

Cisco has a blog and they are communicating in a human voice, Apple is silent as always. I wrote to Apple PR once and they sent me a statement from Microsoft.

Apple has crossed a line this time and can't reinvented the Trademark laws.

Windows Defender

Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Windows Defender no longer supports Windows 2000 as mainstream support ended in June 2005. Windows Defender Beta 2 expired at the end of '06.

This download is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Windows. Windows Vista users must pass Microsoft Genuine validation.

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MIX 07 Details

Scott Guthrie - MIX07, Work, and Personal Details Revealed

Two bloggers from my blog roll sit down to talk about MIX07 and remind me that I will be returning to Las Vegas for this exciting conference for Web developers and designers..

- What's doing on the web technologies front

- What's so special about IIS 7.0

- Why you should care about Orcas

See the video by Rory on Channel9.