Report your Windows Vista UI annoyances

Long Zheng has started the Windows UX Taskforce. The goal: to create a list of all the little UI inconsistencies and annoyances in Windows, so that Microsoft might fix them for Windows 7.

So if there's anything that bothers you about the Windows Vista UI, now's your chance to let people know.

Category: General computing
Posted on 2008-06-03 09:32:04 UTC. Show Comments (0)

Windows Search 4.0 released

Microsoft has just released a new version of Windows Search, which is well worth getting if you have Vista because it's much faster than the built-in Vista search. Searching using the start menu search box feels at least five times faster now!

Get it here.

Category: General computing
Posted on 2008-06-04 04:36:25 UTC. Show Comments (1)

Win an MSDN subscription

My good friend Christian Liensberger is giving away two MSDN Premium with Visual Studio Team System subscriptions, worth nearly $11,000! To be eligable you need to create a short screencast about a Microsoft technology, e.g. "how to get started with Silverlight 2". The competition runs from July 1st until July 31st. I will be helping with the judging.

See Christian's blog for full details.

Categories: General computing, Programming
Posted on 2008-06-28 14:22:25 UTC. Show Comments (2)