The Ramberlings of a Geek…

I just recalled a video I watched on Channel9 which shows you that you can connect an MP3 player, in my case an iPhone via the line in and listen to your content via your PC speakers…. 

Larry showing this at around 56 mins in.

Link to video: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Larry-Osterman-on-new-audio-capabilities/

Exchange SP2 has been release today and can be downloaded form here.

Although there does seem to be a few issues with installation on SBS 2008, see The Official SBS Blog post here for more information.

Sigh..  Surely this should of been catered for and we shouldn’t have to go off hacking the registry….   Ah well.  

UPDATE: Backup now, seem to be having intermitted access here in the UK.

Had this error starting coming up in outlook the last few days:

Believe it or not I couldn’t ID which feed had the issue, I went into the RSS folder and right clicked but it doesn’t display the URL.

Eventually I found it in Tools > Accounts > RSS Tab, double click on each feed and the URL is display with in the dialog.

Turns out to be IE8 Web slice gallery RSS Feed messing up……

Just reading on the Windows Team Blog, that we are indeed going to be able to purchase the Windows 7 Family Pack here in the UK.

This will allow 3 PC’s to be upgraded in the home.  This is good news, however the bad news, is that’s it’s only going to be on sale for a limited period, this should be on sale full stop.

Windows Team Blog

Update:  PC Pro have pricing.

Ah – Twitter seems to be down again!  They really need to sort this.

Google has said that they are going to enter the OS Market late next year with ChromeOS.

With Office 2010 bringing office to the Web (at last!) then I think Microsoft should introduce a free, yes that’s right, free version of Windows.

This wouldn’t be any more than Windows with a browser, including the ballot screen… to keep the EU happy.

I believe Microsoft should do this sooner rather than later, Google/the industry won’t be expecting it and what else can Microsoft do when competing with Free.

If you wanted more advance features then you could purchase them via Anytime Upgrade, but these would be Micro payments, for example £99p for Wallpaper Support.  It could possibly even have ad’s on the desktop, before moaning, remember how Google make there money.

It could be small and great for netbooks and people will use it because it’s windows. 

Features such as Media Centre, Tablet and Business will all still  purchase windows as they do know. 

Windows Free is aimed directly at the consumer market.

If Microsoft wants to stay relevant I don’t see what choice they have.

Microsoft has launched MSN TV in the UK, which is great even ad supported the more methods we have watching content legally the better.

When I first heard about this on PC Pro’s news when site the surprise was that it was based on flash rather than silverlight.

Indeed this is odd, when I used the website for the first time the quality isn’t the best.  So is the thinking behind it along the lines of we have now updated with silverlight because its’ better quality  with it’s adaptive streaming.