Installing Windows Vista with a Virtual CD/DVD Drive

I’m surprised at the amount of traffic that one simple post about testing Windows Vista brought to this blog. It looks like a lot of it came from the trackback I sent to help.net’s article about using the “Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP” to mount Vista ISO’s to get Vista to install [...]

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Testing Windows Vista Pre-RC1 on Virtual PC

I noticed a post on Paul Thurrott’s Internet Nexus blog this afternoon about Microsoft making Vista build 5536 publicly available. I’m not sure why they did it, but I was happy to learn that I’d be able to test a more recent and less buggy version of Vista, so I downloaded it right away. Using [...]

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Testing Windows Live Writer

The new Windows Live Writer tool that Microsoft released this weekend looks promising. I read about it this evening on Mike Torres’ blog and decided to download it and give it a try – in fact I’m using it now to write this post. So far I’m really liking it and will probably [...]

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