As frankps sees the world!

Today I read through an impressive list of improvement/features for the upcoming Release Candidate of Windows 7. Microsoft has really changed and gotten both speed and power behind it’s development of Windows. Most surprising that Microsoft is included native support for .mov and AVCHD content. Imagine that you will now be able to play Quicktime movies in both Windows Media Player and Media Center! Who would have thought we know longer will have to be nagged with pop-ups from the […] Continue reading →

Just before the weekend I heard that the European Commission (EC) was to demand that Microsoft stop bundling Internet Explorer (IE) in Windows, and that was after Norwegian Opera Software ASA complained to the EU about the software giant’s bundling practices and alleged undermining of Web standards. If I am not mistaken the complain was delivered in 2007. I must admit I am very surprised, and I once again share the thoughts of Paul Thurrot at WindowsITPro: That IE has been […] Continue reading →

It’s two months since I got the first introduction to Windows 7 (code named Vienna) at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 in Barcelona, and this week Microsoft released a public beta of their next client operating system. I have installed it on my MacBook Pro, and plan to install it on an office machine in AD and on my home machine. I have been using Windows Vista for about 3 years now, through some of the betas and later with the released product. At the department where I am the sysadmin, more […] Continue reading →

Are you, as me, one of the many waiting for the public beta of Windows 7 finally to be released. I have been waiting since Tech-Ed in Barcelona, back in November last year, where I got Windows 7 introduced by developers and project leaders at Microsoft. It’s just a few days left to this year’s CES and Balmer’s keynote. It is expected that Microsoft then will release the first and only public beta of Windows 7. Technet members might get their hands on the beta a few days […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I blogged about Xobni for the first time, little did I know that a major update would be released today. The free Microsoft Outlook plug-in Xobni is a must-have for anyone looking to get more from Outlook, and today the plug-in got even better. That’s because Xobni now integrates the following services directly in it’s sidebar: Facebook: Using official APIs, the Facebook tab displays at-a-glance info from a contact’s network if Xobni can track down their profile. […] Continue reading →