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Closed curtain development at Microsoft

Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:12 PM by maarten
Windows Vista is done (ok, ok, some 'small' patchwork is needed to iron out the wrinkles). Ready for one and a half year now and the next version is under development and code named "Windows 7". Ehhrmm.... Excuse me, is -that- a code name? Let's investigate Read More...
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Vista SP1 RTM

Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 2:09 PM by maarten
And there it is.... Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) for the first set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese). http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx Read More...
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Back to the future...

Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 3:31 PM by maarten
Last week, after safe landing from my trip to Redmond where I had a developer meeting, there was no time to waste. A couple of tools written in VBA (macros) and some shared add-ins written in VB6 didn't look that great in Office 2007/Vista environment Read More...
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Can't install the .NET 3.5 June CTP framework on Vista

Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 1:43 AM by maarten
Last night, ehrrm ... this early morning, I was trying to get the .NET Framework 3.5 June CTP that was released a couple of days ago installed on one of my dev machines and I can't say that it installed smoothly and without issues. Working with new sofware Read More...
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Vista Activation Failed: DNS name does not exist.

Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:49 AM by maarten
Today I had some difficulties trying to activate one of my Vista VPCs. This was the error message: Code: 0x8007232B Description: DNS name does not exist. This made me verify my network settings, firewall etc. etc. but nothing helped and there was no clue Read More...
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