Macro Scheduler 9.0 Beta in Vista
Here’s a sneaky peak at Macro Scheduler 9.0 running under Windows Vista:
Category: Vista
Vista RC1 Annoyances
Well, after painstakingly working with the Vista UAC team at Microsoft to ensure Macro Scheduler would be Vista compatible, and lots of testing with the Vista betas I was happy to report a while back that Macro Scheduler ran well under Vista beta 2. Recently Vista RC1 was made available under our MSDN subscription so […]
Do or Die for Windows Vista
According to Sven Hallauer, Director of Windows Release Management, in a podcast interview yesterday, Microsoft has only a couple of weeks to ensure all critical bugs are fixed and in place to meet the Vista deadline. Any delay and the bugs either won’t get fixed, or the release date will slip. Certainly Vista Release Candidate […]
Vista Delayed Again?
Lots of people are saying Vista won’t make it for the current launch Schedule. Robert McLaws at Longhorn Blogs says Vista Needs More Time. Scoble agrees. I say get the product right, even if it means a delay and a short term hit on stock price. This is a major new operating system after all.
Don’t Disable Vista Security Features
Great post by Jesper Johansson, Senior Security Strategist at Microsoft, on Vista security and why beta testers should not disable User Account Control just yet: http://tinyurl.com/j5z7x. Worth a read.
Vista too Chatty?
If you’ve been playing with the Vista betas recently you’ll have noticed how often it asks for your permission to perform admin level functions. By default Vista runs all users as ordinary level users (even if you’re logged in as an Admin) and asks for permission via “Elevation Prompts” every time an admin function is […]
Vista Beta 2 Launched to the Public
The Windows Vista Customer Preview Program was launched yesterday evening making Vista beta 2 available to everyone. Until now it has been confined to members of the Technical Beta Program and MSDN subscribers. Now anyone can download it or order a copy on DVD. So if you are wanting to try Vista out now is […]
Vista Beta 2 Released
So Vista Beta 2 was made available to MSDN subscribers this week. We installed a copy yesterday and my first impressions are good. It installed quickly with the minimum of fuss and the performance is good – it seems pretty quick. Beta 1 was agonisingly slow so it’s good to note that beta 2 is […]
Vista Application Compatibility
As you know we have been working hard on ensuring Macro Scheduler is compatible with Vista and our latest 8.0.2 maintenance release is built with support for Vista. But what about other applications? Well, Microsoft’s “Application Experience Team” have started their own blog to provide resources for testing application compatibility and “To help make the […]
Vista Delayed
Microsoft have just announced that Vista will be delayed and won’t be generally available until the beginning of 2007. Read the official announcement. This doesn’t really surprise me. Since November 2005 we have been working with the Vista beta releases to ensure Macro Scheduler will be Vista ready. Finding the information we needed to achieve […]