I am copying a video file across my wireless network (though this particular machine is kinda flaky, so it might not be Vista's fault) but I thought this was funny:

This blog post may seem to be a clever way of increasing my web traffic but the fact is that I am growing frustrated with the adoption of Vista and Microsoft's general under-delivering on Vista.

Url: http://news.com.com/Vista%20draining%20laptop%2...

Url: http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/vista

I was setting up my new laptop with Vista today and it looks like everything is finally installed, except my fonts.  So I opened the Font folder and picked, "Add New Font".  This is what I saw:

Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/wpfesample.gadget

Url: http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2007/0...

Url: http://jameskyton.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/beyo...

I thought I'd mention a problem I had with my new Vista installation. 

Url: http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10945

Url: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...

Url: http://www.longhornblogs.com/chris123nt/article...

Interestingly Windows Media Player 11's visualizations in Vista don't seem to be Video Hardware accellerated.  While I understand that Windows Media Player 11 needs to be backwards compatible, it does make the visualizations looks ugly compared with the rest of the OS.  Hopefully they'll change that for Vista RTM, but for now that are just plain ugly (and CPU hogs).

If you upgrade to RC1 be aware that SQL Server 2005 requires SP2 before it will work with Vista RC1.  Yeah, I know there is no SP2...but that's the case.  It just doesn't work. I am trying to hack around the problem so I'll let you know if I find a solution...

I really like the realtime (or near real-time) preview of the windows on the Taskbar in Vista.  Check it out:

Url: http://www.tweakvista.com/Article38996.aspx

Url: http://microsoft.com/vista

Url: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?page_id=3170

After my recent rant on Vista not being ready, I did want to mention a couple of great things I saw in Vista that I haven't heard about before:

I spent the majority of yesterday moving my primary laptop to Vista.  I got a new 100G/7200RPM drive, so I decided to chew up some of the space with a dual boot.  I got to late last night (about 6am) when I decided it was a dead proposition and I needed to revert to my XP SP2 desktop.  Good news is that a majority of the software I loaded on Vista worked without a hitch.  At the end of the day it came to that a few critical pieces of software weren't Vista-ready.

Url: http://news.com.com/Vista+beta+sucks+up+battery...

I have built a test-vista machine to do some WinFX stuff on and it got me wondering...why do I need to run the WinFX runtime installation on Vista? Isn't this supposed to be pre-installed?  Aren't some built-in Vista apps already using WinFX?  I am so confused.  Anyone know?

Url: http://microsoft.com/vista

Url: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/03/windows-vist...

Url: http://news.com.com/Longhorns+new+name+Windows+...

Url: http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/0001/01/0...

Url: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7613523/site/newsweek/

Url: http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/007717...

I've had the WinHEC build of Longhorn for a while now and I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised.  It seems that Longhorn is really coming along.  I am very focused on WinFS programming, so I have not had too much time to dig into other interesting topics like Avalon (though Chris Sells loves the data binding) and Indigo.

Url: http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/03/08...

After attending most of the Keynote this morning at the PDC I am convinced that Microsoft is headed in the right direction, but it is still a long way off. 2005 or 2006 is too long to plan towards. On other note, Yukon and Whidbey will be here soon. Its about time to start planning for these technologies now.