VolkerW's WebLog
Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals Also chirping at: https://twitter.com/volkerw
Parallels to support Vista?
Wonder where they are with their project to support Vista. as guest on a Mac. Benjamin Rudolph kind...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/18/2006
Google's growing list of domains
Neil Patel put together this impressive list of domain names owned by Google. Quite impressive....
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/18/2006
Microsoft aquires Winternals
Wow, that is a piece of real good news. We work with them already for quite some time very closely....
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/18/2006
Intel's Montecito dual-core Itanium arrives
Tomorrow we will find out if it worth the wait. Computerworld: "Intel does not expect to sell...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/18/2006
Microsoft and XenSource to Interoperate
MoneyCentral has the story details. Official press announcement. Microsoft and XenSource to Develop...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/18/2006
Gmail vs. Exchange
My wife just started a small business, so I bought a 100 email addresses (20 GB each), a domain name...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/18/2006
MACBU and MSTSC and RDP 6.0 :)
Today I meet with Brian. Brian is Product Manager in the MACBU (Mac Business Unit). Brian and team...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/17/2006
Private Folder with a short lifespan
"Private Folder 1.0", a Microsoft tool to protect content in a folder by password and...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/17/2006
YouTube videos account for 60 percent of all videos watched online
According to Hitwise (via Reuters), "YouTube videos account for 60 percent of all videos...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/17/2006
88 per cent of e-mails are junk
Times Online had an assuring article yesterday that we - thanks to IPv6 won't run out of IP...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/16/2006
Newshutch
A new web based RSS aggregator, NewsHutch, has appeared. I signed up for free inspired by Signal vs....
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/14/2006
Correcting other people's grammar issues?
English is not my first language. Stop laughing, I know you can tell from the poor grammar and...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/14/2006
Dell on2one blog
I follow the Dell blog very closely and I must say it is getting better with every post. I would...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/14/2006
P2V migration from Bootcamp to Parallels
Even reading this good write up of a physical to virtual (P2V) migration of Windows on a Mac is...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/14/2006
New Acer Ferraris available soon
The new Acer Ferrari laptops are ante portas. (mouthwatering) images, technical details and...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/14/2006
New life for old PC
From c|net: "The software, known as Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, is designed as a...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/13/2006
The Internet is boring
Ok, I'm late with my comment on Mark Cuban's recent post but I will add my 2 cents anyway. What I...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/13/2006
Partners of the year announced at WWPC
Microsoft is a great company because we have great partners. All sorts of partners. Being an...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/13/2006
Bootcamp on the new Mac
Rest assured, I will not - at least not now - write the 12,337th blog about how I installed Windows...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/12/2006
Infoworld picks up Virtual PC announcement
One of the latest blog posts in Infoworld's Virtualization Report covers the recent Microsoft...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/12/2006
Virtual PC 2007 will be available at no cost
Virtual Server has been released as a free software back in March. Now the announcement that Virtual...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/12/2006
Virtual PC 2007 available for free
Another move towards making Virtualization a commodity on Servers AND on workstation type systems....
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/12/2006
Favorite Mac app of the week
This week my favorite Mac app is SeisMac. Wonder if there's a similar app for Windows. "SeisMac is a...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
64-Bit Insider
Folks, thanks for all your feedback and comments about the 64-bit Insider newsletter over the past...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
Switching from Windows to Mac
On PCMAG.COM I found an article about a guy – kinda like me – kinda switching from...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
Better Mac ads
In a recent post I mentioned the new Apple Mac ads. Thanks to Scoble I found some ads on YouTube...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
VMM versus Hypervisor
Ben, the Virtual PC Guy, has an informative summary/comparison of Virtual Server and a Hypervisor...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
Dell is into blogging
Better late than never. (And that from a Microsoftie :) Real Dell people now blog. I always had this...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
Mac OS for a Windows guy
Unlike many other Windows users, I did not miss the right mouse button and still don’t miss...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/10/2006
My first MacBook - belongs to my spouse.
I forced convinced my wife to buy a MacBook for her new small business (she agreed to an Apple only...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/10/2006
Real blogs on real topics?
MJF offers advice about how Microsoft could fix its troubles. In “2. Face the hate” she...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/10/2006
Microsoft is in Redmond and Redmond is in California
No wonder the German's lost the Soccer Worldcup. They don't even know where Redmond is. According to...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/09/2006
Opteron climbs supercomputer rankings - on Windows
Way to go AMD!c|net reports that “Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip soared up the latest...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/28/2006
TechNet on virtual frenzy
Most of the stuff you ever wanted to learn about Virtual Server, Windows Virtualization...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/08/2006
Why the heck
does www.microsoft.com/longhorn forward to https://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.aspx? Is...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/08/2006
Yankee Group says Windows Server more reliable than Linux
But Linux is free, ain’t it? Find it in the stats section of internetnews.com. VW
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/08/2006
Issue 10 of the 64-Bit Insider is available
This week’s issue talks about “Remote Debugging an Unmanaged Application in Windows...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/02/2006
64-Bit Insider newsletter
The newsletter is soo late this time. Apologize and thanks for reminding me :). I will post it later...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 05/31/2006
Word 2007 blog post
This post was created at 3:52pm on May 24th with Word 2007 Beta 2.
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 05/25/2006
Testing BlogJet
I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 05/24/2006