I get questions about Windows 10 almost daily, so fresh off the Microsoft Blog, here are the Windows 10 Editions announced today. Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions. We designed Windows 10 to deliver a more personal computing experience across… Read more →
Office 365 – Sharepoint Icon Weirdness – Sync Button
If you see this kind of craziness when you click the Sync Button in Sharepoint on your Office 365…. It is likely that you upgraded from Wave 14 to Wave 15 (as far as I can tell). What has happened is that your Sharepoint CSS has got screwed up. The fix is actually quite an easy one! Go into site… Read more →
Surface 3
Microsoft announced Surface 3 today, a Full Windows Atom processor based device starting at $499.00. That is pretty impressive, and the early reviews are looking good. From the Verge Read more →
Remember Squawkbox?
Well, if you do, you will also remember that my site was for years a mirror for the download. I just found out that lots of people still come here to grab that mirror. I just put it back. Agh! I remember the days I had time to develop add-ons for Flight Simulator! 🙂 Read more →
Bring your Surface Pro 3 to Windows 8.1 Enterprise
So, there is a ton of misinformation regarding how to upgrade your Surface Pro Windows 8.1 Pro system to Windows 8.1 Enterprise. This post should put to bed some of that and show you the steps to reinstall (not upgrade) your Surface Pro 3 and get some of those cool features Enterprise edition gives you. In my case, the reason… Read more →
Is your Active Directory Authenticated website broken?
OK, this is old news to some, but it seems that this months Patches from Microsoft broke authentication to websites hosted on your domain…. There is a detailed and lengthy thread on Eric’s blog here, so I wont repeat it. But suffice to say, if you are getting unexplained prompts on your IIS server, the answer actually lies on your… Read more →
And not & – HyperV 2012 R2 backup
Well, there goes about 40 Hours of my time on a support case with Microsoft. A short while back I wrote this article which fixed once, but the problem returned. This time, I opened a case with Microsoft and for the last month or so, the case has been doing the rounds of Microsoft PSS people. Finally, the issue was… Read more →
Looking for the old version of Air Video?
Yeah, I was too, for over 3 hours through backups and iTunes backups. Totally unimpressed with http://www.inmethod.com/ for pulling the app from the iTunes store! Its not like I don’t own Airvideo HD (the new version), but older devices don’t support it, and there is no Linux version for HD! So, Inmethod people, if you are reading this… please put… Read more →
Microsoft Release another Firmware update for the Surface Pro 3
From WindowsCentral _____________ Microsoft is keen on keeping the Surface Pro 3 running in tip-top shape, and that includes rolling our frequent firmware updates to get the hardware to perform at its best. Starting at 1 PM ET today, Surface Pro 3 users can now grab the October 28 System Firmware Update, the second for this month. The changelog is… Read more →
Waze, O2 Ireland, and blank map tiles?
Yeah. Me too… I could not for the life of me figure out why Waze, which I am a big fan of, had stopped loading maps! I even went as far as to join the beta team to report it as a bug when I found out it was happening on Android as well. I had not thought to ask another… Read more →