20 November 2010 0 Comments

Moving from an iPhone to a new Windows Phone 7? Here are some tips

Get a new Windows Mobile phone but not sure what to do first? First of all, be sure to follow the instructions before turning on your new device, and possibly moving over to a new SIM card

14 January 2010 0 Comments

How to organize like Bill Gates, the HP-Microsoft deal, Helping in Haiti and more

Yes, I’ve been neglecting my blog. Although I have a couple of blog posts in the works (on setting up our Windows 7 home network connected to our Media Center), I have been just too busy with (gasp!) real work. So I obviously need to be better at my organization: helpful that I found this brief article on Bill Gates’ organizational effort with a few of his "top tactics" with a nod of what Bill calls the digital workstyle

24 June 2009 0 Comments

Your questions: what do I like about Windows 7? Windows Easy Transfer for migrating your life to a new PC

A quick post during a break in the day, as I’ve been executing a clean install on my PC with Windows 7 Release Candidate OS, and that means transferring my settings and files.  Windows Easy Transfer simplifies the process. As noted here on the Engineering 7 blog about the upgrade experience , I have great appreciation for the clean installation of the OS and how Windows Easy Transfer can expedite and simplify the process of getting your current Windows Vista PC ready for the general availability (aka "GA") of Windows 7 in October

27 March 2009 0 Comments

Why do I need IPv6? Where can I learn from Microsoft about IPv6 for Windows? (Your questions on IPv6)

This came in today via email (thanks, Brin)… "Why do I need IPv6? Is there more about IPv6 available from Microsoft? Is there anything I need to do to support IPv6 in Windows Vista or Windows 7?" Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)   is (Wikipedia tells us) "the next-generation Internet Layer protocol for packet -switched internetworks and the Internet ." It’s the next generation following IPv4 , the addressing Internet Protocol used today.