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• Vista's UAC is getting on my nerves!!

  Ok, so in principal, and in general everyday use, I have no issues with UAC. I have to run a few things as administrator for example, when I want to flush my DNS or uninstall a program. This harks back to my UNIX days when good use of the sudo command... Posted Feb 05 2008, 12:00 AM by tomasmcguinness with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft, Design, Personal

• I think my SideBar has amnesia!

  What is it about the Windows Vista sidebar? Why can't it simply remember the order of the gadgets I add to it? It seems to just randomly juggle them around each time I start Vista and for no apparent reason. I mean, Vista is packed full of other technology... Posted Aug 29 2007, 05:42 PM by tomasmcguinness with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft, Design, UX

• Microsoft Event 14th December 2006: Designing the next generation of user experiences

  As I'm in London for the Christmas break, I attended a talk last night at Microsoft's London office. The presentation, entitled "Designing the next generation of user experiences" was given by Jonathan Harris, a User Experience Evangelist at Microsoft... Posted Dec 15 2006, 12:00 PM by tomasmcguinness with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Microsoft, WinFX, Design, UX, Blend, Web, Media, Expression

• Microsoft Design website

  At his User Experience presentation last night Jonathan Harris mentioned that Microsoft had just launched a new website at http://www.microsoft.com/design and it's going to contain lots of details on the development of a great User Experience. At the... Posted Dec 15 2006, 10:42 AM by tomasmcguinness with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Design, UX