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Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

10December2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsMicrosoft, Personal, Software, Vista

I had a very unpleasant experience today. My wife is trying to deal with pain in her arms and hands from too much typing by using Vista’s speech recognition feature along with Word 2007. She was writing a final paper for a college class and had just finished the last four of nine pages. That’s

PDC 2008, Day 2 – HP TouchSmart front and center

28October2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsMicrosoft

The PDC keynote this morning was amazing to me. It felt like the HP TouchSmart PC was utilized for about half of the entire keynote by Steven Sinofski and Julie Larson Green. Four machines on stage, front and center. Since the HP TouchSmart doesn’t have VGA out, there was a camera guy up on stage

Quick impressions from PDC 2008, Day 1

27October2008GeekTieGuy1 CommentMicrosoft

Windows Azure (hmm, hard to pronounce for non-U.S. people, wonder if they ever consider things like that). Ozzie was great, knew his material, delivered well! Wonder what they’ll charge once it’s ready. Red shoes on the dev team, nice touch. Best presentation, HANDS DOWN: Surface! Cool technology, excellent demos, super easy SDK. One word: wow!

Microsoft deprecates support for XBAP WPF apps in version 5.3 of the Media Center SDK

19November2007GeekTieGuy8 CommentsMicrosoft, Opinion, Software development, Vista, WPF

I downloaded and installed the latest version of the Media Center SDK just now, and was a bit surprised to see that WPF apps are now officially deprecated as a supported way of extending Windows Media Center on Vista. There’s no big announcement around this so far, it’s almost just a footnote in the “What’s

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Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

PDC 2008, Day 2 – HP TouchSmart front and center

Quick impressions from PDC 2008, Day 1

Microsoft deprecates support for XBAP WPF apps in version 5.3 of the Media Center SDK