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Remember Tom Cruise in The Minority Report, using that touch / hologram screen interface and flicking through applications on his sci-fi computer?
Seems we’re not too far away from that becoming a reality, more Windows 7 coolness is on its way to us: check this story about the Windows Touch Pack for Windows 7! Working on a dream indeed :-) Or check this video to see what work can look like soon.
Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA
Current Home: Bellevue, WA
Microsoft Certification: MCAS
Favorite Road Food: In-N-Out cheeseburger animal style, fries extra crispy; but is content with cashews & coffee when travelling in the 46 states where, like WA, they has no cheezeburgers (at least, not from In-N-Out) **sigh**.
Most Likely to Get Kicked Off the Bus for: Loud, proud show tune abuse and overuse of the word “dude”. Also, I talk in my sleep, which is kind of disconcerting when travelling on a bus equipped with WIFI, video cameras and teammates with a penchant for prankery.
As a Business Administrator for Microsoft Learning I keep busy making sure that Chris Pirie (our GM of Sales & Marketing) gets to the right place at the right time, in the right country. I’m also responsible for making sure business operations run smoothly in the background so that these creative marketing types can focus their attention on doing awesome stuff like planning free trips to TechEd and other bright shiny things.
I can’t *wait* to meet you folks out on the road! It is a rare opportunity for me to get out of Redmond and out in front of all of you fine folks in our community – I’m really looking forward to it!
Sweet! A website where you can meet the people that are building and/or working on Windows 7. What, why, how; check out www.talkingaboutwindows.com!
“In this current economic situation, it’s a good time to go and renew your certification, get knowledge of new products and when the economy turns around you’ll be ready to jump into new opportunities, get a new job or progress in the one you already have.” Sarbjit Singh Gill (Speaker)
Live Meeting : Jumpstart SQL 2008 Skills - May 26, 2009 (12:30pm – 1:30pm Singapore time) : Register now if you are new to Microsoft SQL technology. (What time is this in my country?)
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Hurry—the first batch went in an hour, and these will go fast too…
Every day now I hear more cool Windows 7 stories. Apparently, there is a competition in Finland as ‘who can install Windows 7 on the oldest PC’. The main challenge seems to be ‘how to get that DVD on a machine with no DVD player’ :-).
And then this morning, I saw this story;
“Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine, the company confirmed Friday -- the first time Microsoft has relied on virtualization to provide backward compatibility.
Dubbed "Windows XP Mode," the add-on creates an XP virtual environment running under Virtual PC, Microsoft's client virtualization technology within Windows 7, said Scott Woodgate, the director of Windows enterprise and virtualization strategy.”
Read the original blog:"All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode, the applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop, and then you can run them directly from Windows 7."
To my kids: Good news boys, those Bob the Builder games will run on daddy’s PC once again very very soon :-)
Wow—looks like our Win7 beta exam slots sold out (if you can say that about something that’s free) faster than a Springsteen concert!
Just wanted to let you guys know that I’m aware of the situation and have escalated to my team back in Redmond to see if there’s anything we can do—but since they’re probably just waking up now, it may be a couple of hours before we have any more information.
Keep checking back! (or subscribe to our RSS feed, and you’ll know as soon as we do)
“Welcome to Philadelphia! The City of Brotherly Love, City of Sisterly Affection, Home of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies, Home of the Soon to be World Champion Philadelphia Flyers, Home of the Philadelphia 76ers—what are you gonna do?”
All of this with 3 cars behind me at the Avis Car Rental exit gate, and all before the attendant even glanced at my license, which I hold expectantly out the window as I drove up.
“Washington? I’ve been to Washington. Man it’s cold there—I’ve never been that cold before. Bet you can guess why I was there, huh?”
Um, nope.
“The Inauguration!”
Ah. I’m from Washington state actually, not Washington D.C.
“Washington state! Well, I think we drove through it on the way to the inauguration, so that still counts, right?”
Sure…
“Man, what a cold day that was!” (still holding my license)
I bet… must have been pretty cool to see history being made though.
(Horns honking behind me)
“Oh yeah…. oh yeah. Wouldn’t a missed it. Cold though. Let’s hope he does a good job—lotta work to do.”
Yep. I should let you get back to your work in fact.
“Gonna watch the game today?”
What game?
“The Flyers—big game! Gotta watch the game.”
(Horns insistent now, while the attendant tells me a bunch of stuff I can’t remember about the current state of a sport I don’t follow)
I don’t really follow sports, sorry. Hey, can I have my license back?
“Why is everyone in a hurry all the time? Yeah, here you go. Shouldn’t be in a hurry all the time.”
Thanks, I’ll try to slow down—enjoy your weekend!
Left turn out of the gate, and a glance in the rear mirror just in time to see the car behind me speed past the attendant, fishtail into the road, then blow past me (and two stop signs) in a race to get to wherever—probably New Jersey, since he showed me the state bird as he passed.
Turn on the Sirius radio in the car, and Bruce is singing “My Lucky Day,” E Street Radio left programmed on the preset from whoever had the car last.
Those were my first few minutes back home in Philadelphia—and they were about as epitomic as can be.
I’m spending a few days here doing final preparations for our bus tour (and okay, maybe I’m here to see a couple of Springsteen shows, too), and I’m surprised by how much I miss the local attytood.
Didn’t keep me from having a “When Worlds Collide” moment though:
Drove 25 minutes from my mom’s house to the closest Starbucks (a shocking enough statement by itself for a nor’wester) and ordered my usual double-tall 120-degree cappuccino.
“I don’t think we can do that,” said the guy behind the counter (I’m not sure what they call them here, but there’s no way anyone in Philly has a job title of “barista”).
What? Yes you can. I order that all the time.
“Not here you don’t. I don’t think we’re allowed to make it at that temperature. That’s below the kids’ drinks temperature.”
Look—I’m at Starbucks multiple times a day, every day, and I’m telling you: you can make your drinks at 120 degrees.
“Why do you want it that cold anyway? That’s just wrong.”
(Impatient people behind me. Probably the same ones from the Avis rental.)
Not in Italy—espresso is served warm there so you can drink it quickly.
“Why do you want to drink it quickly?”
I don’t—I’m just saying!
“So why do you want it at 120 degrees.”
Dude. Make my drink. The way I ordered it. Please.
“I’m pretty sure I’m not allowed to—I think it has something to do with the milk being pasteurized. Or not pasteurized. I forget. But it’s a safety thing. I know somebody just asked for a drink at 180, 190 degrees and we couldn’t do that either. Safety thing.”
That’s a heat thing—you can burn yourself with hot coffee. I’m not going to freeze if I spill 120-degree coffee on me. Make the drink, please.
Chorus of voices behind me: “Make the drink!”
Lady Barista at the end of the bar yells out with exasperation, “I have a double-tall 120-degree cappuccino on the bar.”
I look smugly at my opponent, who says not a word other than the total, which I pay.
I add some honey, walk out of Starbucks, get in the car, take a sip—and it can’t possibly be more than 110 degrees.
But I take my share of victory, and leave them theirs.
It tastes sweet.
More on the Windows 7 Learning Portal from Tamir Bar-Haim.
If you’re interested in becoming a specialist on Windows 7, this portal is a ‘must add’ for your favorites!
FrontPage MVP and author of Microsoft Expression Web Step by Step and most recently Microsoft Expression Web 2 Step by Step, Chris Leeds, maintains an active blog to help former FrontPage users find their way through Expression Web and, for some uses, Office Live. Check out some of his posts here
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