I have been running Windows 7 beta and RC bit for a while and my only real complaint was problems with the tablet rotation. The problem was the button on the bezel that that rotates the screen and the auto-rotate that would kick in when you put the screen in tablet mode just wouldn’t work. Today I did...

Just finished setting up an HP Mini 110 (32GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 1366x768) with Windows 7 Home Premium. First I set up a 4GB thumb drive using these great instructions http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/02/01/installing-windows-7-using-usb-thumb-drive.aspx Then I did a Custom install which blew...

So I haven’t been blogging a lot lately. I know. Since Massa got bonked on the head, it has been hard to concentrate. Thankfully, he is recuperating well and we will get to see Schu do his thing again. On the tech front, I have been very impressed with some of the stuff in Blend 3 with Sketchflow and...

Wow – Hot Fun In the Summertime. Windows 7 will be in stores for the holidays, beginning October 22nd, 2009. In order for this to happen, the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) will be made available to Microsoft partners in the last two weeks of July. Windows 7 General Availability Announced | Sarah...

Scott Hanselman calls it “paving ” I think of it as “repaving” because this machine has been rebuilt so many times. This is a preliminary list – I will add more as I need more – but this is the bare minimum. Windows Live Messenger (run it in Vista SP2 compatibility to get it to minimize to the system...

Pretty sweet – I completely repaved my Asus R1F tablet with Windows 7 RC build 7100 just now. Total time from rebooting the machine with the install DVD in it to writing this with Live Writer – 50 minutes. I may be a few drivers shy, like the screen rotate hardware button, but the pen is working and...