James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
The Consumer electronics show starts in Las Vegas on Monday. The internal rumor mill has been going...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/06/2007
Eileen mentioned something about Keyboard shortcuts on her blog, teasing me for not telling her...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/05/2007
There's no two ways about it. I'm loving the new camera. When I'd been with Microsoft a few weeks we...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/01/2007
I was going to call this a Pretty Good Year, which is the title of a peice by Tori Amos ("Well,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/31/2006
How many times when you've been writing a technical document have you had to copy the results of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/31/2006
Since I raised the subject I've had a mail from a couple of people on the subject of making a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/31/2006
There are a bunch smart ideas in Vista, and Readyboost seems to be a favorite with a lot of people:...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/31/2006
Jason is seems to be bugged by the same things as me... I got my new Pentax just before Christmas....
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/29/2006
I've said before, but not on this blog, that the worst bits of software I have on my XP-based home...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/29/2006
One Christmas tradition which amuses me is the Norad Santa site. This year my daughter has been...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/24/2006
When I was about 8 years old my mother hung a small poster of "Desiderata" in the kitchen. I love...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/18/2006
I'm waiting to see the feedback from the audience, but the general feeling is Tuesdays event was a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/14/2006
This isn't a question about your employment practices. In recent years a lot of work has been done...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/11/2006
Since Eileen is on her way back from holiday, I'm going to steal her thunder and share what Jeff...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/08/2006
Or what happens when you throw stones in a glass house. My post on over priced and over here...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/08/2006
Am I just puerile, or is it a British obsession with bodily functions ? I don't know. Nor do I know...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/07/2006
Microsoft UK in general, but the IT pro evangelist team in particular. If you fancy my job (well not...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/07/2006
Here's a Pentax lens at big UK retailer. £629.99 ; and here it is at big US retailer $689.95, less a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/07/2006
I came across this post by Joel Spolsky. The thrust is that the shutdown menu in Vista is too...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/05/2006
Jonathan over at the Office Word Team's blog discovered that we just had the 30th anniversary of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/05/2006
Another one of my weekend posts about photography, and 2 or 3 times the length I'd have liked....
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/03/2006
"If you hadn't fixed it to the desk it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rung down the curtain...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/01/2006
Or "Le Phone est mort, vive le phone" I now have my 3rd C500. The first one got lost on a plane in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/01/2006
If you are in the UK you are probably aware of the death of the Alexander Litvinenko, and the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/30/2006
Hugh Mcleod's cartoon has a bit of a following in Microsoft, (it's only a matter of time before we...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/29/2006
My Colleague Mike Pallot keeps an interesting blog, which I'm slightly ashamed to say I found by...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/27/2006
About 1999 someone from Microsoft sent me a cassette tape of a talk called "Selling Consultancy...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/27/2006
Since it's the weekend I'm catching up on my reading ... A few days ago I mentioned Richard...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/25/2006
I realise that those of you who are prone to bouts of political correctness might describe me as...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/24/2006
I'm indebted to Mikey for letting me know that we have now published the kit here. It's in 3 parts...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/23/2006
At Tech-ed IT forum I did an interview, with Chad Jones who came to Microsoft when we acquired...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/22/2006
I'm not the first to break the news, but Windows Vista was posted on the TechNet subscriber site...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/22/2006
I mentioned that one of the negatives of my trip to Barcelona was not getting to sessions and the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/21/2006
I've just mentioned a post by Robert Scoble, and I mentioned Photosynth a couple of weeks ago....
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/21/2006
Every time I see a headline about Nintendo's new console something puerile in me takes over; sorry...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/20/2006
[Note: the information below was correct when it was published, please read the update at the end]...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/20/2006
A non technical post ... normal service will be resumed shortly. I've been to a couple of Tech-eds...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/20/2006
When I posted about Vista RTM (Trolls: Slain, Lake: crossed, Mountain: climbed, Vista: Released.) I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/12/2006
In "Getting started with Windows PE" I said that (once you have got the Windows AIK) the stages were...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/11/2006
In a previous posting I've talked about adobe and their DNG (Digital Negative) format. I said at the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/11/2006
Dreadful timing for me, because I really want to be honing the presentation I'm doing later today -...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/10/2006
One of the tools you'll need to get to grips with if you are going to support or deploy vista is...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/09/2006
A couple of hours ago Jim Alchin, sent a mail which begins Today we are announcing the Release to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/08/2006
Ed Bott at ZD net takes us to task we get things wrong - but he writes some of the best informed...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/08/2006
Most people, I think, know that Hamlet does not say "Alas Poor Yorick, I knew him well", and Mae...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/08/2006
Sitting in my drafts folder in Windows live writer is an entry called "Lies, virtual lies and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/08/2006
Here's an innovation. Ever since we acquired Connectix and their Virtual PC product, we've relied on...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/06/2006
Here's a question for you. How much of the mail that comes to Microsoft is spam ? 50% ? Microsoft is...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/06/2006
I have just seen confirmation from Jeff Raikes that we have released Office 2007 to manufacturing....
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/06/2006
At the moment I'm trying to finalize the content for my session in London next week entitled All You...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/02/2006