The education sector has by far the most potential to steer and promote the direction of open-source than anything else in the UK. So why has Becta waited a year to whinge about Office and Vista instead of doing what it’s there to do – lead?

After recently installing a bunch of Shuttle SK22G2 systems in a site with Windows Vista loaded, it became clear that there were some minor issues with the systems shutting down. (Hint: They didn’t) There was an intermittent fault that made them hang on the last phase of shutting down. Frustratingly, there was no evidence to [...]

Yes, it’s true! Windows Vista may actually start making use of the 3D effects enjoyed by other operating systems for so long now. Most notably, the virtual desktop has been toyed around with before in Windows, but it never seems to be executed well. So it seems fitting that there’s a Vista / XP Virtual [...]

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings. It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment. You have four options: Install it on a PC manually (not great) Deploy through group policy with no customisations Use a deployment [...]

Windows Vista. It’s big, bad and insists its new technologies upon unsuspecting users while not actually working quite right. The Vista Sidebar is one such culprint. Ever since the early previews of Vista (aka Longhorn), there was a giant box hanging around the desktop on the right side that had a giant clock in it. [...]

I was having a great deal of trouble installing printer drivers in Vista for the Xerox Phaser 6100. Online, Xerox say that the XP drivers wok fine in Vista, so use them until the new drivers come out. I’ve spent two hours trying the get the badger to work. And what was it in the [...]