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Attempting to buy the Vista Family discount pack fails repeatedly

30January2007GeekTieGuy2 CommentsVista

After picking up the Vista Ultimate Signature Edition copy today, I wanted to spend some more money to get the Family Pack discount, so I can upgrade a few other PCs in the house. Imagine my surprise when I was greeted with only this message after typing in the Product Key from the box I

Windows Vista Ultimate Signature Edition unboxed

30January2007GeekTieGuy2 CommentsPictures, Vista

Update 2008-02-18: Â It seems like this post is getting a lot of hits, which is kind of odd to me. I suspect it might be because there’s a mention of theÂ phrase “key sticker” in here, so that makes people think I’m publishing my activation key. I’m not. The key is digitallyÂ erased with a bunch of

Debugging XBAP applications on Vista using Visual Studio 2005

23January2007GeekTieGuy4 CommentsSoftware development, Vista, WPF

I ran into an interesting little quirk with Visual Studio 2005 on Vista yesterday. I was trying to start an XBAP debugging session from VS (using the F5 key), and none of my breakpoints got triggered. Upon exiting the IE instance that hosts PresentationHost.exe, VS considered the session as still “running”. I had set my

Getting wireless to work under Vista RTM on a Compaq nw8000

17November2006GeekTieGuyVista

Since MSDN now has keys for Vista available, I started getting my developer laptop ready. One problem I ran into was that the built-in wireless adapter on the nw8000 wasn’t recognized by the RTM bits. On previous releases it worked just fine, so I don’t quite get what the issue is. Anyway, I found that

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Attempting to buy the Vista Family discount pack fails repeatedly

Windows Vista Ultimate Signature Edition unboxed

Debugging XBAP applications on Vista using Visual Studio 2005

Getting wireless to work under Vista RTM on a Compaq nw8000