If you use your iPod with Windows Vista - Avoid that accident waiting to happen.

Install this update to resolve an issue where an Apple iPod may be corrupted by using the Safely Remove Hardware feature on a system running Windows Vista.

32 Bit Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid

64 Bit Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid

Do me a favour is your iPod/iTunes sluggish under Windows Vista? Leave a comment…

The more than 20 million copies shipped represent Windows Vista licenses sold to PC manufacturers, copies of upgrades and the full packaged product sold to retailers and upgrades ordered through the Windows Vista Express Upgrade program from January 30 to February 28.

Let’s break this down a bit.

Windows Vista licenses sold to PC manufacturers (is this for computers that have shipped or are waiting to be built for customer demand? It’s not really clear?)

Full packaged product sold to retailers (I would imagine the boxed retail channel will be the smallest of the number).

Upgrades ordered through the Windows Vista Express Upgrade (Well I have ordered 4 of these from Dell, and none have shipped yet)

Tellingly The Windows XP numbers for the same period are not mentioned but any Windows Vista Express Upgrade is basically an XP Sale with a low cost upgrade to Vista.

I would love to see the real numbers.

On a related topic I think a better metric is looking at your web site stats to see the Percentage of operating systems for your visitors. My content is all technology related (and I talk a lot about Windows Vista) I am currently running at about 30% of visitors running Windows Vista.

That sounds good but I just checked some of the other web sites I manage (non tech) for clients and the percentage of Windows Vista Users is 1% (and I am pretty sure my own vista usage is a decent percentage of that 1%).

What does this all mean?

Well Vista is shipping in millions, but it’s still early days.

If you are having difficulty in deciding if you want Windows Vista drop me a comment or e-mail, let’s see if I can help you.

A good place to start is checking out my Windows Vista Screencasts

If you are a Business considering the move to Windows Vista / Office 2007 you really need some advice prior to any deployment (01606-841587 ask for Colin).

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/

This allows me to test out version 0.9 of Joost.

It has some nice new features like being able to invite friends from inside the Joost client software.

I have an issue with the installer yet again. It says my super hi-spec Dell XPS M1210 laptop “may not have enough resources.”

But you can see from the screen shot below it vastly exceeds the requirements.

The problem area seems to be the DirectX version. Windows Vista is DirectX10 and not 9.0C as shown in the above picture.

Anyway version 0.9 is installed and working fine.

I have created a couple of Joost ScreenCasts but I am waiting to hear back from Joost if I am allowed to publish them. If so check back later this week.

As for invites when I get some Joost Juice I will put up a post so Bookmark this site or subscribe to my RSS feed (http://www.colindiponio.com/feed/)

Check out the link below, it’s a post about how difficult it has become to tell a genuine e-mail from a phishing or fake one.

They are almost identical. The post asks an important question. Would you have clicked?

I have tagged this post as Dell, as I think they should know about it too. I would like them to blog about this issue on http://www.direct2dell.com or the support forums so if a user google’s this issue they have a chance of getting good advice.

The advice being: Dont click links in e-mails if your not 1000% sure about it, and if you have doubts seek advice.

To be fair the issue of the “Bad People” spoofing identity is not particular to Dell, however this attack is pretty sophisticated so lets get it out in the open.

Link: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/03/23/

***Update: Dell now have a statement about this issue on their Blog.

Link: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/03/23/9351.aspx

According to Canon’s website the Canon EOS 350D is supported in Windows Vista.

See Canon’s Compatibility List here
http://www.canon-europe.com/vista/en/compatibility_table/dslr.asp

In the download section of Canon’s Website there is Windows Vista Specific Download for the EOS 350D the package is called ZoomBrowser EX Updater (EN) (5.8a)

However connecting the device Via USB the Camera is found by Windows Vista (it is correctly identified in the Control Panel > Scanners and Camera’s but Canon’s Software can’t find the device “No Device found”.

I did some research into this and most other people have given up and are using USB memory card readers.

If you found this post and have the Canon EOS 350D and Windows Vista working together then let me know about it by leaving a comment or e-mailing me.