Today we purchased our first Mac and I can certainly say I am impressed with the build and usability of the hardware and software, it is different to using my work PC from Dell that has Windows 8 installed but the differences appear at first to be good. When choosing the Mac we were going… Continue reading OSX vs Windows
Category: Windows 8
Windows 8 and RDP with Windows Server 2012
So today I found a nice “feature” of the new Metro Windows 8 interface. Now that the start button can be exposed by moving your mouse to the bottom left of the screen this does not work well when you have RDP in full screen mode. I have just connected to Windows Server 2012 using… Continue reading Windows 8 and RDP with Windows Server 2012
MIcrosoft Surface RT and SkyDrive
So having been using the Surface RT for just over a week now and I am very impressed with it. I had previously tried Windows 8 on my laptop and it just didn’t feel right. It may have been because it was such a huge change that it will take me a while to get… Continue reading MIcrosoft Surface RT and SkyDrive
Confirm Delete missing on Windows 8
So after using Windows 8 for a few weeks I have found a few “features” that may frustrate a few people. I will start making a note of some of these and provide configurable workarounds where needed. The first one up is the confirm delete option when deleting files. I understand why this may be… Continue reading Confirm Delete missing on Windows 8
Activate Windows 8 when Receiving “DNS name does not exist” error
After installing a fresh version of Windows 8 Enterprise and adding it to our AD domain, I proceeded to active the copy, however I received the “DNS name does not exist” error when clicking activate. During the installation process I never entered a product key, however it appeared that one was showing on the activation… Continue reading Activate Windows 8 when Receiving “DNS name does not exist” error