Well, that was quick. According to Hilton Locke, the TIP is now available for installation in the Vista beta. Maybe I will install Vista on the M1400 after all...

SyncToy Beta 1 is now available:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0fc1154-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&displaylang=en&Hash=4GB5TM

Boy, I hope by November 7 the IntelliSense parser doesn't “helpfully” replace “T” with “ThreadStaticAttribute” all the time.

I'm not prone to game “addiction,” but I lost 2 hours to Planarity yesterday and am trying to keep myself from clicking through right now...

One wonders what the rationale is for changing the names of programmer-level layers from fairly memorable brands to utterly forgettable TLAs.

Well, there's a nice coincidence -- a brand-new (well, used, but not by me) M1400 and the Longhorn / Vista beta. In the words of the immortal James Doohan, “How do they mix? I'll let you know...”

Update: Microsoftian Hilton Locke warns “many of the user interface items (read: Tablet PC Input …

Loren speaks of hardware driving the success of the Tablet PC, and Iggy agrees, going so far as to say that “computing with a pen is unnatural.”

“Computing with a pen is unnatural.” Okay, I can agree with the words, but only to the extent that it's tied to “computing …

I can't find any sign of this on Yahoo's Website, but a press release from the Computer Games Development Conference Europe speaks of “Yahoo! Poker, a multiplayer cross platform title, which lets mobile phone gamers play against those on their PCs.” Man, there's gotta' be some way to cash in …

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