I'm sure most of you are aware of the nice relationship between Creative's Sound Blaster drivers and Windows Vista - there is none. Unless you want to count a lame company with lame software writers who cannot properly write software for an OS that's been on the market for over a year now a relationship. More simply, for whatever reason Creative cannot create any decent drivers that will get their sound cards working properly on Windows Vista.

Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista has been a great experience for me so far. Some of my primary concerns included compatibility with my favorite video games and applications. I'm happy to say those concerns faded away when everything installed and worked great. But this last weekend I ran into an issue that I didn't even think of while installing Vista: playing OGM files.

UPDATE: If you are having issues with Media Center freezing while connecting to your Xbox 360 try this fix:

Alternatively, if you are having problems with your Xbox 360 crashing with an error, try to remove the Hard Drive from the 360. If this fixes the problem, then try it again with the hard drive attached. If you get an error again, then there may be an issue with your 360 hardware in which case you'll need to contact Microsoft to get the unit repaired/replaced.

You can read more about this issue here.

Well I got Windows Vista installed this past week, and let me tell you it's been fun. Seriously, so far so good. I had Windows XP Professional on my PC, and recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Actually, I didn't upgrade to Home Premium. Rather I backed up all my shit and did a clean install of the new Vista operating system. You see I did a fresh install of XP Pro only a month or two ago and was planing on just doing a upgrade to Vista, not a full fresh install. Well it turns out you cannot do a upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium, so I had to backup everything and do a clean install.

2007 is right around the corner, and with it comes a shit load of cool games for the PC. In my previous post I talked about the PC games I wanted to get. Some of these games are next-gen and of course will require next-gen hardware to get the full effects (I'm looking at you Crysis). So it makes my wallet (and Jenny) cry when it comes time to upgrade my computer.

Well I finally downloaded the newest version of Windows Vista titled RC1 (release candidate 1).  I must say right off the bat, this version of Vista is a lot better than the previous version, Beta2.  Installing this new version was a breeze.  I just downloaded the new ISO file from Microsoft, mounted it to a virtual drive and started a fresh installation over my previous Vista partition.

Now I know Vista is supposed to be the next great thing but I try not to get into too much hype.  Now I've read lots of articles on how Vista will be so much better than any previous Windows versions and I was like, sure ok.  But I never really got excited reading about what it will do....until it does something that amazes me personally.

Yesterday Microsoft released a new optional update for Windows Vista Beta 2.  It's an update I've been looking forward to since I installed Vista last week.  The update is Windows Mobile Device Center Beta.  In Windows XP and earlier it was known as Activesync.

Last Wednesday Microsoft finally released a public beta version of its next operating system, Windows Vista.  If you haven't heard or seen anything about Vista yet, then do yourself and favor and check it out!  Vista looks great!  It looks like all these fancy new Web 2.0 sites that a popping up on the net.  Rounded corners, drop shadows, transparacy effects, etc.

Windows Vista is Microsoft's next operating system (OS) scheduled for release sometime in 2006. Hopefully we'll get some more info on this new OS at this years CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. CES should be starting later this week. While I don't know a lot of technical aspects of Vista, all I do know is that is looks awesome - design wise. Vista has a more updated, modern design look than Windows XP did. It just looks more streamlined and smooth.