I’ve got to give Microsoft credit for making all of their software available via download to their MSDN subscribers. I downloaded Windows XP, Office and Visual Studio a few days ago. The only thing they really dropped the ball on is not including a utility in the OS for working with the .iso disk images they distribute.
My new work laptop had Windows XP Home installed on it, so I needed to upgrade it to XP Pro. I downloaded the XP Pro disk image from Microsoft, but couldn’t do anything with it. I tried using this utiltity to burn a CD, but it failed with a ‘General Error’. On advice from a friend, I downloaded the demo of Nero which worked like a charm.
An hour or so later, I have XP Pro installed – I even found the IIS install elsewhere on the CD.
Now if I could only find a way to make the trackpad work like it does on a PowerBook, using this thing would be much more enjoyable.
How does the trackpad work on the PowerBook?
Dont know if you did this already, you could get Longhorn through the MSDN channel, I know it is available there! I wish I had a key so I could get in for a few…. 🙁 I used to through my previous employment.
Michael –
When your finger moves on the Powerbook trackpad there is predictable, corresponding movement of the pointer on the monitor. Until you’ve used them back to back it’s impossible to appreciate how bad most PC laptop trackpads are. I didn’t believe Alex on this either, but I’m a convert now!
– Jason
Mark–
I’m not brave enough to install Longhorn on a machine I need to use for work. 🙂
Jason–
Exactly right – I’d forgotten how bad it was.
Two Powerbook trackpad features I would like to see are 1) When I slide my finger down the far right of the trackpad I’d like the screen to scroll. and 2) When I reach the edge of the pad, I’d like the mouse to continue scrolling
You may try MagicISO to burn iso image to CD and DVD