The World According to Mitch

I hope by now most of you are running Windows 7.  I think it is important that IT Pros are up to speed before the actual product release!  However if you are running the beta 2 release – that is Build 7000 it is time for you to upgrade! …(read more)

This is the first of many entries in this blog focused primarily on the fact the WE ARE PREGNANT!!!   It will also be a general blog about the Garvis household from my perspective.   To see Mitch’s perspective you just have to go see…(read more)

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . A lot of people cannot understand how IT Professionals and enthusiasts can get excited about some things.  I ordered my new laptops last week;…(read more)

Justin Rodino, Cem Erdal Ozkaya, and Daniel Nerenberg cornered me on the last day of TechEd with a video camera… I look like a dentist froze my face but trust me I was having a good time because they are all great guys!  http://www.227volts.com/…(read more)

If you do not live in the Greater Toronto Area, or say between here and Niagara, this is probably not for you.  However if you can get to Oakville next Tuesday and are interested in IT then this session is for you! **Special Event** Seminar with…(read more)

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . of all of the legitimate reasons I have heard why people and organizations have not upgraded to Windows Vista application compatibility has been…(read more)

One of the reasons I like attending conferences like TechEd is that very often attendees get news first… either by design or occasionally by accident.  An example of the latter, I learned last night, is that one presenter accidentally showed off…(read more)

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . User Account Control (UAC) has been one of the big complaints about Windows Vista. It certainly was the butt of one of the cutest ‘I’m a Mac’ commercials…(read more)

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . I was wondering out loud today if you were ready for Windows 7. Yes, you… and don’t look around because WE BOTH know who you are. You are an IT Professional…(read more)

Over the past few weeks I have started shopping for my new laptop… and am still open to suggestions, although I am looking for something fairly specific in that I need a lot of power, but do not want to lug around a 10lb system (I travel a bit). This…(read more)

Take a behind- the-scenes look at the next generation of Windows at http://www.TalkingaboutWindows.com , a video blog offering IT professionals genuine insight on Windows 7 from the Microsoft engineers who helped build the product. Listen as engineers talk about…(read more)

I have long believed that a computer is a tool that should do what you need it to do.  The whole Mac versus PC debate is interesting in that if you step back someone who has never used a either will have to learn one of them, and frankly both are…(read more)

I am a member of a private community of Microsoft Certified Trainers on a well known networking site.  In the last couple of days one of my colleagues complained that his students were passing their exams by using Brain Dumps, and that these tools…(read more)

During the 2009 MVP Global Summit we recorded a video of the lot of us – fifteen hundred MVPS! – proclaiming that we are PCs.  Of course they recorded it, and here it is… the booming voice that you hear in the second run through is Steve Ballmer…(read more)

As I sit in the MCT Summit this week I am blown away by what’s coming down the pipe.  These are the things that I will be focusing on in the next little while: Virtualization Of course I have been talking about Hyper-V for over a year now… and System Center Virtual Machine Manager is…