Sinofsky seems overly defensive to me. I like the Metro UI, and I think it will work well for tablets. I’m less convinced with replacing the start menu with a Metro hub.

My workaround was as follows:

1. Using a PC, create a new notebook in SkyDrive. Open the new notebook and the Personal (Web) notebook in seperate tabs. Copy the contents from the old to teh new (the tedious part).
2. Using your phone, go to office.live.com and log in. Open the new notebook in OneNote.
3. Using your phone, set the new notebook as default and remove Personal (Web).
4. Using a PC, delete the Personal (Web) notebook from skydrive

I later got Error 8007002 after renaming a section (which is a bug), and had to repeat the process yet again. So, don’t rename sections!

First disable Homegroup. Apart from anything else, the passkey it generates doesn’t look very secure to me. Perhaps it’s useful if you have no idea how to set up file sharing. If you have no idea, you probably don’t want to use administrative shares.

Second, enable File and Printer Sharing. Aside: I previously wasted literally minutes of my life when I found Vista doesn’t respond to ping when this is disabled.

• Open Network and Sharing Center, click on Change advanced sharing settings.
• Open your current profile (e.g Home or Work)
• Under File and Printer sharing, ensure Turn on file and printer sharing is selected.

Third, edit the registry. This is largely for my own reference: I know for a fact that I would never be able to remember the required registry key.

• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
• Add a new DWORD key called LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
• Set the new key to a value of 1

This registry key is effective immediately, no need to restart.

This is a really nice design. The voiceover is considerably less inspiring.

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

It’s not quite TweakUI, but it is quite handy.

Some newer versions of Windows display the input region widget on the login screen if you install multiple input locales. On XP, I couldn’t get this to appear.

To get around this, I found it is possible to change the default keyboard settings in the registry. Obviously I had to log in using the local Admin account in order to make this change, which fortunately had a password I was able to type.

It’s thoroughly captivating; only a genius could provide a geometric proof of the conservation of angular momentum using cock eyed triangles.

Fascinating video.

That isn’t Divina McCall. Cool idea, but I think it would be better with a compact head mounted projector & sensor.