If you’ve been checking out Global Nerdy, a tech blog I share with my buddy George, I’ve gotten my hands on a copy of Release Candidate 1 of Microsoft’s next version of Windows, Windows Vista. So far, I’ve made two attempts to install it, both without success.
Here’s the short version: yes, I finally got it installed. As with software from Microsoft, the third time’s the charm. My trick was the tried-and-true fix that all IT workers know: turn the damned machine off and on again. This trick is so useful that it’s been immortalized on t-shirts and in at least one television show, The IT Crowd:
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