The Windows 7 Desktop
Microsoft is laboring to deliver a new level of personalization, choice and control with the Windows 7 desktop, according to Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Steven Sinofsky.
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3.11.2008 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Windows Vista 3D Desktop
Microsoft indicated early that Vista will feature a three-dimensional interface with transparency, moving objects, anti-aliasing and other effects. Thanks to portos for this download.
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10.7.2007 Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
Via Microsoft Connect, the company is accepting participation requests in a new Beta program for Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios. The software giant aims to streamline the way in which users interact with the desktop in an enterprise environment.
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27.11.2008 Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista
Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on.
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26.1.2007 The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news on Windows Live Mail desktop since 2006, with a minor update being released in February.
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13.3.2007 The Death of the Windows Desktop Operating System
The death of the Windows desktop operating system is not necessarily related to the non-Windows platform Midori developed in Redmond, or with a Rich Internet Application platform hosted in the cloud. entrustIT, a Microsoft Gold partner in the UK offered a glimpse at where the evolution of IT will inherently take the Windows client.
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5.8.2008 The Windows 7 Desktop and UI – Customization and Flexibility
The Windows 7 desktop and graphical user interface are right on track to delivering an evolution compared to Windows Vista, and in this context, provide a high degree of customization and flexibility, superior to what is available with the successor of Windows XP.
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6.10.2008 Windows 7 RTM Desktop Optimization Pack Available
The latest version of the Desktop Optimization Pack offered by Microsoft is tailored to the company’s most recent iteration of the Windows operating system.
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21.10.2009 Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Released
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it has released the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta to select beta testers and partners.
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30.3.2006 New Windows Live Mail Desktop Feature Revealed
Using their usual "More Than Mail" blog, the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta team revealed yet another feature of it, along with a screenshot of a recent build.
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3.6.2006 New Build of Windows Live Mail Desktop Released
In this new build you’ll see some major improvements! Right off the bat,
the most noticeable change will likely be the updates we’ve made to our User
Interface.
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18.8.2006 Windows Live Mail Desktop Build 1172
The Windows Live Mail Desktop team has just announced yet another refresh of the increasingly popular mail reading application. This is the first refresh in over a month, and brings an outstanding number of improvements.
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17.11.2006 Disable Windows Vista Evaluation Watermark from Desktop
If an user install Windows Vista in trial or demo or evaluation mode, by skipping and not keying in any Windows product registration key when asked during installation of Windows Vista.
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24.11.2006 Windows Vista Desktop Optimization Pack Updated
Microsoft has announced that it wrapped up its Desktop Optimization Pack for Windows Vista and that an updated and complete version of the offering will be made available for download on July 1 2007.
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5.6.2007 Windows Vista SP1 RTM Optimized Desktop
With the advent of Windows Vista at the end of 2006/the beginning of 2007, Microsoft has started pouring a consistent amount of efforts into enabling optimized desktops.
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30.4.2008 Windows Vista SP1 at the Basis of the Optimized Desktop
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is at the basis of Microsoft's vision for the Optimized Desktop. Of course that the Redmond company is building a comprehensive strategy that involves additional resources and solutions on top of its Windows client.
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4.9.2008 How to Pin Show Desktop Option to Windows 7 Taskbar
Windows 7 has got revamped taskbar also known as superbar. Windows 7 taskbar has number of excellent features like Jumplist, Thumbnail preview, Aero peak, etc.
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7.10.2009 Open Beta Invitation for Windows Live Mail Desktop
We’ve finally done it! Our ‘little’ project to bring you the next generation consumer mail application is going massively public. As of today (actually we slipped it out quietly last week or so) we are instituting a hassle-free sign up for the Mail Desktop beta.
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27.7.2006 Windows 7 to let users create a Desktop Slideshow from files, feeds
Curious as to what else was under Microsoft’s elaborate lock, key, and duct-tape protection scheme mentioned earlier, I had my friend Chris Holmes run a scan of his 7 system, as I’m still babying my laptop’s SSD drive.
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10.11.2008 How to Enable Concurrent Sessions for Remote Desktop in Windows 7 RTM
In past we had posted hack to enable Multiple users access (Concurrent sessions) for Remote desktop on Windows 7 Beta.
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31.8.2009 Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 Wallpapers Desktop Slideshow
The Desktop Slideshow is one of the features that Microsoft has tucked away in Windows 7, hidden even from testers (at this point in time) including the participants at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of the past month.
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5.11.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part V: Desktop Icons
Once again, it's time to enhance your Windows XP operating system exactly the way you want and without paying a cent on expensive programs that do something so simple that even a kid could handle it.
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26.11.2008 Fix Windows 7 Build 7057 Desktop.ini Opening on Every Reboot
Windows 7 Build 7057 x86 is leaked & available for download on popular torrent websites and I suppose many of you have already downloaded & Installed Windows 7 build 7057. If you haven’t downloaded then check out screenshots of windows 7 build 7057 here.
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16.3.2009 Connect Windows 7 with XP SP3 Vista SP2 via Remote Desktop Connection 7.0
Microsoft is gearing up to release a tool that will permit users of Windows Vista and Windows XP computers to connect to Windows 7 machines, and to take advantage of features that only the latest version of the Windows client brings to the table.
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12.9.2009 Remote Desktop Connection 6.0
Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0, KB925876) provides a way to use any new Terminal Services features introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn”.
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29.11.2006 The Desktop -- Time To Say Goodbye?
July 19, 2007 (Computerworld) When Paul Scheib at Boston's Children's Hospital goes shopping for PCs, his choice is more often a desktop than a notebook. Thanks to bdh734 for this article.
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21.7.2007 Download Windows 7 Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 for XP SP3 and Vista SP1 and SP2
While Windows 7 technologies are, as a general rule, available exclusively with the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft, there also are exceptions.
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4.11.2009 Microsoft to bring Hotmail onto the desktop
Microsoft has started beta testing software that will take its Web e-mail onto the desktop.
This week, Microsoft served up the first test version of Windows Live Mail Desktop, a free Windows program that will let users manage multiple e-mail accounts. The software is designed to work with Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail that is also in beta testing.
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31.3.2006TiVo releases Desktop 2.7 for Windows
It's been just under a year since TiVo last updated its Desktop software which allows videos to be shared between a user's TiVO DVR and PC or other
networked devices. Now there's a new version for both Desktop and Desktop Plus users...
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06.02.2009Windows 7: RDP changes improve virtual desktop performance
The Remote Desktop Client in Windows 7 is equipped with new features and enhancements via Remote Desktop Protocol 7 (RDP). The most interesting
enhancement is the support for Desktop Composition, full Aero glass effect. Below are the features introduced in Windows 7 Remote Desktop Client
Windows 7 Aero supportDirect 2D & Direct 3D 10.1 application supportTrue multi-monitor supportRDP Core Performance ImprovementsMultimedia
enhancementsMedia Foundation supportDirectShow supportLow Latency audio playback supportBi-directional audio support I fired up the Remote Desktop
Client in the latest Windows 7 build 7057 and tested few things. Remote desktop connection experience is very much improved compared to its previous
versions and I also found the session to be incredibly responsive even while playing HD videos.
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16.03.2009Neowin Review: Fence your desktop with Stardock Fences
Windows Desktop - A place where every installed application likes to place a shortcut and also a place to hold all your shortcuts and favorites.
Things can become very messy when you have lots of desktop icons, like mine below: Well, there's not that many on my desktop, but I still place
them in categories. Microsoft Office Apps all reside together and Windows Live Apps reside together. Each time I bring a new shortcut to my desktop,
Windows places them in a separate order which it thinks to be right and then I move that shortcut icon to its appropriate group.
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05.02.2009Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5
Brad Linder: Microsoft released an
updated version of Windows
Search, its free desktop search client the other day. And while there are dozens of excellent desktop search clients, including a few good free
ones, it seems inevitable that people are going to compare Windows Search to Google Desktop. Because you know, any time either company releases
something kind of cool someones assumes that it's just a ripoff of a product offered by the other. Or Apple.
Anyway, we've been
using Windows Search for the past few days and we thought we'd let you know how it stacks up against Google Desktop. Read on for the results.
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30.03.2008New Windows Genuine authenticator can blank desktop backgrounds
If in the last week or so you've noticed that your desktop background in Windows XP Professional goes completely black exactly every 60 minutes,
don't worry, it's not a virus...
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28.08.2008Windows Live Desktop Apps
Renamed
In order to lessen some
confusion surrounding its
Windows Live Web services and
desktop applications,
Microsoft has opted to rename
two of its products. The
Windows Live Search
application, formerly known as
OneView, will now be called
Windows Live Search Center...
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13.07.2006Windows Desktop Search Loses
Toolbar
At the IT Forum in Barcelona
Tuesday, Microsoft took the
wraps off a version of Windows
Desktop Search without the MSN
Toolbar, which is designed
specially for deployment in
businesses. The application
replaces Windows' paltry
built-in search functionality
and can be integrated with
Office and SharePoint...
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15.11.2005Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX Control Available
The downloadable Remote
Desktop Web Connection ActiveX
control provides most of the
same functionality as the full
Remote Desktop Connection
software; however, the Remote
Desktop Web Connection is
designed to deliver this
functionality over the Web.
The Web package
Setup program installs the
downloadable ActiveX control
and sample Web page on a
server running Internet
Information Services (IIS) 4.0
or later.
Supported Operating
Systems: Windows 2000; Windows
95; Windows 98; Windows NT;
Windows Server 2003; Windows
XP
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27.07.2007Three Replacements for Windows Active Desktop
MakeUseOf.com:
Active Desktop, a feature introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0, and
included in every Windows version since then until Windows Server 2003, allowed users to place websites on their desktop. While it enjoyed little
widespread use, and often was subject to criticism, the idea of placing websites on the desktop is still an appealing idea to some (provided you enjoy
widgets on the desktop).
In this post I’ll be exploring replacements for the now defunct Active Desktop feature -
Snippage,
AveDesktopSites, and
minibrowser.
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03.02.20092009: Linux and the desktop
Choosing a desktop platform usually involves the choice between Windows or Macintosh. There are a few factors which people consider when they are
choosing a desktop platform. In no particular order, people want application compatibility, stability, security, performance, and ease of use. When
we look at desktop market share, we can see the following (as of statistics reported in October of 2008): Windows boasts the lead with 91% market
share, down 5% from March of 2003. Mac holds 6% market share, an increase of 4% from March, 2003. Finally, Linux has doubled its market share since
2003 with a current 4%.
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02.01.2009Quandary: Is Windows Desktop Search Installing Itself?
At least two independent, private network administrators have reported on their blogs since yesterday that their Windows Server Update Service has
downloaded and deployed to their network clients the most recent update to Microsoft's Windows Desktop Search engine, even though those services are
set up not to deploy updated software automatically...
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26.10.2007Google Desktop Now for Macs
Google Desktop 1.0 is now
available for Macs, the search
giant announced Wednesday. The
software is more basic than
its Windows counterpart,
focusing strictly on searching
for files, e-mails and Web
pages. A "Quick Search
Box" resides on the
desktop and displays results
to queries in a dropdown menu...
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04.04.2007Linux desktop lacks innovation
Microsoft is complaining that "the Linux desktop including OpenOffice" infringes some 235 Microsoft patents. An objective comparison between the
whole Linux desktop and Microsoft's Windows desktop shows that it has a good point; there are many resemblances, from trivial to profound. However,
there are plentiful other non-Windows-like models of desktop to follow instead. At least two are already there: implemented, working and ready to use,
complete with accessories. Two complete Free, open source desktops, radically different from anything Microsoft has patented. They're just not being
used by any distributions.
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04.11.2007Engineering Windows 7 Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search
Steven Sinofsky: The discussion and email about desktop search offered an opportunity for us to have a deeper architectural discussion about
engineering Windows 7. There were a number of comments suggesting alternate implementation methods so we thought wed discuss another approach and the
various pros and cons associated with it. It offers a good example of the engineering balance we are striving for with Windows 7. Chris McConnell
wrote this follow-up.
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25.10.2008New Google Desktop: Speed is a feature, too
Google has released its new version 5.8 of its
Google
Desktop software for Windows, with a focus on speed.
The software indexes a computer's files so users can search their
machines and provides a mechanism to house small applications called widgets, but Google heard gripes that Google Desktop was too big and slow. "We
heard the message loud and clear and decided that the Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows release would be based entirely on performance,"
Jói Sigurðsson, Google Desktop tech lead,
said in a blog post Monday.
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16.09.2008Windows Live Hotmail Desktop Client Due Shortly
Amid the announcement that
Windows Live Hotmail is
launching globally on Monday,
Microsoft said that it plans
to release a beta of its
desktop client called Windows
Live Mail "within
weeks."..
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07.05.2007Aston 1.9.3 Xmas edition
Aston Shell is a Desktop
replacement software, which
saves your time and computer
resources while giving your
Desktop a unique look. Most
Desktop enhancers just waste
your resources. Unlike them
Aston replaces your old
Windows Desktop with a new
one, which is faster, more
beautiful and can be tuned to
look and behave the way you
like.
Key
features:
* Fast,
stable and highly responsive
even on slow computers
*
Easy customization of any
Desktop parameter
*
Hundreds of free Themes
*
Lots of advanced features
(hotkeys, Toolbars, freeform
animated icons)
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25.12.2006Microsoft Building New Free
Mail Client
Internet Explorer isn't the
only application to enjoy a
resurgence in Windows Vista --
Microsoft is readying a new
desktop e-mail client that
will be integrated into
Windows Live and eventually
replace Outlook Express.
Dubbed Windows Live Mail
Desktop, the product is
currently in beta testing...
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11.03.2006Stardock Delivers Object
Desktop 2007
Stardock on Tuesday released
the 2007 version of its
popular Object Desktop suite
of Windows customization
utilities. The package of
tools enables customers to
completely change the way
Windows looks and functions to
suit their personal tastes...
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02.08.2006The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news
on Windows Live Mail desktop
since 2006, with a minor
update being released in
February. With most Windows
Live watchers expecting a v1
release at the beginning of
the year, many are wondering
what is happening to the
product. Dare Obasanjo even
joked at a rename to Outlook
Express Live.
It seems to be that
Microsoft is rethinking its
mail client strategy, with the
belief that two distinct free
mail clients for Windows Vista
(Windows Mail and Windows Live
Mail desktop) is not the way
to move forward.
Instead, Mail
desktop will evolve to become
an enhanced Windows Mail
client, which when installed
will replace Vista's Windows
Mail. For those familiar with
Mail desktop there will not be
a huge change however for
those using Windows Mail they
will benefit from the
integration of Live services.
While the
name and details of the new
product are unconfirmed,
hopefully we should soon see a
beta of Windows Live Mail for
Vista.
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