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 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 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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31.3.2006 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 Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop
This is the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 which includes an entire kit with a Bluetooth receiver, Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 7000, Wireless Laser Mouse 8000, and a mouse charger.
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11.3.2007 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 Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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5.9.2007 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 IE Flaw Puts Google Desktop at Risk
Internet Explorer is not having a good week. After the discovery of an unpatched flaw in the ubiquitous Web browser and code to exploit it prompted Microsoft to issue a public advisory, a new vulnerability has been found that puts users of Google Desktop at risk -- even if they are running a fully patched system.
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3.12.2005 Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista
Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but its easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, its 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 Webroot Desktop Firewall Free 5.5.10.8
Webroot Desktop Firewall is an easy-to-use, two-way, "smart" firewall which protects you against identity and data theft, hackers, and other unauthorized access to your PC.
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20.10.2007 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 Microsoft 2008: From Desktop to Data Center
Year In Review. Microsoft had a pretty good year, despite the fourth quarter's global economic crisis.
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30.12.2008 MURL Desktop URL Shortener Tool
URL shortening is method by which you can create short url for long url to use on microblogging service like twitter or to make it easier to remember.
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7.9.2009 Windows 7 RTM Desktop Optimization Pack Available
The latest version of the Desktop Optimization Pack offered by Microsoft is tailored to the companys most recent iteration of the Windows operating system.
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21.10.2009 Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free
Even as Microsoft readies a host of new ad-supported online services to battle rivals, the software maker has been mulling a plan to offer free, ad-supported versions of some of its desktop products, CNET News.com has learned.
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17.11.2005 Dual-core desktop duel: AMD vs. Intel
What would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows PCs with Intel Pentium processors (and soon will likely be doing the same with Macs), but we've seen dual-core CPU AMD systems power ahead of dual-core Intel-based PCs on more than one occasion.
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12.12.2005 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 Vista Sidebar showcases desktop-Web integration
Long Zheng has published some fantastic Windows Vista screencasts, which display the power of the Vista OS - released as a developer beta last week. The screencast that I was most interested in was the Sidebar. Similar in appearance and functionality to the Dashboard feature of Mac OS X Tiger, the Vista Sidebar allows users to manage their gadgets (Microsoft's term for widgets) and other content such as RSS feeds.
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14.6.2006 New Build of Windows Live Mail Desktop Released
In this new build youll see some major improvements! Right off the bat,
the most noticeable change will likely be the updates weve made to our User
Interface.
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18.8.2006 Virtual App Wars Move From OS To Desktop
Microsoft, Citrix Systems and AppStream are among the pack of vendors rushing to gain a foothold in the emerging application virtualization software market.
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9.9.2006 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 Microsoft Researching Split-Screen Desktop Software
New technology from Microsoft Research India in Bangalore could end the waiting game in offices with limited computers. Researchers are developing software that splits a computer screen in two halves, each side with its own operating system, desktop, applications, cursor and keyboard.
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6.5.2007 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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5.6.2007TiVo 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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06.02.2009Google Upgrades its Desktop to
2.0
Microsoft may be afraid to
show its sidebar, but Google
apparently has no such qualms.
The company on Thursday rolled
out the final version of
Google Desktop 2.0, its
venerable search utility that
has morphed into a
full-fledged desktop
application with scriptable
plug-ins...
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04.11.2005Lenovo pushes ahead with desktop PCs for the States
On the heels of its first consumer desktop, the IdeaCentre K200, in China in May, Lenovo has now released the IdeaCentre K210, a consumer desktop
machine for use globally...
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01.07.2008Neowin 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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05.02.2009Novell Shows Off New Linux
Desktop
Novell unveiled at the CeBIT
Electronics Show in Germany
Thursday its next-generation
operating system, called SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop. The
release is the successor to
Novell Desktop Linux, and the
company has hopes it will lead
to more widespread adoption of
the platform...
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09.03.2006Google Desktop Search goes Linux
Google has
launched a
beta version of Google Desktop
Search for Linux in a sign
of encouragement by the search
giant for Linux on the
desktop.
Google
Desktop allows people to
search the Web while also
searching the full text of all
the information on their
computer, including Gmail and
their Web search history.
Because the index is stored
locally on the computer, users
can access Gmail and Web
history while offline.
Google Desktop for Linux
was written natively and uses
Google's own desktop search
algorithms, not existing Linux
search applications such as
Beagle, a company
representative said. Only
computers with x86 processors
can use the software. It
supports the Debian 4.0,
Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10,
Novell Suse 10.1 and Red Flag
5 versions of Linux, and uses
either the KDE and GNOME
graphical user interfaces. ..
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28.06.2007Aston 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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25.12.2006Google 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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04.04.2007AOL Spins Off Desktop Search
Product
AOL's Desktop Search software
debuted last year as a
component of the company's
new AOL Explorer Web browser.
Now, version 2.0 of the
utility has been spun off as a
standalone download with a
revamped interface and support
for removable media. AOL
Desktop Search 2.0 indexes a
variety of document types,
emails, and even audio and
video...
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23.11.2005Windows 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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16.03.2009Free Vista Sunday, 3D desktop with Real Desktop Light
Jonathan Schlaffer: Vista has been an all-around disappointment and even those with SP1 have reason to complain. Those with problems are probably
more outspoken than those that dont but the issues keep piling up and Microsoft does little about them. This program may brighten up your Vista
experience a tiny bit.
Real Desktop comes it two
forms, Real Desktop Standard and Real Desktop Light; major differences set the two apart. With Real Desktop Standard you get all the features and
with Light, not so much.
The light version gives you a basic, fully 3D desktop environment. You can stack icons, drag them
anywhere on the desk, flip them around, upside down and several other neat things. What you cant do is change the wallpaper or orientation of the
camera. The other thing thats annoying is the light version lacks the ability to reset the icon positions; as you can see below, its very easy to
mess them up.
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02.03.2008App Support Holds Back Desktop
Linux
A study released earlier this
week by the OSDL Desktop Linux
Working Group indicates that a
general lack of application
support is holding back Linux
from making inroads into the
desktop market. E-mail was
rated as the most critical
application to computer users...
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01.12.2005Survey Says Linux Desktop Is Ever More Popular
The first thing we can say about the Linux desktop in 2007 is that there are more users than ever. The Linux Foundation 2006 survey had fewer than
10,000 people signing in. This year more than 20,000 Linux desktop users reported in.
Who are these users? Most of them, 69.4
percent, work in small companies with one to 100 workers. To no surprise, many of them, 43.3 percent, are IT professionals or software developers, and
most of them, 64.1 percent, have already deployed desktop Linux in the office.
When desktop Linux is deployed in a business,
it's being deployed in a big way. In those businesses and organizations with at least one Linux desktop, 40.6 percent have Linux on more than half of
their PCs. Windows is still the No. 1 desktop system, with 57.5 percent of Linux PC using offices still running it on half or more of their desktops.
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18.12.2007Windows 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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30.03.2008Desktop PC not dead, just changing
The traditional desktop PC is not yet doomed, but is going through a transformation, according to HP.
While laptops are becoming
increasingly attractive to consumers and small businesses, the majority of sales to larger businesses are still of desktop PCs.
Speaking at the launch of a series of new products from HP in New York, Alberto Bozzo, the company's European personal systems group general
manager of commercial products, said: "The reality is the desktop is not dead -- it is transforming into something else."
Bozzo
said innovation would come in virtualised client technologies such as thin clients, blade servers and blade PCs. "This is where the desktop is going.
is small at the moment but it is an emerging technology -- small from a volume point of view, but promising," he said...
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Apple Delivers Remote Desktop
3
Apple on Tuesday released the
third version of its Remote
Desktop software, adding
support for Intel based Macs
and 50 new features including
faster file copy speeds and
the ability to hide a desktop
while it is being controlled
remotely. Version 3 also
integrates with Mac OS X
10.4's Spotlight features for
searching across multiple
remote desktops...
betanews.com - 11.04.2006
2009: 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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neowin.net - 02.01.2009
Google Desktop 4 Gets Gadgets
Google on Tuesday released the
final version of Google
Desktop 4, the search
engine's desktop search
utility and sidebar
application. The new release
brings tighter integration
with Google services, and new
"Google Gadgets,"
which expand the capabilities
of previous sidebar plug-ins...
betanews.com - 28.06.2006
First Look: Google Grabs Space on Your Desktop
The new Sidebar view leads the list of enhancements in version 2 of the free Google Desktop search tool...
pcworld.com - 02.09.2005
Linux 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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