Expression Blend 3 Preview for Vista SP1 and XP SP3
On the opening day at MIX09 Microsoft released not only the first Beta of Silverlight 3, but also a preview version of Expression Blend 3.
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18.3.2009 Activate Windows 7 Pre-Beta 6801 with Vista Beta or RC Product Key without Crack
Already download and install Windows 7 Pre-Beta build 6801? You probably have to leave the product key field blank during installation in order to complete the setup of Windows 7.
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1.11.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows 7 Changes Since Beta for the RC
We’ve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we’ve received on Windows 7.
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26.2.2009 Windows 7, a few more changes from Beta to RC…
Building on the recent post on some changes since Beta) on some of the changes you will see in the Release Candidate.
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13.3.2009 Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 beta 2, RC details
Stephen Sinofsky, Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group at Microsoft, has written a blog post to everyone testing the Windows 7 Beta giving out details about skipping the Windows 7 Beta 2, and going directly to the Release Candidate (RC) build, also known as a Beta refresh.
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30.1.2009 Windows 7 Beta and RC Bi-Hourly Shutdowns and Expirations
The pre-release versions of Windows 7 will go through two phases on their way to expiration. The operating systems will not cut off testers at once, but, instead, transition into a pre-expiration period where the platform will start shutting down at two-hour intervals.
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27.5.2009 Windows 7 Path to RTM: Broad Beta and Public Release Candidate (RC)
There are just three more development milestones left out of the development process of Windows 7, following the first three.
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5.11.2008 Download Windows 7 XP Mode RC and Virtual PC RC
Redmond-based software giant Microsoft made available the release candidate flavor of Windows 7’s XP Mode add-on on Tuesday. The beta iteration of XP Mode was released on April 30, along with the beta variant of Windows Virtual PC, and the RC version comes as another step the company is taking towards launching the final iteration of the add-on.
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5.8.2009 Download Windows Vista SP1 Beta RC Build 6001.17036 v.652 via WebUpdater
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta build 6001.16659.070916-1443 v.275 has been upgraded to new version.
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12.11.2007 Vista SP1 RC Preview Is Here, XP SP3 Beta Up Next
If you are waiting for the first beta of Windows XP Service Pack 3, go ahead and start holding your breath. Microsoft’s latest moves in the service pack arena offer clear indication of the fact that the baking time for the Windows XP SP3 Beta is almost over.
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17.11.2007 How to Upgrade Windows 7 RC Beta to Windows 7 RTM Build 7600
Most of the users are still on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 and Windows 7 RC Build 7100 since those were the two Windows 7 Builds which was distributed under Public Preview.
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30.7.2009 Public Vista SP1 RC in a Few Days - XP SP3 RC Next?
Yes, we have come quite a long way since the initial introduction of the pre-beta releases of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 to a limited pool of testers, in mid July.
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6.12.2007 Vista SP1 RC Refresh Ships – Windows XP SP3 RC Refresh Next?
Should you hold your breath for a new version of Windows XP SP3? Currently, Microsoft has opened up the testing process of the third and final service pack for Windows XP, and, now, all users of the operating system have access to the first Release Candidate of the refresh, as of late 2007.
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10.1.2008 Notable Changes in Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC and Windows Vista SP2 RC
Microsoft® continuously improves the Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008 operating systems by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to help them deliver improved compatibility, reliability, and performance. These updates are provided to customers by Microsoft’s hardware and software partners, as well as directly from Microsoft in the form of regularly distributed updates delivered via Windows Update. Updates to Windows are also delivered directly to some affected customers and preinstalled by PC manufacturers.
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1.3.2009 All New XP SP3 RC Refresh 2 and Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2 Available for Download
Making headway with the development of Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft has made available new builds of both service packs.
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25.1.2008 Windows 7 RC is Build 7100
Sources have informed us that Microsoft has stamped the RC build of Windows 7 last night.
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23.4.2009 Windows 7 RC' i first bug is a doozy
The first documented bug in the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) is a doozy.
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8.5.2009 Windows Home Server, RC Next week?
I just got out of the Windows Home Server lunch session and wanted to get some quick info up for folks. If you aren't familiar with Windows Home Server you should check out the product page first
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8.6.2007 Windows 7 testers - RC is a clean install
The latest post on Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog outlines what existing Windows 7 beta testers will have to do in order to be able upgrade to the release candidate.
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9.4.2009 Windows 7 RC 7100 x86 screenshot
Thanks for screenshots to Xtreme Warrior. While the partner page Microsoft put up a few days back announcing the availability of the Windows 7 RC turned out to be another minor slip-up, the results in Mininova's index are a bit more real.
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24.4.2009 Windows 7 RC Coming Around April 30
MSDN and TechNet subscribers can get Windows 7 Release Candidate that day. Everyone else must wait until May 5.
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25.4.2009 How to activate Windows 7 RC build 7100
You can complete installation of windows 7 by leaving product key filed blank and enjoy Windows 7 for 30 days maximum before it gets expiry. The only way to activate windows 7 Pre Beta is by using product key for Windows Vista beta or RC edition.
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1.5.2009 Windows 7 RC free download from MS
Windows 7 is the next version of the Windows client operating system. This version incorporates hundreds of improvements based on your feedback. It works the way you want: it's responsive, reliable, and runs smoothly. It starts and shuts down faster, and is designed to make your battery last longer.
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5.5.2009 1st fix for Windows 7 RC 32bit
A folder that is created under the root of the system drive is missing entries in its security descriptor, which may cause some application failures on the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate
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11.5.2009 Cybercriminals Launch Tainted Windows 7 RC
The official launch of the Windows 7 Release Candidate last May 5 was soon followed by another version of the software, only that this other version came with a malware surprise.
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21.5.2009 Upgrade Windows Home Server From RC to RTM 1.0
I have been searching high and low looking for a leak of WHS RTM 1.0(thats how I found the previous article)and today on the Unoffical Windows Home Server blog "We Got Served", there is a nice article on how to upgrade to RTM.
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16.9.2007 Want a Taste of Windows XP SP3 RC? How About Some Screenshots?
As you undoubtedly know by now, the first Release Candidate for Windows XP SP3 is live. At the end of the past week, accompanying the Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate Preview, XP SP3 was made available via Microsoft Connect.
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21.11.2007 Windows Vista SP1 RC released to public
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC is now available through Windows Update. Experience the WU based Vista SP1 installation by following 4 simple steps. Windows Vista SP1 RC distributed through Windows Update will be applicable to Windows Vista machines that are running on any of the 36 languages supported by Vista RTM.
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12.12.2007 Windows 7 RC to natively support to .Mov files
Microsoft has some good news for movie fans. If you want to watch .mov files in Windows 7, you don't need to install Apple's QuickTime. Bye, bye annoying system tray icon! Adios, Apple update!
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26.2.2009Windows 7 Beta to RC transition - What you need to know
Every one of us is waiting for the upcoming Windows 7 RC release. In the meantime, Windows 7 Team has blogged on the upgrade experience from pre-RC
builds to RC build, even when the RC dates are not officially out. This blog post indeed shows the openness of the Windows 7 Team to discuss various
issues regarding Windows 7 RC. If you are expecting any major announcement, then this post does not have any! The blog post talks a little about
upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7, but as we discussed earlier there is no upgrade path available from Windows XP to Windows 7 "There's no
change here to the plan as has been discussed on many forums.
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07.04.2009Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview
Microsoft Expression Blend 2 is the professional design tool used to create engaging Web-connected experiences for Microsoft Windows. Use Expression
Blend 2.5 to create and modify managed Silverlight 2-based applications. Expression Blend for Silverlight 2 includes all of the features in Expression
Blend 2 but has not reached the quality level of Expression Blend 2 for WPF or Silverlight 1 development.
Expression Blend 2.5
June 2008 Preview (build 2.1.1113.0) has been updated to work with the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta. To determine which build of
Expression Blend 2.5 you have installed, on the Help menu, click About Microsoft Expression Blend.
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07.06.2008Windows 7: Few more changes from Beta to RC
Yet again E7 team has posted a massive list of changes from Beta to RC based on feedback, which is quite welcoming. Below are some of the changes
listed by Chaitanya Sareen, a Senior Program Manager on the Core User Experience team, Windows 7. Dual Boot partition drive letter assignment In the
current beta, the other Windows OS in a dual boot configuration wouldn't get a drive letter and therefore wouldn't show up in explorer. This
is fixed in RC after immense feedback from the beta customers.
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13.03.2009Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 beta 2, RC details
Stephen Sinofsky, Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group at Microsoft, has written a blog post to everyone testing the Windows 7
Beta giving out details about skipping the Windows 7 Beta 2, and going directly to the Release Candidate (RC) build, also known as a Beta refresh.
The Release Candidate will be the last testing phase of the Windows 7 fully featured operating system before the final version of Release to
Manufacturing (RTM) build, which ships to companies and consumers all around the globe.
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31.01.2009Beta to RC Changes - Turning Windows Features On or Off
The E7 team has posted an interesting blog post about the various Windows features that are available to turn on or off in the Windows 7 RC. Customers
are now given more control, flexibility and choice in managing the features available in the RC of Windows 7. Below are the list of extra features
that are added to Windows 7 RC: Windows Media PlayerWindows Media CenterWindows DVD MakerInternet Explorer 8Windows SearchHandwriting Recognition
(through the Tablet PC Components option)Windows Gadget PlatformFax and ScanXPS Viewer and Services (including the Virtual Print Driver) Neowin had
already reported about Internet Explorer 8 being an optional component in the latest Windows 7 build 7048, and so are the other features.
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06.03.2009Windows 7: Changes since beta for the RC
After a long post yesterday by Steven regarding Windows 7 feedback, which focussed heavily on how Microsoft was gathering the feedback for Windows 7
and the feedback process, the E7 blog has posted the changes that users will see from Windows 7 beta to RC. Steven emphasized in his last post that
Microsoft takes users feedback very seriously and are committed to it "The work of acting on feedback responsibly and managing the development of
Windows through all phases of the process is something we are very sincere about.
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26.02.2009Windows 7 RC coming to MSDN/Technet soon, public May 5
A page over at Microsoft Partners has been updated to show that Windows 7 RC will be publically released on May 5, and should be available for MSDN
and Technet subscribers now. However, clicking through the download link will only get you the beta, right now. This would seem to jive with an
earlier leak on a Microsoft page saying that the RC would be available in May, but that was taken down soon after it was reported. Well see how long
this page stays updated with the Windows 7 RC information, or how long it'll take before RC does actually hit MSDN and Technet.
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18.04.2009Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview
Microsoft Expression Blend 2 is the professional design tool used to create engaging Web-connected experiences for Microsoft Windows. The Expression
Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview allows you to create Microsoft Silverlight 2-based applications.
Use Expression Blend 2.5 to create
and modify managed Silverlight 2-based applications. Expression Blend for Silverlight 2 includes all of the features in Expression Blend 2 but has not
reached the quality level of Expression Blend 2 for WPF or Silverlight 1 development.
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09.05.2008Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC released
Last week the Windows Team Blog announced that the availability of SP2 RC for Vista would be available soon. Today they have posted that the download
is now live and you can find the information needed here. If you have a beta install of SP2 loaded on your computer it must be uninstalled before
attempting to load the RC. It should also be mentioned that this, while close, is not a final product and a few hiccups may occur along the way. You
can download the RC directly from the Customer Preview Program or use the Windows Update Experience Kit to obtain the RC for your personal computer.
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05.03.2009Microsoft Updates Expression Blend 2
Microsoft on Thursday released
an updated preview of
Expression Blend 2, the next
version of its interface
design tool that integrates
into Silverlight, Microsoft's
new Web-based platform for
rich media that is competing
with Flash. Most notably, the
August update supports Visual
Studio 2008, which is also in
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17.08.2007Windows 7 RC expected at the end of February
WinnFuture, a German website reports that the one and only RC build of Windows 7 will be ready at the end of February to be sent to select testers.
According to WinFuture's sources, the first-RC build has been compiled by now. The build number currently under test is not known, however
WinFuture reports that 7048 was the latest build of Windows 7 and might be the RC, created a few days before and confirms that work is currently going
on around the Windows 7 RC build.
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19.02.2009Windows 7 RC to natively support to .Mov files
Windows 7 already has built in DivX support in the current beta. Hidden inside the various changes since beta for the RC is a change to Windows Media
Player to natively support the .mov files, Improved playback support for video content from digital camcorders and cameras Customers loved the
increased range of formats natively supported by the Windows 7 Beta, but noticed areas where they wanted broader support. For example, one was unable
to seek to a specific spot in the video in Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center for AVCHD content that was imported from a digital camcorder.
We've addressed this.
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27.02.2009Announcing Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC)
Nick White: Today we're making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via
Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to TechNet and MDSN will have access to those RC bits too. In addition, the RC will
be available to the public next week via Microsoft's Download Center. The release candidate phase of beta software is typically the final phase
before the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) of a product and indicates that the code has attained a significant level of performance and stability.
Let me call out several changes made since the Beta release of Service Pack 1 -- many of which came about as a result of direct
feedback from our Beta-testing community (thank you!)...
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06.12.2007Windows 7 reaches build 7047
Neowin reported last week that Windows 7 RC is set for April 10, 2009 and we also highlighted what Sinofsky had mentioned regarding the RC release
"recently we've seen people talk about 'RC Builds' and the like. First, all builds since the beta are RC builds since by definition that
is the next milestone. But by far the most humorous element has been that the build numbers blogged about are higher than our current build.
Today's build is 7046, but it hasn't completed yet :-)" On February 21, it was build 7046.
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25.02.2009Side by side: UI changes from Windows 7 beta to Windows 7 RC
Here's an exhaustive roundup of all the changes we've noticed between Windows 7 build 7000 and Windows 7 build 7100. Screenshots included...
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27.05.2009Windows 7 build 7077 leaks
According to several reports from Neowin members, Windows 7 build 7077 has leaked to various torrent sites. Named as an RC escrow build it's
likely that 7077.0.090404-1255 is the RC that will be modified to 7100 and distributed widely in May. Microsoft confirmed the 7100 path yesterday on
its Engineering Windows 7 blog by advising users to modify the MinClient build number from 7100 to 7000 in order to enable beta to RC upgrades. It is
now expected that Microsoft will name 7100 as the RC build and builds 7105 onwards will be the ongoing development branched towards RTM.
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08.04.2009Windows 7 RC and Windows XP to be available until 2010
With all this talk about the Windows 7 RC lately, we've seen a few questions asking, "So, how long will I actually be able to still use it,
anyway?" Well, friends, your queries have been answered! Our buddies over at PCWorld are reporting that Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 7 RC
will be still active until June 1, 2010. This information was actually leaked about a month ago, but Thursday say the Redmond-based software giant
confirm the news.
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01.05.2009Windows Home Server hits Release Candidate beta milestone
On June 12, Microsoft
http://connect.microsoft.com/W
indowsHomeServer>made
available for download the
Release Candidate (RC)
near-final test build of
Windows Home Server.
According to Microsoft,
there are currently more than
100,000 Windows Home Server
beta registrants. As of the RC
build, Microsoft is making the
Windows Home Server code
available to any existing or
future beta-program
participant.
Windows
Home Server is designed to act
as a central hub for storage
of music, photos, and other
files. It will include
automatic backup and restore,
as well as remote file-access
capabilities...
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12.06.2007Windows Vista SP2 RC-Escrow build released to testers
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft has sent out the RC-Escrow build of SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to testers. An email has been
sent to SP2 testers regarding this release. The RC-Escrow build is available for download from this Thursday as a standalone installer or via Windows
Update or as a slipstreamed download. Microsoft claims that the service pack includes 656 individual hotfixes. The Escrow Build is a build where
development halts and developers & beta testers start testing the product for any show-stopper bugs. Microsoft has emphasized this to testers to
concentrate only on the regressions and confirmation of fixes when asking for feedback which includes the RC Escrow install survey.
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29.01.2009Windows 7 RC to receive test updates on May 12th
Those involved with Windows 7 will remember a while back the beta received test updates, to check if how well the update system worked within
Microsoft's new operating system. Well, a similar thing is happening, this time in the Windows 7 RC variety. This has come straight from the
company itself, via the Windows Team blog, as well as being reported on TechNet. Keeping it the same as the previous updates, they will deliver no
fixes or anything of the sort, and there should be around about 10 of them.
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