Vista SP 1 Ships in 2008, the First Beta Drops in 2 Weeks!
After a long period of Windows Omerta, in which Microsoft gagged all details related to the future development plans for the Windows platform, the company has come out and confirmed the availability dates for the first beta of Windows Vista SP1, as well as for the final release of the refresh.
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29.8.2007 Intel will deploy Windows 7 on employees computers
According to The Register, Intel plans to deploy Windows 7 on its employee's computers. When asked at a Technology Summit with reporters and analysts in San Francisco whether the company would wait until service pack 1 to deploy Windows 7, Intel's EVP and chief sales and marketing officer Sean Maloney said, "This time I think we'll go faster."
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31.7.2009 Microsoft Enables New Ways to Deploy Windows Vista: Diskless
New options to license desktop virtualization and diskless PCs give Windows Vista Enterprise customers more choices, says the director of Microsoft's Windows Business Group.
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2.4.2007 Deploy Office 2007 file converters now
Trying to mix prior versions of Microsoft's suite with the new Open XML default will leave workers bemused and befuddled, analysts predict.
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6.2.2007 Microsoft Hands out XP SP3 beta Final SP for XP
In an email sent to selected testers telling them they have been accepted to begin testing XP SP3, Microsoft has also informed them that this will be the final Service Pack for the now aging OS.
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5.10.2007 Are You Protected? - Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
Web applications are among the most common computing services that are exposed to the Internet, and thus they pose an inviting target to anyone who wants to break into your network to steal sensitive information, tamper with your data, or otherwise compromise your system.
Ensuring the security of a Web application is a serious task, and requires consideration throughout the design, development, deployment, and operation phases. It should not be viewed as something that can be slapped onto an existing application, or achieved simply by applying existing platform security features.
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Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 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 Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008Intel will deploy Windows 7 on employee's computers
According to The Register, Intel plans to deploy Windows 7 on its employee's computers. When asked at a Technology Summit with reporters and
analysts in San Francisco whether the company would wait until service pack 1 to deploy Windows 7, Intel's EVP and chief sales and marketing
officer Sean Maloney said, "This time I think we'll go faster." This is good news for Microsoft since Intel and many other companies skipped
Vista. The company's top salesman also sympathized with those who passed on Vista. "There was an excuse not to deploy Vista, because - rightly or
wrongly - people said 'wait for service pack X' or 'we don't like the compatibility issues." But this time, thins may be different.
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31.07.2009Firms need to plan for XP Service Pack 3
Organisations that expect to be running Windows XP in mid-2010 should plan to test and deploy XP SP3, Gartner has advised.
Microsoft is planning to release Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) and Windows XP SP3 will be available in the first half of 2008.
According to Gartner, deploying Windows XP SP3 should be significantly easier than testing and deploying SP2, which many users considered a major
change of the operating system.
Annette Jump, a research director at Gartner, said, "We will probably see a mixture of Vista and
XP SP3 deployments in 2008. Jump believed some businesses would deploy Vista and some could stick with XP, in which case, they would be looking at
installing the SP3 service pack.
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01.12.2007Do you know how to deploy?
James Senior: Who actually uses a DVD to deploy? Do you build PC's and sell them? Are you frustrated? Frustrated by the speed of your deployments?
Do you find yourself waiting, brewing tea waiting, wondering if... if there is a better way, a better way to deploy the one thing that holds you back.
Yes, I'm talking about your Operating System. I don't mean to be rude, but the number of people who put their hands up at roadshows when we ask
the question, "who installs their OS using DVD" is quite frankly worrying...no disturbing. Let me put it in perspective.
If
you are installing your OS, beit Windows Vista (preferably) or Windows XP by DVD then in effect you might as well install it using floppy disks.
Although technically not a fair comparison the analogy holds true.
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07.11.2007Microsoft promises SP 'milestone' for Visual Studio 2008
First, it was Windows XP SP1. Then Windows Vista SP1. Now its the Visual Studio and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, due by the end of summer. The connection?
Microsoft's service packs keep growing in importance as a means of updating key products between official releases.
Promoting
the first SP for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5, officially launched just six months ago, Microsoft has said SP1 - like its predecessors -
is no ordinary SP.
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02.08.2008Using Visual Studio 2008 to Deploy Your App to Windows Server 2008
One great thing about Visual Studio 2008 is that you can deploy your app directly to your IIS Server very easily and quickly. That's assuming your
server has been configured and ready to go. Typically you administrator will do the configuration in prep for your app but incase you don't have one
(like me)... these are the steps you take.
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12.11.2007Gartner report: Don't wait for SP1 to deploy Vista
Enterprises planning to deploy Windows Vista should not wait for Microsoft to release Vista's first service pack (SP1), due in early 2008, before
doing so, according to a Gartner analysis.
In the
analysis, titled Vista SP1 Is
Important, but Less So Than SPs of the Past, Gartner research vice president Michael A. Silver noted that "Windows client service packs are
important, but not as important as they used to be. Integrate Windows Vista SP1 if possible, but don't delay plans waiting for it."
Many organizations often wait until Microsoft releases the first service pack on its client operating system "before they test and plan
deployment, he explained. But Microsoft "has become adept at deploying updates through services like Windows Update, Microsoft Update and Automatic
Update, so SPs are now less important than they once were."
Another factor in play here: "Many organizations have highly
complex PC environments and would not be ready to deploy Vista before
, so SPI will not be in the critical path form them,"
Silver wrote...
winbeta.org - 07.09.2007
Are You Protected? Design and
Deploy Secure Web Apps with
ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
Ensuring the security of a Web
application is critical. In
this article, Michael
Volodarsky outlines best
practices that allow you to
take advantage of the security
features of ASP.NET 2.0 and
IIS 6.0 to build and deploy
more secure Web applications...
msdn.microsoft.com - 21.10.2005
Survey: Half 'Have No Plans' To Deploy Vista
Migration to the Windows Vista operating system apparently isn't generating much enthusiasm among IT personnel in the enterprise. A survey conducted in November of last year by market research firm King
Research supports that notion. The study found that "90 percent of participants have concerns about the migration to Windows Vista."
What's worse, from Microsoft's perspective, is that future plans to deploy Vista seemed stunted too. Roughly half (53 percent) of
respondents said that they "have no plans to deploy Vista at this time." Other plans for Vista included installing it for testing (18 percent), new
machines only (14 percent) and other uses (two percent). Just 13 percent said they planned to be fully deployed on Vista.
winbeta.org - 16.02.2008
Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
Forrester Research has issued a new study in which it predicts that at least one-third of enterprises will begin to deploy Windows Vista
enterprise-wide by mid-2008.
Driving Vista adoption will be an increase in applications certified as Vista-compatible and new PC
form factors which are ready to run Vista smoothly and at price points will make compatible machines more affordable than they are today, the
Forrester researchers said in their How Windows
Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating System report, released on November 12.
Forrester acknowledged
that a number of businesses are waiting for Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 before starting their Vista deployment rollouts. But according to current
schedule, Vista SP1 is set to roll out in the first calendar quarter of next year.
winbeta.org - 14.11.2007
Windows Azure SDK (October 2008 CTP)
The Azure Services Platform is designed to help developers quickly and easily create, deploy, manage, and distribute web services and applications on
the Internet. Windows Azure is an operating system for the cloud that serves as the development, run-time, and control environment for the Azure
Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers on-demand compute & storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through
Microsoft data centers.
Windows Azure is elastic, flexible, and interoperable. With Windows Azure developers can achieve high
levels of service availability and application interoperability while maintaining freedom of choice.
The Windows Azure SDK
provides developers with the tools and APIs needed to develop, deploy, and manage scalable services in Windows Azure.
winbeta.org - 28.10.2008
Mary Jo Foley Will Windows Service Pack History Repeat Itself?
Mary Jo Foley: One of my editors at Redmond magazine -- the ever-doubting Ed Scannell -- recently posed an interesting hypothetical question about the
future of Windows. Might Microsoft yank some features planned for Windows 7 and put them into a Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 2 that would include
not just fixes, but also new features?
In other words: Could Windows history repeat itself, with Vista SP2 taking the form of a
whole new operating system release -- in everything other than name -- a la Windows XP SP2?
Microsoft officials said last year
not to expect Vista SP1 to be anything like XP SP2. Vista SP1 was designed to be a collection of fixes and patches, aimed at improving security,
reliability and performance. But the 'Softies haven't said anything about their thinking in regard to Vista SP2. Might Microsoft use the next Vista
SP to deliver some of the features that otherwise might have to wait for Windows 7, currently slated for 2010?
As tasty as that
option might sound to some, I'd give it a very low likelihood for a few reasons.
winbeta.org - 03.06.2008
Quandary: 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...
betanews.com - 26.10.2007
Microsoft to push XP SP3 via AutoUpdate July 10
Microsoft is going to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 via its Automatic Update (AU) service on Thursday July 10, company officials confirmed
this week.
The client team has been vague about when it planned to push the latest version of XP to users. "Early summer" and
"sometime soon"were favorite comebacks when officials were asked for an AU timeframe for SP3.
Customers who have automatic updates
turned on but who dont want XP SP3 to be downloaded to user desktops this week for whatever reasons need to deploy the Microsoft Service Pack
blocker toolkit to delay pushed-delivery of SP3.
While Microsoft will begin pushing SP3 tomorrow, not all users will receive it
immediatly, as the company will be staggering the rollout.
Microsoft has postponed and temporarily halted the distribution of SP3 a
couple of times this year because of compatibility and performance problems.
jcxp.net - 10.07.2008
Amazon's cloud to host Windows Server
After tests are completed sometime this fall, the cloud provider announced this morning, customers will be able to deploy complete Windows
Server-based machine images to Amazon's high-capacity computing cloud, eliminating hardware costs...
betanews.com - 01.10.2008
On-Premises or in the Cloud, One Consistent Composite Application Experience for Developers
Microsofts new Windows Server AppFabric provides developers with new tools to develop, manage and deploy composite applications...
microsoft.com/presspass - 17.11.2009
Victorian Government Microsoft's $23 million Vista patsy: consultant
While the rest of the world is shying away from Windows Vista and looking to deploy Linux across schools, the Victorian State Government in Australia
is behaving like Microsoft's patsy by side-stepping competition and adopting Vista in schools, according to a leading local IT consultant.
Con Zymaris, the CEO of Cybersource, a company that has specialized in the integration of Linux and Windows sites since the early 1990s,
says the Victorian Department of Education, is heading in the wrong direction by adopting Windows Vista in a $23 million deal announced this week.
"The Victorian Department of Education has again neglected the market, side-stepped competition by open tender and signed yet
another deal with Microsoft - excluding all other platform vendors, to deploy Windows Vista - an operating system shunned by the rest of IT
industry," said Zymaris.
winbeta.org - 25.10.2007
Windows Vista and Mac OSX see surge in consumer use
While businesses and corporate entities may have little interest in using either Vista or Mac OSX, both are gaining popularity and market share but
only in the area related to home or home office use which is both good and bad.
Its good in the fact that Vista now has a 10%
market share in computers that are connected to the Internet, its bad that corporations are either not going to deploy Vista or have delayed
deployments so much that by the time it comes around again, Windows 7 may be out.
Mac OSX now has something in the area of a 7%
market share, Mac use has seen excellent growth over the past year but has not been without its share of problems. Large corporations would never deploy OSX on a wide scale so that is not a concern there.
winbeta.org - 03.12.2007
Rush to deploy virtualisation leaves security gaps
Server virtualisation is a no-brainer -- it's quick to deploy and easy to justify in terms of cost-savings, but too many companies are deploying the
technology without considering the security implications.
Server virtualisation has been the hottest trend in enterprise IT for
some time and according to IBRS analyst Kevin McIsaac, it's likely to remain that way for the next two to three years.
IBRS
estimates that one in three large Australian organisations has deployed server virtualisation within their datacentre, and nearly every medium to
large enterprise has at least looked at a pilot for the technology.
But as the push to consolidate physical servers intensifies,
questions are being raised as to whether new virtual servers are being deployed with adequate security measures in place.
winbeta.org - 05.09.2007
Amazon EC2 exits beta, offers WS2K3 in the cloud
Beginning today, customers can implement instances of Windows Server 2003 (licensed to and purchased by them) in Amazon's cloud, enabling businesses
to deploy sophisticated Internet applications without their own servers...
betanews.com - 24.10.2008
MS Offering Security Updates
on CD
Microsoft is offering a new
option for businesses looking
to deploy multiple patches at
once without using Windows
Update or SUS: CD images. The
company will issue a CD
download once a month
containing all security and
high-priority non-security
updates for Windows...
betanews.com - 12.01.2006
