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 Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 RTM
Since the introduction of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the Redmond company has sold in excess of 10 million units of the package of solutions, and on September 15, the R2 version of MDOP 2008 was released to manufacturing.
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16.9.2008 Microsoft: Take Advantage of the Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is designed to help customers get the most out of their Windows Vista clients, according to Microsoft's official description of the solution.
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16.7.2008 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 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 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 Microsoft: Take Advantage of the Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is designed to help customers get the most out of their Windows Vista clients, according to Microsoft's official description of the solution.
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16.7.2008 Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 RTM
Since the introduction of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the Redmond company has sold in excess of 10 million units of the package of solutions, and on September 15, the R2 version of MDOP 2008 was released to manufacturing.
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16.9.2008 Windows 7 Network Optimization, Virtualization, Devices Profile
With Windows 7, Microsoft is not only working to steer away from the mistakes made with Windows Vista, but also to move on territories where the successor of Windows XP has failed to gain a consistent level of traction.
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9.11.2008 DOWNLOAD Windows XP Unofficial Pack - Formally SP3 Preview Pack
The Hotfix today announces the release of our Windows XP Unofficial TheHotfix.net Pack, a collection of hotfixes that may or may not go into the upcoming Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. This collection is of hotfixes not officially released to the public from Microsoft. The package, formally known at the Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack, contains hundreds of fixes that you would normally need to call Microsoft Support to obtain.
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Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 Evaluation
The Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 is not a stand alone product; it requires the developer to have Windows® Embedded Studio tool suite installed.
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31.10.2006 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 CTP 2 Released
Improved overall test coverage and quality of the feature pack while incorporating bug fixes and enhancements based on feedback from the first CTP participants.
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11.10.2006 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 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 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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7.9.2009Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack Sets Sales Record
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance has been the fastest selling Version 1 product in the history of Microsoft's volume
license program, with more than 3 million licenses so..
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13.11.2007Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 Released
Chris Flores: Today marks the release of the
Micr..
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01.04.2008Microsoft releases Windows-7-friendly version of Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft officials last month said they had revised their Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) plans so as to get a Windows-7-friendly version
of its tools out to businesses around the time of ..
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20.10.2009Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 Released
Chris Flores: Today marks the release of the
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2008 - a set of tools for
IT Pros managing IT environments for companies who have purchased MDOP plus Windows
Software Assurance agreements with Microsoft. There are two key product updates in
this release I'd like to highlight that I think IT Pros will find very useful - Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 6.0 (DaRT) and Desktop Error
Monitoring 3.0 SP1 (DEM).
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01.04.2008Microsoft Promises Vista Version Of Softgrid
Microsoft said Monday that the
Vista version of its
http://www.softricity.com/>Sof
tgrid application
virtualization product and
enhanced asset management and
desktop monitoring will be
available July 1.
The
updated Softgrid platform is
part of Microsoft's Desktop
Optimization Pack for its
Software Assurance customers
who buy software maintenance
contracts. The Windows Vista
client has been widely
available since early this
year.
As part of the
version 2.0 Optimization Pack,
which was released to
manufacturing this week,
Microsoft will release
enhanced asset inventory
services, including a
Vista-compatible version of
Asset Inventory Service, a
byproduct of the company's
acquisition of AssetMetrix. ..
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04.06.2007Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack Sets Sales Record
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance has been the fastest selling Version 1 product in the history of Microsoft's volume
license program, with more than 3 million licenses sold over the past nine months.
The product is only available to those
customers who have a Windows Client volume license with Software Assurance, a fact that had not been an obstacle to adoption, said Brad Anderson, the
general manager for the Windows and Enterprise management division, at a press conference at the TechEd IT Forum here Nov. 12.
Anderson's comments came ahead of the conference's opening keynote address by Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server
marketing.
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13.11.2007Microsoft releases Windows-7-friendly version of Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft officials last month said they had revised their Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) plans so as to get a Windows-7-friendly version
of its tools out to businesses around the time of the Windows 7 launch.
On October 20, the MDOP team announced that
the newest version of MDOP isready for download.
Software Assurance licensees who’ve purchased MDOP can get the final
MDOP 2009 R2, as the revised version
of the pack is known. And those who aren’t already customers but who have MSDN/TechNet subscriptions can try it out today, as well.
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20.10.2009TechEd 2007: Software Assurance Licensees to Get Error Reporting Tool
Software Assurance licensees
for Microsoft Windows clients,
including XP and Vista, will
soon be receiving a utility
called System Center Desktop
Error Monitoring as part of
the Desktop Optimization Pack
(MDOP) they receive with their
licenses. As we learned at
TechEd, the utility will
enable admins to produce
aggregate reports that track
problems throughout an entire
enterprise...
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05.06.2007Microsoft Brings Desktop Management To The Channel
Microsoft has been building a
comprehensive set of desktop
management tools and selling
them directly to enterprises.
Now, Microsoft wants to see
what the channel can do with
these tools.
On
Monday at its worldwide
partner conference in Denver,
Microsoft unveiled Windows
Partner Solutions, which
combines Vista Enterprise
Edition with Microsoft's
Desktop Optimization Pack
(DOP), a subscription offering
for Software Assurance
maintenance contract customers
that includes technologies
from several recent Microsoft
acquisitions.
DOP
includes application
virtualization software from
Softricity, inventory services
from AssetMetrix, group policy
management software from
DesktopStandard, and recovery
software from Winternals. ..
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09.07.2007Roundtable Q&A: Infrastructure Optimization Benefits Companies at All Stages of IT Investment
IT experts focus on how
organizations can cut costs
and enhance business agility
with licensing solutions that
simplify Infrastructure
Optimization...
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29.05.2007Microsoft accelerates desktop virtualization plans
Microsoft has massively accelerated delivery of the next version of its desktop enterprise virtualization software, while unveiling the next release
of its Application Virtualization, aka
App-V.
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 will now be released to manufacturing at the end
of October, soon after the release of Windows 7 on October 22. The initial plan had been for a MDOP beta "sometime" during the first quarter of
2010, with RTM code presumably after that.
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14.09.2009Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide Released
The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and BizTalk UE team are pleased to announce the first edition of the "
Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide".
The
Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide is the second installment in a series of guides intended to provide easily accessible,
hands-on guidance to our customer and partner community. This 228 page guide is available on
MSDN,
TechNet and as a separate DOCX or CHM
download alongside the already available “
Microsoft BizTalk Operations Guide”
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09.07.2008Microsoft Plans Tougher Action Pack Requirements
Microsoft later this year
plans to raise the bar on a
popular software trial program
in response to reports that
some partners have been
illegally selling its
software.
The
Action Pack allows
Microsoft's Registered level
partners to obtain up to 10
licenses for Microsoft desktop
applications and operating
systems, and single server
licenses with up to 10 Client
Access Licenses (CALs).
The Action Pack
is intended for internal
business testing and
evaluation and also includes
technical demonstration and
marketing materials. However,
some Microsoft partners have
been breaking the rules by
selling the Action Pack
software to customers,
according to solution
providers.
When partners sell Action
Pack software in violation of
their licensing agreement, it
can harm other partners'
businesses, says Alex Pearson,
president of IS Systems, a San
Antonio, Texas-based solution
provider...
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31.07.2007Five desktop Linux highlights of 2007
Opinion -- Sometimes putting together a best-of-the-year list is like pulling teeth. There simply isn't enough big news to fill the list out. That
was not a problem for desktop Linux in 2007. This year was one of the most eventful years in desktop Linux's short history. While Mac OS X remains
the most successful of all the Unix/open-source-based operating systems, the Linux desktop made great strides forward in both the office and in homes.
As I look back over the year while making up my list, one thing strikes me: This was not a year where I can point at some substantial advancement in
the Linux desktop itself. That's not to say there weren't significant desktop Linux releases; there were. To name but a few, this year saw the
arrival of such significant distributions as Fedora 8, OpenSUSE 10.3, SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 Service Pack 1, MEPIS 6.5 and last, but
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23.12.2007TiVo 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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06.02.2009Vista Pushes Volume Licensing
During Microsoft's annual
financial analysts conference
today, the company's chief
operating officer boasted
about increases in Windows
volume licensing.
It's the "best rate
we've seen in many, many
years," Kevin Turner said of
annuity licensing contracts.
He acknowledged that Windows
Vista Enterprise and MDOP
(Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack) were major
drivers. Both products can
only be purchased by way of
volume licensing contract. By
contrast, Windows XP
Professional and supporting
tools could be purchased
without a volume licensing
contract.
Turner said that about 42
millions PCs are covered by
volume licensing. Among
midsize businesses and
enterprise, Windows annuity
contract penetration is 19
percent, he said.
"I think it moved a point
of two." Turner said about
Windows volume licensing
increases.
Historically, about 80
percent of Windows client
revenue comes from OEMs.
Microsoft wants to shiftsome
could say forcecustomers to
volume licensing, which would
further smooth out
Microsoft's balance sheet.
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27.07.2007Windows Seven: Think 2010
Windows Seven now has an
official ship target - 2010.
At
Microsoft's Global Exchange
(MGX) annual sales conference
in Orlando this week,
Microsoft shared a bit more -
albeit at a high level - on
Windows Seven, according to a
copy of a slide deck I saw
that was distributed to the
field sales force during the
conference. Among the
information shared was that
Microsoft is anticipating it
will take at least three years
from now to get the next
version of Windows client out
the door.
Last time anyone got
Microsoft to talk dates about
Windows Seven, the next big
Windows client release, a
Windows exec slipped up and
said something about 2009.
Microsoft
officials told MGX attendees
that the company is currently
internally planning Windows
Seven. So far, the company has
determined Windows Seven will
come in both 32- and 64-bit
flavors. No word on how many
SKUs or any kind of guidance
on features was provided, but
Microsoft did say it would
address both consumer and
business segments with Windows
Seven.
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21.07.2007Microsoft confirms Windows 7 Family Pack rumours
Microsoft confirmed the existence of a Windows 7 family pack today in a company blog post. Rumours of a Family Pack deal were originally reported by
Neowin earlier this month. The Windows 7 family pack will offer a licence for people to install Windows Home Premium on up to 3 PCs. Brandon LeBlanc
confirmed "I know there have been some rumors going around about a "family pack" for Windows 7. We have heard a lot of feedback from beta testers
and enthusiasts over the last 3 years that we need a better solution for homes with multiple PCs.
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22.07.2009Microsoft will alter desktop search in Vista SP1, beta due by the end of the year (Update 3)
The New York Times is
providing a more detailed glimpse into
the settlement between
Microsoft and Google regarding
Vista's desktop search.
For one thing, we now know
the sources to the original
Reuters story were in fact the
lawyers involved in the case.
We also now know that the
changes involved to Vista
include the ability to let
Vista users "decide which
desktop search program they
want to use" and that
"selecting software from
Google or some other company
would no longer slow down the
computer as it does now":
Excerpts:
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The settlement, reached in
recent days by state
prosecutors, the Justice
Department and Microsoft,
averted the prospect of
litigation over a complaint by
Google that Vista had been
designed to frustrate computer
users who want to use software
other than Microsofts to
search through files on their
hard drives.
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Lawyers involved in the
proceeding said the changes to
Vista would allow consumers to
decide which desktop search
program they want to use, and
that selecting software from
Google or some other company
would no longer slow down the
computer as it does now. They
said that as part of the
settlement, Microsoft would
let Vista users know how to
change their desktop search
program. But the settlement
would not require Microsoft to
make all the changes that
Google had sought.
Updates:
1 - C|net is
now
reporting that the changes
to Vista's search features
will be made available as part
of the first service pack to
Windows Vista. Furthemore, in
the filing with the DOJ,
Microsoft noted that the beta
(not final) version of the of
the first service pack for
Vista is expected by the end
of the year.
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20.06.2007Windows Home Server: Power Pack 2 now available for download
The Windows Home Server Team has announced the availability of Power Pack 2 update for Windows Home Server. The English version of Power Pack 2 will
be available on March 24 and will automatically install as part of Windows Update if Automatic Updates is enabled on the Home Server. Power Pack for
Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish will be available before the end of April. Power Pack 2 will also include support for Italian language.
Power Pack 2 includes enhancements for remote access configuration and computers running Windows Media Center, along with content streaming support
for Windows Media Center Extenders.
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