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 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 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 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 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 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 Vista RTM and SP1 Windows Fiji – Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Developed under the codename Windows Fiji, and released to manufacturing under the label Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, the first major update to the Windows Media Center component included by default in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista RTM and SP1, is right on track to be a disappointment.
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11.8.2008 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 Microsoft postpones Winhec 2008 to Fall 2008
Microsoft announced that WinHEC 208 will not be held in the spring as previous years, but in the fall (October probably) of 2008.
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17.11.2007 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 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 Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 Released
Chris Flores: Today marks the release of the
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01.04.2008Microsoft 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 Announces New Virtualization Offerings, Windows Server 2008 Details
Today at TechEd IT Forum 2007, Microsoft Corp.s foremost technology show in Europe for IT professionals, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president in the
companys Server and Tools Business, announced details of next-generation solutions to deliver Dynamic IT for the People-Ready Business.
śEarlier this year, we introduced our vision for Dynamic IT, which aims to make IT a stronger partner to the business by bringing together
the capabilities of core infrastructure, application and development platforms,ť Kelly said. śAt TechEd IT Forum, we are demonstrating how that vision
is coming to life for customers as IT is streamlined across the full spectrum of our software and technology offerings, including through exciting new
developments with Windows Server, Microsoft System Center, Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. The response from
customers has been strong as we move toward the worldwide February 2008 launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.ť
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12.11.2007Microsoft 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 SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008
Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server
2008.
The Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008. It
includes the latest versions of:
- Redistributable components for SQL Server 2008.
- Add-on providers for SQL Server
2008.
- Backward compatibility components for SQL Server 2008.
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18.10.2008Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008
The Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008. It includes the latest versions
of:
- Redistributable components for SQL Server 2008.
- Add-on providers for SQL Server 2008.
- Backward
compatibility components for SQL Server 2008.
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07.08.2008Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack CTP, February 2008
The Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008. It includes the latest versions
of:
- Redistributable components for SQL Server 2008
- Add-on providers for SQL Server 2008
- Backward
compatibility components for SQL Server 2008
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20.02.2008Windows XP SP3 Pushed to 2008
Microsoft has further delayed
the release of Service Pack 3
for Windows XP, moving
expected availability from the
second half of 2007 to the
first half of 2008. The change
came silently in an update to
the company's service pack
roadmap...
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20.10.2006Exclusive: Windows Vista SP2 RC released to general public
As expected, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 RC and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 RC is now available to general public for download. You can
download the SP2 RC for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 below: ISO for Windows Server 2008 x86/x64/ia64 and Windows Vista x86/x64x86 for
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x86x64 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x64IA64 for Windows Server 2008 ia64 The service pack is
delivered as a single release for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There will be a single 32-bit standalone installer (302 MB to 390 MB)
for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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04.03.2009Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1
The Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.1 includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to design, build, test and deploy
extensions for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. You can also use the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 to create custom tools environments based on the
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Shell.
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21.08.2008Microsoft 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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31.07.2007Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 with enhancements meant to ease deployment, but no brand new features. According to Microsoft,
this is a result of an emphasis on ensuring its database is feature complete before its release.
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08.04.2009Windows 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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