Windows 7 and Eclipse Interoperable in Mid-2010
Microsoft is pushing hard for the work designed to make Windows 7 play nice with the Eclipse open-source integrated development environment to be finalized by the summer of next year.
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28.10.2009 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 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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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009Eclipse Aims for Smaller, Faster, Simpler
A major overhaul of the Eclipse code base may be a long time off, but it's on the minds of some of the leaders of the open-source tools platform.
During a panel discussion at the EclipseWorld 2007 conference here Nov. 6, some of those leadersincluding Mike Milinkovich,
executive director of the Eclipse Foundationspoke hypothetically of an Eclipse 4.0 that would be a significant improvement over the current
platform.
"If we do an Eclipse 4.0, it has to be smaller, faster, simpler" than the Eclipse platform of today, and would have
to be "even more maniacally focused on being a platform," Milinkovich said.
A new code base was one of several issues addressed
by the panel, which also touched upon the current competition in the tools space and Google's new Android mobile platform.
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07.11.2007Microsoft Working with Eclipse
At a panel at the MIX conference here March 6, Sam Ramji, director of open source and strategy at Microsoft, said that in addition to many recent
overtures the company has made toward greater interoperability and support for open-source projects, Microsoft also is working with the Eclipse
Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation.
"We're working with Eclipse and I'll be announcing more about that in the next
few weeks," Ramji told eWEEK.
Ramji said he has been talking with Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich over
the last year to hammer out exactly how the two organizations would work together.
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07.03.2008Microsoft to help Eclipse developers make Java apps look Vista-native
In a growing effort to show the world it is embracing the open source community, Microsoft announced it will work with the Eclipse Foundation to allow
Java developers to make software applications that look native to the Windows Vista operating system...
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21.03.2008Microsoft to Support Two Eclipse Projects
Microsoft has broken from its past and is supporting the Eclipse Foundation.
In a speech at the EclipseCon 2008 conference here
March 19, Sam Ramji, Microsofts chief open-source advocate, delivered a morning keynote and said that Microsoft will support two key Eclipse
technologies, and he hinted that there may be more to come. Ramji is the director of platform technology strategy at Microsoft.
Continuing its push to get along with open-source projects and technologies, Ramji said Microsoft now will support SWT and the Higgins identity
management project.
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19.03.2008Microsoft holds hands with but won't join Eclipse
Microsoft remains one of the few major holdouts to membership in the Eclipse Foundation for open source tooling. On Thursday at the EclipseCon 2009
conference, the company will participate in a joint presentation with Eclipse founder IBM about trends for IDEs, the latest move by Microsoft in
working with the foundation. So does this signal that Microsoft finally will climb aboard as a member of Eclipse?
Don't bet on
it...
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26.03.2009Eclipse Gets Interoperability and Next-Generation Experience on the Microsoft Platform
Part of an ongoing initiative to make its products more open, Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Eclipse Summit Europe new solutions that help
developers using the Eclipse platform take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and reinforce Java and PHP
interoperability with Windows Azure and Microsoft Silverlight. Microsoft worked with open source companies, Tasktop Technologies Inc. from Canada for
Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and Soyatec from France for Windows Azure and Silverlight, to provide greater choice and opportunities for
developers working in heterogeneous computing environments and use a mix of Microsoft and open source technologies.
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28.10.2009Eclipse offers AJAX server
The Eclipse Foundation will make available Monday Eclipse RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) 1.0, an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) server for building
and deploying rich Internet applications.
Leveraging the Eclipse component model that based on the OSGi (Open Services Gateway
initiative) standard, RAP 1.0 is suited for enterprises and enables development of component-based applications that can integrate with existing
systems. RAP 1.0 is freely downloadable.
With RAP, developers can build AJAX applications "completely in Java," said Jochen
Krause, project leader for RAP at
Innoopract.
"The
benefit is many developers know
to write Java code," he said. "If you look at enterprise IT, you find very few people that are seasoned in
JavaScript."
winbeta.org - 15.10.2007
Silverlight and open-source Java love has its day
Microsoft's investment in interoperability between Silverlight and open-source Java has paid off.
French IT company Soyatec has
released Eclipse4SL under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 on SourceForge, and submitted it to the Eclipse Foundation as an open Eclipse project.
Eclipse4SL can be found here and here.
winbeta.org - 10.03.2009
Lotus Notes 8 set for Friday debut
After almost five months in
beta testing, IBM has
announced the next version of
its Lotus Notes platform and
Domino applications will be on
Friday.
The release will be by
electronic means only, with
the physical distribution and
documentation slated for
September 21.
The release, Lotus Notes
and Domino 8, is based on the
Eclipse open-source software
framework and is built around
a new platform called
Expeditor. Expeditor enables
developers to create
Eclipse-based code for use
within the client that can
function on Linux, Mac OS X
and Windows.
In its prerelease notes,
IBM says version 8 will
"offer a modern Web-like look
and feel," with a sidebar
that displays contacts, the
day at a glance, RSS and Atom
feeds...
winbeta.org - 16.08.2007
IBM takes Jazz development tools to school
IBM Rational Software unit Monday announced that it has awarded grants to three universities for projects that use its open source Jazz collaboration technology to help developers more effectively work together.
Rational has described Jazz as a follow-on to the popular Eclipse open source project that it launched in 2001 and later turned over to the
independent Eclipse Foundation.
But while Eclipse focuses on boosting
the productivity of individual developer, Jazz zeroes in on supporting all cycles of the development process and on improving collaboration among
development teams, IBM said.
"The goal here is to expand the community because these are community-based projects, they
are meant to be developed in the open," said Scott Hebner, IBM Rational's vice president of marketing and strategy. "Academia is often a very
strong driver of innovation, creativity and contributions to these types of projects. Our hope is to expand the community to include some of the best
minds in academia."
winbeta.org - 23.10.2007
New toolkit makes Eclipse into a Silverlight IDE
The graphic library's next exercise in cross-platform deployment will take it beyond the need for Microsoft's IDEs.
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betanews.com - 12.03.2009
Hitachi GST plans for the works: 320 GB at 7,200 RPM
As shipments of notebook PCs are expected to eclipse those of desktops sometime in the second half of 2009, manufacturers are becoming more concerned
about making up for the capacity and performance gaps in their hard drives...
betanews.com - 08.05.2008
Can tomorrow's Android launch eclipse the iPhone?
Maybe T-Mobile doesn't have its own Steve Jobs, and maybe it's difficult to get worked up over something as nebulous as "Android." But some
analysts do expect it to pick up considerable steam over the coming months and years...
betanews.com - 23.09.2008
Can Tuesday's Android launch eclipse the iPhone?
Maybe T-Mobile doesn't have its own Steve Jobs, and maybe it's difficult to get worked up over something as nebulous as "Android." But some
analysts do expect it to pick up considerable steam over the coming months and years...
betanews.com - 23.09.2008
Adobe accommodates Visual Studio, Eclipse
Adobe Systems at its Adobe Max 2008 conference Tuesday heralded a slew of new technologies, including links between its Flex application development
platform and Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform.
Also paraded at the conference was Flash Catalyst, an
interactive design tool for building interfaces and interactive content without coding. The planned Bolt release of the ColdFusion IDE, featuring
Eclipse capabilities, was touted as well.
winbeta.org - 19.11.2008
Intel Hexes AMD
While AMD stumbles around trying to get its first errata-free Barcelona quads out two years behind Intel, Intel is off planning the launch of its
six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem
microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores.
Dunnington, a Bangalore-designed successor to Harpertown, is still
supposed to be relatively hush-hush but Intel has reportedly put three dual-core 45nm Penryn chips on a die the size of a postage stamp and sharing a
16MB L3 cache. Like other Penryns, Dunnington still uses a front-side bus.
winbeta.org - 23.02.2008
Zend targets enterprise PHP with app server, IDE
Focusing on the enterprise, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) tools vendor Zend Technologies is shipping Tuesday version 3.6 of its Zend Platform
application server for PHP as well as Zend Studio for Eclipse, an IDE for PHP based on Eclipse open source technology.
The two
products "take to another step toward enterprise-readiness," said Andi Gutmans, Zend co-CTO. PHP, meanwhile, runs around 40 percent
of the Web, he said.
Featured in Zend Platform 3.6 are capabilities to monitor HTTP, Apache, and Java events; expanded
performance alerts; and better diagnostics through the debugging of production problems on development servers. These improvements are part of Zend
Platform's "PHP intelligence" functions for monitoring PHP application performance.
winbeta.org - 22.01.2008
IBM Will Connect Jazz to Microsoft's Visual Studio
IBM has positioned its Jazz platform for collaborative application development among distributed teams as an agnostic hub for all manner of related
technologies-- apparently even those made by Microsoft, its rival in the developer tools space.
An integration with Microsoft's
Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment) is in the works, but is not part of the Rational Jazz Team Concert 1.0 release being announced
Monday, according to Peter Klenk, a member of the Jazz project's management committee and leader of the development team in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Team Concert, the first commercial product derived from the Jazz project, is initially oriented around Eclipse-based IDEs, he said. Eclipse was
started as an open-source IDE project by IBM in 2001.
winbeta.org - 30.05.2008
Google extends its investment in Mozilla, restores MPL license
Mozilla has renewed its agreement with Google that was set to expire in November, extending it into 2011. The deal carries with it the reinstatement
of the Mozilla and Eclipse Public Licenses that were recently cast aside...
betanews.com - 29.08.2008
Microsoft, IBM: IDEs to evolve
IDEs (integrated development environments) have stayed basically the same over the years and now it is time for them to evolve to accommodate concepts
like cloud computing, dignitaries from Microsoft and IBM said during a Silicon Valley technical conference on Thursday.
Speaking
at the EclipseCon 2009 event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft's Tim Wagner, development manager for Visual Studio, and IBM's Kevin McGuire, senior
software developer for user interfaces and Eclipse, reflected on where IDEs have been and where they are going. Microsoft Visual Studio, first
released in June 1998, and the rival Eclipse open source IDE, which debuted in November 2001, are the most prominent IDEs in use these days.
winbeta.org - 27.03.2009
