Tailoring Windows 7 to Solid-State Drives
Microsoft is tailoring Windows 7 to solid-state drives. Mum's the word on the matter as far as the Redmond giant is concerned, but this will no longer be the case come November 2008.
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7.10.2008 SanDisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid-state drives
SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid-state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year.
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22.7.2008 The State of Microsoft Beta Programs
Before I kick off this editorial let me just state that I am no big-time tester and I haven’t even participated in a Windows beta (yet), but I do have some knowledge about such beta programs, I have people who may be considered “big-time” testers that I regularly talk to, and at the moment I’m participating in both the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Beta and the Office 2010 Technical Preview, which is really the catalyst for me writing this article.
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20.7.2009 Stallman on the current state of GNU/Linux
Richard M. Stallman is defined by Wikipedia as being an "American software freedom activist, hacker and software developer."
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11.7.2009 See Windows Vista site up and running
There is a new site online with more information on Windows Vista covering some very cool topics and there are some videos too.
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1.6.2006 Windows XP Running on PS3 - video
That’s right, a programmer has managed to get Windows XP running on a PlayStation 3 via Linux/QEMU.
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26.11.2006 Windows CE 6 Beta running in Virtual PC
The first Virtual PC lab is now tested/running (see the screen shot below) - I'm handing the lab over to MSDN today for testing and to release to the MSDN Virtual Labs web site.
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13.7.2006 Running Virtual PC 2004 SP1 on Windows Vista
Normally, one would install Virtual PC to run a beta operating system on top of their production environment. In this case however, you might just be risk taking enough to run a beta operating system as your production environment. In such a case, you may have applications or other things that don't work the way you hoped under this operating system. This is where Virtual PC comes in run a production operating system on top of a beta environment. Clever, huh?
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4.3.2006 2,600 sites running Windows Server 2008 on the Internet
Thanks to pacpis for this post. Microsoft has recently switched its main website, www.microsoft.com to Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft-IIS/7.0.
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27.6.2007 Running the numbers on Vista
Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report.
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11.9.2007 Running Vista today is a headache
TECH COMPANIES don't care much about Vista today. They know that the deadline is the end of January 2007 and they can relax until then.
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15.12.2006 Running Microsoft Security Essentials
Yesterday I downloaded the installation files for Microsoft Security Essentials beta, Microsoft’s free consumer antimalware program. So, is it any good?
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24.6.2009 TrayIt - Keep Running Applications Under System Tray
Release candidate for Version 4 of TrayIt! is finally out. It has an improved graphical interface and usability and also supports a lot of new features like window grouping, and support for SDI-type application like MS Excel or PowerPoint.
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2.3.2009 27 Vista SP1 Copies Running Simultaneously on the Same Machine
Microsoft never contested the fact that Windows Vista's hardware requirements qualified the latest Windows client as resource hungry, but at the same time, the company did point out that, given the right system, the platform would deliver quite a performance.
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9.6.2008 Microsoft Halts XP SP3 Update to HP PCs Running AMD Processors
The recent Windows XP Service Pack 3 update has left certain AMD-based PCs manufactured by Hewlett-Packard caught in an endless reboot cycle caused by an Intel-specific disk image mistakenly being used with AMD hardware.
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20.5.2008 Minimem - Automatically Lower, Optimize or Reduce the Memory Usage for Any Running Program at Interval
Nowadays modern computers comes with high memory, from 1GB to 4GB and some even up to 8GB!
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6.8.2008 Internet Explorer 7 running side by side with IE6. (standalone)
If you already have Internet Explorer 7 installed you might be interested in
Multiple-IE . An installer for the standalone versions of IE6, IE5.5, IE5, IE4 & IE3!
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11.12.2006 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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17.5.2009NeowIn-Focus: Solid-state drives revealed
Welcome to this, a comprehensive guide to understanding solid state drives. The purpose of this article is to help the reader understand how
commercially available solid state drives came into existence as well as clarify some of the terms utilized when talking about these devices and some
advantages and drawback this new technology presents. Once done with this article, the following article should make perfect sense: >Until recently,
solid-state drives were too costly for mobile computing.
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02.12.2008Solid-State Drive Industry Leaders Seem to Be Hedging Bets
WINHEC DAY 3 A panel of
four leading figures in the
marketing and engineering of
solid-state drives appeared to
agree that the development of
solid-state disk drives, even
as flash technologies evolve
and NAND prices continue to
avoid bottoming out, will
never result in the
replacement of traditional
HDDs for any market category...
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18.05.2007Microsoft: Windows 7 to boost solid-state drives
Will solid-state drives thrive on Windows 7? Microsoft is set to address that question at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week.
Microsoft will speak to both overall support for solid-state drives and Windows 7 support for Netbooks in Los Angeles at WinHEC
2008, which kicks off Wednesday.
In a conference abstract titled "Windows 7 Enhancements for Solid-State Drives," Microsoft
states that "PC systems that have solid-state drives are shipping in increasing volumes" and that it is planning "Windows enhancements that take
advantage of the latest updates to standardized command sets, such as ATA."
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05.11.2008Analysis: The outlook for solid-state drives
Every year, solid-state storage advances just a little bit further, often just enough to prompt analysts to ask yet again, when will it be time to
declare spinning platters of magnetic data obsolete?..
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11.01.2008Samsung to sample 256 GB solid state drive in late Q3
The Korean electronics maker showed off its biggest and fastest SSD in the 2.5" category, bringing its solid state hard drives ever closer to its
HDDs in capacity...
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28.05.2008Toshiba to show 512GB solid-state drive at CES
Toshiba said Wednesday that it will showcase a 512GB solid-state drive at the Consumer Electronics Show next month and begin shipments in the second
quarter of 2009. To date, this would be one of the largest-capacity solid-state drives for use in laptops and come close to matching the size of
mobile hard-disk drives. Toshiba said it is releasing a broad family of "fast read/write SSDs" based on 43-nanometer Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND
flash technology that will be showcased at CES. MLC technology allows solid-state drive makers to deliver higher capacity drives at lower prices.
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18.12.2008Sandisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid state drives
SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year.
Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today such as the Apple MacBook Air and
Toshiba Portege R500.
The next generation of SSDs will use multilevel cell (MLC) technology, which will require a more
sophisticated controller--a crucial component in solid state drives. These drives will have capacities ranging up to 128GB, 160GB, and later, 256GB.
MLC drives are expected to appear in a wider selection of notebooks later this year.
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22.07.2008Toshiba enters the solid-state disk arena
Nearly a full year after leading flash memory producer Samsung presented its first solid-state drives, flash producer Toshiba plans to follow along
behind with three models that take advantage of its exclusive design...
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10.12.2007Alienware supercharges desktop with 64GB solid-state drives
Alienware Tuesday introduced a 64GB solid-state storage option for its Alienware Area-51
ALX and Aurora ALX desktop computers.
Marc Diana, product marketing manager at Miami-based Alienware said the company plans to
add solid-state functionality to its other desktop offerings by mid-2008.
Diana would not say whether Alienware's parent firm,
Dell Inc., also plans to use the solid-state storage options in its personal computers. Dell officials could not be reached for comment.
Earlier this year, Dell announced a 32GB solid-state option for its Latitude D420 and D629 ATG notebook computers. The PC vendor has been
relatively silent on the solid-state front ever since.
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10.10.2007Solid-state Hard Drive Capacity May Soon Double
Among the many miniaturized
technologies that will
condescend upon Las Vegas at
CES 2007 next week like a star
imploding, Samsung is gearing
up to add to the mix the
second generation of
solid-state hard disk drives.
This at a time while users
even today continue to
discover the first generation...
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04.01.2007Hitachi GST and Intel make a solid-state deal
This week's agreement between Hitachi and Intel to jointly develop enterprise-class solid-state drives shows the industry's further movement to
flash-type storage, but disk-based drives aren't dead tech yet...
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04.12.2008Windows 7 HD and SSD Performance Analyzed
Today we're going to look at how various types of disks perform under Windows 7, both of the traditional platter based variety and new solid state
disks. We're not only curious about how disk performance changes between the operating systems, but if Windows 7's new solid-state specific
optimizations and tuning give you even greater performance compared to Vista.
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29.05.2009Fujitsu Exec says solid-state disk doesn't measure up
While most major disk-drive manufacturers have developed or are already selling solid-state disk drives or hybrid drives, which use a combination of
flash memory and spinning disk, Fujitsu Ltd. has chosen not to develop a product for market. Joel Hagberg, Fujitsu's vice president of business
development, said his company does not plan to launch any solid-state disk-drive products over the next two years because the value proposition of the
technology is not compelling enough and won't be until technology breakthroughs change solid-state disk's performance and reliability.
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09.07.2008Samsung Boosts Solid-State Disk Capacity to 64 GB
A little over a year after it
premiered the first
commercially available
solid-state hard disk drives
at about 32 GB capacity,
Samsung said it's now
mass-producing a package
announced last March at an
electronics show in Taiwan,
that clusters eight 8 GB flash
components together, while
still maintaining the 1.8-inch
form factor needed for
portable devices...
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26.06.2007It's a more solid-state Sun, embedding flash memory in servers
As the latest step in its gradual move to "end-to-end" flash, Sun has unveiled solid-state drive options for some of its high-end
servers.
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14.03.2009Engineering Windows 7: Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives
Steven Sinofsky: Theres a lot of excitement around the potential for the widespread adoption of solid-state drives (SSD) for primary storage,
particularly on laptops and also among many folks in the server world. As with any new technology, as it is introduced we often need to revisit the
assumptions baked into the overall system (OS, device support, applications) as a result of the performance characteristics of the technologies in
use. This post looks at the way we have tuned Windows 7 to the current generation of SSDs. This is a rapidly moving area and we expect that there
will continue to be ways we will tune Windows and we also expect the technology to continue to evolve, perhaps introducing new tradeoffs or
challenging other underlying assumptions. Michael Fortin authored this post with help from many folks across the storage and fundamentals teams
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05.05.2009Intel shows off solid-state drive road map
Intel Tuesday outlined the roadmap for its upcoming line of solid-state drives that will use flash-based solid-state memory to store data - and
replace hard drives in some computers.
Dubbed the Intel High-Performance SATA Solid-State Drive product line, the data storage
devices are aimed at mobile and desktop clients, as well as enterprise server, storage and workstation applications. The first products in the new
line are slated to be available by mid-September.
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20.08.2008Solid State Drive Comparison - Round 2
As a follow-up to our previous SSD coverage, today we will be looking at four popular mainstream SSD offerings which include the A-Data S592 128GB,
Corsair P Series 128GB, OCZ Agility 120GB and the OCZ Vertex Turbo 120GB. Although all these products are MLC flash-based and target the consumer
enthusiast market, they do vary in price, on-board controllers, memory chips, and cache sizes, which should make for some very interesting results.
With dozens of manufacturers now offering some kind of solid state drive, you should know there are only a handful of them you should concern yourself
with.
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21.08.2009Toshiba's 128 GB solid-state disk plays hide and seek
On Friday, Toshiba's Japanese-language Dynabook dedicated site announced a delay in availability of its 128 GB solid state drive for the SS RX model
ultra portable. Then, on the company's European site, a Portege R500 (the Dynabook's western counterpart) appeared to be configurable with a 128 GB
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15.04.2008While Intel touts netbooks, SanDisk cites solid-state 'hype'
At the
Flash Memory Summit taking place here this week, makers of solid-state
drives cited their worries about lackluster performance on Windows Vista and, with no small irony, the dangers of hype.
Solid-state drives have become the de facto storage device for the category of small, inexpensive notebook PCs called netbooks, and tjhey're
offered in high-profile laptops such as the MacBook Air and ThinkPad X300.
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