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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19.1.2009 AeroBar: Show Titlebar Text in Explorer Windows Under Windows Vista
Have you ever wondered why Explorer Windows don't show titles in Windows Vista?
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13.2.2009VM enables "write-once, run anywhere" Linux apps
A startup in Alameda,
Calif. plans to release a kind
of holy software grail the
third or fourth week of June.
Lina said its dual-licensed
Lina virtual Linux machine
will run more or less normal
Linux applications under
Windows, Mac, or Linux, with a
look and feel native to
each.
The
concept recalls Java, which
has long promised "write
once, run anywhere"
compatibility. As with Java,
Lina users will first install
a VM specific to their
platform, after which they can
run binaries compiled not for
their particular OS, but for
the VM, which aims to hide
OS-specific characteristics
from the application.
In Lina's case, the VM is
essentially a Linux
environment that supports
standard C/C++ applications,
or even perl and python, if
their respective interpreters
are installed. CTO Nile
Geisinger explained, "You
have to compile binaries
specifically for Lina, but
it's fairly trivial, no
different than compiling
binaries for SuSE or Red
Hat."..
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27.05.2007Shelf-ware - the SCVMM Library
One of the things we heard fairly early on while planning VMM was that offline storage of VHDs was going to become an increasingly large management
task. Based on this need, we created the "VM Library" feature to allow users to save virtual machines that weren't currently running to a managed
location. As we developed the requirements for this feature, we quickly realized that people wanted to store more than VMs, they wanted to store all
of the stuff that they used to create VMs as well (ISOs, templates, OS profiles, Hardware profiles etc.) so we changed the feature's name to
"library" instead of "VM library". Before defining the feature in detail, we had to make some key design decisions and at the risk of boring you,
I'll walk through some of that decision making process.
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18.12.2007What you don't virtualize can hurt you
In the frenzy to virtualize servers, companies are forgetting to virtualize an important and yet critical component of their infrastructures: the
network addresses and I/O of the Ethernet and Fibre Channel cards on the physical servers that host VMware virtual machines (VMs).
Virtualized Ethernet and Fibre Channel cards or their I/O is easy to overlook. Administrators may correctly assume that there is ample bandwidth
on the server's Ethernet and Fibre Channel cards to support the normal workload of the multiple VMs it hosts.
The problem is
that VM workloads can become abnormal. Spikes in read or write I/O on one VM may immediately adversely affect the I/O performance of other VMs hosted
by that physical server. Equally problematic are backups, especially full server backups. Backing up a single VM can quickly congest network pipes and
degrade the performance of other VMs on that server.
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29.11.2007Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
Virgin Media customers have been suffering email outages for several days, prompting the firm to call in Microsoft engineers to help with an urgent
upgrade. A mysterious configuration problem was identified on one of VM's eight email server clusters last Wednesday. Microsft engineers have
struggled to identify the cause, forcing several reboots. The ongoing failure has affected about 10 per cent of VM's 3.6 million subscribers.
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18.02.2008VMware vSphere 4: The once and future virtualization king
VMware vSphere 4, out today, is a big release, with plenty of new features and changes, but it's not your run-of-the-mill major update. The new
features, which range from VM clustering to agentless VM backup, are especially significant in that they may mark the moment when virtualization
shifted from the effort to provide a stable replica of a traditional infrastructure to significantly enhancing the capabilities of a virtual
environment.
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22.05.2009Virtual Machine for Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool
The Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool enables administrators to update, using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook,
multiple user mailboxes, thereby avoiding the challenges involved with broadly deploying the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool to all end-users.
The VM contains a trial version of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Excel 2007 and Word 2007. The Exchange Calendar
Update Configuration Tool is preinstalled as well. The VM can be used on both Virtual PC or Virtual Server.
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14.09.2007Microsoft postpones live VM migration for Hyper-V two more years
At a virtualization product launch today, Microsoft give a long-delayed demo of Hyper-V live migration, but then went on to slate the feature's
eventual release for the next edition of Windows Server -- which isn't due until 2010...
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09.09.2008Installing Windows Server 2003 in a Viridian VM
Mike Kolitz: Earlier this week,
I posted instructions on how to install the "Viridian" CTP on Windows Server 2008 RC0. VMs arent very useful unless you can
install an operating system in them, so I thought that todays post should center on doing just that. As you may have guessed from the title, today
were going to talk about installing Windows Server 2003.
Before we begin, you should make sure that youve created an external
virtual network switch. See
yesterdays post for details on how to do that. You should also have a Windows Server 2003 CD or CD Image (which Ill refer to as
an ISO from now on) handy. Ideally, youll have SP2 integrated into the installation media, but if you dont, well take a trip to
Windows Update later on.
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27.09.2007AMD and Red Hat are chased by Microsoft on VM live migration
It's a feature which could be ubiquitous in more data centers if it could just get out of the labs: the ability to move running virtual machines
between platforms with next-to-zero downtime. Now, it's being done cross-platform...
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20.11.2008TechEd 2007: Keynote Demos of Virtual Machines, New OBAs, Silverlight
In a demonstration of System
Center Virtual Machine
Manager, Microsoft product
manager Jeff Woolsey showed
how in Windows Server 2008, a
VMware virtual machine could
be converted to a
"Viridian" VM using a
single PowerShell
"command-let"
( cmdlet ) that can be
scripted...
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05.06.2007VM Security Risks: Phantom or Menace?
Virtual machines are threatening to crack the walls of data centers with a host of potential security threatsnothing that's been publicly exploited
yet but a fact that's borne out by a slew of vulnerabilities patched over the past seven months by major virtualization vendors
VMware, Microsoft and
XenSource.
David Lynch, vice president of marketing at
Embotics, a VM life-cycle management vendor, said during a presentation here at Interop Oct. 23 that a fundamental issue with
VMs is that they've come into enterprises via the back door, thereby slipping past standard security hardening. Meanwhile, VM sprawl has
virtualization instances popping up with nobody keeping track of them. Simply stated, organizations won't be able to secure these things, given that
nobody knows how many have been created, Lynch said.
"Even if you just replace
completely,
how do I make sure I replace all instances of virtual appliance?" Lynch told eWEEK following his presentation. "I asked the audience how many
people knew how many virtual machines . Three people put their hands up, out of about 50. That's a fundamental issue. People
don't know how many machines they have out there. How can you manage them? How can you make sure configurations are maintained, that they're where
they're supposed to be?"
winbeta.org - 25.10.2007
Oracle Debuts Its VM Virtualization Software Amid New Competition
You'd think there was a virtualization conference this week. But as it just so happens, three companies are vying for status in this growing market:
market leader VMware, the perennial up-and-comer Microsoft, and a newcomer with a familiar ring to it: Oracle...
betanews.com - 14.11.2007
Massive Bug Found in VMWare ESX 3.5U2
This was first reported yesterday evening on both the VMWare Community forums and on DeployLinux.com. From what anyone can tell, there is a bug in
the VMWare License Management code and it is causing any system that is running ESX 3.5U2 to not be able to boot this morning. VMware is attempting
to figure out what happened and put out a patch, but the more important question is, "Why wasn't this caught before it shipped?" As Matt
Marlowe posted:
OK, while we're all remaining calm....just imagine the implications that bugs like this can occur and get past QA
testing....5 years down the road, nearly all server apps worldwide pretty much running in VM's (pretty easy prediction)......some country decides
to initiate cyberwarfare and manages to get a backdoor into whatever is the prevaling hypervisor of the day.....boom. All your VM's belong to us.
<...>
I'd love to find out what happened here. Don't they do any regression testing on new releases to check for date based bugs? I
thought that would be pretty obvious.
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neowin.net - 12.08.2008
Itanium to gain Red Hat VM support and more
The imminent next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to come with Xen virtualisation optimised for Itanium 2, Intel said today as part of a robust
defence of its server chip.
The hypervisor tweak will give Intels top-end part a shot at becoming the host of choice in server
consolidation projects, said Michael Demshki, Intel enterprise marketing manager and part of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, a grouping of supporters
that is just celebrating its second birthday.
Some people might be hesitant to have a web server alongside an ERP or HR system
on a virtualised server because they dont want the corporate crown jewels on the same system in case of a failure or malware traversing from one VM to
another, Demshki said. But with Itaniums RAS capabilities and electronically-isolated partitioning, the Red Hat Xen support is going to be a very
big deal.
winbeta.org - 20.09.2007
Windows Server virtualization at TechEd 2007
For those of you amongst the
14,000 attending TechEd 2007
next week in Orlando, expect
to see and learn alot about
virtualization.
It
all starts with Bob Muglia's
keynote on Monday where Jeff
Woolsey will reprise his role
of virtualization demo dude.
Jeff will demo Windows Server
2008 server core installation
running an IDS build of
Windows Server virtualization,
managed by both MOM and System
Center Virtual Machine
Manager.
I'd expect
to see VM creation, interop
and network load balancing
with limited disruption of
service. I'm hoping to see
V-to-V conversion, from ESX
Server to Windows Server
virtualization. I'll be
watching on Monday, and I
expect the webcast to be
available from
http://www.microsoft.com/press
pass/events/teched/default.msp
x>here...
winbeta.org - 01.06.2007
Updated: Massive Bug Found in VMWare ESX 3.5U2
Updated with new information regarding a resolution on August 12th, 9:00 PM CST.
This was first reported yesterday evening on both
the VMWare Community forums and on DeployLinux.com. From what anyone can tell, there is a bug in the VMWare License Management code and it is causing
any system that is running ESX 3.5U2 to not be able to boot this morning. VMware is attempting to figure out what happened and put out a patch, but
the more important question is, "Why wasn't this caught before it shipped?" As Matt Marlowe posted:
OK, while we're all
remaining calm....just imagine the implications that bugs like this can occur and get past QA testing....5 years down the road, nearly all server apps
worldwide pretty much running in VM's (pretty easy prediction)......some country decides to initiate cyberwarfare and manages to get a backdoor
into whatever is the prevaling hypervisor of the day.....boom. All your VM's belong to us. <...>
I'd love to find out what
happened here. Don't they do any regression testing on new releases to check for date based bugs? I thought that would be pretty obvious.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 13.08.2008
Sun to Create Java VM for iPhone
Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java
applications to run on the popular mobile device. According to Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, the JVM is to be based on the Java
Micro Edition (ME) version of Java. Although Apple had not shown interest in enabling Java to run on the iPhone, Sun plans to step in and do the job
itself after having pondered Thursday's release of an SDK for the iPhone by Apple.
" Now, the iPhone is open " as a target
platform, Klein said. The free JVM would be made available via Apple's AppStore marketplace for third-party applications. " We're going to
make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible...It's a new platform for
us. We might be able to bring additional technologies onto the iPhone and the iTouch. " Apple could not be reached for comment on Sun's plans
in time for this article.
neowin.net - 10.03.2008
Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use
"TechWeb has posted an
article regarding Vista's new
license and how it allows you
to only move it to another
device once. How will this
work for people who build
their PCs? I have no intention
of purchasing a new license
every time I swap out
motherboards. 'The first user
of the software may reassign
the license to another device
one time.
If you
reassign the license, that
other device becomes the
"licensed device," reads the
license for Windows Vista Home
Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate,
and Business. In other words,
once a retail copy of Vista is
installed on a PC, it can be
moved to another system only
once. ...
Elsewhere in the license,
Microsoft forbids users from
installing Vista Home Basic
and Vista Home Premium in a
virtual machine. "You may not
use the software installed on
the licensed device within a
virtual (or otherwise
emulated) hardware system,"
the legal language reads.
Vista Ultimate and Vista
Business, however, can be
installed within a VM.'"
Overly Critical Guy points out
more information about changes
to Vista's EULA and the new
usage restrictions. "For
instance, Home Basic users
can't copy ISOs to their hard
drives, can't run in a
virtualized environment, and
can only share files and
printers to a maximum of 5
network devices."
neowin.net - 13.10.2006
New Laptop Windows Vista SP1 Virtual Machine World Record
Keith Combs: In this case, a
picture is worth a thousand words. I spent some time this afternoon and evening setting up for a fun little test of the Lenovo ThinkPad T61p I
have. As youll recall from my previous post, my laptop is loaded up with 8GB of memory. So I thought it would be cool to fire up a bunch of virtual
machines to see how effectively Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V allocate and juggle memory. I was able to get fourteen operating system instances
running at the same time. The host OS is of course Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 with Hyper-V RC1. In the screenshot, youll notice I am running
six instances of Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 x64 and seven instances of Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 x86. Paging and disk I/O really went up after I
fired up VM number eight.
winbeta.org - 08.06.2008
Media server lets Windows Mobile upload photos remotely
Owners of camera-equipped Windows Mobile devices can take photos, then send them over the air to their home media servers, thanks to software
announced today by Axentra Corporation. Users can also play audio and video files remotely on phones or network-enabled PDAs, according to the
company.
The mobile access capability is a new feature in the HipServ software supplied by Axentra to LaCie for its Ethernet disk mini, a network storage device that comes in 320GB or 500GB
capacities and supports Windows, Macintosh, or Linux clients. The Ethernet Disk mini, pictured above, is touted as the first commercial device to
combine remote access through the Internet, stream multimedia files through DLNA-compatible UPnP media players, and act as an iTunes music server.
winbeta.org - 09.01.2008
