VMWare Private Beta Build 185517 Has Support for Windows Aero
For those of you running Windows Vista or 7 in a virtualization client, I’m sure you miss having the nice, satisfying Windows Aero eye candy, especially with the Aero Basic skin looking the way that it does now.
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1.9.2009 How to Turn On and Enable Aero in Windows 7 (Enable Aero Peek)
Windows Aero features in Windows 7 has been greatly enhanced and improved with new features such as Aero Peek. Without Windows Aero Glass Transparency effect, the many premium user interface (UI) goodies and extravaganza visual experience such as windows with translucent glass design and new windows colors in Windows 7 won’t be enjoyed by the system users.
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12.1.2009 Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec
Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
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16.7.2008 VMware Workstation 7 released with full Windows 7 support
VMware has announced the latest version it's flagship virtualization software - VMware Workstation 7 which is packed full of new features which are huge - including full 3D graphics support for virtual machines.
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2.11.2009 Microsoft, VMware Agree: They Better Cooperate
VMware and Microsoft both said they're working behind the scenes to make it easier for virtualization users to migrate across their differing virtualization environments and run each other's virtualized files.
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22.6.2007 Free VMware Server Beta Released
VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today introduced VMware Server, a free new entry-level hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers.
"Virtualization and VMware have become mainstream in the past year, and many customers have deployed thousands of VMware server environments across their enterprises. With VMware Server, we are ensuring that every company interested in, considering or evaluating server virtualization for the first time has access to the industry-leading virtualization technology," said Diane Greene, VMware President. "VMware Server makes it easy and compelling for companies new to virtualization to take the first step toward enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure."
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6.2.2006 Download Chrome OS VMware Image
Its only been a few hours since Google spilled the beans on their upcoming Chrome OS, and now we already have a fully working VMware image of Chrome OS ready for download.
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20.11.2009 Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back — this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008.
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14.2.2008 VMware not afraid of upcoming Microsoft Virtual Server Manager
In a phone interview before his presentation at EMC Technology Summit Monday, Raghu Raghuram, vice president of VMware's Platform Products, claimed the company's forthcoming platform upgrade and new consolidation add-on will deliver the most advanced virtualization capabilities in the market.
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30.4.2006 Hack to Force Enable Aero in Windows 7
Windows 7 has a nice little Windows Aero troubleshooting tool to find and fix problems with transparency and other visual effects, and then enable and turn on Aero support (and also Aero Peek) in Windows 7.
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12.1.2009 Aero Glass is the final UI for Windows Vista
Back in 2001 Microsoft's early betas of Windows XP contained a user interface dubbed "Watercolor". But only months before the operating system shipped Microsoft completely replaced it with an entirely different look and feel called "Luna" which became known as "Windows XP Style".
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9.1.2006 Enable Aero Glass in Windows Virtual PC
Windows Virtual PC along with XP Mode (RC) was released yesterday for Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise and Professional users.
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6.8.2009 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but don’t have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006 Windows Aero Is Old News – Introducing LucidTouch User Interface
If you think that Microsoft's journey into the development of natural user interfaces has stopped with the availability of Surface, then think again. The Redmond company is hard at work in a collaboration with Mitsubishi Research to produce LucidTouch.
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24.8.2007 Windows 7 Aero Snap Development Started in Early 2007
Back on February 13, 2007, just a few weeks after Windows Vista hit the shelves, Kevin Kutz, director, Windows Client, revealed that Microsoft had started working on the next iteration of the Windows client.
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18.3.2009 Life after Aero, Microsoft Cooking Improved User Interface for Windows 7
It might not sound like all that much, but it is a definite confirmation that there is life after Windows Aero. And as far as the scarce details on Windows 7 go, any palpable piece of information goes a long way.
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24.5.2008 The Secret Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 Aero Shake
Despite the fact that Windows 7 pre-beta build 6801 was showcased and subsequently released at the Professional Developers Conference at the end of the past month in Los Angeles, Microsoft still has some aces up its sleeve when it comes down to the next iteration of the Windows client.
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3.11.2008 Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009 Border Skin - Enable Aero Glass Transparency Effects in Windows XP
Ever wondered how could you get the famous Aero Glass experience on your Windows XP machine? komalo of deviantArt has released a skin for Windows XP users called Border Skin which will give you Aero Glass UX from Windows 7 and Vista right on your PC running Windows XP!
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30.7.2009 Vista Aero Battery Saver
I get a bit irked when I see stuff that can be solved but people just complain about it.
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8.5.2007 No Aero Glass for Illegitimate Copies of Vista
Microsoft is pulling out a new tool from its antipiracy toolbox. Aero, the new whiz-bang UI for Vista, will only be available to registered users of Windows. That's right, no matter how fast your CPU and graphics card are, if Microsoft determines you are running a pirated version of Vista then it's the toned-down interface for you.
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16.4.2006 Nick White on Aero and battery life
Nick White, Vista's Product Manager, has responded to an article entitled “Vista, Aero, battery life . . . and Doom” by Dwight Silverman, the tech reviewer at the Houston Chronicle, regarding the impact that the Aero theme has on battery life and performance.
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15.5.2007 Enable both Aero and Glass in Vista Home Basic
I'm gonna give u some tips for people who are stuck up with Vista Home Basic
I really never wanted to have the Vista Home Basic. But when i got my Lappy i had no other option, but to stick on with this OEM version.
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28.10.2007 Microsoft Claims Vista's Aero Interface Doesn't Slow PCs
Running Windows Vista's new Aero graphical interface doesn't impact PC performance, a study sponsored by Microsoft claims.
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2.1.2007 From Windows Aero to the Windows Vista Sound Schemes
One aspect made clear by Microsoft from the get go is that, with Windows Vista, it had worked to achieve a complete user experience by bridging the graphical user interface with the sound schemes of the operating system.
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16.6.2008 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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28.2.2008VMware Releases Fusion
VMware has announced the
general availability of
VMware
Fusion, which allows Mac
users to simultaneously run
Mac OS X, Windows and other
PC-based applications on
Intel-based Macs. The
alternative is restarting to
run Windows and Windows
applications, as Apple's Boot
Camp software mandates.
The software
allows Mac users to run both
32- and 64-bit operating
systems, using two processor
cores at the same time, and a
variety of USB 2.0 devices,
according to the company.
VMware also claimed that
Fusion is also the only Mac
virtualization software
available today to provide
support for over 60 operating
systems and power management
capabilities to safeguard
virtual machines when laptops
are running out of battery.
VMware
claimed over 250,000 downloads
of VMware Fusion since its
beta became available in
December 2006...
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02.08.2007VMware Completes Mac Virtualization Software
VMware on Thursday announced
it has completed development
of "Fusion," the
company's desktop
virtualization software for
Macs, which enables Apple
computers to run Windows or
Linux from within Mac OS X.
VMware said over 250,000
people had downloaded the
Fusion beta release since
December...
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02.08.2007VMWare Fusion: Unity
Parallels' killer feature is
Coherence, a display mode that
lets Windows apps and Mac apps
seem to co-mingle with one
another. VMWare, the market
leader in virtualization, had
a solid Mac offer (in beta)
called Fusion but it lacked a
similar feature. It looks like
VMWare has figured out that
people are crazy about
Coherence, and so Unity is
coming to a Fusion install
near you.
As you can see in this
video, Unity is pretty cool.
It seems to have a little more
polish than Parallels'
implementation (the drop
shadows are a nice touch) but
I'll reserve judgement until
I can use it myself.
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07.06.2007VMware Launches Second 'Fusion' Beta for Macs
The Palo Alto,
California-based VMware has
announced that Beta 2 of its
free "Fusion" virtualization
software for Macintosh
desktops and laptops can now
be downloaded from its Web
site. VMware launched the
original beta on December 21.
In the latest beta version of
Fusion, VMware has included
experimental three-dimensional
graphics that will allow users
to play some DirectX 8.1 games
on a virtual Windows XP
machine. Beta 2 also supports
Microsoft's Windows Vista
operating system and offers
"experimental" support for
Apple's new operating system,
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), which
will be released later in
2007.
Fusion also
comes with a new feature
called "Rollback," which
allows users to take a
snapshot of their virtual
machine configuration and then
allows them to return to that
configuration at any time. In
addition, VMware is also
offering support for Apple's
AirPort wireless network. The
software will also support up
to 10 virtual network
interfaces. The full public
version of Fusion should be
released later in 2007, the
company said in a statement.
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04.03.2007VMware Fusion 2.0 exits beta, can do 'virtual quad-core'
Version 2.0 of VMware's Fusion -- a rival to Mac-based desktop virtualization software from Parallels -- adds a new virtual machine control console
along with the ability to run multi-OS applications on up to ten monitors...
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17.09.2008VMWare Releases Fusion for Mac
As first noted last week,
VMWare has released Fusion,
its virtualization software
for the Macintosh. The
software costs $79.99, and
is available for online
purchase and download. You can
download a 30-day evaluation
license from VMWare's Web
site. Fusion is VMWare's
first virtualization software
for the Macintosh, and it
enables Intel-based Macs to
run Windows and other
x86-based operating systems
without having to be rebooted
first.
Fusion is
not the first virtualization
software to come to the
Macintosh, however: Parallels
has already carved out the
niche for virtualization on
the Mac with its Parallels
Desktop for Mac software, and
Codeweavers' CrossOver
software enables some Windows
applications to run without
having Windows installed at
all. VMWare senior product
manager for Mac products Pat
Lee believes that VMWare will
be able to capitalize on
strengths in Fusion not
offered by Parallels Desktop.
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07.08.2007VMware Windows-on-a-Mac product close to launch
VMware Inc. is pricing its
upcoming new software to run
Windows on a Mac similar to
rival Parallels Inc.'s
software announced last week.
VMware said that its Fusion
software for Macintosh
computers can be pre-ordered
beginning Tuesday for
US$39.99, and $79.99
when it becomes generally
available near the end of
August. Parallels Inc. priced
its Parallels Desktop version
3.0 at $79.99 when it
became generally available
Thursday, and $39.99 for
users upgrading from a
previous version of Parallels.
Both make it
possible for Mac users to run
the Windows OS from Microsoft
Corp. alongside the Apple Inc.
Mac OS X operating system. It
is for people who use a Mac
but also want to use software
applications written only for
Windows. VMware released
Fusion Beta 4 for Macs on
Thursday. Besides running
Windows OSes, Fusion also runs
Linux and Solaris-based
applications without having to
reboot the computer to switch
from the Mac OS to another OS.
VMware says one key feature of
Fusion, called Unity, allows
for seamless transition from
Mac to Windows applications.
Icons for Windows applications
will be displayed along with
those of Mac applications in
the dock at the bottom of the
computer screen.
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12.06.2007VMware to Offer Virtualization for Mac
Virtualization software
provider VMware has released a
public beta of its software
for Intel-based Macs,
code-named "Fusion."
Like Parallels, the software
enables users to run a host of
operating systems without the
need to reboot...
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23.12.2006How To: Get Windows 7 Aero in a Virtual Machine
This week, Microsoft made the XP Mode RC available to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate users. Most Virtual Machine emulating software
has not offered support for Aero previously, including Microsoft's own Virtual PC 2007. Now, thanks to the powerful set of "Integration
Components" in Windows 7 Virtual PC and the enhanced, updated version of Remote Desktop in 7, we can now have the full Aero Glass experience in
Windows 7 Virtual Machines, provided the host can handle Aero, and has it enabled. Here's how to get it: This assumes you already have Windows
7 installed on your PC in Virtual PC. Step 1: Enable Aero on your host machine.
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07.08.2009AMD Talks GPGPU and "Fusion"
In an interview with Italian
media, AMD Executive Giuseppe
Amato, Technical Director of
Sales & Marketing EMEA,
discussed AMD's current
market position and future
products.
In the
interview, Amato sheds some
more light on the structure of
AMD's upcoming Fusion
processors. A misconception
that Amato notes is that
Fusion processors will not
only be available in
single-chip flavors, but also
mutli-chip formats. Two Fusion
processors linked together
would allow for parallel GPUs.
He says that AMD has still not
solidified the future plans of
Fusion yet, but indicates it
would be very likely to see a
Fusion processor with a GPU
and CPU connected through a
CrossFire-like interface --
and have a total TDP of less
than 120 Watts.
Amato
also praises the flexibility
of the Fusion processor in the
interview and tells Hardware
Upgrade that it will allow AMD
to "integrate a specific
number of GPU and CPU cores
depending on the customer and
the uses for which they will
use the chip. ..
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17.07.2007Shake up your Windows 7 with Aero Shake
One feature of the
Windows 7 user experience that
wasn't demoed or even talked about last week at PDC 2008 is called "Aero Shake" - the same feature that led Rafael on an epic journey to
unravel the secrets of build 6801
superbar. What Aero Shake does is allows you to shake your application windows furiously, to quickly minimize all other windows, at the same time
experiencing a seizure in your hand.
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03.11.2008AMD Fusion details leaked: 40/32 nm, dual-core CPU, RV800 graphics
AMD pushed Fusion as one of the main reasons to justify its acquisition of ATI. Since then, AMDs finances have changed colors and are now deep in the
red, the top management has changed, and Fusion still isnt anything AMD wants to discuss in detail. But there are always śindustry sourcesť and these
sources have told us that Fusion is likely to be introduced as a half-node chip.
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04.08.2008VMware Releases Free Server
Software
VMware on Wednesday released
the final version of its
VMware Server virtualization
product, the successor to GSX
Server. Just like the beta
release that debuted in
February, VMware is making the
software available free of
charge, much like Microsoft
has done with Virtual Server
2005 R2...
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13.07.2006VMware Releases New Converter Tool
VMware on Monday released a
beta version of VMware
Converter 3, a tool that takes
a physical computer system and
transforms it into a virtual
machine image to be used with
the company's products. The
new release combines two
previously separate tools:
VMware P2V Assistant and
Virtual Machine Importer...
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02.10.2006AMD Fusion for Gaming Tested
AMD Fusion: The inevitable convergence of CPU and GPU. We've been reading and hearing about Fusion since AMD bought ATI a couple years ago. What we
haven't seen is something tangible, something we can dig our greedy little mitts into.
Until now.
What we
have today isn't a single-chip CPU/GPU. It's not a system-on-a-chip. We have a beta utility. It's designed for the AMD/ATI Spider platform, and
requires a 7-series motherboard and the Windows Vista 32-bit operating system. It is the AMD Fusion Gaming Utility.
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08.10.2008VMware Ships Free Virtual
Machine App
VMware on Wednesday introduced
VMware Player, a free tool
that enables users to run
virtual machines on a Linux or
Windows PC. The company says
that the program would be
ideal for those beta testing
software, or evaluating
pre-built application
environments. The release of
the Player comes during
VMworld...
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21.10.2005VMware CEO Calls Microsoft No Threat To VMware Virtualization Sales
VMware CEO Paul Maritz said that despite Microsoft entering the virtualization market with its Hyper-V product earlier this year, VMware has not seen
much of an impact on its sales. Maritz made those observations after VMware announced its third-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street
expectations. In the next few months, Maritz said that VMware also plans to update its client management suite.
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22.10.2008Security Vulnerability Found
in VMware
A "very serious"
security vulnerability has
been discovered in VMware's
line of virtual computing
products, including VMware
Workstation, GSX Server, ACE
and VMware Player. The flaw
could enable malware to
effectively "jump"
from the virtual machine onto
the real computer running
VMware software...
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22.12.2005Windows 7 6801 users can now get Aero Peek, too
Rafael Rivera and Chris Holmes have been really working their butts off on patching Windows 7 6801 completely, and they have now managed to not only
get every feature previously in the utility, but now Aero Peek also, while not even touching system files!
You can download the new
version of their "Blue Badge" utility (revision 03) in both x86 and x64 flavors at the source.
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10.12.2008VMware Workstation 5.5 Now
Available
VMware released the latest
version of its VMware
Workstation product on
Wednesday, adding better
support for 64-bit operating
systems and hardware,
experimental support for
two-way SMP, and enhancements
to the virtual machine
importer and command line
interface...
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