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 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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15.9.2008How 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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07.08.2009Shake 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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03.11.2008VMware 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 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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02.10.2006VMware 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 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 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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01.12.2005VMware 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. VMware workstation is compatible with over 20 operating systems out of the box,
and can run many other operating systems unofficially. As previously mentioned, the new VMware workstation comes with full 3D graphics support for
guest operating systems - meaning that if your computer can't play a game, but has the resources to run a virtual operating system well, you can
run an earlier version of Windows (or Linux) to play it.
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02.11.2009Microsoft responds to concerns regarding Aero and battery life
Responding to a number
of recent articles claiming
that Vista's new "Aero"
user interface causes laptops
running the new operating
system to drain their battery
faster, Microsoft has
published its own results. The
company says Aero consumes
only 1% to 4% more battery
life than when the feature is
disabled:
Dwight Silverman, the
tech reviewer at the Houston
Chronicle, has written about
the impact that the Aero theme
has on battery life and
performance (under the
provocative title
"http://blogs.chron.com/techb
log/archives/2007/05/vista_aer
o_battery_life_and_doom.html>V
ista, Aero, battery life . . .
and Doom" -- he's referring
to the game Doom3, BTW).
It's a good post and I'd
like to take a minute to
expand on what Dwight has
written.
First off,
yes, as Dwight correctly
points out, the Aero theme
drives the GPU harder and
therefore uses more power.
But in the big picture, it's
really not that much more.
For example, the display on
most laptops will consume
somewhere between 15-25% of
your "power budget" when you
are running on battery. ..
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15.05.2007VMware Forms Virtualization
Alliance
Banding together with
companies such as IBM, HP,
Hitachi and Sun, VMware
announced Monday the creation
of the Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure Alliance. The
group will help VMware promote
its virtualization solutions,
and the company will work with
each partner to build joint
offerings...
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25.04.2006Windows 7: Designing Aero Snap
Steven Sinofsky: Heres a behind the scenes look at the design of the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7. We thought it would be fun to take a look at the
overall design process of the feature and the tools and techniques used. This feature poses a unique design challenge in that you just use the
feature without any user-interface specifically to invoke it. As with all features this is a collaboration across all of our engineering disciplines.
For this post, Stephan Hoefnagels, a Senior UX designer, presents the design perspective.
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17.03.2009VMware ACE Beta to Ease Management
VMware has launched a beta of
product that allows IT
administrators to centrally
manage and control virtual
machines installed on PCs on
their network. Called VMware
ACE, the application also
includes the ability to place
a virtual machine on just
about any storage device...
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05.03.2007VMware Launches Free Server
Beta
As expected, VMware on Monday
introduced VMware Server, the
successor to GSX Server. The
company hopes that by giving
away its entry-level product,
it will drive users to upgrade
to its for-pay ESX Server, as
well as position the company
as the leader in
virtualization technology...
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06.02.2006Intel Takes Minority Stake in VMware
Showing just how hot the
virtualization market has
become, Intel has taken a
minority stake in VMware, now
owned by enterprise storage
company EMC. Intel is
investing $218.5 million for
2.5 percent of all outstanding
VMware common stock, and will
gain control of one board
seat...
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09.07.2007VMware to debut new hypervisor April 21
VMware on April 21 will release highly anticipated vSphere software, the next generation of its flagship virtualization engine, according to VMware
business partner Unisys.
VMware has promised to reveal "significant product news" on that date and is holding a Webcast in
which it will explain how "virtualization is about to take another giant leap."
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14.04.2009VMware Updates Its Free Offering, Includes Support for Windows Vista
VMware wants users to try its virtualization software on the house.
On Nov. 13, VMware will offer the beta version of its VMware
Server 2, a free virtualization tool that allows users to partition a single physical server into multiple virtual machines. The software works both
within Microsoft Windows and Linux environments.
VMware released the first version of its free software in February 2006, and the
company estimates that more than 3 million copies of the software has been downloaded since then. The new beta is available for download Nov. 13 and
will become generally available in the first half of 2008.
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