Microsoft Limits Windows Vista Beta2 Downloads
The demand for the Windows Vista Beta2 faced by the US giant has overcome the capabilities of the servers reserved for the online delivery of the recently released operating
system by the sheer amount of the simultaneous downloads.
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13.6.2006 Windows Vista Beta2 users to run as standard user
David Cross a Director of Program Management with Windows Security has posted today over at the UAC blog that the users accounts created on Windows Vista Beta2 will be standard users. Yep, thats right...not an Admin, not a Protected Admin, but a standard user.
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3.4.2006 VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely
We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire on Thursday, November 1, 2007, much earlier than we had originally expected.
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27.10.2007 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. It’s 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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23.12.2008Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 RC0 and .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2
The Windows SDK for Windows Server® 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 provides the prerelease documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools
(including C++ compilers) that you need to develop applications to run on Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2. To
build and run .NET Framework applications, you must have the corresponding version of the .NET Framework installed. See System Requirements on this
page for more details.
This SDK is compatible with the RTM release of Visual Studio® 2005 Service Pack 1, including
Visual Studio Express Editions, which are available free of
charge. Prerelease editions of the next version of Visual Studio are available from
Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 and can also be used with this SDK.
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27.09.2007Near-feature-complete Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 due later this week
Microsoft plans to deliver the
Beta 2 bits of Visual Studio
2008 (ťOrcasť) later this
week, according to Scott
Guthrie, General Manager of
Microsofts Developer
Division.
śYoull see
Beta2 ship later this week
- so only a few more days
now,ť Guthrie posted, in
response to a reader comment,
on July 23. śVS 2008 and .NET
3.5 Beta2 (which will be out
later this week) are pretty
much feature complete. Well do
some small features
additions/chanegs based on new
feedback on Beta2, but 99% of
the features are all
there.ť
Visual Studio 2008
is Microsofts latest family of
development tools aimed at
Windows Vista, Office 2007 and
Windows Server 2008
developers. New features
include the LINQ (Language
Integrated Query)
functionality; a Windows
Presentation Foundation visual
designer; and an updated
version (3.5) of the .Net
Framework.
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25.07.2007Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Available
The Microsoft Windows Software
Development Kit (SDK) for
Windows Server 2008 and .NET
Framework 3.5 provides
prerelease documentation,
samples, header files,
libraries, and tools
(including C++ compilers) you
need to develop applications
to run on prerelease versions
of Windows Server 2008 and the
.NET Framework 3.5 Beta2. To
build and run .NET Framework
applications, you must have
the corresponding version of
the .NET Framework
installed.
This SDK is compatible
with the RTM release of
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Service Pack 1; including
Microsoft Visual Studio
Express Editions, which are
available, free of charge.
Pre-release editions of the
next version of Microsoft
Visual Studio are available
from Microsoft Visual Studio
2008 Beta2 and can also be
used with this SDK.
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31.07.2007Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPCs expiring prematurely
Jeff Beehler: We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire on Thursday, November 1, 2007, much
earlier than we had originally expected. Since the timeout is at the OS level, we cannot automatically extend the timeout period. As such we are
currently in the process of reissuing the VPCs and expect to make them available early next week.
In the meantime, for anyone
that has stored information in TFS that they need to access moving forward, we recommend that you immediately backup the TFS databases in preparation
to move them to the updated VPCs. For information to complete these steps, please refer to the documentation on
Moving Team Foundation Server.
We're still working on additional guidance to respond to this situation. As more information becomes available, I'll post it
here.
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27.10.2007Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable (Beta 2)
The XNA Framework
redistributable provides the
necessary runtime components
to execute a game on Windows
that was developed using XNA
Game Studio Express Beta2.
Installation of this runtime
is not necessary on systems
that already have XNA Game
Studio Express Beta2
installed. The redistributable
is for Beta testing purposes
only and is not intended for
actual distribution with your
application.
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02.11.2006Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 due later this week
Microsoft plans to deliver the
Beta 2 bits of Visual Studio
2008 ("Orcas") later this
week, according to Scott
Guthrie, General Manager of
Microsoft's Developer
Division.
"You'll see Beta2 ship
later this week - so only a
few more days now," Guthrie
posted, in response to a
reader comment, on July 23.
"VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta2
(which will be out later this
week) are pretty much feature
complete. We'll do some small
features additions/changes
based on new feedback on
Beta2, but 99% of the features
are all there."
Visual Studio 2008
is Microsoft's latest family
of development tools aimed at
Windows Vista, Office 2007 and
Windows Server 2008
developers. New features
include the LINQ (Language
Integrated Query)
functionality; a Windows
Presentation Foundation visual
designer; and an updated
version (3.5) of the .Net
Framework.
Click Read
More to view the rest of
this article.
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25.07.2007Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3
Microsoft yesterday warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that they won't be able to uninstall either the service pack or Internet
Explorer 8 (IE8) under some circumstances. The warning was reminiscent of one Microsoft made in May, when Windows XP SP3 had just been made available
for downloading. At the time, the company told users they wouldn't be able to downgrade from IE7 to the older IE6 browser without uninstalling the
service pack.
In a post to the IE blog today, Jane Maliouta, a Microsoft program manager, spelled out the newest situation, which affects
users who downloaded and installed IE8 Beta 1 prior to updating Windows XP to SP3. If those users then upgrade IE8 to Beta 2 , which Microsoft
unveiled today, they will be stuck with both IE8 and Windows XP SP3. A warning dialog will appear to alert users. "If you chose to continue,
Windows XP SP3 and IE8 Beta2 will become permanent," Maliouta said. "You will still be able to upgrade to later IE8 builds as they become available,
but you won't be able to uninstall them."
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28.08.2008Microsoft SharedView Beta 2 Available
Connect with up to 15 people in different locations and get your point across by showing them what's on your screen. Share, review, and update
documents with multiple people in real time.A Windows Live ID (Passport, Hotmail, or MSN) is required to start sessions, but not to join sessions. New
in Beta2: now even easier to use, with group chat and performance improvements!
Hold more effective meetings and conference
calls
Connect with up to 15 people in different locations and get your point across by showing them what's on your screen.
Work together in real time
Share, review, and update documents with multiple people in real time.
Use when and
where you want
SharedView is easy to use, from anywhere, at a moment's notice.
New in Beta 2!
Now even
easier to use, with improvements to the sign-in and join experience, group chat to send messages to others in the session, and performance
improvements!
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26.10.2007Photosynth: First Update
Microsoft's new Photosynth tool has received its first update, bringing improvements to the backend and website, including:
-
Improvements to solve upload problems
- A better quality "Recently Synthed" view
- More prominent "Report Abuse" button
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Compatibility with IE8 Beta2
- Fixes to problems with the About page
- Changes to featured synths on the front page
- Changes to
printing, to save your printer cartridge
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29.08.2008Why do people think that Windows is "easy"?
Larry Osterman:
Every once in a while, someone sends me mail (or a pointer to a blog post) and asks "Why can't you guys do something like that?". The implication
seems to be that Windows would be so much better if we simply rewrote the operating system using technology
.
And maybe
they're right. Maybe Windows would be better if we threw away the current kernel and rewrote it using . I
don't know, and I doubt that I'll ever find out.
The reason is that making any substantial modifications to an operating system
as large and as successful as Windows is hard. Really, really, really hard. You can see this with Vista - in the scheme of things, there were
relatively few changes made to existing elements of the operating system (as far as I can tell, the biggest one was the conversion from the XP display
driver model to the Vista display driver model), but even those changes have caused a non trivial amount of pain for our customers.
Even relatively small modifications can cause pain to customers - one of the changes I made to the legacy multimedia APIs was to remove support
for NT4 style audio drivers from winmm. This functionality has been unsupported since 1998, and we were unaware of any applications that actually
used it. Shortly after Beta2 shipped, we started receiving bug reports from the field - people reported that some call center applications had
stopped working. We started digging and discovered that these call centers were using software that depended on the NT4 style audio drivers. These
call centers didn't have the ability to upgrade their software (the vendor had gone out of business, and the application worked just fine for their
needs). So we put the support for NT4 drivers back, because that was what our customers needed to have happen.
Windows is an
extraordinarily complicated environment - as a result, it's extremely unlikely that any changes along the line of "throw away the kernel and replace
it with " are going to happen. Of course, I've been wrong before :).
winbeta.org - 29.10.2007
Silverlight Version 2 RC0 Released
Mike Snow: Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give
developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2 “> Release before the final release of the runtime is out. Also, included below is a link to
a patch that will upgrade Blend.
Visual Studio 2008 Tools RC0: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129043
Expression Blend SP1 RC0: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prer
elease
Windows Silverlight 2 Dev Runtime RC0: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=129011
Let me know if you have
any questions, concerns or if you run into any issues.
Also, a document detailing the breaking changes between Beta2 and Release
can be downloaded here. Below I have outlined a high level overview of the content from this document. If you need further details on a
particular breaking change, please refer to the document.
winbeta.org - 26.09.2008
Expression Design Beta 2 Released
Microsoft's first try at
graphics design, Expression
Design, just reached the Beta
2 stage. Few changes have been
made since Beta 1, and it
still keeps the simple,
streamlined design that's
been part of the product since
its first versions.
Though it has a
long way to go before it nears
more recognised graphics
design products such as Adobe
Photoshop or Macromedia
Fireworks, Expression Design
still has its fair share of
unique features, such as a
unified interface that merges
bitmap and vector tools as
well as XAML integration.
jcxp.net - 20.03.2007
Windows 7: Superbar Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7 Tips and Tricks Windows 7: HomeGroup
Overview Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action
Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage
Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7
networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net.
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neowin.net - 15.01.2009
Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric
improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control
(UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the
next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the
ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of HomeGroup in Windows 7.
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neowin.net - 13.01.2009
Windows 7 Beta 1 Vs Windows Vista Vs Windows XP
After Windows 7 beta 1 leaked, many bloggers caught hold of it very soon and started testing/using Windows 7. We saw Ed Bott from ZDnet reporting
about the changes in the Windows 7 beta 1 license agreement. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet has benchmarked Windows 7 with its successors Windows
Vista and Windows XP. The Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 was considered for testing. Since its 32bit, it was tested against 32bit versions of
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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neowin.net - 03.01.2009
Windows 7: Vista Upgrade & Anytime Upgrade overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview Windows 7:
BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows
7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet
Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media
enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Windows Vista to Windows 7 Beta upgrade.
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neowin.net - 13.01.2009
Windows 7: Easy Connect overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7:
User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet Explorer
8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements.
Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Easy Connect in Windows 7.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 11.01.2009
Windows Live Strategy Inches Forward, Slowly
Microsoft is continuing to
flesh out its Windows Live
strategy, on Wednesday
releasing beta versions of
Windows Live Photo Gallery and
Windows Live Folders. The
additions will join Windows
Live Mail Desktop, Windows
Live Writer, and a number of
other applications as part of
the Windows Live Suite...
betanews.com - 28.06.2007
Windows 8 already cooking, beyond Windows 7
After almost 3 years since Microsoft released Windows Vista, we are now heading for a wonderful release of Windows 7, the next version of Windows OS.
Windows 7 RC is expected to be released next month, April 10th. But, what about the next version of Windows OS? Let us call it Windows 8 for now.
Soni Meinke, a senior program manager in the Windows Server group in an interview with Channel 9 revealed very little info that the next version of
Windows OS is already in its planning stage and her work being engaging with various customers and partners, she is already discussing the plan and
strategy around them.
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neowin.net - 12.03.2009
Windows Mobile being rebranded as Windows and Windows Phone?
With few hours for the Mobile World Congress to start, we already have snaps of Microsoft stand and Windows Mobile banners showing up. Microsoft is
expected to announce various mobile offerings and also unveil its newer version of Windows Mobile, which is Windows Mobile 6.5 at the Mobile World
Congress. There is one thing to note once you see these snaps, a very important thing Below are some snaps As you may have guessed it
already, its Windows and not Windows Mobile in those banners! Is Microsoft rebranding their Windows Mobile to Windows and call it Windows Phone?
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neowin.net - 16.02.2009
