Windows 7 DHCP Network Hint
The next iterations of the Windows client and server operating systems will deliver the evolution of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
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24.12.2008 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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15.9.2008 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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23.12.2008 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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13.2.2009DHCP Network Hint in Windows 7
With the increase in popularity of laptops, it is very common for users to frequently reconnect to a previously visited network. In order to improve
user experience in roaming scenarios, where the user connects back to a previously visited network where the user had a valid DHCP lease, DHCP network
hint has been implemented in Windows 7 OS. DHCP network hint helps in identifying the correct DHCP configuration for a previously visited network and
then using the configuration opportunistically. Network hint used in order to uniquely identify different network is SSID (Service Set Identifier) of
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22.12.2008Using Group Policy Filtering to Create a NAP DHCP Enforcement Policy (Part 2)
In the first part of this series on how to configure a DHCP NAP enforcement policy we went through some of the basics of how NAP works, and then
installed the DHCP and NPS services on the NAP policy server. In this, part two of the series, well look at how to use the NAP policy wizard to
automatically create the Network, Health and Connection policies that will be used to control access to the network.
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27.08.2008Infoblox offers management for Microsoft DNS, DHCP servers
IP address management vendor
Infoblox Monday introduced an appliance that the company says
will help IT managers tackling DNS and DHCP on Microsoft Windows servers reduce manual labor, support compliance efforts and improve operational
efficiencies around managing IP space.
Infoblox IPAM WinConnect is an appliance designed to help customers managing IP addresses
using Microsoft management DNS and DHCP servers. The product sits in the data center and communicates with the Windows DNS and DHCP servers via the
network, providing IT managers with a common view into both environments as well as automation and administrative features. The product would augment
a customer's existing Windows IP address management tools, according to industry watchers, who say many customers depend on out-of-date and
insufficient tools to manage IT addresses.
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15.10.2007Exploit Code Surfaces for Two
MS Flaws
Security companies warned of
two new exploits released for
vulnerabilities that were
patched by Microsoft earlier
this month. The code exploits
issues in Windows DHCP and the
"mailslot"
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26.07.2006VMware bugs highlight virtualization security risks
A set of newly discovered flaws in components of VMware's virtual machine software has called attention to some of the security risks associated with
the practice of running virtual computers on a single system.
VMware has updated its products to fix the security bugs, disclosed
Wednesday, but users who have not updated their software could face serious security risks thanks to a trio of flaws in the DHCP server that ships
with VMware.
The DHCP software is used to assign IP addresses to the different virtual machines running within VMware, but IBM
researchers discovered that it can be exploited to gain control of the computer. That could be very bad news for someone running a lot of applications
on the same VMware box, said Tom Cross, a researcher with IBM's Internet Security Systems group. "By exploiting this vulnerability, you get complete
control of any of the machines that are running on that virtual environment," he said. ..
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21.09.2007Windows Home Server CES 2008 Update
Windows Home Server has come a long way in a very short time. We caught up with Joel Sider at CES 2008 to check out some of the new OEM systems
available on the market as well as some cool home automation add-ins that allow you to remotely control electrical devices (for example your house
lights) via WHS.
WHS now boasts over 30 available add-ins enabling everything from DHCP to the automatic syncing of your photo
collection to flickr. For more info visit the
Windows Home Server web site.
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18.01.2008Comcast: Wiretaps Cost $1,000 a Pop
Government authorities serving Comcast, the largest cable operator and second largest ISP in the United States, with wiretap requests under federal
wiretap statutes are required to pay $1,000 per request, with a service fee of $750 each month after, says a recently leaked copy of the
Comcast Cable Law Enforcement Handbook (PDF).
The document, which is presumably given to law enforcement personnel involved in investigations, notes several other interesting policies
regarding Comcasts compliance: in one example, FBI agents are required to hand-deliver
National Security
Letters to Comcasts headquarters, located in Philadelphia.
The handbook also describes strict rules for positively
identifying wiretap targets before a wiretap can be installed, and includes specific instructions and examples on verifying a suspects IP address and
other information. Law enforcement authorities can generally do this within 180 days the date in question, as DHCP logs “ Comcast subscribers are not
given static IPs, and instead are frequently assigned dynamic IPs via DHCP “ expire and are purged within six months.
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23.10.2007TechEd 2007: Virtualization to Become Ninth Server Core Role
At a morning session
introducing many to the
window-less Server Core
installation option in the
forthcoming Windows Server
2008, Microsoft product
manager Andrew Mason made it
official: Windows
Virtualization Services
(code-named "Viridian") will
become the ninth role
available for the trim server
option, joining Internet
Information Services 7
announced last Monday and
other common, unattended role
such as DNS server, DHCP
server, and Active Directory
Application Mode (now called
AD LDS).
This
addition may be both welcome
and extremely important for
enterprises working to create
homogeneity of services where
heterogenous (OS-specific)
applications are deployed. Now
SUSE Linux and other systems
can be hosted by servers that
don't need to waste space
managing Windows printer and
display drivers, such as
DirectX and Direct3D, when
they're not ever going to be
used there anyway.
Monday's announcement
referred to IIS7 as the
seventh Server Core role. Yes,
we're keeping count, and no,
you're not asleep. There is
indeed an eighth role, and
based on the graph we saw this
morning, Windows Media
Services is that #8 role. This
will enable an unattended
server to stream media, even
though it's not necessary for
that server to display or play
that media locally...
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08.06.2007Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 and BDD 2007 Update 2 Released
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Team: Today were excited to announce the release
of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008! MDT makes imaging and deployment much easier with its new checklist and wizard-driven user interface. At the
same time it continues to provide lots of great in-depth guidance for managing your deployment projects end-to-end, as well as quickstart guides if
you want to quickly dive into the tools. If you are among the more than 350,000 people still using BDD 2007, we didnt forget about you. An update for
BDD 2007 to support SP1 imaging and deployment is also available today.
Both these tools can save you lots of time in planning
and building out a standard desktop experience all the way to rolling OS images out into production. Download
MDT 2008 or the
updated BDD 2007 today. For more
information, go to
http://www.microsoft.com/deployment or contact a
Desktop Deployment
Planning Services specialist.
In addition to Service Pack 1 support for Windows Vista, MDT 2008 also has the following
new features:
- Full support for Windows Server 2008
- Additional Actions including Configure DHCP, Authorize DHCP,
Configure DNS, and Configure ADDS
- New scripts that will automate the installation of Mass Storage Drivers for Windows XP and Windows 2003
Systems
- Ability to use a WSUS server for the Windows Update script
- Improved performance for the PXE Filter for System Center
Configuration Manager unknown computer support
- Improved documentation including a new Quick Start Guide for System Center Configuration
Manager
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20.03.2008Windows Server 2008 DNS Block Feature
Windows Server 2008 introduces a DNS block feature that may affect the ISA Server automatic discovery when implementing the WPAD mechanism using a
Windows Server 2008 DNS Server.
The block feature provides a global query block list to reduce vulnerability associated with
dynamic DNS updates. Dynamic update makes it possible for DNS client computers to register and dynamically update their resource records with a DNS
server whenever a client changes its network address or host name. This reduces the need for manual administration of zone records, especially for
clients that frequently move or change locations and use DHCP to obtain an IP address. This convenience comes at a cost, however, because an
authorized client can register any unused host name, even a host name that might have special significance for certain applications. This can allow a
malicious user to "hijack" a special name and divert certain types of network traffic to that user's computer. WPAD is a commonly deployed protocol
vulnerable to this type of hijacking, and by default WPAD look up is disabled by the blocking mechanism.
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19.02.2008Install a Linux Server on the Sony PS3 in 6 minutes
German Helios Software GmbH
simplified a Yellow Dog Linux
distribution to give you
server functionality on the
Sony PS3 in less than 6
minutes.
The
http://www.helios.de/support/p
s3_install.phtml>HELIOS
simplified YDL distribution
comes on a CD disk image and
provides a high performance
Linux server OS complete with
DHCP network settings, support
for Java 1.5 and AppleTalk
enhanced kernel. "Our Linux
distribution for PS3 is
another milestone in our
support for the Open Source
Community", explained Helmut
Tschemernjak, CEO and
President of HELIOS Software.
"And bringing our
software to the PS3 underlines
in the most obvious way, that
HELIOS Software runs
everywhere: Beginning with
UNIX and Intel Linux to Mac OS
X, Windows, and now the PS3
Entertainment Center".
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29.05.2007Ubuntu's latest OS not so Gutsy
Ubuntu fanboys have been crying into their beers after discovering internet connection problems with Canonical's latest open source Linux
distribution operating system, dubbed the Gutsy Gibbon.
The latest version (7.10) of the increasingly popular free OS, which
launched last week, was punted to the masses by Ubuntu as being "delivered on a stable, easy to use and learn platform".
But
one reader contacted El Reg telling us that he had no choice but to revert back to Ubuntu 7.04 to get his computer working online, because of issues
with IPv6 implementation and DHCP-handling.
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24.10.2007One less reason to adopt IPv6?
For a decade, IPv6 proponents have pushed this upgrade to the Internets main communications protocol because of its three primary benefits: a
gargantuan address space, end-to-end security, and easier network administration through automatic device configuration.
Now it
turns out that one of these IPv6 benefits autoconfiguration may not be such a boon for corporate network managers. A growing number of IPv6 experts
say that corporations probably will skip autoconfiguration and instead stick with DHCP, which has been updated to support IPv6.
Autoconfiguration vs. DHCPv6 has become a point of contention among IPv6 proponents. As recently as last month, the IETF the standards body that
created IPv6 and DHCPv6 held a lively online debate about rethinking autoconfiguration in light of DHCPv6.
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17.09.2007New Microsoft Management Pack Downloads Available
Quite a few new Management Pack downloads popped up today on the
Microsoft Download
Center. Here's a list for those interested:
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02.10.2007Errata Security Shows Laptops Are Chattering
Throughout the Black Hat
conference hall, laptops
babbled incessantly about
their users. Errata
Security's Robert Graham and
David Maynor just sat back and
sipped from the data firehose.
Except, that is, when they
jumped to hide an attendee's
user name and password for
whatever wireless service
happened to appear in the flow
of information that was
scrolling down the overhead
projection of Graham's laptop
screen.
It was
part of a demonstration the
duo gave on Thursday of the
1.0 code-only version of a new
tool called Ferret that prints
data to a command line. That
data includes everything that
seeps out of your wireless
device: Wi-Fi access points
cached on your PC, the last IP
address you used (requested by
DHCP), your NetBIOS name, your
log-in ID, and a list of
servers (via a NetBIOS
request) you want connections
to. "Think about what happens
when you start up your
laptop," CEO Graham said.
"The programs set to
autostart look for resources
like the intranet homepage and
shared drives, e-mail clients
and IM clients."
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04.03.2007WPAD Vulnerability possible security risk
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the way Windows resolves hostnames that do not include a fully-qualified domain
name (FQDN). The technology that the vulnerability affects is Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD). Microsoft has not received any information to indicate
that this vulnerability has been publicly used to attack customers, and Microsoft is not aware of any customer impact at this time. Microsoft is
aggressively investigating the public reports. Customers whose domain name begins in a third-level or deeper domain, such as “contoso.co.usÂ, or for
whom the following mitigating factors do not apply, are at risk from this vulnerability.
Microsoft said: "Upon completion of
this investigation, Microsoft will take the appropriate action to help protect our customers. This may include providing a security update through our
monthly release process or providing an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs."
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05.12.2007Windows 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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15.01.2009Windows 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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13.01.2009Windows 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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03.01.2009Windows 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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