Maximum Hardware Specifications for Small Notebook PC (Netbook) on Windows 7 Starter (and Home Basic in China)
Microsoft has a list of Windows 7 minimum recommended system hardware specification requirement for desktop, notebook, netbook, nettop, laptop computer and tablet PC that intends to run any versions and editions of Windows 7.
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23.7.2009 Windows 7 Increased Performance and Optimal Use of Available Hardware
icrosoft is optimizing Windows 7 in order to increase performance, and, in this context, the dispatcher lock is one of the components that has got cut off.
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6.1.2009 How to check software or hardware for Windows 7 compatibility
Microsoft has put up an extremely useful site that will allow you to check your software and hardware for Windows 7 compatibility.
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27.10.2009 Windows 7 RTM Drivers from Microsoft Hardware Available
Microsofts Better Together slogan apparently applies not only to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 but also to the latest iteration of the Windows client and the Redmond companys peripherals.
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30.10.2009 Microsoft Details Hardware Requirements for Windows Vista
During the several-year development time of Windows Vista, I've been asked one question more than any other about this next generation operating system: What hardware will it require? Microsoft has always been pretty vague about the requirements.
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30.3.2006 New Windows Home Server Hardware and Software Partners
In his keynote address at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today demonstrated Windows Home Server and announced new hardware partners for the upcoming product, which include Gateway Inc., LaCie and Medion International.
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15.5.2007 Safely Remove Hardware fix for Windows Vista
When you click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the notification area on a Windows Vista based computer, and then you click Safely remove Device_name, the device may not be removed as expected.
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5.9.2007 Windows 7 on older hardware: A Catch 22 for Microsoft
There are a few bloggers wondering aloud about how well Windows 7 ultimately is going to run on older hardware. Thats an interesting question, given Microsofts symbiotic relationship with its hardware partners who constantly are in search of new ways to convince users to buy pricier PCs.
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14.1.2009 Vista Requires More Hardware Resources than Microsoft's Windows for Supercomputers
A new level of the absurd... Windows Vista requires more hardware resources than Microsoft's Windows for Supercomputers.
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18.11.2007 88% of corporate PCs sport minimum Windows 7 hardware
A new study conducted by Softchoice has found that 88 percent of corporate PCs would currently be able to run Windows 7, compared to the 50 percent that could run Windows Vista prior to its release.
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19.10.2009 Microsoft Hardware Support for the Windows 7 Operating System Beta Release
If your computer is running a beta version of the Windows 7 operating system, the following information can help you select the correct beta software to download for your Microsoft Hardware product.
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23.1.2009 Open source hardware, what is it?
Open source hardware is a term we've used here on MAKE & CRAFT for describing some of the projects featured as well as some of our electronics kits and it was the subject of a talk we participated in at then SXSW conference, but what is it?
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24.4.2007 Microsoft says: We're a hardware company, license us
NOT MANY people know this, but Microsoft is a hardware company, the firm said today, as it introduced a hardware licensing scheme.
Robbie Bach, head of the devices division at Microsoft said: "We've been a leading hardware innovator and supplier to the desktop peripherals industry for over 20 years."
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29.3.2006 Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business?
I really enjoyed watching this recent interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich on Microsofts TechNet Edge.
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9.9.2008 10 reasons to buy new hardware now - during a recession
TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware.
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20.1.2009 Creative Hardware Accelerated 3D Audio for Vista
Creative Labs has opened up the doors to its ALchemy Project to enable hardware acceleration for DirectSound and EAX audio algorithms in Microsofts upcoming Windows Vista. The Alchemy Project is currently in its beta stages and intends to work around Microsofts audio limitations in Windows Vista due to the removal of the Hardware Abstraction Layer, or HAL.
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23.1.2007 Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push
Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet.
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14.5.2007 Microsoft pushing sleek new hardware vision to PC makers
A How-To kit for the ideal PC has been making the rounds of leading design shops. It calls for "accelerated curves" and "purposeful contrast." The preferred colors include a shade of black called Obsidian and a translucent white dubbed Ice. "We want people to fall in love with their PCs, not to simply use them to be productive and successful," reads the enclosed booklet. "We want PCs to be objects of pure desire."
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27.7.2006 Todays Microsoft Press Releases, lots of Hardware news
Hardware news
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14.9.2006 New Hardware for Vista SP1 DirectX 10.1 - XP SP3 Too?
Microsoft is currently in the final stages of cooking both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. In December 2007, the first public builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, namely the Release Candidates became available for download.
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15.1.2008 Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
According to an email sent last February by Microsoft general manager John Kalkman, the software giant lowered Windows Vista's minimum hardware requirements to ridiculous levels only because Intel needed to sell more graphics chipsets.
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4.3.2008 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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28.2.2008 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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6.2.2008Are these the specifications of Apple's next iPhone?
It's been a while since we've seen an Apple rumor, but here's one for you to quench your thirst; MacRumors has posted what appears to be
specifications (rumored, might we add) of the inevitable upcoming iPhone. The post originally comes from a Chinese website and forum, and the poster
has no current credibility in the world of rumors, so be skeptical. They posted an image, found below: It shows a model number of "MB717LL", a
new one, as well as revealing 32GB of storage space. Again, the poster is not exactly a reliable one, but the specifications (listed below) seem to
bode well with all previous rumors.
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12.05.2009Microsoft Details Vista
Requirements
With Windows Vista Beta 2 set
to make its public debut next
week, Microsoft on Thursday
finally detailed the hardware
specifications required to run
the new operating system. The
Redmond company also launched
a "Get Ready" program
to help consumers prepare for
the upgrade...
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18.05.2006Verizon Wireless releases 'open specifications' for device builders
Going forward with an historic initiative launched last November, one of the nation's largest wireless carriers held a gala conference to celebrate
the release of specifications for how any wireless device can just plug right into its network...
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20.03.2008USB 3.0 Specifications released
The new standard for USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, has released the specifications for its next major upgrade. USB
3.0 is meant to surpass its current predecessor USB 2.0, which supports up to 480 Mbps data transfer. The USB 3.0 will support speeds up to 4.8 Gbps,
roughly 10 times faster than USB 2.0. The new standard is expected to be more power-efficient over its predecessor. Your old devices will not be
garbage just yet, since USB 3.0 will be fully backwards compatible with your old devices, supporting USB 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0.
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18.11.2008Intel Enables Hardware T&L on G965
Intel has released a
pre-beta
for Broadwater G965 and GM965
chipsets that enable hardware
transform and lighting.
Hardware transform and
lighting were touted with the
Intel GMA X3000 and X3100
integrated graphics cores,
however, current release
drivers did not enable the
feature, despite Intel
demonstrating games running
with hardware T&L on GMA X3x00
hardware.
Now nearly
a year after the Broadwater
launch, users can take
advantage of hardware T&L on
G965 and GM965 hardware in
Windows XP. Windows Vista
users need not apply, as Intel
does not have the hardware T&L
enabling Vista driver ready
yet. Intel promises Windows
Vista hardware T&L drivers in
the coming weeks...
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19.06.2007Intel Backs Specification For Low-Cost Blade Servers
Intel Corp. expects a draft
specification for blade
servers to help vendors cut
their development costs and
push the space-saving systems
into new markets.
Developed by the Server
System Infrastructure (SSI)
Forum, the draft Modular
Server Specifications were
unveiled Monday in Taipei,
where many of the world's
largest hardware makers are
based. Similar to a reference
design, the specifications
outline design guidelines for
blade servers, defining
features such as the size of
the motherboard and the types
of connectors that are
used.
"For
the developers-- the board,
chassis and power supply
vendors that are doing the
actual development-- it gives
them a common point of
reference to bring to market
platforms that can easily
integrate with other vendors'
products," said Patrick
Buddenbaum, blade marketing
director at Intel's Server
Platforms Group, in a
telephone interview...
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30.07.2007D-Link Preps First 802.11n
Products
D-Link on Wednesday said it
planned to deliver its first
802.11n capable wireless
devices by the end of April,
heralding the arrival of the
next-generation wireless
standard. Although 802.11n has
not yet been finalized,
hardware manufacturers are
using draft specifications
with ratification expected
soon...
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05.04.2006How To: Build An HTPC (With Windows 7)
Tom's Hardware: In this How To guide, well explain why the HTPC now makes so much sense, well show you the hardware that goes into our test platform
(and how it all fits together), and well walk you through using it with Microsofts Windows 7 beta, which should be shipping by the end of the year.
Truly, this is the hardware/software configuration for which we've been waiting...
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18.02.2009Windows 7 build 6956 performance test
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: My Hardware 2.0 mailbag is brimming with Windows 7 related questions. The main question on everyones lips is the obvious one -
How does Windows 7 stack up against Vista?
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11.12.2008AMD sets new game PC specifications
Advanced Micro Devices will try to make buying a game PC more like selecting a game console.
"AMD Game" will put badging on
game PCs and set minimum standards for PCs that carry these badges. The idea is to allow gamers to select a PC like they would an Xbox 360 game
console model.
AMD's specifications will target mainstream PC gamers, not high-end enthusiasts necessarily. Initially, the
specifications will cover only desktops, with notebook standards coming later.
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19.05.2008Windows 7 May Run Better than You Think on Older Hardware
Noting that Snow Leopard will support Intel Macs onlyleaving out PowerPC computers built just over three years agoPC World got curious about how their
old hardware might stand up to Windows 7. To put it to the test, they installed Win7 on a 2001 computer that was just under spec for Windows 7's 1GB
RAM/1GHz processor requirements. The results...
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11.06.2009Microsoft Highlights Changes to the Windows Kernel
Attendees at
Microsoft's Windows Hardware
Engineering Conference here
got an in-depth and deeply
technical keynote outlining
the changes to the Windows
kernel and other key areas,
and how partners can take
advantage of these.
In his presentation
on May 16, Mark Russinovich, a
technical fellow in
Microsoft's platform and
services division and the
third keynoter of the day,
talked about how uniprocessor
kernel variants were now gone
from Windows Server 2008,
which reduces the need for
downtime by supporting
hardware configuration changes
without the need to reboot the
system.
The new
server product, which is the
basis for Microsoft's new
virtualization offering, also
introduced a new common
infrastructure called WHEA
(Windows Hardware Error
Architecture)...
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17.05.2007Microsoft's JPEG Replacement
Format Unveiled
Microsoft unveiled yesterday a
replacement format to JPEG,
which it judges as "Too
instable juridically". The
format, named Windows Media
Photo, as one can expect since
Windows Media Player now reads
photos, is announced as
revolutionary, because of its
powerful compression levels.
The best
quality format should not
cause any quality loss (hence
the "lossless" name
Microsoft gave it) while being
about twice smaller than its
JPEG counterpart. The lowest
one, while obviously having
slightly lower quality level,
though not quite as bad as
JPEG, by eliminating most
artifacts, the picture could
then be as small as 1/25 of
the original uncompressed
picture.
Microsoft is mainly working
at eliminating the so-called
artifacts, frequent in
JPEG-compressed images, and
hopes that its new format can
seduce the market, something
many others, namely JPEG2000,
Jpeg Pro, and Adobe's own
format, DNG, miserably
failed.
Microsoft made official
specifications for this format
available publicly, in
Microsoft Word format, as
Version 1.0 of those
specifications.
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27.05.2006Microsoft places FeedSync under Open Specifications Promise
Kip Kniskern: Received a nice email today from Steven Lees, a member of the CSA Concept Development Team at Microsoft, announcing that Microsoft has
placed FeedSync under the
Open Specifications Promise. According
to Lees from his email:
"As I think I mentioned at Mix n Mash, were very interested in having many independent implementations of
FeedSync. The spec itself is under a Creative Commons license, and weve always said that we want people to have royalty-free use of the spec as well.
Because Ive heard some general questions from people about spec licensing, and because weve filed patents on technology innovations related to
FeedSync, we wanted to make the royalty free message even more clear, so weve placed the FeedSync spec under the Microsoft Open Specification
Promise."
Basically, the Open Specifications Promise is an even more open specification than Creative Commons. From the Microsoft.com
page...
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20.12.2007Microsoft launches Windows 7 Readiness Program
With Windows 7 RC getting ready, Microsoft announced on Monday, the Windows 7 Ecosystem Readiness Program to help hardware and software partners (OEMs
and ISVs) ensure that their existing applications, devices and systems will be compatible with Windows 7. The program provides partners with access to
Windows 7 builds, development and test toolkits, technical documents, Windows Driver Kit, the Windows Logo Kit, application testing labs and other
resources through Microsoft Connect to proceed with the compatability tests of Windows 7. Hardware developers can get tools and resources from the
Windows Hardware Developer Central and Software developers can get their tools and resources from MSDN.
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03.02.2009Microsoft tells OEMs what netbooks are
Microsoft is going to restrict original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to certain hardware specifications for their netbooks if they want to run
Windows 7 Starter - the edition of the new operating system designed for netbooks - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed. Previously other
Microsoft executives have suggested that there will be restrictions on processors and screen resolutions supported by the Starter edition, but at
Microsoft's annual financial analyst day on July 30 Ballmer made the company's intentions clear, according to Computerworld. "Our license
tells you what a netbook is," Ballmer revealed.
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12.08.2009Windows Server Protocols (WSPP)
The WSPP technical documentation set provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to
industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented in Microsoft Windows Server work group server software and that are used to
deliver file & print and user & group administration services to Windows work group networks. The documentation set includes a set of companion
overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships
and interactions, and technical reference information, such as common data types and error codes.
The scope of communications
covered by this technical documentation set includes all protocols implemented and used in Windows Work Group Server Operating Systems (namely Windows
NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, and Windows Server 2008) to provide file & print and user &
group administration services to Windows client operating systems (namely Windows 98 and successors up to and including Windows Vista) and other
Windows Work Group Server Operating Systems.
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21.02.2008Windows 7 build 6956 vs. Windows XP SP3
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Several of you have asked me to add data for Windows XP to my
Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista benchmark post. Well, you asked for it!
Rather
than build this into a large post, I’ll just post the data here. For any background check out the
original post...
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12.12.2008Vista graphics drivers to be
more stable than XP drivers,
ATI says
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Graphics drivers developed for
Vista, Microsoft's next
generation operating system,
will be far more stable than
their Windows XP-based
counterparts, and not crash
the operating system anymore,
an executive of graphics chip
developer ATI told Tom's
Hardware
Guide.
Ben
Bar-Haim, vice president of
ATI's software division, told
us consumers will be able to
identify graphics cards
supporting Vista by way of a
"Vista ready" logo, which
will likely appear in multiple
flavors indicating different
feature levels. The release of
Microsoft's new operating
system may still be at least
one year out, but hardware
manufacturers, including ATI,
are already gearing up for yet
another certification and logo
round: "Vista ready" will be
the catch-phrase promoting
hardware products as a safe
investment.
ATI's
new Xpress 200 integrated
graphics processor (IGP) has
already claimed dibs on the
phrase. Its specifications
appear to meet Microsoft's
current minimum graphics
requirements, which include
support for DirectX 9 and at
least 64 Mb of graphics
memory. "Vista ready",
however, does not necessarily
mean that users will be able
to run all 3D effects.
According to Ben Bar-Haim,
vice president in ATI's
software division, there is a
good chance that there will be
at two "Vista ready" logos -
one covering "basic"
requirements and the other one
"full" feature capability.
Bar-Haim said that "two logos
is the concept right now,"
but the final marketing would
still depend on "further OEM
input." ..
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23.09.2005Boxee Box hardware announced for open source Media Center
On the official Boxee blog, founder and CEO Avner Ronen has announced that the company has reached its first official partnership with a consumer
electronics manufacturer. Though he refers to it as a "Boxee Box" in the subject of the post, Ronen declined to release details or specifications,
which he said will be available at an official event to be held on December 7th. Based on open-source technology first designed to bring media center
capabilities to the original Xbox, Boxee is currently available as an open alpha for machines running Windows, Linux, and OSX.
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