XP to Windows 7 Migration
As far as the great majority of users are concerned, Windows Vista was the greatest flop in Microsoft history and few points of view dare to contradict this.
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29.9.2009 XP to Windows 7 Upgrade Scenario - Hardlink Migration
With Window 7, Microsoft provides a direct upgrade path only from Windows Vista, not allowing a similar scenario when it comes down to Windows XP.
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18.4.2009 XP to Windows 7 Upgrade Scenario - Hardlink Migration
With Window 7, Microsoft provides a direct upgrade path only from Windows Vista, not allowing a similar scenario when it comes down to Windows XP.
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19.4.2009 ADMT v3 Migration Guide
This guide explains how to use the Active Directory Migration Tool version 3 (ADMT v3) to restructure your operating environment.
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24.10.2006 You are got Windows 7 questions, I have got answers
It’s impossible to offer a comprehensive evaluation of a product as big and sprawling as Windows 7 with just screenshots and specs.
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30.10.2008 Microsoft Makes Vista Migration Tools Available
Microsoft offers six free tools for corporate users to assess, plan, test, and deploy Windows Vista.
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24.2.2007 Vista SP1 fails to spark migration
Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from users.
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29.3.2008 Answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions
Every day for the past few months, I have received at least one question from readers wanting to know how the Windows 7 upgrade process will work.
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26.10.2009 Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help.
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17.11.2009 Microsoft Streamlines the Migration from XP SP3 to Vista SP1
Following the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft seems keen of throwing its entire weight behind its latest Windows client.
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9.7.2008 Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers)
A conversation has cropped up since the recent publication of a paper scrutinizing how Windows handles digital rights management, especially for HD video. I've since looped back with Dave Marsh, a Lead Program Manager responsible for Windows' handling of video, to learn from him the implications involved and to learn to what extent the paper's assertions are accurate.
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23.1.2007 MSN Answers a Million More Questions
The MSN Search group announced on its team blog last week that it has added "about a million" new Instant Answers (also known as "direct answers") to its service. The MSN folks are expanding MSN Instant Answer responses into new area, ranging from sports to weather to government officials.
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23.1.2006 7 Questions Microsoft Must Answer Tomorrow
It's the eve of the software giant's annual Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting, and there are a few things we—and Microsoft's customers and partners should—want to know. Thanks to pacpis for the news.
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27.7.2007 Put your questions to Bill Gate
Bill Gates is to answer your questions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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3.1.2008 Got Vista x64 questions? I've got answers
I got a lot of great questions and comments via e-mail and in the Talkback section of my previous post on the sudden surge in adoption rates for Windows Vista x64. In this follow-up, I summarize the answers I’ve found for each question.
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5.8.2008 Gates responds to questions about his stock sales
The recent jump in Microsoft's stock price was on the minds of shareholders during the company's annual meeting in Seattle this morning, but not necessarily with a sense of satisfaction. During the question-and-answer period, a couple of shareholders asked and commented about recent stock sales by Bill Gates and some other executives following the share increase.
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13.11.2007 Microsoft's Bing: 10 burning questions
Microsoft rolled out Bing sort of—it won’t be fully deployed until June 3—but questions already abound.
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29.5.2009 More information on the Open XML translator and some questions answered
There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open source project to transform between the Ecma Office Open XML formats and the OASIS OpenDocument format.
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12.7.2006 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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16.1.2009Dell's new approach to the Vista migration problem
According to at least one Dell official, despite recent debacles with SP1, the customer migration to Windows Vista continues undaunted. A new Dell
Client Migration Solution, unveiled this week, includes services and tools designed to ease the migration burden...
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29.03.2008Windows 7 Migration from Windows XP
Jeff Alexander: Windows 7 has some great tools for migration from previous operating systems. Some that come to mind are Deployment Imaging and
Service Management (DISM), mounting VHDs natively in the operating system and User State Migration. But one of the best features in my opinion and
many of my mates in the community is the ability to boot natively to a VHD. This gives you flexibility in your migration scenarios and is one way you
can preserve your settings from the previous OS installation.
Dugie who is
based in Brisbane has done a
great
article on how to go from having Windows XP installed to having Windows 7 installed in the primary partition with Windows XP encapsulated into a
VHD. This can then be mounted in the OS and used later if needed in something like Virtual PC...
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23.03.2009Microsoft postpones live VM migration for Hyper-V two more years
At a virtualization product launch today, Microsoft give a long-delayed demo of Hyper-V live migration, but then went on to slate the feature's
eventual release for the next edition of Windows Server -- which isn't due until 2010...
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09.09.2008@live address questions answered
Jacky Mok, another Product
Manager for Windows Live in
Toronto,
has posted
some information on the
upcoming @live addresses,
which he says will be
available "in the fall",
along with "a rich family of
products" around the same
time.
According to
the blog entry on
livechronicles.spaces.live.com
, there will be no migration
of address names from current
hotmail addresses, so if you
have liveside@hotmail.com,
there's no guarantee you will
get liveside@live.ca. It's
on a first come, first served
basis. Apparently country
code addresses will only be
available in countries outside
the US (I'm assuming a bit
here, as Jacky talks only
about .ca, Canadian
addresses), so that a Canadian
will be able to get an
@live.ca address, but not an
@live.com one.
Some
limited migration will be
available, for contacts. Other
information will stay with
your current accounts:
"such as: Windows
Live Spaces contents (photos,
blogs, etc), your emails,
subscription status (hotmail
plus or premium), association
with other products
(Favourites, OneCare,
etc)."
New
@hotmail.com addresses will
still be available, as they
are now.
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24.06.2007Windows Server 2008: IT Migration, Deployment and Best Practices
The latest release of Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 has many IT managers discovering new virtualization capabilities, Web resources, and security
and management enhancements. This month, Kevin McCully (WebFeat) and Loïc Calvez (Lafarge North America) join our hosts Ruth Morton and Rick Claus to
discuss the IT benefits of Windows Server 2008, keys to a successful deployment, and migration best practices.
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03.09.2008The Long Haul: One Company's Migration to Vista
No one likes to move. Whether its to a new home or a new operating system, a move is fraught with tedious chores and the prospect of facing unknown
territory.
For many in corporate IT right now, the move thats looming is the migration to Microsofts Vista operating system. Some
are wondering whether the benefits of such a move will outweigh the difficulty. Fortunately, paying attention to your deployment plan can head off
confusion, aggravation and unnecessary headaches.
And while coming up with a deployment plan for a full-on operating system
migration isnt a lightweight project, its not as difficult as you might be thinking.
Unisys is in the middle of a 30,000-seat
migration to Vista, Office 2007 and Systems Management Server. In the past 15 months, weve learned some lessons that may make your migration easier.
Depending on your stage of migration, you may find any or all of these lessons helpful. These lessons fall into seven areas...
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30.01.2008Using forums to answer
questions about Windows XP
Columnist Joli Ballew explains
how to successfully search for
solutions and post questions
in non-Microsoft discussion
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04.01.2006IBM denies internal plans of 'mass migration to Macs'
An IBM spokesperson today denied published reports of what he termed "mass migration" to Apple Macs at his company, claiming the only point of
the test is to try to make IBM software products run well on Mac OS...
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18.04.2008PDC 2008: Mike Nash answers your questions about Windows 7
Yesterday we asked you to tell us what you wanted to know about Windows 7. We posed many of these questions to Mike Nash, corporate vice president of
Windows Product Management. Read on for the answers...
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30.10.2008Mike Nash answers your questions about Windows 7
Yesterday we asked you to tell us what you wanted to know about Windows 7. We posed many of these questions to Mike Nash, corporate vice president of
Windows Product Management. Read on for the answers...
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30.10.2008SQL Server Migration Assistant
(SSMA) for Oracle V2.0
Released
Once upon a time,
migrating from an Oracle
database to SQL Server was a
challenge for even the most
seasoned database
administrator. Now, the SSMA
offers a complete suite of
tools to help you automate all
phases of the migration
process. SSMA enables you to
migrate from Oracle to
Microsoft SQL Server quickly,
easily and
accurately.
As you probably know,
Microsoft recently launched a
tool called SQL Server
Migration Assistant (SSMA). It
allows an easy migration of
Oracle databases to SQL
Server, focusing on
automatically converting
PL/SQL to T-SQL. Hundreds of
companies around the world
have been successfully using
SSMA to get off Oracle. Among
those you'll find Motorola,
Sony Ericsson, Dow,
Simon&Schuster, Atento, Sonata
Software, and many others.
SSMA typically automates 80%
of the code conversion, which
greatly reduces the time and
the cost of the migration. And
what's really important -
SSMA is a free
download!
Using
SSMA, the time, cost, and risk
associated with migrating to
SQL Server are greatly
reduced, which increases the
likelihood of a successful
project. This enables your
team to take advantage of SQL
Server's superior developer
productivity, scalability, and
security, as well as the
industry's lowest total cost
of ownership (TCO)...
winbeta.org - 11.11.2005
Frequently asked questions
about Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition
Columnist Charlie Russel
answers questions about
Windows XP Professional x64
Edition that have appeared
frequently in the new (and
very active) Microsoft Windows
64-bit Newsgroup...
WindowsXP/expertzone - 04.01.2006
MS Plans Windows Live Answer
Service
Microsoft confirmed Friday
that it plans to debut a new
Windows Live service in the
coming months that would allow
users to ask questions and
receive responses from fellow
users. Additionally, the
answers to these questions
would be searchable...
betanews.com - 09.05.2006
Windows 7 E Best Practices for ISVs
Yochay Kiriaty: In a prev
ious post, we explained how Microsoft is working to fulfill our legal obligations in Europe for Windows 7. In the meantime, we received some
questions about what the E editions of Windows 7 will mean for ISVs and developers.
I took the most common questions and posed
them to Arik Cohen, a Program Manager who is working on the E editions of Windows 7. If you have other questions about how this could affect your
applications, please add your comments to the post to let us know and well work to get your questions answered...
winbeta.org - 13.07.2009
Answering Some Common Windows
XP Home Networking Questions
Columnist Charlie Russel
tackles three common questions
about home networking that
frequently arise when he's
helping Windows XP users in
the online community with
their home networks...
WindowsXP/expertzone - 04.01.2006
Mainframe Migration Alliance Passes 100-Member Milestone
As organizations migrate from
mainframes, Windows solution
ecosystem flourishes...
microsoft.com/presspass - 29.05.2007
Microsoft Partners Embracing Server Virtualization
Microsoft partners are eagerly
anticipating the new features
of Windows Server 2008, which
include network access
protection, terminal services,
Bitlocker, and beefed up
Active Directory services.
But for many
partners, the virtualization
features of the next Windows
Server are the biggest game
changer.
"Virtualization is the
next big thing and it's what
makes utility computing
possible. In addition to
allowing you to deliver backup
and disaster recovery
solutions, it also lends
itself to hardware
portability," said David
Sobel, CEO of Evolve
Technologies, a Fairfax,
Va.-based solution provider.
What Windows Server
2008 won't have, at least not
initially, is live migration.
Live migration, part of the
VMware and Xen-based
virtualization platforms,
enables users to quickly and
easily migrate virtual
machines from one system to
another system. ..
winbeta.org - 19.07.2007
BetaNews CES 2009 'Better Questions' contest
Before CES 2008, BetaNews debuted our "Better Questions" contest, where we asked you, the reader, what questions you wanted answered from the
CES floor. This year, we're asking you again...
betanews.com - 01.01.2009
Study: Linux and Windows Costs
Equal
This morning, Microsoft touted
a study it commissioned from
independent analyst Mercer
Management Consulting, which
made the case that companies
that implement migration
programs away from UNIX
systems now tend to choose
Windows over Linux...
betanews.com - 26.09.2006
What Windows platforms will Windows Installer 4.5 ship in?
Our friends at InstallShield had some questions about schedule and platforms. One of those questions was:
Question:
What Windows platforms will Windows Installer ship in?
Answer:
Windows Installer 4.5 will initially ship as a
Windows redistributable component via download center. At RTM, redistributable packages will support installing to Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows
Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Windows Vista RTM and SP1, and Windows Server 2008. These redistributable packages will support the three CPU architectures
Windows to which these platforms ship: x86, x64, and ia64. These choices for platform support are consistent with the Windows Service Pack road map...
winbeta.org - 01.09.2007
