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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6.2.2008 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. Its 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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13.2.2009Google Launches Co-op
Google Co-op is a platform
that enables you to customize
the web search for users of
both Google and your own
websites.
Co-op
allows users to integrate
information or services into
their Google search results
with Subscribed Links.
The search engine can
be set up to search the entire
web but emphasise the chosen
sites, or search only the
specified pages.
The custom application can
also be used to create a
search engine that just
focuses on a person's own
site.
Users can
also specify whether or not
the tool uses the Google
AdSense program to generate
advertisements from search
terms.
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24.10.2006Blinkx Builds Video Co-Op
Amateur filmmaters are invited
to contribute shorts to
searchable multimedia library...
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04.10.2005Google: Viacom Abusing Copyright Act
Google struck back at Viacom
through the media on Thursday,
responding to a March 24 op-ed
by Viacom's general counsel
Michael Fricklas in the
Washington Post with a
letter of its own from
Google's counsel for the
case...
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31.03.2007Dr. Hardware 2007 - Build 8.0.0e
This program is made for
beginners and professional
users, for your desktop and
notebook PC. Dr. Hardware
covers the whole machine and
includes not only the common
stuff (like processor
detection etc.) but also some
more sophisticated tests like
hardware sensor,
ATA/S-ATA/Atapi and network
analysis. Also it comes with 7
benchmark tests and provides
full support for all 32 and 64
Bit Windows desktop versions:
Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000,
2003, XP and Vista.
Features
* Detailed
analysis of core hardware and
connected devices of personal
computers
* Detects
processor, BIOS, cache, bus
system
* Detailed
information for many current
mainboard chipsets
* Examines
harddisk, CD ROM, modem, VGA
adapter
* Lists
your (E-)IDE, ATAPI and SCSI
devices and more...
Read full story.....
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26.12.2006Linux Foundation: We Have Our Own Patent 'Arsenal'
In an op-ed piece published by
BusinessWeek today,
Linux Foundation Executive
Director Jim Zemlin stated his
organization will be ready to
fund the legal efforts of
anyone who produces Linux
software who's threatened
with - or sued on account of -
patent infringement. If
necessary, Zemlin writes, the
foundation will use its own
patent portfolio to mount
countersuits...
betanews.com -
26.05.2007Crossfire (the game) announced
Pivotal Games through
Eidos announced at X06 a new
Two-player Co-op First Person
Shooter for the Xbox, Xbox 360
and for Windows. Not much else
is known, other than this
small
quip:
When the government wants
to leave no trace, these are
the men they call on to finish
the job.
Eidos will
pin you down in hostile
territory with Crossfire - the
immersive new game where you
become a member of an elite
team of two deniable agents
hired by the government to
finish the job and disappear
before they are ever
identified. This innovative
new two-player co-op FPS
allows you to seamlessly
switch between the two members
of the team - taking out
targets and destroying
everything in their path in
fully destructible
environments. Become one with
our two covert field
operatives - experts in
weapons and military tactics -
and lay down cover fire,
explore different paths,
create distractions, or pin
down the enemy in a deadly
crossfire.
Offering
the ultimate in next-gen
gaming experiences, Crossfire
hits shelves in North America
in
2007.
neowin.net - 29.09.2006
Windows Defender Beta 2
Update!
Microsoft will make
Windows Defender Beta
2 available for
Windows 2000, XP, 2003, R2,
Vista and LH server. Beta 2
will be released in
February /
March . 64 bit
versions will be included in
Vista / LH Server x64 editions
and for XP and 2003 x64
editions.
Windows Defender will be
configurable via Group
Policies, and defender updates
will appear on WSUS. Defender
updates will be released as
needed, from few times a day
to minimum once a week through
(automatic) Windows Update
infrastructure.
Beta 2 will have significant
changes according to the chat
transcript held by the Windows
Defender team.
jcxp.net - 26.01.2006
JkDefrag 3.4
Free (released under the GNU
General Public License) disk
defragment and optimize
utility for Windows
2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64.
Completely automatic and very
easy to use, fast, low
overhead, with two
optimization strategies, and
can handle floppies and USB
disks/sticks. Included are a
Windows version, a commandline
version (for scheduling by the
task scheduler or for use from
administrator scripts), a
screensaver version, a DLL
library (for use from
programming languages), and
versions for Windows X64.
JkDefrag is based on the
standard defragmentation API
by Microsoft, a system library
that is included in Windows
2000, 2003, XP, and Vista. All
defragmenters are based on
this API, including commercial
defragmenters. JkDefrag is
therefore very solid and there
is no risk of losing data. You
can stop the program at any
time, it will finish the
current file in the
background. If your disks use
NTFS then you're even safe
when the computer crashes in
the middle of defragging.
Nevertheless, it's still a
good idea to backup before
defragmenting, just like with
other defragmenters, because
the heavy use of the harddisk
may trigger a hardware
fault.
neowin.net - 26.12.2006
Microsoft: The Advantages of using illegal software
Microsoft has committed large
resources into educating
people on the illegal use of
software and how it harms the
industry since the launch of
Windows 95. But a member over
at Bink.nu
has spotted an error with the
latest update for the Windows
Genuine Advantage Tool on
Dutch versions of Windows XP,
it comes with a significant
typo that could be
taken the wrong way.
As the pic
shows for our Dutch
readers it says "Laat mij
enkele voordelen zien van het
gebruik van illegal software
als ik op voltooien klik"
which when translated to
English reads "Shows me some
advantages of using
illegal software when I
click Finish" The link points
to the Windows
Genuine Advantage site
which does anything but
endorse the use of illegal
software, doh!
Someone's having a laugh!
Granted typos happen but one
as significant as this will
probably prompt an
immediate/within a day or two
update from Microsoft to
rectify the error.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 22.02.2007
Red Hat to offer whitebox Linux desktops globally
The world's largest Linux
vendor Red Hat will release a
pre-installed desktop version
of Linux globally in
September. The new Red Hat
desktop targeting primarily
small business users will be
available on cheap whitebox
Intel PCs and, according to
Red Hat, will not try to be a
Windows clone.
The new Linux desktop
platform, called Red Hat
Global Desktop, has been
announced on Red Hat's
site and promises that the
desktop will have wide global
distribution through Intel's
channel of white box system
builders.
The Red Hat strategy
contrasts markedly with
Dell's push to offer Ubuntu
Linux to consumers on some of
its desktop and notebook
models in a limited release to
the US market. Red Hat is not
targeting consumers but small
business users and local
government agencies who want
to keep the cost of hardware
and software to a minimum...
winbeta.org - 06.08.2007
Growing pains for Wikipedia
For Wikipedia founder
Jimmy Wales, last week was a
tough one. And he's going to
change the ground rules for
the popular
anyone-can-contribute
encyclopedia because of
it.
First,
in a Nov. 29 op-ed piece in
USA Today, a former
administrative assistant to
Robert Kennedy lambasted the
free online reference work for
an article that suggested he
may have been involved in the
assassinations of both Robert
F. Kennedy and John F.
Kennedy.
Then, on
Dec. 1, a new flurry of
attention came when former MTV
VJ and podcasting pioneer Adam
Curry was accused of
anonymously editing out
references to other people's
seminal podcasting work in an
article about the hot new
digital medium.
To
critics of Wikipedia--which,
in a spin on the open-source
model, lets anyone create and
edit entries--the news was
further proof that the service
has no accountability and no
place in the world of serious
information gathering. ..
winbeta.org - 05.12.2005
AMD puts out Phenom teaser
If you go to the
http://www.amd.com/us-en/>AMD
web site and get the flash
splash page that says "AMD
Phenom True Multi-core
processors," you will see a
link that says learn more.
Clicking it brings you to
http://multicore.amd.com/us-en
/AMD-Multi-Core/Products/Deskt
op-PC.aspx>a page where you
see this:
winbeta.org - 08.06.2007
Making a List for Santa Patented by Microsoft
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. But making a list for him now constitutes patent infringement.
USPTO officials were busy over the holidays wrapping up the paperwork to grant Microsoft its wish for a patent on the Wish List, which was issued to the
software giant on New Year's Day.
winbeta.org - 02.01.2008
In search of the Wikipedia
prankster
Following my previous posted
info on the Wikipedia
prank...
[b]On
Sunday, the New York Times
published a story naming the
author of a controversial and
false Wikipedia article about
the longtime journalist John
Seigenthaler
Sr.[/b]
In the
Wikipedia article, the
then-anonymous author wrote
that Seigenthaler, once an
assistant to Robert Kennedy,
may have been involved in his
assassination, as well as that
of his brother, President John
F. Kennedy.
The
article stayed on
Wikipedia--the free,
open-access encyclopedia--for
four months before
Seigenthaler finally got the
service's founder, Jimmy
Wales, to agree to take it
down. Shortly afterward,
Seigenthaler published a
scathing Op-Ed piece in USA
Today, attacking Wikipedia's
accountability and
credibility.
[img]images/news/i
cons/source.gif[/img] [b]News
source[/b]:
http://news.com.com/In+search+
of+the+Wikipedia+prankster/200
8-1029_3-5995977.html]News.com..
winbeta.org - 15.12.2005
Microsoft: All operating systems should use Vista's UAC
Microsoft Australia has
defended the company's User
Account Control (UAC) system
as being "misunderstood" and
said it should be the type of
technology that all operating
systems aspire towards.
"There has been a lot
of misunderstanding in the
market around User Account
Control (UAC). If you look at
it from an architectural
direction User Account Control
is a great idea and
strategically a direction that
all operating systems and all
technologies should be heading
down," Peter Watson,
Microsoft Australia's chief
security advisor said.
UAC is a security
feature introduced with
Microsoft's Windows Vista
operating system. The aim is
to provide increased security
when using Windows as a
standard user by informing
them when possible security
breaches could be undertaken.
The technology has been a
source of irritation for Vista
users, with Apple going as far
as to make fun of UAC in a
recent commercial.
As Vista and the latest
edition of Office were
developed with Microsoft's
Secure Development Lifecycle
(SDL), "the number of
exploits has been extremely
low", he added.
neowin.net - 29.04.2007
Is There Room for a Security Browser?
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign build a new browser from scratch to help keep hackers at bay.
Convinced that all modern Web browsers suffer from "fundamental design flaws" that expose users to nonstop hacker attacks, researchers
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are building a new browser from scratch, with security as the killer feature.
The project, code-named OP (for Opus Palladianum) as a tribute to the Mosaic browser, is the brainchild of Samuel King, an assistant professor in
the computer science department at UIUC and a renowned security expert, who pioneered research around virtual machine rootkits while an intern at
Microsoft.
winbeta.org - 27.03.2008
MS Publishes Paper For a Modern, Secure Browser
Microsoft Research: As web sites evolved into dynamic web applications composing content from various web sites, browsers have become multi-principal
operating environments with resources shared among mutually distrusting web site principals. Nevertheless, no existing browsers, including
new architectures like IE 8, Google Chrome, and OP, have a multi-principal operating system construction that gives a browser-based OS the exclusive
control to manage the protection of all system resources among web site principals. In this paper, we introduce Gazelle, a secure web browser constructed as a multi-principal OS. Gazelle's
Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals.
winbeta.org - 22.02.2009
Intel Countersues Transmeta
Thanks to Hurmoth for
posting this in BPN.
Here we go again.
Intel is countersuing
Transmeta, alleging that the
chip designer infringes on
seven of its patents. Intel's
retaliation comes three months
after Transmeta took Intel to
court for allegedly violating
11 of its patents. The case is
regarding energy efficiency
when chips aren't in use:
Intel has problems with
Transmeta's Crusoe, Efficeon
and Efficeon 2 brands while
Transmeta is troubled with
Intel's Core 2 Duo, as well
as processors dating as far
back the P6 line. Transmeta is
one of the first companies to
investigate energy-efficient
chips; some of its patents
date back to 1991. With the
amount of suing and
countersuing going on these
days, one wonders whether
innovation is even possible
without hiring a lawyer.
neowin.net - 12.01.2007
Are all Linux distributions created equally?
Brian Proffitt notes something on
Linux Today that won't please many in Raleigh or Redmond, but which is arguably true: Linux is Linux is Linux. There really isn't much
inherent in a base Linux distribution to distinguish it from its neighbors.
I think the distributions are becoming so similar in
their construction, and the differences between them so subtle, the whole notion of distribution superiority is completely moot.
Ian
Murdock, founder of Debian, has been saying this for years. Lately Microsoft and Novell have tried to suggest that SUSE Linux is very different from Red Hat (in terms of
interoperability with Microsoft) while Oracle has been saying the exact inverse for its Unbreakable Linux (100% compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
winbeta.org - 02.12.2007
Microsoft to Submit Shared Source Licenses to OSI
In his keynote at OSCON,
Microsoft General Manager of
Platform Strategy Bill Hilf
announced that Microsoft is
submitting its shared source
licenses to the Open Source
Initiative. This is a huge,
long-awaited move.
It will be earthshaking
for both Microsoft and for the
open source community if the
licenses are in fact certified
as open source licenses.
Microsoft has been releasing a
lot of software as shared
source (nearly 650 projects,
according to Bill). If this is
suddenly certified as true
open source software, it will
be a lot harder to draw a
bright line between Microsoft
and the open source
community.
Bill also announced that
Microsoft has created a new
top level link at
microsoft.com, microsoft.co
m/opensource to bring
together in one place all
Microsoft's open source
efforts. Bill sees this as the
culmination of a long process
of making open source a
legitimate part of
Microsoft's strategy. Open
source has survived
Microsoft's process of
"software darwinism" and is
becoming an ever more
important part of its
thinking.
winbeta.org - 26.07.2007
