Windows 7 Domain Name System
Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2) are due to come, bringing to the table enhancements designed to increase the security of Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructures.
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12.11.2008 Windows 7 system requirements
When Microsoft released the official beta for Windows 7 a while back, it also published a set of system requirements. These were a general overview, and it seems that they have been updated to match the Windows 7 RC recently made available.
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3.5.2009 Windows 7 -- Approach to System Performance
Many folks have commented and written email about the topic of performance of Windows. The dialog has been wide ranging—folks consistently want performance to improve (of course).
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28.8.2008 Build a Windows Vista System Today!
Within the next few weeks, Microsoft will be releasing beta 2 of Windows Vista . The actual ship date of Vista hasn't been announced, but Microsoft's new OS is likely to ship sometime this Fall.
Since Windows Vista (formerly codenamed "Longhorn") was announced, some of the bleeding-edge features have been scaled back. For example, WinFS, a file system built using relational database concepts, won't be included in the final release.
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2.2.2006 Windows Vista System Requirements Released
Microsoft has updated its Get Ready Web site to include the minimum system requirements to run Windows Vista.
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21.12.2006 Secure and Beautify Your Windows Operating System
The following article will provide its readers with the necessary software to enhance and secure their operating system.
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8.6.2008 The Death of the Windows Desktop Operating System
The death of the Windows desktop operating system is not necessarily related to the non-Windows platform Midori developed in Redmond, or with a Rich Internet Application platform hosted in the cloud. entrustIT, a Microsoft Gold partner in the UK offered a glimpse at where the evolution of IT will inherently take the Windows client.
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5.8.2008 Download Windows 7 System Recovery Disc
Most of the users are impressed with Microsoft latest operating system Windows 7 thanks to aggressive marketing by Microsoft.
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14.10.2009 Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs
With Windows 7 released and currently making its way to shelves in time for the holiday season, we've taken this opportunity to upgrade our copy of the official Windows System Recovery Discs for compatibility with Windows 7.
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16.10.2009 Microsoft Previews Windows CE 6 Operating System
Latest embedded software represents 10 years of industry-leading innovations.
In a packed hall of developers and industry partners at Microsoft Corp.?s annual Mobile & Embedded DevCon, the company announced the availability of a beta release of Windows CE 6, the next generation of its industry-leading, real-time software used to build customized operating systems for devices such as Internet Protocol (IP) set-top-boxes, Global Positioning System (GPS)-based devices, and industrial automation and medical devices.
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9.5.2006 Microsoft's Windows System Reqs. 1990-2006
The publication Thursday of Windows Vista's minimum hardware specs is only the last in a long series of requirement postings by Microsoft. To show some perspective, TechWeb compiled the Redmond, Wash. developer's stated reqs for each major Windows release since 1990's Windows 3.0.
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22.5.2006 Vista System Tools Survived into Windows 7 M1
Microsoft already confirmed that Windows 7 will have Windows Vista as its foundation. Like it or not, Windows 7 will be nothing more than an evolution of the current Windows client.
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27.6.2008 New Window Management System for Windows 7 Pre-Beta
The window management system is one piece of the Windows 7 graphical user interface which will evolve starting with the pre-Beta version of the operating system.
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3.10.2008 Windows Home Server system announcements at CES
After Hewlett-Packard announced their new Mediasmart Servers last week, Acer has announced at CES that it is also building a Windows Home Server system - The Acer Aspire EasyStore Home Server - which is powered by energy-efficient Intel Atom 230 CPU and up to 4 SATA hard drives.
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9.1.2009 New exploit blows by fully patched Windows XP system
We saw a new nasty exploit yesterday around 5:00 PM. This is a totally new exploit and is not the same one posted by FrSIRT back on 11/30/05.
We have a number of sites that we have found with this exploit. Different sites download different spyware.
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28.12.2005 How To: Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore
So you just bought a new notebook with Windows Vista and a roomy 120GB hard drive. But after using it for just a couple of days, you notice that you’ve only got about 90GB free.
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24.4.2007 Microsoft Midori, a Candidate for the Operating System to Kill Windows
Although speculations do exist pointing that Microsoft is in the "right direction" as far as the next releases of its proprietary operating system are concerned, the fact of the matter is that Windows 7 and Windows 8 will not diverge from the Windows path in the foreseeable future.
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8.7.2008 Enjoy Online Virtual Windows Operating System in Your Browser
So you have recently moved to Linux/Mac operating system from windows but you are missing Windows interface and want to spend some time on Microsoft windows but don’t have access to windows, if this is scenario for you.
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7.7.2009 System Builders: Microsoft Makes Windows XP Downgrades Tough
Microsoft has made it difficult for new PC buyers and channel partners to use Windows XP downgrade rights, system builders say.
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25.5.2007 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 Move Windows XP Start Button & System Tray on Taskbar
Do you want to impress your friends and colleagues then here is small freeware tool for you.
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30.9.2009 Dead Cheap Windows 7 OEM/System Builder, Pricing Details Revealed
How would you like to buy Windows 7, all major editions, at prices half of those for the retail versions of the operating system? Sounds like a pretty sweet deal? Well, that’s because it is, with the exception of a few small downsides.
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3.9.2009 Could Not Find Valid System Volume Error When Installing Windows Server 2008 R2
When installing Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with or without Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server 2008 or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, and HPC Server 2008 or HPC Server 2008 R2, the Windows Server installation failed with “The computer could not find a valid system volume” error message.
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17.8.2009 Download Hard Drive Powerwash to Remove Unused Clutter Files in Windows System
Previously we mentioned about BitFinder that can scan for duplicated files to conserve your hard disk space, but if you are looking for some freeware that can do more than that, then this tiny utility may fit your need.
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29.9.2009 CosmoSaver: Solar System
Set up a scene of heavenly bodies as seen from any distance, angle, date, and time. Show prominent features of the sun, darken the sky as the sun sets on Earth, watch the Martian polar caps freeze and melt, look at surface detail on Jupiter and its four principal satellites, and enjoy Saturn's rings from that planet's surface.
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System Mechanic v7.1.3
Thanks to matt for inserting the info to our forum. 'System Mechanic' is a tool that checks your computer for errors, security problems, and performance issues. It's designed to keep your system running smoothly. The application is designed for beginners. Its downside is that an advanced user isn't able to customize fully some of the repair jobs it does.
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2.2.2007 Auslogics System Information 1.1.6.155
Auslogics System Information provides comprehensive and easy to understand information about your system configuration.
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7.10.2007 Midori - Next operating system from Microsoft
Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server are not the only operating systems under development at Microsoft.
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30.6.2008 Bill Gates Celebrates Worldwide General Availability of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System
From Times Square in New York City, join Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for a live webcast celebrating the worldwide launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
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28.1.2007 One of the worst operating system experiences ever encountered
VIRTUAL MICROSOFT employee, columnist Gary Krakow, says installing Vista Beta 2, "was one of the worst operating system experiences that I?ve ever encountered."
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26.5.2006Microsoft gets an earful on what users want in future Windows releases
In December 2006, Microsoft
requested feedback from a
select group of invitees
regarding what they would like
to see fixed, changed and/or
added to future Windows
builds. The Windows team got
an earful: Nearly 800 new
feature requests, another
560-plus change requests and
almost 400 defects.
That list has been
winnowed down to about 70 of
the most popular requests and
posted the week of July 9 to
Microsofts Connect beta site.
This isnt the
official Windows Seven or
Windows Eight feature list.
But the list does indicate
some of the features that
testers are the most
interested in seeing make it
into the next Windows release
or two.
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12.07.2007Microsoft alters Laptop Hunter ad due to Apple's requests
Microsoft's Laptop Hunter range of advertisements are quite popular; their goal is to show consumers how much money can be saved if you choose to
purchase a computer packing the Windows operating system over an Apple branded one. Recently though, Apple made some price drops, and it seems it
wasn't just to please consumers... they wanted those advertisements gone. Whilst that hasn't exactly been achieved, Electronista is reporting
that they may have gotten the next best thing. After making said price drops, it was reported that Apple's PR contacted Microsoft's COO Kevin
Turner directly and told him that the advertisements need to be removed.
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25.07.2009MySpace upgrades itself to 'Profile 2.0'
Based around what MySpace's Tom Anderson says are several years worth of user requests, the popular social networking site has rolled out the updated
profile system that has been in beta since earlier this year...
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11.11.2008China's Olympic ticketing system crashes on first day
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games watched unhappily as their online ticketing system for the games crashed shortly after tickets
went on sale to the general public. BOCOGs ticketing site received 8 million page views during the first hour of ticket sales on October 30, with an
average of 200,000 ticket requests hitting the system every minute. In addition, more than 3.8 million telephone calls flooded the sales hotline as
fans tried to book tickets for the games. " Because of the overwhelming volume of page visits, the technical system was unable to perform the
tasks well enough, and many applicants were unable to successfully submit their applications ," said BOCOG.
After two hours of
operating, only 9,000 tickets had been sold and eventually the ticketing system was taken offline for several hours in the afternoon. After IT staff
reconfigured the system, it was brought back online at 5 p.m, only to be finally taken offline at 6 p.m., by which a total of 43,000 tickets had been
sold (90% of which had been sold online). At a press conference Wednesday, BOCOG officials said the ticketing system had been designed to handle a
mere 1 million visits per hour and 150,000 ticket requests per minute. The ticketing system simply could not cope, they said, promising to announce a
revamped ticketing plan November 5.
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03.11.2007Microsoft will allow Windows 7 downgrade to XP
After many requests and company IT departments pushing Microsoft to make Windows 7 available to downgrade not only to Windows Vista, but to Windows
XP, Microsoft has finally officially stated that the downgrade will be available if company's or users require a downgrade. The downgrade will
not only allow consumers to downgrade to Microsoft most recent predecessor, Vista, but will allow users to downgrade to Windows XP, and technically
allow users to go back to Windows 2000 or even Windows 95.
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07.04.2009Microsoft To Extend Windows XP Deadline For OEMs
Long live XP!
Microsoft will announce later today that it will give OEMs six additional months to sell PCs with Windows XP
installed, CRN has learned.
Microsoft is extending the deadline for sales of new direct OEM PCs with Windows XP installed from
January 31, 2008 to June 30, 2008, according to sources close to the company.
"The named accounts, the ones that have volume,
have complained about the end of life for XP, and that's because adoption of Windows Vista has been slow," said one Microsoft partner who requested
anonymity. "This is a pretty important development for larger partners, and it's also somewhat surprising because it shows that they've been
listening to us."
The move comes as little surprise to VARs and system builders who have been ripping Windows Vista off the
desktops and notebooks they sell and replacing it with Windows XP ever since the next generation operating system debuted in January.
"We don't really do anything with Vista right now, the requests are few and far between," said Douglas Lee, CFO and director of business
development at BostonTech Partners, a Canton, Mass., solution provider.
Microsoft, for its part, claims demand is strong for
Vista and its momentum is unprecedented. However, the fact that Microsoft has been working on a third service pack for Windows XP, currently slated
for release in the first half of 2008, is a reflection of the still-strong demand for the OS, according to system builders.
"The
problem is that XP is too good of a product," said one Microsoft system builder partner who requested anonymity. "XP has become so embedded in
peoples' environments, it's extremely difficult to get them to switch to Vista."
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28.09.2007Swedish ISPs ignoring requests to block The Pirate Bay
After the recent Pirate Bay lawsuit and sentence, there has been a lot of noise made about the questionable attitude of the website, regarding
complying with their fines. It seems Swedish internet service providers aren't too keen either; according to ZeroPaid, they're refusing to
block the website because, "the ruling applies to those charged and convicted, not to them." Patrik Hiselius, a lawyer for the ISP Telia Sonera,
has said, ""In part, this is not a legally binding decision, but above all, this is a judgment against Pirate Bay and nothing that effects any
service provider.
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23.04.2009Windows DNS bug fix can impair firewalls, including ZoneAlarm
BetaNews has confirmed through its own testing this morning that a critical patch, released yesterday by Microsoft as part of a worldwide DNS bug fix
effort, can and does impact the functionality of software firewalls.
Multiple reports from users since yesterday afternoon have
complained of systems incapable of contacting the Internet after having implemented patch KB951748. This patch makes a major change to the way the
operating system handles DNS requests. Specifically, it implements a system that enables source port randomization -- a way to scramble the
address from which a request is placed -- as a security measure to thwart malicious users from being able to craft false DNS responses, and thus
"poison" the caches of DNS servers.
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09.07.2008Pricing, Ship Date Set For Mac
Mini Clone
AOpen has announced
prices and a ship date for its
"Pandora" box, the
Intel-based clone of the Apple
Mac
mini.
The
Pandora will be sold as a
complete system, according to
a note from the OEM that was
sent to reporters this week.
The Pandora will sell for an
estimated price of $499 for a
Windows-based configuration,
and $399 for one configured
around Linux. Systems will be
available by Christmas, the
company said.
AOpen
representatives did not
respond to emailed requests
for
comment.
Originally
displayed at the Computex show
this past May in Taiwan, the
AOpen Pandora will be slightly
smaller than the mini,
according to the company. ..
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30.09.2005Microsoft demos robotic receptionist
Microsoft's receptionist of the future is a robot.
Chief Research and Strategy officer Craig Mundie on Thursday demonstrated a
software based robot that uses a combination of visual and voice recognition as well as speech synthesis to handle basic tasks. Microsoft itself plans
to use the software robot to handle shuttle requests in its own buildings, which typically have a pair of receptionists to handle visitors and shuttle
requests.
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25.07.2008Windows 7: Windows Backup Overview
Windows Backup Windows Backup allows you to make copies of data files and also create a system image which includes your system settings, programs
and files. In Windows 7, you can choose your custom location for the data backup and whether or not to include the system image during backup.
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18.01.2009HP Threatens to Drop Blu-ray
Backing
The Blu-ray Disc Association
on Wednesday rebuffed requests
by member Hewlett-Packard to
include iHD in the
next-generation DVD format,
which would provide new
interactive features. iHD is
already slated to be part of
both rival standard HD DVD and
Windows Vista...
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17.11.200525% of Microsoft virtualized [on Hyper-V] in production
David Lef (Microsoft IT Technology Architect): Microsoft IT has indeed been deploying production workloads on Hyper-V for several months now. We are
currently about approaching 25% virtualized overall, up from the 7% figure discussed previously. (A big effort is underway to push as many new server
requests into VMs as possible.) Part of this effort it redirecting many new server requests into Hyper-V VMs, where a few short months ago we would
have been required to deploy them to dedicated physical machines. (Multi-processor, 64-bit, or other basic requirements that could not be satisfied by
Virtual Server 2005 VMs.)
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18.06.2008When to expect Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Crissy House: We have received many requests from our customers and partners on when they will be able to get their hands on RTM code of Windows
Server 2008 R2. As the Windows Server Operations Manager, I wanted to provide a broad timeline on when different groups of customers and partners will
get the final RTM code...
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23.07.2009Microsoft confirms final Windows 7 system requirements
When Microsoft released the official beta for Windows 7 a while back, it also published a set of system requirements. These were a general overview,
and it seems that they have been updated to match the Windows 7 RC recently made available.
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03.05.2009IBM's 4.7GHz Power6 spotted at Oracle
The Register has
spotted four 4.7GHz – yep,
you read that right – Power6
chips cranking on Oracle 11i.
The speedy chips confirm
IBM's boasting that Power6
would arrive near 5GHz. They
also show that IBM's
customers have a lot to look
forward to in terms of raw
performance.
With 4.7GHz chips (4MB of
L2 and 32MB of L3 cache), an
IBM p570 server showed an
average response time of .625
seconds when handling requests
from 2,100 users. That
compares to a p570 with 2.2GHz
Power5+ chips that handled
.983 requests per second for
2,000 users.
You can
catch all the benchmarks
http://www.oracle.com/apps_ben
chmark/html/results.html>here
until Oracle notices this
story. We've also taken the
liberty of copying a PDF
report on the results for you
http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/05/
20/ibmpower6.pdf>here...
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20.05.2007Windows 7 Upgrade Program shifts to June 28
TechARP has updated the Windows 7 Upgrade Program schedule with some slight changes. According to the new schedule Windows update program will begin
on June 28, 2009 instead of July 1, 2009 which Neowin sighted earlier, and users who purchase PCs preinstalled with Vista between the dates June 28,
2009 - January 31, 2010 are eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade. Microsoft will allow only 5 upgrade requests from eligible end users (consumers or
small businesses) to upgrade to Windows 7. This means that a user with 12 upgrade coupons will have to visit the fulfillment website at least 3 times
to order all 12 upgrades.
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23.02.2009EA and Take-Two merger still incomplete
Despite earlier complaints from EA that the FTC was being "unnecessarily broad" in its requests for more information, yesterday it announced
it had complied...
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09.07.2008Microsoft cites human error in anti-piracy malfunction
Last week's malfunction of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism was caused when new software code was accidentally put on the
servers running the system, before those servers had been made ready for the code, according to
a post last night by Alex Kochis, WGA senior product
manager. Kochis writes:
"Nothing more than human error started it all. Pre-production code was sent to production servers. The production servers
had not yet been upgraded with a recent change to enable stronger encryption/decryption of product keys during the activation and validation
processes. The result of this is that the production servers declined activation and validation requests that should have passed."
Kochis
explains in the post that the problem made some computers fail the anti-piracy validation and activation processes, causing them to lose advanced
Windows features and get a "This copy of Windows is not genuine" message, until the WGA system was fixed and people were able to properly activate
and validate their computers.
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29.08.2007Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
Microsoft will not allow
Windows Vista or Windows XP to
be virtualized on top of
Linux, Sam Ramji, the director
of Microsoft's open-source
software lab, said at the
annual LinuxWorld Conference
and Expo here Aug. 7.
"What we have
heard predominantly from
customers is that they want to
be able to mix and match their
data center applications, but
we haven't seen significant
demand for Linux applications
on the desktop or for desktop
virtualization on top of
Linux," Ramji said in an
address titled "Linux and
Windows Interoperability: On
the Metal and on the
Wire."
But, he said that while he
does hear a lot of requests
for this from developers in
the Linux community, the
feedback Microsoft is getting
from customers and its
Interoperability Executive
Customer Council with regard
to the desktop is that they
want .Net and Java
interoperability...
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