Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
Via Microsoft Connect, the company is accepting participation requests in a new Beta program for Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios. The software giant aims to streamline the way in which users interact with the desktop in an enterprise environment.
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27.11.2008 Windows Vista SP1 RTM Optimized Desktop
With the advent of Windows Vista at the end of 2006/the beginning of 2007, Microsoft has started pouring a consistent amount of efforts into enabling optimized desktops.
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30.4.2008 Windows Vista SP1 at the Basis of the Optimized Desktop
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is at the basis of Microsoft's vision for the Optimized Desktop. Of course that the Redmond company is building a comprehensive strategy that involves additional resources and solutions on top of its Windows client.
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4.9.2008 Office 2010 optimized for Windows 7
Since a technical preview version of Office 2010 leaked barely a day ago it seems to have spread to anyone and everyone, despite a limited official technical preview scheduled for July.
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16.5.2009 SanDisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid-state drives
SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid-state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year.
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22.7.2008 The Windows 7 Desktop
Microsoft is laboring to deliver a new level of personalization, choice and control with the Windows 7 desktop, according to Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Steven Sinofsky.
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3.11.2008 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Windows Vista 3D Desktop
Microsoft indicated early that Vista will feature a three-dimensional interface with transparency, moving objects, anti-aliasing and other effects. Thanks to portos for this download.
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10.7.2007 Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista
Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but its easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, its an essential thing to turn on.
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26.1.2007 The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news on Windows Live Mail desktop since 2006, with a minor update being released in February.
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13.3.2007 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 The Windows 7 Desktop and UI Customization and Flexibility
The Windows 7 desktop and graphical user interface are right on track to delivering an evolution compared to Windows Vista, and in this context, provide a high degree of customization and flexibility, superior to what is available with the successor of Windows XP.
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6.10.2008 Windows 7 RTM Desktop Optimization Pack Available
The latest version of the Desktop Optimization Pack offered by Microsoft is tailored to the companys most recent iteration of the Windows operating system.
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21.10.2009 Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Released
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it has released the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta to select beta testers and partners.
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30.3.2006 New Windows Live Mail Desktop Feature Revealed
Using their usual "More Than Mail" blog, the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta team revealed yet another feature of it, along with a screenshot of a recent build.
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3.6.2006 New Build of Windows Live Mail Desktop Released
In this new build youll see some major improvements! Right off the bat,
the most noticeable change will likely be the updates weve made to our User
Interface.
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18.8.2006 Windows Live Mail Desktop Build 1172
The Windows Live Mail Desktop team has just announced yet another refresh of the increasingly popular mail reading application. This is the first refresh in over a month, and brings an outstanding number of improvements.
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17.11.2006 Disable Windows Vista Evaluation Watermark from Desktop
If an user install Windows Vista in trial or demo or evaluation mode, by skipping and not keying in any Windows product registration key when asked during installation of Windows Vista.
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24.11.2006 Windows Vista Desktop Optimization Pack Updated
Microsoft has announced that it wrapped up its Desktop Optimization Pack for Windows Vista and that an updated and complete version of the offering will be made available for download on July 1 2007.
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5.6.2007 How to Pin Show Desktop Option to Windows 7 Taskbar
Windows 7 has got revamped taskbar also known as superbar. Windows 7 taskbar has number of excellent features like Jumplist, Thumbnail preview, Aero peak, etc.
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7.10.2009 Open Beta Invitation for Windows Live Mail Desktop
Weve finally done it! Our little project to bring you the next generation consumer mail application is going massively public. As of today (actually we slipped it out quietly last week or so) we are instituting a hassle-free sign up for the Mail Desktop beta.
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27.7.2006 Windows 7 to let users create a Desktop Slideshow from files, feeds
Curious as to what else was under Microsofts elaborate lock, key, and duct-tape protection scheme mentioned earlier, I had my friend Chris Holmes run a scan of his 7 system, as Im still babying my laptops SSD drive.
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10.11.2008 How to Enable Concurrent Sessions for Remote Desktop in Windows 7 RTM
In past we had posted hack to enable Multiple users access (Concurrent sessions) for Remote desktop on Windows 7 Beta.
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31.8.2009 Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 Wallpapers Desktop Slideshow
The Desktop Slideshow is one of the features that Microsoft has tucked away in Windows 7, hidden even from testers (at this point in time) including the participants at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of the past month.
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5.11.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part V: Desktop Icons
Once again, it's time to enhance your Windows XP operating system exactly the way you want and without paying a cent on expensive programs that do something so simple that even a kid could handle it.
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26.11.2008 Fix Windows 7 Build 7057 Desktop.ini Opening on Every Reboot
Windows 7 Build 7057 x86 is leaked & available for download on popular torrent websites and I suppose many of you have already downloaded & Installed Windows 7 build 7057. If you havent downloaded then check out screenshots of windows 7 build 7057 here.
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16.3.2009 Connect Windows 7 with XP SP3 Vista SP2 via Remote Desktop Connection 7.0
Microsoft is gearing up to release a tool that will permit users of Windows Vista and Windows XP computers to connect to Windows 7 machines, and to take advantage of features that only the latest version of the Windows client brings to the table.
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12.9.2009 Remote Desktop Connection 6.0
Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0, KB925876) provides a way to use any new Terminal Services features introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server Code Name Longhorn.
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29.11.2006 The Desktop -- Time To Say Goodbye?
July 19, 2007 (Computerworld) When Paul Scheib at Boston's Children's Hospital goes shopping for PCs, his choice is more often a desktop than a notebook. Thanks to bdh734 for this article.
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21.7.2007Update: Windows Optimized Desktop for the Enterprise
Chris Flores: We've been talking with a lot of organizations about what they need most from an optimized desktop experience, and we've been making
great progress in delivering against those needs. I w..
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23.05.2008Update: Windows Optimized Desktop for the Enterprise
Chris Flores: We've been talking with a lot of organizations about what they need most from an optimized desktop experience, and we've been making
great progress in delivering against those needs. I want to take this opportunity to share details on the Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios and
highlight some news.
If you've been reading this blog regularly, you will have seen updates on the work we're doing with the
Optimized Desktop. I contributed a
blog on this in January for our Virtualization Strategy Day and a second
blog about the announcements we had made at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas in late April. While there are many facets
to the Optimized Desktop, the framework is based on technologies that enable decoupling the traditional desktop stack of hardware, operating system,
applications, data, settings and user profiles, making desktop management more efficient and easing change and user migration.
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23.05.2008Microsoft Virtualization Day: Helping IT professionals do more with less
Nick White: Today we're making a series of announcements outlining our company-wide strategy for virtualization from the desktop to the
datacenter.
<...> We have a vision that focuses on businesses employing our virtualization toolset to more simply and
cost-effectively manage their IT environments. We're calling that vision Dynamic IT. Dynamic IT is aiming to help IT professionals get more out of
their computing resources across both server and desktop environments. One of the benefits of this initiative is to enable IT managers to dynamically
make changes or add capacity to their deployments in a matter of minutes instead of hours (or even days). In a phrase, Dynamic IT is about
efficiently getting the necessary resources to users and computers at any given moment and with a minimum of hassle and effort. We expect this vision
to result in a whole new era of datacenter and desktop PC management, all hinging on virtualization technologies and Windows.
Central to the vision of Dynamic IT is the concept of the Optimized Desktop. The Optimized Desktop refers to virtualizing a user's applications
and profile together so that they follow that user, regardless of the location of the PC in use at the moment...
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22.01.2008Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS starts loading Windows in under a second
Phoenix is showing off a few interesting things at IDF, but the real standout is their new Instant Boot BIOS, a highly optimized UEFI implementation
that can start loading an OS in just under a second. Combined with Windows 7's optimized startup procedure, that means you're looking at incredibly
short boot times -- we saw a retrofitted Dell Adamo hit the Windows desktop in 20 seconds, while a Lenovo T400s with a fast SSD got there in under 10.
It's pretty slick stuff, and it should be out soon -- check a video after the break...
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25.09.2009TiVo releases Desktop 2.7 for Windows
It's been just under a year since TiVo last updated its Desktop software which allows videos to be shared between a user's TiVO DVR and PC or other
networked devices. Now there's a new version for both Desktop and Desktop Plus users...
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06.02.2009Facebook Optimized for Windows Mobile
Microsoft has released developer tools for the creation of optimized Facebook applications on
Windows Mobile. See the developer tools
here. The good thing about these tools is the integration with
pretty much all the Windows Mobile applications themselves, so youll be able to let your Facebook apps take advantage of mobile media-sharing,
contacts synchronization, and Outlook integration.
That makes it easier on the consumer end for the real-life utilization of
certain applications found on
Facebook. Either way, Facebook apps
can ow be better optimized for use on Windows Mobile, but the benefit of this set of APIs is the option for a deeper integration.
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26.11.2007Sandisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid state drives
SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year.
Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today such as the Apple MacBook Air and
Toshiba Portege R500.
The next generation of SSDs will use multilevel cell (MLC) technology, which will require a more
sophisticated controller--a crucial component in solid state drives. These drives will have capacities ranging up to 128GB, 160GB, and later, 256GB.
MLC drives are expected to appear in a wider selection of notebooks later this year.
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22.07.2008Microsoft and Novell Deliver Joint Virtualization Solution Through Partners
Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. are announcing the availability of a joint virtualization solution optimized for customers running mixed-source
environments. The joint offering includes SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server from Novell® configured and tested as an optimized guest operating system
running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, and is fully supported by both companies channel partners, including Dell Inc., which will test and validate
this offering at the Microsoft and Novell joint Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Mass. The offering provides customers with the first complete,
fully supported and optimized virtualization solution to span Windows and Linux* environments.
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11.09.2008Red Hat to Build Optimized Java for Enterprise Linux
Nearly a year after Sun Microsystems first announced it would be releasing a build of Java to the open source community, Red Hat has apparently signed
on. In an announcement this morning, the company said it has licensed Sun's Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK), with the objective to produce
an optimized Java for its Enterprise Linux that will drive JBoss applications...
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06.11.2007Windows 7: RDP changes improve virtual desktop performance
The Remote Desktop Client in Windows 7 is equipped with new features and enhancements via Remote Desktop Protocol 7 (RDP). The most interesting
enhancement is the support for Desktop Composition, full Aero glass effect. Below are the features introduced in Windows 7 Remote Desktop Client
Windows 7 Aero supportDirect 2D & Direct 3D 10.1 application supportTrue multi-monitor supportRDP Core Performance ImprovementsMultimedia
enhancementsMedia Foundation supportDirectShow supportLow Latency audio playback supportBi-directional audio support I fired up the Remote Desktop
Client in the latest Windows 7 build 7057 and tested few things. Remote desktop connection experience is very much improved compared to its previous
versions and I also found the session to be incredibly responsive even while playing HD videos.
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16.03.2009Neowin Review: Fence your desktop with Stardock Fences
Windows Desktop - A place where every installed application likes to place a shortcut and also a place to hold all your shortcuts and favorites.
Things can become very messy when you have lots of desktop icons, like mine below: Well, there's not that many on my desktop, but I still place
them in categories. Microsoft Office Apps all reside together and Windows Live Apps reside together. Each time I bring a new shortcut to my desktop,
Windows places them in a separate order which it thinks to be right and then I move that shortcut icon to its appropriate group.
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05.02.2009Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5
Brad Linder: Microsoft released an
updated version of Windows
Search, its free desktop search client the other day. And while there are dozens of excellent desktop search clients, including a few good free
ones, it seems inevitable that people are going to compare Windows Search to Google Desktop. Because you know, any time either company releases
something kind of cool someones assumes that it's just a ripoff of a product offered by the other. Or Apple.
Anyway, we've been
using Windows Search for the past few days and we thought we'd let you know how it stacks up against Google Desktop. Read on for the results.
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30.03.2008Opera touts "Nvidia-optimized" mobile browser
Opera Software and Nvidia say they will collaborate on a customized, accelerated Windows Mobile web browser for devices using the chipmaker's
ARM11-based SoCs. An "optimized, pre-integrated" Opera Mobile 9.5 edition will deliver higher performance and lower battery consumption on devices
using Tegra processors, the companies say.
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10.09.2008New Windows Genuine authenticator can blank desktop backgrounds
If in the last week or so you've noticed that your desktop background in Windows XP Professional goes completely black exactly every 60 minutes,
don't worry, it's not a virus...
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28.08.2008Are Microsoft's newest webcams the last of a dying breed?
Microsoft today has announced the pricing and upcoming availability of its LifeCam VX-5000 Windows Live-optimized webcam...
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14.05.2008AMD Highlights Optimized Integration between Quad-Core Opteron and Upcoming Microsoft Products
AMD today announced it is demonstrating platforms based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, including features designed to help Microsoft Windows
application developers optimize their software applications through tools in upcoming software products from Microsoft Corp. The technology
demonstrations at the conference in Barcelona, Spain show new integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
Ongoing collaboration throughout product development has ensured that Visual Studio 2008 tools will produce optimized code when
compiling for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. This hardware/software collaboration is designed to ensure that software developers will enjoy
improved instruction selection, optimized register allocation and enhanced 128-bit floating-point performance.
The Microsoft
Visual Studio suite represents key building blocks in the Windows software development tools stack and is widely used by the Windows development
community. This is why Visual Studio support for AMD processors is so important to us- it provides a highly productive environment for our customers
to connect their hardware and software, said Earl Stahl, vice president of Software Development at AMD. The hardware/software collaboration is vital
across the entire Microsoft Application Platform, so we are also working to ensure that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008
are optimized for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
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05.11.2007Windows Live Desktop Apps
Renamed
In order to lessen some
confusion surrounding its
Windows Live Web services and
desktop applications,
Microsoft has opted to rename
two of its products. The
Windows Live Search
application, formerly known as
OneView, will now be called
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13.07.2006Samsung and Microsoft work to speed up SSDs
A few weeks ago SanDisk slated Windows Vista for not being optimized for SSD (Solid State Drive) storage hardware.
"As soon as you
get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash
memory solid-state disk”. Said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eli Harari
SandDisk’s solution is to develop a new
controller technology which will overcome these limitations but could take upto a year to reach the market.
Now according to
PCworld Samsung has been in talks with Microsoft to increase the performance of SSDs using Vista
and other MS OSes.
The speed and way in which SSDs fetch and cache data are different than hard drives, said Michael Wang, flash marketing
manager at Sun.
Standard magnetic hard drives have a 512kb cluster size where as SSDs only have a 4kb cluster size. Samsung hopes to work
with Microsoft to boost SSD performance on Windows by discovering optimal packet sizes for data transfers and the best ways to read and write files,
for example.
SSDs have been hailed as the future storage medium for PC’s and internet connected devices, citing speed, power use and
durability.
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07.08.2008Windows Desktop Search Loses
Toolbar
At the IT Forum in Barcelona
Tuesday, Microsoft took the
wraps off a version of Windows
Desktop Search without the MSN
Toolbar, which is designed
specially for deployment in
businesses. The application
replaces Windows' paltry
built-in search functionality
and can be integrated with
Office and SharePoint...
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15.11.2005Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX Control Available
The downloadable Remote
Desktop Web Connection ActiveX
control provides most of the
same functionality as the full
Remote Desktop Connection
software; however, the Remote
Desktop Web Connection is
designed to deliver this
functionality over the Web.
The Web package
Setup program installs the
downloadable ActiveX control
and sample Web page on a
server running Internet
Information Services (IIS) 4.0
or later.
Supported Operating
Systems: Windows 2000; Windows
95; Windows 98; Windows NT;
Windows Server 2003; Windows
XP
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