Microsoft may offer Windows 7 on thumb drive for netbooks
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on netbooks even since it first introduced the operating system, however, helping consumers getting it on there may prove a bit tricky.
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27.6.2009 New Windows Vista Test Drive Website
"The Windows Vista Business test drive allows you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft..."
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6.1.2007 Test drive the new Windows Live suite
You’ve probably already read about some changes we’re making to Windows Live, and have seen some of your services change over the past few weeks. Starting later today, you'll be able to test out the new suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all.
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5.9.2007 Free Hard Drive Virtualization for Windows - SteadyState 2.5
Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet cafe, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them.
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13.6.2008 Test Drive Google Android OS on Windows 7
XDA-Developers forum member xda2_haseeb has managed to extract and run Android Emulator on Windows which comes as a part of Google Android SDK package.
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2.9.2009 Free Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 Test Drive
Microsoft has started pressing the acceleration pedal of the marketing of Windows Vista, now complete with Service Pack 1.
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11.6.2008 Terabyte Drive is Coming Now
Having storage problem with your PC? You have downloaded a lot of movies, MP3 songs, games, etc.
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12.2.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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4.5.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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18.6.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive 2
A new version of HDerase.exe has been released Go direct to
UCSD’s Center for Magnetic Recording Research website to download version 3.2.
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19.6.2007 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 Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
Overview
The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive includes essential tools that can help you transform the way you create, share, and manage ideas and information using all four Office 2004 for Mac programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. After you install the Test Drive, you can use it for 30 days. It includes almost all of the features found in Office 2004. For details about the Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, see the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive Read Me.
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4.12.2005 Hard drive price war coming
According to reports, we may witness a price war in the hard drive business industry. At least this is what Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins said on Wednesday. Seagate is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer and competes with such companies as Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba.
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13.8.2006 Seagate Confirms 1TB Hard Drive
Seagate has confirmed to the folks over at DailyTech, that they plan to launch a 1TB (Terabyte) hard drive sometime in the first half of 2007.
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5.1.2007 Fujitsu Shows 500GB Laptop Drive
The latest entry in high-capacity notebooks is Fujitsu, which will release a laptop with a 500GB drive in May.
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25.2.2008 Microsoft Hones IE 7's "Drive-by-Download" Defenses
While Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates told security professionals that security is job number one on Tuesday, he's leaving it up to developers like those working up the next version of Internet Explorer to make it happen.
Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), said Gary Schare, director of product management for IE, will reduce the chance that spyware spreaders can use silent drive-by downloads to infect PCs with malicious software.
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16.2.2006 Microsoft shows off HD DVD drive for Xbox
Microsoft on Monday offered the first glimpse of an external HD DVD drive built for the Xbox 360 game console.
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8.8.2006 Dell Ships Laptop with Blu-ray Drive
Dell on Monday became the latest manufacturer to support Sony's Blu-ray discs in its notebook computers, a move that was largely expected as Dell is a founding member behind the format.
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12.12.2006 Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.
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6.4.2007 Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010
Solid-state disks may be eating into the territory of traditional hard drives, particularly in laptops, but that doesn't mean spinning platters are on their last legs – particularly not at Hitachi.
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3.7.2008 Free Gadget: Hard Drive Diagnosis Software
Is there any funny sound generated when your hard drive is in operation? Here I am introducing a free application that can be used to diagnose your hard drive problem.
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27.7.2008 Microsoft eases hard drive capacity restriction for netbooks
Microsoft has officially eased the restriction of the standard specification for netbooks using the Windows XP operation system by increasing the allowable hard drive capacity from 80GB to 160GB, according to sources in the channel.
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3.9.2008 Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive
Western Digital haven't officially launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for purchase at Australia's Mwave online store.
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27.1.2009 Gateway to Put Quad-core Desktop, Media Drive in Stores
Gateway will be one of the first PC makers to put quad-core desktops on retail shelves. The company announced April 30 deals with Best Buy, Circuit City Stores and CompUSA to sell its FX series at stores nationwide.
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3.5.2007 Microsoft Addresses Xbox 360 100 GB Hard Drive Rumor
Following yesterday's report on a supposed 100 GB Hard Drive for the Xbox 360 being announced at the Korean X06, we contacted Microsoft to confirm the existence of such accessory.
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22.10.2006 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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28.2.2008Microsoft may offer Windows 7 on thumb drive for netbooks
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on netbooks even since it first introduced the operating system, however, helping consumers getting it on there
may prove a bit tricky. According to CNET, Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive so that netbook owners are able to easily
upgrade their machines in case they lack a DVD drive, and are unable to use an external one. Even though Microsoft is considering selling Windows 7
on a thumb drive, there are other options for netbook users to upgrade. Less tech-savvy consumers could pay for someone else to do it, such as a
service like Best Buy's Geek Squad.
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27.06.2009Kingston launch world's first 256GB thumb drive
Is that a whopping 256GB USB flash drive in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? The huge flash drive is in Kingston Technology's pocket
as they are set to launch the highest capacity USB thumb drive available on the market this week, with their DataTraveler 300 device. Whether the
demand for such a device exists remains to be seen. The flash drive includes password protection functionality - through their Password Traveler
software - which can protect of up to 90% of its capacity, and it is apparently enhanced for use with Windows Vista's ReadyBoost feature.
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21.07.2009Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory
Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers' pockets within a few
years.
Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State
University say their memory is, bit-for-bit, one-tenth the cost of -- and 1,000 times as energy-efficient as -- flash memory, the predominant memory
technology in iPhones and other mobile devices.
"A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information," says
Michael Kozicki, director of ASU's Center for Applied Nanoionics, which developed the
technology. "All the current limitations in portable electronic storage could go away. You could record video of every event in your life and store
it."
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28.10.2007Contractor Pleads Guilty To Stealing Classified Data
Jessica Lynn Quintana, a
former employee with a
contractor at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory pleaded
guilty in U.S. District Court
in Albuquerque, N.M. to
stealing classified
information from the lab and
is now facing a maximum of one
year in jail and a
$100,000 fine. She has
lost her security clearance
and could also receive up to
five years of probation.
Quintana was hired to
archive classified information
at the multi-disciplinary
scientific laboratory in
northern New Mexico. According
to a release from the
Department of Justice, she
admitted in her plea that on
July 27, 2006, she was working
in a secure area at the lab
and printed pages of
classified documents and
downloaded other classified
information onto a thumb
drive. She put the stolen data
in a backpack and headed for
home. Quintana told government
agents that she stored the
pages and thumb drive at her
home, which was outside of her
authorization limits. On
October 17, officers of the
Los Alamos Police Department
executed a state search
warrant on Quintana's home
and seized the thumb drive
containing classified
information. Three days later,
the FBI seized the classified
printouts during the execution
of a federal search warrant on
her home.
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17.05.2007Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Why would someone want to
install a client OS from a
thumb drive instead of a
DVDROM or over the network?
One reason: Performance.
Installing Windows
Vista from a high speed USB
flash drive is in my
experience the easiest &
fastest way to complete a
Windows Vista install. This is
much faster than using a DVD,
gigabit ethernet, or possibly
even some external USB 2.0
hard drives, due to
differences in access speed &
transfer rate. To put this
into perspective, y'know how
installing Windows on a
Virtual PC virtual machine
from an .ISO CD image is
really, really, really fast?
Imagine something
roughly just as fast, except
for doing installations of the
OS on to actual
workstations.
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01.03.2007Sony USB thumb drives come with rootkit
As a result of its decision to include a rootkit-based copy protection system in some of its CDs, Sony had to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties and
refund users whose PCs were damaged by the software last year. However, it seems that wasn't enough to make the company turn its back on rootkits.
The folks at F-Secure
have discovered that software
bundled with Sony's
MicroVault USB thumb drives installs a driver
intended to conceal files in the host system's Windows directory. Said directory reportedly becomes invisible to the Windows API and some anti-virus
software, which could potentially allow malware to exploit it in order to avoid detection.
According to F-Secure, Sony relies on
the cloaking functionality to conceal data used by the thumb drives' fingerprint authentication system.
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28.08.2007Managing USB Thumb Drives - Is Vista Better Than Epoxy?
Chris Chalmers: What's so bad about USB flash drives? Isn't it great that, for less than $50, I can buy device the size of my thumb that holds 16Gb
of emails, product designs, and drafts of confidential memos? In a word, NO.
From an e-discovery perspective, tracking and
managing all these potential sources of responsive information is a nightmare. Brad Carlson of Fios, Inc. outlines a helpful process in his article,
"Collecting Personal Data for E-Discovery" in Computer Technology Review (you can read it here:
http://www.wwpi.com/fall-2007/2794-collecting-personal-data-for-e-discovery).
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09.09.2008Get ReadyBoost Speed on XP with eBoostr
Speed up your computer with a spare USB thumb drive with eBoostr, an XP-only application that brings the benefits of Windows Vista's
ReadyBoost feature to XP. The
app can work with up to four devices, up to 4GB on each, and its smart-cache feature gives speed boosts to your more frequently used apps and data.
eBoostr could be perfect for XP users who want a little extra memory but don't want to
install RAM themselves, or even for
laptop users who've filled every free slot. eBoostr comes as a free trial version, which gives you four hours of functionality each time you boot up,
or costs $29 for the full version.
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06.02.2008Apps Launch from USB Drives
U3 and partners add smarts to
thumb drives, so users can
carry desktops in their
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20.09.2005Review: SanDisk 8GB Micro SDHC + MobileMate Micro Reader
Technology is moving at an alarming pace, allowing you to pack more in to a smaller place. Today I will present a continuation in this process: an 8GB
Micro SDHC and the accompanying micro reader. The focus of course being on size and density.
The relatively new format, Micro SD, was
introduced by
SanDisk Corporation as a replacement for Transflash in 2005 and, along with Transflash, remains the smallest memory card form factor with dimensions
15 mm x 11 mm x 1 mm. Starting with petite 512MB versions three years ago, SanDisk has recently
released micro drives capable of storing
16GB. The unit being reviewed is only 8GB, however.
I do not intend to mislead anyone here. Compared to a standard thumb drive, the only
advantage of a micro SD card is the size. The main reason for this type of memory card existing is to fit large memory capacities in to small devices.
Though, this review will go in depth in to the other benefits of having such a small memory card.
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13.11.2008Vista Running on Eee PC
Asus Eee PC is, as expected, getting hacked every which way, and Brit
Paul O'Brien has managed to squeeze the bloated Windows Vista onto the little Linux laptop. Using
vLite, a tool to customize a Vista install before actually installing it, Paul shrunk
Vista Home Premium and put the custom disk image onto a USB stick.
He then booted the Eee from the thumb drive, installed and “ here's the clever bit “ shifted the
gigabyte-gobbling Side by Side (SxS) directory off the main drive and onto an 8GB SD card.
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14.12.2007Windows Home Server Drive Extender
This Technical Brief provides an in-depth look at the features and functionality of Windows Home Server Drive Extender. Learn about configuring your
home servers storage and adding / removing hard drives.
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08.11.2007Sony USB Drives Pack Rootkit Surprise
Finnish security company F-Secure has reported on new rootkit-like software discovered on USB thumb drives manufactured by Sony. Although the software
doesn't appear to cause damage to a user's system, it does create a hidden directory that is inaccessible via the Windows API and some virus
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29.08.2007Tip: make your PDC 2008 USB hard drive a bootable Windows 7 install disk
Long Zheng: If you're one of eight thousand people lucky enough to attend
PDC 2008 last week and receive
the
ultra-cool 160GB portable hard drive with "the goods" then I have some
extra good news for you, your hard drive can also become a bootable Windows 7 install disk. The best part is that you don't even have to delete any
of the existing files on the drive since there's about 90GB free of the 160GB drive.
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03.11.2008Using Windows Vistas Complete PC Backup - A Guide
A week ago, my hard drive started making an odd clicking noise, and, after a call to Dell support, it was clear the damn thing was going to die on me,
fast. Dell sent me a new drive, free under my warranty, lickety-split, and last night my job was to move everything over to the new hard drive.
Since I run Windows Vista Ultimate, I can use the very nice Complete PC Backup feature to move my files over to the new hard drive,
and I did. Overall, it worked out nicely. You can also use this feature if you bought a new bigger hard drive and want to move everything over to
it.
Heres how it goes...
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02.09.2007"BlackBerry Thumb" sparks new form of hand massage
Many BlackBerry users
feel the "BlackBerry Thumb"
affect after spending hours on
a hand-held e-mail device.
This thumb effect results in
sore thumbs, but there is a
possible solution. The Hyatt
hotel chain found so many of
their business travelers were
complaining of hand and arm
discomfort that they have
introduced a special
"BlackBerry Balm" hand
massage at most of their North
American spas.
Corporate spa director
Kyra Johnson said guests began
asking masseurs to spend more
time on their hands and arms
because of the growing
popularity of PDA (personal
digital assistant) devices
like BlackBerrys and Treos.
The
30-minute massage, that costs
about ฮ, begins with heat
treatment and uses a
"BlackBerry Balm." It
"focuses on counteracting
tension on various hand and
arm muscles, specifically in
the thumbs and overworked
wrists," according to a Hyatt
statement.
The
American Physical Therapy
Association recently
recognized BlackBerry Thumb as
an official work place malady
-- a stress-related injury due
to over-use of any PDA or
smartphone. Ontario-based
Research IN Motion Ltd's
BlackBerry became a
technological must-have in the
late 1990s as a tool that
delivers e-mail to users on
the move.
Professor Alan Hedge, an
ergonomics specialist at
Cornell University in New York
state, said the condition is
caused by "highly repetitive,
forceful thumb movements with
the thumbs held back from the
palms." The symptoms
are pain in the thumb and
region around the base of the
thumb and hand. Treatment
typically consists of resting
or strapping the thumb,
anti-inflammatory medicines,
cortisone injections and, as a
last resort, surgery.
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Hitachi to Debut 1-Terabyte Drive at CES
Hitachi introduced the first
commercially available
one-terabyte hard drive on
Friday, delivering on a
promise made nearly two years
ago. The drive uses
perpendicular recording
technology in order to store
data...
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Imation Unveils Paperclip-Sized USB Drive
Imation Corp. last week unveiled the Atom Flash Drive, a 1.5-inch-long portable storage device that is no larger than a paperclip and can store up to
8GB of digital files. Weighing less than one ounce and measuring a half-inch wide, the Atom Flash Drive is the storage vendor's smallest USB flash
drive, it said.
Imation's Atom Flash Drive provides password protection and drive partitioning capabilities to secure data on the
portable device. The tool supports Microsoft Windows Vista and is also compatible with Windows Vista ReadyBoost technology. ReadyBoost enables the USB
flash drive to serve as an additional memory cache when used with Windows Vista.
neowin.net - 29.06.2008
SSD tests show Windows 7 beta beating Vista SP1
Windows 7 is supposed to be able to detect that a Solid State Drive (SSD) is being used, and make changes to some settings so that it can take
advantage of the technology. TweakTown has run some tests with the Patriot Warp2 128GB SSD SATA drive for both RAID 0 and single drive setups,
comparing Windows 7 beta and Windows Vista SP1. Based on the results found, the site has concluded that Windows 7 currently has a slight edge over
Vista...
winbeta.org - 19.01.2009
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption provide consolidated workloads a platform for secure data and systems. This paper describes
detail steps for setting up this platform for deployment of virtual machines.
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