IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh
From the IEBlog: Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that weve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007.
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19.4.2007 Windows Vista OS image creation and deployment guide
Windows Vista OS setup is built on an entirely new set of technologies than previous versions of Windows, and as a result the process of creating OS images and creating and using unattend files is different than you might be used to from the past.
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29.11.2006 Windows Vista with SP2 RTM Slipstreamed/Integrated DVD ISO Image
Microsoft has finalized the Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which has been RTMed as version 6.0.6002.18005.
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27.5.2009 High quality image Vista boot screen
Some people found a way to change that black boot screen of Windows Vista RTM to a high quality one, the one that was supposed to be in before it was cut from the final version.
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19.11.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vistas tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vistas image is tarnished. And its corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 June 2009 Patches ISO Image Available
This months release addresses 31 total vulnerabilities with 15 rated as 1 on our Exploitability Index, meaning there is a high likelihood that reliable exploit code may be developed in the next 30 days, stated Jerry Bryant, Sr. security program manager lead.
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12.6.2009 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 Patch Security Release ISO Image Available
A DVD5 ISO image file containing all the security bulletins made available on November 10th, 2009 for all supported Windows platforms, is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center.
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13.11.2009 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 September 2008 Security Release ISO Image
Following the four security bulletins released on Patch Tuesday, September 9, 2008, Microsoft has bundled all the Windows updates into a single ISO image offered through the Download Center.
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10.9.2008 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Security Release ISO Image December 2008
On December 9, Microsoft made available for download the last bouquet of security updates for 2008. the company released no less than eight security bulletins, six of them Critical and two rated as Important.
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11.12.2008 Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream (Integrated ) DVD ISO Image - Leaked to Torrent Websites
hile Microsoft continues at a slow pace toward the general availability of Windows Vista SP1 RTM, the service pack has already slipped through the company's fingers, so to speak.
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4.3.2008 Windows 7 Build 7231 x86 VHD Image download
Few hours ago Windows 7 build 7229 x86 & x64 was leaked on torrent websites and here is yet again another windows 7 Build leak, This time its Windows 7 build 7231 leaked by Wzor.info in the form of VHD image like Windows 7 Build 7227.
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12.6.2009 Windows 7 Build 7232 x64 VHD Image Download
Leaking of Windows 7 Builds still continues even after availability Windows 7 Release Candidate. We have seen Windows 7 Build 7201, Build 7227, Build 7229 & Build 7231 leaked on internet as ISO image or VHD Image.
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16.6.2009 Windows 7 RTM Patches ISO Image for October 2009
It has by no means been a slow month as far as Microsoft security bulletins go, with no less than 13 patch packages being released by the company for a range of products.
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15.10.2009 Download Windows 7 Build 6956 VHD Image via BT Torrent
Windows 7 beta (or beta 1) is possibly been released in January or February 2009 which Keith Comb has even mentioned in a comment on his TechNet blog (has since been removed) that we (Microsoft) are targeting to have the DVDs in the materials from 1/13/2009 on.
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5.12.2008 Download April 2009 Security Release ISO Image for Windows
On the heels of the April 14, 2009 security bulletins, Microsoft has made available for download the ISO image with the patches released this month.
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16.4.2009 Windows 7 ISO Image Edition Switcher Free Download for Direct Convert
Windows 7 no longer has One Disc to Rule Them All universal installation DVD disc media or ISO image which allows users to select whichever editions of Windows 7 they prefer to install during setup. Instead, each Windows 7 installation ISO or media is specific for a channel and distribution and can be used to install an edition of Windows 7 only.
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30.10.2009 VSO Image Resizer 2.1.5.3
VSO Image Resizer organizes your photos by shrinking their resolution or moving them within your hard drive.
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17.12.2008 Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 DVD ISO Image Torrent and NamiPan Download
f indeed the Windows 7 initial first beta release will have the build version number of 7000, the DVD ISO image of the 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 6.1.7000.0, 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso, has been leaked to Internet.
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26.12.2008 Download Windows 7 RTM 7600.16385 x86 and x64 Original ISO Image
The original untouched ISOs of Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385.090713-1255 for both x86 and x64 from Microsoft are finally here!
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24.7.2009 Microsoft Readies Proprietary Image Format
Microsoft have announced their new image format which is a competitor to standards like JPEG and PNG.
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27.5.2006 Microsoft looks to Mojave to revive Vistas image
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics.
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25.7.2008 Download Chrome OS VMware Image
Its only been a few hours since Google spilled the beans on their upcoming Chrome OS, and now we already have a fully working VMware image of Chrome OS ready for download.
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20.11.2009 January 2007 Security Releases ISO Image
This ISO-9660 CD image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on January 9th, 2007.
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13.1.2007 July 2007 Security Releases ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on July 10th, 2007.
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12.7.2007 August 2007 Security Releases ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on August 14th, 2007. The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products.
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16.8.2007 September 2007 Security Releases ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on September 11th, 2007.
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12.9.2007 November 2007 Security Releases ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on November 13th, 2007.
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21.11.2007 January 2008 Security Releases ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on January 8th, 2008.
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8.1.2008 How can Microsoft overcome Vistas lingering image problem?
Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, has a tough problem on his hands.
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2.5.2008 How to Disable/Turn off Bing Home Page Image
Microsoft new search engine Bing.com is steadily becoming popular and more and more users have started using bing to search.
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3.8.2009VM enables "write-once, run anywhere" Linux apps
A startup in Alameda,
Calif. plans to release a kind
of holy software grail the
third or fourth week of June.
Lina said its dual-licensed
Lina virtual Linux machine
will run more or less normal
Linux applications under
Windows, Mac, or Linux, with a
look and feel native to
each.
The
concept recalls Java, which
has long promised "write
once, run anywhere"
compatibility. As with Java,
Lina users will first install
a VM specific to their
platform, after which they can
run binaries compiled not for
their particular OS, but for
the VM, which aims to hide
OS-specific characteristics
from the application.
In Lina's case, the VM is
essentially a Linux
environment that supports
standard C/C++ applications,
or even perl and python, if
their respective interpreters
are installed. CTO Nile
Geisinger explained, "You
have to compile binaries
specifically for Lina, but
it's fairly trivial, no
different than compiling
binaries for SuSE or Red
Hat."..
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27.05.2007Shelf-ware - the SCVMM Library
One of the things we heard fairly early on while planning VMM was that offline storage of VHDs was going to become an increasingly large management
task. Based on this need, we created the "VM Library" feature to allow users to save virtual machines that weren't currently running to a managed
location. As we developed the requirements for this feature, we quickly realized that people wanted to store more than VMs, they wanted to store all
of the stuff that they used to create VMs as well (ISOs, templates, OS profiles, Hardware profiles etc.) so we changed the feature's name to
"library" instead of "VM library". Before defining the feature in detail, we had to make some key design decisions and at the risk of boring you,
I'll walk through some of that decision making process.
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18.12.2007Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use
"TechWeb has posted an
article regarding Vista's new
license and how it allows you
to only move it to another
device once. How will this
work for people who build
their PCs? I have no intention
of purchasing a new license
every time I swap out
motherboards. 'The first user
of the software may reassign
the license to another device
one time.
If you
reassign the license, that
other device becomes the
"licensed device," reads the
license for Windows Vista Home
Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate,
and Business. In other words,
once a retail copy of Vista is
installed on a PC, it can be
moved to another system only
once. ...
Elsewhere in the license,
Microsoft forbids users from
installing Vista Home Basic
and Vista Home Premium in a
virtual machine. "You may not
use the software installed on
the licensed device within a
virtual (or otherwise
emulated) hardware system,"
the legal language reads.
Vista Ultimate and Vista
Business, however, can be
installed within a VM.'"
Overly Critical Guy points out
more information about changes
to Vista's EULA and the new
usage restrictions. "For
instance, Home Basic users
can't copy ISOs to their hard
drives, can't run in a
virtualized environment, and
can only share files and
printers to a maximum of 5
network devices."
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13.10.2006Installing Windows Server 2003 in a Viridian VM
Mike Kolitz: Earlier this week,
I posted instructions on how to install the "Viridian" CTP on Windows Server 2008 RC0. VMs arent very useful unless you can
install an operating system in them, so I thought that todays post should center on doing just that. As you may have guessed from the title, today
were going to talk about installing Windows Server 2003.
Before we begin, you should make sure that youve created an external
virtual network switch. See
yesterdays post for details on how to do that. You should also have a Windows Server 2003 CD or CD Image (which Ill refer to as
an ISO from now on) handy. Ideally, youll have SP2 integrated into the installation media, but if you dont, well take a trip to
Windows Update later on.
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27.09.2007What you don't virtualize can hurt you
In the frenzy to virtualize servers, companies are forgetting to virtualize an important and yet critical component of their infrastructures: the
network addresses and I/O of the Ethernet and Fibre Channel cards on the physical servers that host VMware virtual machines (VMs).
Virtualized Ethernet and Fibre Channel cards or their I/O is easy to overlook. Administrators may correctly assume that there is ample bandwidth
on the server's Ethernet and Fibre Channel cards to support the normal workload of the multiple VMs it hosts.
The problem is
that VM workloads can become abnormal. Spikes in read or write I/O on one VM may immediately adversely affect the I/O performance of other VMs hosted
by that physical server. Equally problematic are backups, especially full server backups. Backing up a single VM can quickly congest network pipes and
degrade the performance of other VMs on that server.
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29.11.2007Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
Virgin Media customers have been suffering email outages for several days, prompting the firm to call in Microsoft engineers to help with an urgent
upgrade. A mysterious configuration problem was identified on one of VM's eight email server clusters last Wednesday. Microsft engineers have
struggled to identify the cause, forcing several reboots. The ongoing failure has affected about 10 per cent of VM's 3.6 million subscribers.
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18.02.2008New Laptop Windows Vista SP1 Virtual Machine World Record
Keith Combs: In this case,
a
picture is worth a thousand words. I spent some time this afternoon and evening setting up for a fun little test of the Lenovo ThinkPad T61p I
have. As youll recall from my previous post, my laptop is loaded up with 8GB of memory. So I thought it would be cool to fire up a bunch of virtual
machines to see how effectively Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V allocate and juggle memory. I was able to get fourteen operating system instances
running at the same time. The host OS is of course Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 with Hyper-V RC1. In the screenshot, youll notice I am running
six instances of Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 x64 and seven instances of Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 x86. Paging and disk I/O really went up after I
fired up VM number eight.
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08.06.2008Vista SP2 RC image goes live
Download Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Release
Candidate from Fileforum now.
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04.03.2009VMware vSphere 4: The once and future virtualization king
VMware vSphere 4, out today, is a big release, with plenty of new features and changes, but it's not your run-of-the-mill major update. The new
features, which range from VM clustering to agentless VM backup, are especially significant in that they may mark the moment when virtualization
shifted from the effort to provide a stable replica of a traditional infrastructure to significantly enhancing the capabilities of a virtual
environment.
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22.05.2009Virtual Machine for Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool
The Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool enables administrators to update, using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook,
multiple user mailboxes, thereby avoiding the challenges involved with broadly deploying the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool to all end-users.
The VM contains a trial version of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Excel 2007 and Word 2007. The Exchange Calendar
Update Configuration Tool is preinstalled as well. The VM can be used on both Virtual PC or Virtual Server.
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14.09.2007Microsoft postpones live VM migration for Hyper-V two more years
At a virtualization product launch today, Microsoft give a long-delayed demo of Hyper-V live migration, but then went on to slate the feature's
eventual release for the next edition of Windows Server -- which isn't due until 2010...
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09.09.2008Windows Vista with SP1 integrated on MSDN
Keith Combs is
reporting that images of Windows Vista with SP1 already baked in are appearing on MSDN TechNet subscriber downloads. After
checking myself, I find that only the English, French, German, Japanese & Spanish x86 versions are available thus far. Maybe they are still updating
and the x64 versions will start appearing in a few, more on that later folks.
Keith is clearly ecstatic: "My download took minutes. Being
first helps. It flew down the fiber pipe to my house at 1.8meg per second. I wish all my downloads were that fast. Your mileage will vary. I'm
planning on "enhancing" my VM first thing. I'm going to enable IIS7, then drop PHP, MySQL and Wordpress on it. When I get it working, I am
going to do a screencast on the process. Getting ready to record how to do that with Windows Server 2008 in a few minutes. Enjoy!"
He
also mentions that the blog post is a rolling update, later he will post some more screencasts of the resulting installation. Thanks Keith!
Update: Microsoft have posted an announcement regarding the SP1 images availability on it's MSDN subscriber download sites: "The first wave
includes English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish versions of Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. New files will be added every couple days,
depending on server bandwidth, until all downloads are published."
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26.02.2008AMD and Red Hat are chased by Microsoft on VM live migration
It's a feature which could be ubiquitous in more data centers if it could just get out of the labs: the ability to move running virtual machines
between platforms with next-to-zero downtime. Now, it's being done cross-platform...
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20.11.2008Windows Vista: A Guided Tour
WinCustomize.com has just
completed a series of indepth
articles outlining the
strengths (and weaknesses) of
Windows Vista. In just a few
days, Microsoft will be making
Windows Vista "generally
available".
With a
5 year gap between the release
of Windows XP and Vista, the
pressure is on for Microsoft
to deliver a worthy successor
to Windows XP. Have they
succeeded? Are you going to
upgrade to Windows Vista? And
if so, how soon? Tell us what
you think.
In the
meantime, check out the
article series to get the
whole story of Windows Vista
in action.
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26.01.2007Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click
HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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02.09.2008Are You Ready for Windows Vista?
Columnist Stuart Mudie
describes how to make the move
to Windows Vista using Windows
Vista Upgrade Advisor and
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29.09.2006Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
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. The
results show that SP1 performs on par with Vista RTM and Windows XP.
The test show that as with Windows Vista RTM, overall performance is
on par with Windows XP. It’s important to remember that Windows Vista is a more advanced operating system, which includes many more capabilities
than Windows XP. By default, Windows Vista includes antispyware, a search indexer, and the shadow copy service. All these work in the background,
providing important services to customers, but they of course take up a portion of the PCs memory and processor resource.
On several common
business and home operations Windows Vista SP1 was noticeably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP.
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28.02.2008Windows Vista SP1 RC released to public
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC is now available through Windows Update. Experience the WU based Vista SP1 installation by following 4 simple steps.
Windows Vista SP1 RC distributed through Windows Update will be applicable to Windows Vista machines that are running on any of the 36 languages
supported by Vista RTM.
If you already installed the Service Pack to your machine by using the standalone package, you must uninstall
before you scan Windows Update for Windows Vista SP1.
Systems running on Windows Vista RTM require as many as three updates before SP1 can
be installed. These updates are permanent to your Windows Vista systems. Windows Update will detect your system configuration and offer the
prerequisite packages that are applicable to your system.
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12.12.2007Why installing Vista SP1 might fail via Windows Update
When you try to install Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update you can get error: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from
Windows Update and is not offered by Automatic Updates.
To help ensure a positive update experience, Windows Update will temporarily not
offer Windows Vista SP1 to systems that have the following device drivers. In some cases, these device drivers are problematic on Windows Vista-based
computers when you update to Windows Vista SP1. By installing updated device drivers, you will resolve the issue and enable Windows Update to offer
Windows Vista SP1.
Click read more to view a list of drivers that don't work well with Vista SP1:
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20.03.2008TechEd 2007: Keynote Demos of Virtual Machines, New OBAs, Silverlight
In a demonstration of System
Center Virtual Machine
Manager, Microsoft product
manager Jeff Woolsey showed
how in Windows Server 2008, a
VMware virtual machine could
be converted to a
"Viridian" VM using a
single PowerShell
"command-let"
( cmdlet ) that can be
scripted...
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