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TechFlash | Top 100 Women in Seattle Tech TechFlash, WA Shifted out of Microsoft Research to serve as Windows Vista user experience director, later returning. Amanda Camp, software engineer for Google's Seattle office, currently working on improving Google web search. When she came to Google in January 2005 ... More...

Windows 7 GDI performance: the trade-off PC Pro, UK Let me pull out a few pertinent sentences from that blog link: In Windows Vista, every GDI application window accounts for two memory allocations which hold identical content – one in video memory and one in system memory. [. . .] Windows 7 saves one ... More...

Siliconrepublic.com Know if You're Ready for Windows 7? Now You Can Tom's Hardware Guide, CA Please also note: as previously stated on the E7 blog, Windows XP users are required to do a clean install of the Windows 7 RC as well as the final product. Only PCs with Windows Vista can be upgraded to Windows 7. Microsoft releases Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor beta Neowin Win 7 RC fails to thwart well-known hacker risk Register Experts: Windows 7 at risk from legacy flaw ZDNet UK New Zealand Herald - InfoWorld all 212 news articles More...

Microsoft releases Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor beta Neowin, Netherlands A long while back Microsoft released the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor, helpful for those who were unsure if their computer could handle the requirements and find areas where they could improve continuing this trend, the Redmond software company has ... More...

Reader Feedback: Windows, Linux and Netbooks Redmond Channel Partner, CA We're hoping that Microsoft's cooperation with OEMs on Windows 7 is much, much, much better than it was for Vista. It'll need to be because, as you say, Linux is getting better and providing a more realistic alternative all the time. ... More...

Nvidia looks to Windows 7, 'Tegra' for growth CNET News, CA The Nvidia Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL)-certified graphics driver for PC desktops and notebooks is available for its Ion, GeForce, and Quadro products. (Like a number of hardware makers, Nvidia had issues with it Vista drivers. ... More...

Despite layoffs, Ballmer is doing a great job CNET News, CA Vista, Windows Mobile, both are in ruins. Microsoft's growth has ceased in both areas and they're losing out to Apple and others. Has Ballmer stopped or slowed this? I don't think so. Windows 7 and WinMo 7 might be a change, but this is years and years ... More...

When designing Accelerators for IE8, we had a number of scenarios in mind. Primarily, we looked at the all-too-common user pattern of copy-navigate-paste and decided we could save our users a lot of time and frustration by enabling some sort of contextual interaction between content and services. For example, the classic example is mapping—the user finds an address buried in a page, and instead of having to navigate to a mapping service, can receive the map inline via a preview window: We were pretty satisfied with the solution we came up with for IE, but we stepped back for a moment and asked, “do users really care which program they find an address in? If I 

One of the best features of Windows 7 is it’s ability to run legacy applications through it’s Windows XP Mode capability. Windows XP Mode simply runs a Windows XP environment from within your Windows 7 box. However, not all computers can readily use this feature as the requirement is a processor which supports which supports [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

I have a windows 2003 file server cluster, and want to enable logging to capture any attempts to modify, read, or a delete a file. Are there any standard auditing options or KB's to follow, outsid eof enable object acces audit?

One of the steps involved in configuring a server to forward events is this: "4. Add the computer account of the collector computer to the local Administrators group on each of the source computers." However this is not possible on the DCs. I am not 100% sure if this is related but I am able to collect the events from any 2008 servers but the DC where I get the following error message: Error - Last retry time: 5/7/2009 5:00:51 PM. Code (0x3AED): Windows Event Forward Plugin failed to create subscription. Next retry time: 5/7/2009 6:00:51 PM. How can I solve this? TIA, Don

Steve, That was a classy exit. Good luck with your next endeavor! Sue "Steve Riley [MSFT]" wrote: > Friends, as a part of Microsoft's second round of restructuring, my position > was eliminated Tuesday 5 May and my employment with Microsoft has ended. > While there were many rewards that came from my job, the most satisfying > element was knowing that our time spent together helped improve > everyone -- whether at conferences, through my blog, or in these newsgroups, > I've > learned as much from you as you've learned from me. Sharing information, > debating positions, and doing the right work for the right reasons are all > ver…

this is a re-post with additional questions from: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsg...e3-d45c4280217d Does any know what effects it has when migrating CA's to another computer has on domain functions? (when CA is down during movement ) Ie: Q: users can't decrypt files since EFS uses CA. True ? Q: users can't open email from outlook 2007 server because CA would be down - True? Q: I also understand that one can uninstall CA from their server and then demote the server . Obviously backing everything you can up prior! THEN DEMOTE THE DC.. THEN Re-install CA back on that server and it will become again the active enterprise CA. Tru…

In this new series, I examine how you can upgrade to Windows 7. Parts 1 (Intro) and 2 (XP upgrades) are now available... More...

Digitaltrends.com After Merging CPU And Graphics Units, AMD Applauds Windows 7 ChannelWeb, NY AMD is touting its status as the only processor company offering DirectX 10.1 graphics hardware support and a unified WDDM 1.1 graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista. "We are excited to offer our customers an opportunity to test the ... AMD cites chips that don't do Windows 7 'XP mode' CNET News all 143 news articles More...

Nvidia: We're ready for Microsoft this time (no, really) ZDNet Blogs - Mary Jo Foley Microsoft is doing a much better job this time around, at least so far, in letting users know what to expect, compatibility-wise, with Windows 7. Another example: This week's Windows Security Blog post explaining why some Windows 7 RC testers might be ... More...

Ballmer gives pep talk to Stanford students Reuters - James Niccolai “There may or may not be appropriate discussions,†he said, declining to discuss it further. In fact, Ballmer might not have been in Silicon Valley only to visit Stanford. The Wall Street Journal blog All Things D, citing unnamed sources, ... More...

bit-tech.net Recover the GRUB Menu on a Dual-Boot System Lifehacker, CA Planning ahead to multi-boot Windows and Linux distributions is the way to do it, but what if you end up erasing your boot menu and losing access to Linux? The fosswire blog has you covered. The open-source fans at fosswire detail the use of an Ubuntu ... The 1% Solution: Cocaine, Statistics and the Linux Desktop Linux Magazine (registration) all 64 news articles More...

AMD cites chips that don't do Windows 7 'XP mode' CNET News, CA - Brooke Crothers An earlier Nanotech: The Circuits Blog post cited Intel processors that do not support XP mode. Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer asserts this won't be a big issue. "Having VT on these consumer laptops is not going to be an issue--because the consumer ... More...

Brisbane Times Windows 7 Release Candidate - Out of the Box DailyTech, IL I've used Vista and Windows 7 for years on a laptop and never once used the Mobility Center. I don't really see the point since the most commonly used settings on that are readily available in the notification area anyway. By Master Kenobi (blog) on ... Microsoft delivers new storage-appliance code ZDNet Blogs Top 10 reasons I like Windows 7 InfoWorld Windows 7 RC Remote Server Tools Available Redmondmag.com ZDNet - CIO all 791 news articles More...

Windows 7 is not 2 years away and given that the release candidate is already in the hands of testers, msdn & technet subscribers, the release of Windows 7 could be a few months out. At this stage, do you really want to buy a new PC loaded with Windows Vista? Below are the questions that [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

For Internet Explorer 8, we’ve made browser session handling a lot simpler. For instance, say you want to have two Hotmail windows open, each logged into a different account. Simply click the New Session item on the File menu, and a new browser window will open. The new browser window will not share session cookies with the original browser window, so you can log into Hotmail (and most web applications) as a different user. For command line junkies, you can run iexplore.exe with the -nomerge parameter. In contrast, if you click New Window, New Tab, or Duplicate Tab on the File menu, or click on a desktop shortcut, the new tab or window will share session cookies …

New Zealand Herald Windows 7 still at risk from Explorer flaw: report New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Matt Greenop Hypponen wrote in his blog that the flaw, which existed in Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista, allowed cyberbrooks to exploit a Windows Explorer issue to hide viruses and executable files from users. The 'Hide extensions for known file types' feature, ... Win 7 RC fails to thwart well-known hacker risk Register Experts: Windows 7 at risk from legacy flaw ZDNet UK Microsoft keeps classic security flaw in Windows 7 The Tech Herald Özel Web Tasarim all 34 news articles More...

Dissecting default NTFS permissions ZDNet Asia, Singapore In this post, I am referring to the permissions on Windows Vista Business Edition. The different versions of Windows, such as Windows NT, Windows 2000, 2003, XP, and 2008, may differ only slightly as far as what the permissions are made up of. ... More...

New Zealand Herald Windows 7 still at risk from Explorer flaw: report New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Matt Greenop Hypponen wrote in his blog that the flaw, which existed in Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista, allowed cyberbrooks to exploit a Windows Explorer issue to hide viruses and executable files from users. The 'Hide extensions for known file types' feature, ... Experts: Windows 7 at risk from legacy flaw ZDNet UK Win 7 RC fails to thwart well-known hacker risk Register Microsoft keeps classic security flaw in Windows 7 The Tech Herald all 22 news articles More...