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After a ton of guesswork and rumors flying around, Microsoft has finally confirmed what much of the evidence was pointing to: there will indeed be six editions of Windows 7, just like there were for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Customers will be able to choose from Windows 7 Starter Edition, Windows 7 Home Basic Edition, Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, Windows 7 Professional Edition, Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, and Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. The news comes hot on the heels of the Windows 7 Ecosystem Readiness Program announced yesterday. All editions will be available in worldwide markets except for Home Basic, which will be offered in emerging markets. Starter wi…
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Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing, discusses Microsoft’s take on netbook PCs and how Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7, will support these small computers. Small, mobile and affordable PCs, often referred to as “netbooks” or “mini-notebooks,” were one of 2008’s hottest technology trends. Virtually unknown a year ago, these PCs pushed the design innovation envelope by enabling easy Web surfing, instant messaging, general-purpose computing (e.g., e-mail, social networking and photo sharing) and media playback in one small, ultra-portable device. This convenience, coupled with an affordable price tag, makes these PCs…
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Stephen Fry tops 100000 Twitter followers T3, UK - 9 hours ago His slamming of Windows Vista and the BlackBerry Bold also won him wider media attention. However, it was his plugging of the service that caused a dramatic ... More...
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This guide details the steps required to perform a live migration of Hyper-V virtual machines from one node in a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster to another node. Live migration overview Live migration is a new Hyper-V feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, which requires the failover clustering role to be added and configured on the servers running Hyper-V. Live migration allows you to transparently move running virtual machines from one node of the failover cluster to another node in the same cluster without a dropped network connection or perceived downtime. In addition, failover clustering requires shared storage for the cluster nodes. This can include an iSCSI…
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This document provides information about installing this beta release of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, including any known issues that you may need to work around before starting an installation. It also provides information that you can use to troubleshoot problems that may occur during the installation. Setup works in several stages. You will be prompted for some basic information, and then Setup will copy files and restart the computer. Setup concludes by presenting a menu for Initial Configuration Tasks, which you can use to configure your server for your specific needs. Preinstallation information System requirements The following are estimated…
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Overview With Hyper-V live migration, you can move running VMs from one Hyper-V physical host to another without any disruption of service or perceived downtime. Live migration is integrated with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Since Hyper-V live migration can move running virtual machines without downtime, it will facilitate greater flexibility and value: Provides better agility: Datacenters with multiple Hyper-V physical hosts will be able to move running VMs to the best physical computer for performance, scaling, or optimal consolidation without impacting users. Reduces costs and increase productivity: Datacenters wi…
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Channel Gets a Crack at Windows 7 Virtualization Review, CA - 8 minutes ago Sinofsky does not go so far as to say that Microsoft learned lessons in how not to release an operating system -- namely, Windows Vista. ... More...
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Hi Everyone, I am trying to figure out how to audit change to folder Share permissions. Windows has auditing for NTFS permission but I can't find a way to audit changes to Share permission. Second is it possible to prevent account that is member of local administrators group from making changes to share permissions? Thank you all in advance for the help.
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Browsing behind Windows Vista InfoWorld, CA - 10 minutes ago By Roger A. Grimes Windows Vista has a new security construct called Mandatory Integrity Controls (MIC), which is similar to integrity functionality long ... More...
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Microsoft: All Windows 7 Editions to Run on Netbooks PC World - 16 hours ago By doing so, the company once again seems to be trying to learn from mistakes it made with the release of Windows Vista, premium versions of which had ... More...
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Hello all, I have been given two .inf template files to apply to a 2003 Std. Ed. SP2 server. I have looked through each .inf file and they seem to have different, not conflicting settings. My questions are Can I apply both templates to the server (via the import method) and will they both apply? Or will applying the second .inf file replace the settings generated by the first? Presumably any conflicting values held by each .inf file would be updated. So for example if 1.inf changed a password setting and 2.inf changed the same setting, the setting would be taken from 2.inf I i applied them in order? Any help/advice/links would be greatly appr…
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Appscout Windows 7 Versions: The Five Most Interesting Things Appscout, NY - 15 minutes ago Does anyone actually remember why they paid extra for the Windows Vista Ultimate Extras? Was it DreamScene? Windows Sound Schemes? Tinker? Yeah, me either. ... More...
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Both Sides on the Win7 UAC Problem eWeek, NY - 9 minutes ago Log in to Windows 7 as a standard user and try this from the default setting you can change the slider to "Always prompt", the Vista equivalent, ... More...
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Disabling Autorun and Autoplay on Windows Vista SP1 with Nick ... Computerworld, MA - 13 minutes ago As noted previously, this is separate and independent from the Autoplay feature of Windows XP in Vista. The autorun.inf file is an optional part of Autoplay ... More...
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Unlike Windows Vista, Microsoft has been conservative with Windows 7. They are not being aggressive to marketing campaigns or promising anything soon. What Microsoft has been doing is releasing and showing the power of the operating system before anything else. They are letting the public discuss the beauty of their next OS. From previous announcements, Microsoft [...] More...
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The Real Deal 147: Shortcuts CNET News, CA - 15 minutes ago 1-5) - Opens up the app. in that position in your Quick Launch bar, in Vista and Windows 7 (Datheron) Win+pause/break shows the system information. ... More...
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One of the things that I learned from working on IE is that there are common patterns of how users browse the web, yet what they browse varies person to person. We designed Visual Search Suggestions, Accelerators, and Web Slices to simplify common patterns with the flexibility for you to customize these features with services that you enjoy. I want to explain how IE8 treats services and share how I personalize IE8 with my favorite services in less than 5 minutes. Out-of-box services We want to provide an out-of-box experience for you to easily try out the new features to IE8, Accelerators and Web Slices. The first time you install IE8, your browser is loaded with…
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Windows Security Improved By Denial Of Administrative Rights InformationWeek, NY - 44 minutes ago That's why it introduced User Account Control in Windows Vista. But the implementation of UAC has been widely criticized as annoying and ineffective. ... More...
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Windows Security Improved By Denial Of Administrative Rights InformationWeek, NY - 33 minutes ago That's why it introduced User Account Control in Windows Vista. But the implementation of UAC has been widely criticized as annoying and ineffective. ... More...
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Microsoft revs up 'Fix it' support tool Computerworld, MA - 3 hours ago The blog also listed some of the Knowledge Base documents that boast a "Fix it" button, including one that prevents users from connecting a USB storage ... More...
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Windows Market Share Persists, Despite Apple's Marketing Glitz Server Watch, CT - 6 minutes ago A recently completed hardware survey from Forrester Research found that "Windows Vista is now powering just fewer than 10 percent of all PCs within ... More...
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Hi, I have Vista Business and Vista Home laptops. The "Sharing and Discovery" settings in "Network and Sharing Centre" are identical. When I try to run net use \\ipaddress\IPC$ /USER:administrator password on the VISTA BUSINESS machine it works. but on the VISTA HOME machine I get: "System error 1385 has occurred. Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer." Is this a security feature or restriction of VISTA HOME and is there a way to map to the IPC$ share ? thanks, B
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Windows 7 to come in 6 flavours Sync, Canada - 18 minutes ago The bad news: Microsoft seems intent on continuing its multi-version OS strategy that began with Windows XP and became a rat's nest with Vista. ... More...
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Georgetown bans use of Windows 7 Beta on school's computers TG Daily - 23 hours ago Due to their recently declining sales, Microsoft needs Windows 7 to catch on and be popular. Many hope Windows 7 will prove to be the Vista that Vista ... More...
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Why Microsoft should release Internet Explorer for Linux Computerworld, MA - 4 hours ago As I explain in my blog, Microsoft layoffs: Netbooks sales are killing us, netbook sales are at the root of Microsoft's recent problems. ... More...