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Microsoft: No plans for second Windows 7 beta CNET News, CA - 14 minutes ago Officially, Microsoft has said that it will have Windows 7 out within three years of the general availability of Windows Vista, which hit its two-year ... More...

Next Windows 7 Milestone: Release Candidate Microsoft Watch - 9 minutes ago I have the 32-bit version of Windows 7, because the computer shipped with 32-bit Windows Vista. The timing of Steven's blog isn't coincidental. ... More...

Since the release of Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, we’ve listened, watched and learned a lot about how people use the new features and our focus has been to refine them for RC1 (the Release Candidate). This post will give you an overview of the end user changes we’ve made which we’ll discuss in detail over the coming weeks. In IE8 we made a big push to make sure you can easily get to the sites and use the services you care about. If you’re anything like us, you visit a lot of websites and use a lot of different services or, maybe you’re not like us, and you might have a set of favorites that you stick to. Either way, IE8’s features work together to stream…

This is one of my favorite times in the product cycle. IE8 is platform complete and as we get closer to releasing the final product, more and more web developers and designers will take advantage of the browser’s features to enable scenarios we haven’t even imagined! Since the release of IE8 Beta 2 we’ve listened to feedback from many channels including IE8 Beta Feedback, standards working groups and this blog. We’ve made thousands of platform improvements in response to both feedback, and from running the test cases that Jason Upton blogged about on Tuesday. The platform is ready to be built on. I want to give you an overview of web platform improvements sinc…

gBust! Field of Pot Discovered via Google Earth PC World - 6 minutes ago Windows Vista Migration: The Business Proposition It's not so much a matter of "if" but "when" for most organizations regarding migration to Windows Vista. ... More...

WinInfo Short Takes: Week of February 2, 2009 Windows IT Pro, CO - 9 minutes ago Third, because everyone seems to have forgotten this very basic fact, Windows 7 is a minor, evolutionary update to Windows Vista. In fact, it's so minor, ... More...

Windows 7 Beta Flunks Out Of Georgetown InformationWeek, NY - 11 minutes ago ... possibly as a result of dissatisfaction with Vista, download Windows 7 Beta without authorization. An Intel engineer recently stated in a blog post that ... More...

Windows 7: Not Quite The Change We Need Washington Post, United States - 4 minutes ago Why in the name of Gordon Moore do these cultists think I want to read about Ubuntu in a Vista windows 7 blog posting?? Ubuntu is cute and fun. Super! ... More...

With the current economic crisis and companies tightening their cost, NightWatchman 5.5 could very well save companies millions of dollars of electricity cost, including quick wear & tear of computers.I know a lot of companies who have been very strict of electrical consumption that they require everyone to turn-off their PC before they leave the [...] More...

Virtual Windows 7 not the same thing ZDNet Asia, Singapore - 5 minutes ago Although Windows 7 is not officially supported, VMware does have a helpful blog post up on how to install it. What I found was that Windows 7 loaded on my ... More...

Lenovo is going all out in expanding and improving their product line by acquiring Switchbox whose operations have been a mystery so far but not its founders. Michael Sievert was a former Microsoft Windows executive who was responsible for Windows Vista Worldwide Introduction in 2006 and 2007. He along with Robert Dickinson and Blake Ramsdell [...] More...

Virtual Windows 7 not the same thing CNET News, CA - 10 minutes ago Although Windows 7 is not officially supported, VMware does have a helpful blog post up on how to install it. What I found was that Windows 7 loaded on my ... More...

Washington Post Windows 7 Beta Flunks Out Of Georgetown InformationWeek, NY - 34 minutes ago ... possibly as a result of dissatisfaction with Vista, download Windows 7 Beta without authorization. An Intel engineer recently stated in a blog post that ... Fan starts campaign for Windows 7's immediate release ITworld.com APP-V, MED-V, and missed opportunities InfoWorld all 92 news articles More...

Explore the Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 7 TechRepublic, KY - 11 minutes ago Will it be something that you will use when you begin supporting Windows 7? TechRepublic’s Windows Vista Report newsletter, delivered every Friday, ... More...

Windows 7 Beta Flunks Out Of Georgetown InformationWeek, NY - 5 minutes ago ... possibly as a result of dissatisfaction with Vista, download Windows 7 Beta without authorization. An Intel engineer recently stated in a blog post that ... More...

Microsoft continues using this tool of dubious benefit in Windows 7... More...

Hello, We have a number of BizTalk & SQL servers. Both have certificates for encryption/signing within the BizTalk enviroment. I'm developing an Access database to track the certificates. Is there a way to use VBScript to pull all the information (displayed on the details tab of a certificate) shown in the Certificate Manager MMC? I can either respond to a prompt for a specific remote server, or simply supply all the server names in a file. I have an Access table with a column for each of the fields in the certificate details. It would be too time-consuming to do this manually. Any help or references to other sources of info is greatly apprec…

Fan starts campaign for Windows 7's immediate release ITworld.com, MA - 8 minutes ago 10, have said the software fixes many of the problems users reported with its predecessor Windows Vista. Microsoft on Saturday -- the day it originally ... More...

What were you trying to say "nkgoehle"? -- Dave "nkgoehle" wrote in message news:989E5DAF-8181-4A8B-9962-C4130ECE677A@microsoft.com... > > > "~BD~" wrote: > >> I don't think I've ever seen a recommendation here suggesting that >> people utilise the HJT log 'interpreter at www.hijackthis.de nor, >> indeed, any suggestion that folk might like to use the help on the >> associated forum (in English, here >> http://www.hijackthis-forum.de/english-help/ ) >> >> I note, though, that there appears to be a link with David H Lipman's >> favourite forum for cleaning a machine, viz: >> http://…

I have noticed lately how my Windows Vista box gets slower in performance even without adding any programs or upgrading anything.The only change is my hard disk available space which is less than 10GB and*which might have hit my registry entries that it makes the system slow. Since I have four external drives, I began [...] More...

Ultimate fix for a Firefox update failure CNET News, CA - 5 minutes ago So I opened Vista's Programs and Features (the equivalent of XP's Add or Remove Programs applet) by pressing the Windows key, typing appwiz.cpl, ... More...

Inside Windows 7 Device Stage PC Magazine - 4 minutes ago Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc describes the technology pretty well on The Windows Experience Blog, calling it a "new visual interface that makes it easy to ... More...

Microsoft has sent an email to participants of RC-Escrow build SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 about its availability this Thursday. The updates would be available via Windows Update as a standalone installer in the following languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, German & French. Microsoft said the service pack contains 656 hotfixes and is [...] More...

I've set up Vista Business on a notebook used within an Active Directory domain.with a domain user account as the main login user. I added the domain administrator account to the local Administrators group so I would not have to type in this information every time UAC comes up. This solution works for me since I am in IT per se, but is there another better way to set up UAC such that I don't require the domain admin account, but the local hidden Administrator account or even a second local account with local domain admin rights?? (I do this on Ultimate boxes at home.) In short, my question is how to make UAC as easy and simple as possible …

CNET News Windows 7 on a Mac Mini CNET News, CA - 36 minutes ago With Vista, Microsoft ranked systems from 1.0 to 5.9. With Windows 7, it upped the highest possible ranking to 7.9 and made some other tweaks to the system. ... More...