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Microsoft started dropping the first Windows 8 references as early as March 2009; yes, long before Windows 7 was finalized. And the next iteration of the Windows client and server operating systems are now taking shape in Redmond. The software giant already confirmed officially that Windows 8 client and Windows 8 Ser... |
1 July 2010
13:08 GMT |
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After just nine months since it was released to the general public, Windows 7 will overtake its predecessor in terms of market share. This despite the fact that Windows Vista has been available for purchase for more than three years now. Taking into consideration the growth rate of the latest Windows client, Vista&rs... |
1 July 2010
11:23 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to offer free copies of its Windows operating systems, a “tradition” that the company started back in 2006 after the release of Internet Explorer 7. The software giant is attempting to compensate for the shortcomings of the Windows design in older releases of its platforms, in which a ... |
25 June 2010
12:52 GMT |
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The final version of Windows PowerShell 2.0, which is included by default in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is now being served to customers running older versions of the Windows client and server operating systems through Windows Update. In this regard, Microsoft is now offering two components of the Windows ... |
23 June 2010
07:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has released two updates designed to kick up a notch the Windows Media Center component in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Customers running the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft can download and deploy the Cumulative Update Windows Media Center in Windows 7 (KB981078). As far as Windows 7 ... |
23 June 2010
07:26 GMT |
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It won’t be long until Windows 7 overtakes Windows Vista in terms of market share. In fact, the latest iteration of the Windows client is now breathing down its predecessor’s neck, while convincing more and more Windows users to jump ship. In fact, if Windows 7 continues to perform the way it has so far, ... |
1 June 2010
09:12 GMT |
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One of the few pieces of criticism that Microsoft got for Windows 7 was related to the apparently modest plans it had for the operating system, with some calling the new OS just a minor upgrade from its precursor. Under the leadership of Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, it was clear that... |
21 May 2010
03:36 GMT |
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With over 100 million copies already sold worldwide, Windows 7 continues to get nothing but love from consumers. In fact, forecasts indicate that the latest iteration of the Windows client will hit the 300-million-sold-licenses milestone by the end of 2010. In this context, it should be no surprise that the impact of... |
19 May 2010
04:01 GMT |
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The latest iteration of the Windows client has long passed the 100-million-sold-license milestone, and the fastest selling operating system in history doesn’t show any signs of stopping. Furthermore, Windows 7’s main victim, in terms of OS market share, is the nearly-decade-old Windows XP. Statistics prov... |
3 May 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Attackers targeting vulnerabilities in Microsoft software have a definite preference for a decade-old operating system released in 2001. Windows XP, the platform that continues to own the lion’s share of the operating-system market, attracts twice as many attacks targeting Microsoft vulnerabilities, compared wi... |
27 April 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Windows 7 has sold in excess of 100 million copies in just the first six month since general availability, and is on track to adding an estimated 200 million more by the end of 2010. The fastest selling operating system in history has also acted as a panacea for its predecessor, Windows Vista, and is critically addin... |
26 April 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is upping the ante when it comes down to desktop optimization for Windows clients. The public Beta program for Windows Intune is now live, the first step in the company’s vision to introduce new offerings designed to take desktop management into the Cloud. Designed to streamline the administration of ... |
20 April 2010
03:34 GMT |
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The end is here for Windows Vista RTM, released over three years ago, at the end of January 2007. Today, April 12, 2010 is the last day when customers still running Vista with no service packs installed will benefit from support from Microsoft. As of April 13th, the Redmond company will completely cut support for Vis... |
12 April 2010
10:17 GMT |
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At the end of March 2010, there were twice as many computers running Windows 7 as machines with Mac OS X installed, although the latest iteration of the Windows client was released to the market just five months ago. According to statistics from Net Applications, Windows 7 currently accounts for no less than 10.23% o... |
1 April 2010
09:04 GMT |
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On March 30, 2010, Microsoft revealed that free Windows 7 downloads would be kept alive until the end of 2010. But when it comes down to free Windows clients available as free downloads from the Redmond company itself, there’s even more good news for customers. The Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VP... |
31 March 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Windows 7’s modest system requirements in comparison with Windows Vista’s have made it possible for customers to upgrade to the latest iteration of the Windows client, without having to also upgrade their hardware. While Vista was somewhat of a resource hog, Windows 7 is designed to run on the same comput... |
30 March 2010
12:05 GMT |
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Time is near for older editions of Windows that have run their course to bow out and leave the stage to the latest versions of the platform, Windows 7. It is the natural evolution course for all Microsoft software products, outlined in detail on in the company’s Support Lifecycle Policy. Next to go will be the ... |
27 February 2010
06:54 GMT |
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It’s extremely hard, if not even somewhat inconceivable, for users to understand how a computer equipped with in excess of 64 GB of RAM could have performance issues. However, according to Microsoft, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 machines can, in fact, deliver extremely poor performance precisely becaus... |
23 February 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Coincidentally, today, February 22nd, 2010 is Windows 7’s forth month of general availability, as the operating system hit the shelves on October 22nd, 2009. A research study from Janco Associates indicates that the latest iteration of the Windows client is simply crushing its predecessor in terms of the adopti... |
22 February 2010
11:14 GMT |
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Microsoft was quick, albeit more than entitled to applaud Windows 7 for being the fastest selling operating system in history, but fact is that the latest Windows client is enjoying nothing short of stellar adoption. At least in some markets; case in point: Redmond, the software giant’s home. Redmondians must ... |
2 February 2010
03:17 GMT |
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An online resource from Microsoft is designed to diagnose and repair Windows operating systems, including Windows Vista SP2. The Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Services are set up to perform what the Redmond company refers to as common system maintenance tasks. Specifically, the Automated Troubleshooting Service... |
29 January 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download a reliability refresh designed to resolve issues affecting Windows Vista, including platforms upgraded to Service Pack 2, in Bluetooth pairing scenarios. According to the Redmond company, Bluetooth pairing issues affect only Windows Vista, and not customers running Windows XP... |
27 January 2010
05:10 GMT |
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Users of Windows 7’s predecessor can run into glitches when setting up Windows Media Center, Microsoft noted. According to the Redmond company, Vista customers have reported issues in which, during the Windows Media Center Setup process, they come across a black screen which prevents the process from completing... |
21 January 2010
06:05 GMT |
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Customers that have upgraded their Windows Vista Service Pack 1 computers to Service Pack 2 only to subsequently be plagued by frequent crashes can access a solution from Microsoft. The Redmond company notes that it is well aware of the issue. According to the software giant, some customers that made the jump from Vi... |
11 January 2010
08:36 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering a hotfix for download designed to resolve an issue in which users running Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and earlier experience crashes when also having McAfee Endpoint Encryption installed. According to the Redmond company, the issue affects both Vista SP2/SP1 customers, as well as those with Win... |
11 January 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has made new DirectX resources available for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista designed to illustrate the interoperability of the underlying graphics technology in the two platforms. Devs can take advantage of a whitepaper and two samples which are set up to streamline content creation leveraging interopera... |
8 January 2010
12:01 GMT |
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While not all STOP: 0x0000000A error messages can be blamed on third-party security solution, it appears that in certain scenarios antivirus and firewall programs are indeed responsible for causing blue screens of death for Windows Vista Service Pack 2. Affected are not just Vista SP2 editions, but also Windows Serve... |
4 January 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Microsoft customers can grab a fix from the company, designed to correct daylight saving time (DST) for UNIX-related technologies in the software giant’s products. A hotfix is currently up for grabs from Microsoft Support for users leveraging such Windows components as Windows Services for UNIX and utilities an... |
4 January 2010
04:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering free downloads of all its supported Windows clients, including Windows 7 RTM, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Starting with the advent of Vista, customers, partners, IT professionals and developers have been able to take advantage of a variety of offerings involving free releases of Windows from ... |
30 December 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked to allow customers running Windows 7’s predecessor to resolve issues that caused backups to fail via a fix offered for download. According to the Redmond company, users of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 can experience failures of the backing up process and the logging of Event ID 122... |
30 December 2009
04:38 GMT |
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Not all Windows system errors end up in the now ubiquitous Blue Screen of Death, as some might simply leave the end user starring at a blank black screen and nothing else beyond that, not even the cryptic information displayed by the BSOD. Black screens of death can affect operating systems such as Windows 7, but it ... |
29 December 2009
07:12 GMT |
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Because the changes implemented by Microsoft to the way that the most recent Windows operating systems deal with user privileges, elevation has become a mundane task for customers running Windows Vista or Windows 7. Whether it be an executable or a script, the source of system changes needs to be run with administrat... |
22 December 2009
09:50 GMT |
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As much as Microsoft perfected Windows 7 in order to deliver an as smooth-as-possible experience, fact of the matter is that the company couldn’t cover all possible scenarios. This despite the extremely large Beta testing pool, which grew to over eight million participants, according to the software giant. An i... |
11 December 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Microsoft disputed claims by various third-parties indicating that they were able to break the encryption technology build into the high-end and enterprise editions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Paul Cooke, Microsoft director, Windows Client Enterprise Security, stresses that one tool advertised to break BitLocker ... |
10 December 2009
13:30 GMT |
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Inevitably, with the advent of a new Windows platform, the old operating system market share race received new fuel, sparking fresh OS usage rate measuring contests. Windows 7 is, of course, the start of this year’s end, having been released to the public for purchase over a month ago. Since General Availabilit... |
1 December 2009
11:31 GMT |
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While it has received indisputable accolades as Microsoft’s best operating system to date, Windows 7 is no stranger to problems either, albeit to an extremely smaller degree than its predecessor, Windows Vista. Some of the issues reported by Microsoft involve failed Vista to Windows 7 upgrade attempts, which ca... |
1 December 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Just as it was the case for Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client can also be uninstalled, although “uninstall” does not specifically describe the process that end users will need to take in order to revert to a previously existing copy of a Windows OS. At the same time, ... |
30 November 2009
02:55 GMT |
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For the development process of Windows 7, Microsoft has worked closely with hardware manufacturers in order to ensure seamless compatibility and support for the latest iteration of the Windows client. This strategy has put Windows 7 light years away from Windows Vista in terms of incompatibility issues, but still, th... |
26 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked to improve the experience of Japanese users running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (including the SP2 releases) when it comes down to applications that leverage the Ribbon/Fluent graphical user interface. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available the Meiryo Font Collecti... |
18 November 2009
04:59 GMT |
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On October 22, 2009 Microsoft reached the final milestone of the Windows 7 release schedule, namely general availability. Customers worldwide have already started embracing the product, buying 234% more boxed retail copies of Windows 7 since the official launch compared to the first few days after Windows Vista GA. T... |
7 November 2009
07:54 GMT |
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Windows customers will need to get ready and deploy security patches come next week, with the exception of users that have already upgraded to the latest iteration of the client. Microsoft is readying a total of six security bulletins for release on November 10, 2009, no less than four of them targeting Windows rele... |
6 November 2009
07:17 GMT |
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Windows 7’s overall superiority to Windows Vista has translated into the latest iteration of the Windows client, leaving its predecessor in the dirt in terms of commercial success as well. Windows 7 RTM has been embraced by over three times more customers compared to Vista RTM in the first week on the market al... |
6 November 2009
03:35 GMT |
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While Windows 7 technologies are, as a general rule, available exclusively with the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft, there also are exceptions. Illustrative examples are DirectX 11, which will be backported to Windows Vista, a smaller part of the Platform Update for Windows Vista, which features... |
4 November 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download an automatic fix designed to resolve failed upgrades from Windows Vista to Windows 7 in scenarios in which the process gets stuck at 64% indefinitely. With Windows 7 having hit the shelves on October 22nd, 2009, eligible users running Vista proceeded to upgrade to their recen... |
4 November 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Following the general availability of Windows 7, Microsoft has started backporting bits and pieces of its latest Windows client to previous releases of the operating system. At the end of the past month, the Redmond-based company released the Platform Update for Windows Vista and the Platform Update for Windows Serve... |
2 November 2009
12:45 GMT |
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Only time will tell whether Windows 7 will be capable of providing end users with more security compared with its precursor. Fact is that, out of the barrage of criticism that hit Vista almost from the get-go, complaints largely avoided the security offered by the operating system designed to succeed Windows XP. Stat... |
2 November 2009
10:58 GMT |
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A free Microsoft tool is available for download, designed to resolve failed installations of the second service pack for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Labeled the System Update Readiness Tool, the utility comes in handy in various scenarios when updates can no longer be integrated on top of Vista SP1 and Win... |
2 November 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has wrapped up a package of technologies it is backporting from Windows 7 to Windows Vista. On October 27th, 2009, the Redmond company announced that the Platform Update for Windows Vista had been finalized and that it would be automatically served to customers running Vista plus the second Service Pack for... |
28 October 2009
15:21 GMT |
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For those who have watched closely the launches of Windows Vista and Windows 7, one thing must be perfectly clear. There is less hoopla when it comes down to the latest iteration of the Windows client compared to its precursor, a smaller footprint Wow as far as marketing efforts are concerned. Nowhere is this more tr... |
27 October 2009
09:40 GMT |
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On the General Availability deadline of Windows 7, Microsoft has stopped selling Windows Vista altogether via its online store. Microsoft Store offers exclusively Windows 7 editions under the Windows section, and Vista is nowhere to be found. The Redmond company has been mum as far as banishing Vista from the Microso... |
22 October 2009
08:04 GMT |
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