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Yesterday we reported that Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 would have Service Pack 1, due in the first half of next year, as a prerequisite—a surprising move, given that companies are often cautious about rolling out new service packs. Microsoft has now changed its public position: Service Pack 1 won't be required to run the new browser.
When Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9, will it require Windows 7 Service Pack 1?
No. Internet Explorer 9 will install on systems that have either Windows 7 RTM or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed.
Today's new answer
Internet Explorer 9 will require a number of patches before it can run; Microsoft has made many fixes to the Direct2D and Media Foundation APIs that the new browser heavily depends on. These fixes will be incorporated into Service Pack 1. However, standalone updates are also available, and the browser will install these if necessary.
This process should be familiar to anyone who has used the Platform Previews or the beta; those install the hotfixes if necessary.
More @ http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news...
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I had cause to set up Windows 7 Starter on a Samsung N150 Plus netbook last week and can only say it was a disappointing and frustrating experience and, indeed, not particularly an experience for a novice.
Most particularly, I could not believe how long it took me to set it up, bring it up to date and install additional programmes. Many restarts, slow in themselves, and just slow when finished. Ironically, I was in PCWorld earlier this week about a warranty repair for a small TV and witnessed a young person returning the exact same model because he said it was just far too slow.
By comparison, the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium runs so much faster on my nearly two year old Lenovo S10e netbook, once it has got past all the startup disk thrashing typical of all Windows versions.
My opinion, Windows 7 Starter is so crippled that it performs worse on a nettbook than Windows 7 Home Premium, and familiar functionality has been removed. Of course, the full version of Windows 7 Home premium is actually physically there on the hard drive just waiting to be freed by the payment of a rather too large fee to M$.
More @ http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/moleys-m...
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That is because Linux's main appeal is to members of the 'cloud generation', who tend to access applications via a browser, said Paul Holt, corporate sales director at Ubuntu-backer Canonical in London on Thursday.
"In my day-to-day role, am I typically [dealing] head-on with people wanting to migrate away from Microsoft environments? Yes-ish," Holt said at the Westminster eForum on open-source software in business and government. "The majority of adoption of Linux on the desktop is essentially people who previously had copies of pirated OSes, or had other ways of getting their OS onto their desktop. We're not necessarily competing with people who might be using Windows 7."
According to the latest figures from Statcounter, Linux had a 0.79 percent share of the global operating system market in August. That put it behind Mac OS X (5.66 percent), Windows Vista (17.68 percent), Windows 7 (19.43 percent) and Windows XP (declining, but still at 55.38 percent). Statcounter pegs Linux's share of the UK market slightly higher, at 0.87 percent, and Linux also has much higher shares of the mobile and server OS markets around the world.
More @ http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-o...
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Many of you have been using Windows 7 for quite some time now. Others may be thinking about an upgrade or a new computer purchase. Either way, there may be some hidden features that you are missing out on. We’ve compiled five of the most useful tricks you may not know about ... enjoy.
Docking your windows
Sometimes you have a couple of windows open that you’d like to reference simultaneously. One of the most under-utilized features of Windows 7 makes this super easy to do. Simply press the Windows key and the right or left arrow to “dock” your current window to one side of the screen. You can dock another window on the other side, and they’ll automatically line up nice and straight.
More @ http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/201...
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How can I speed up Windows 7? It's started running really slowly, and I don't know why.
There are several ways to speed up Windows 7. First, you should try the usual approaches, such as defragging your hard disk or using a Registry editor to find and fix errors.
If that doesn't work, try to identify the problem using the built-in Performance troubleshooter. Go to Start, Control Panel, System and Security. Click 'Troubleshoot common computer problems' in the Action Center and then click the 'Check for performance issues' option.
More @ http://www.webuser.co.uk/help-and-adv...
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Vodafone has launched a device dubbed the Mobile Wi-Fi R201. It is the first mobile router to gain the Windows 7 compatible stamp of approval. It's also the size of a credit card -- so it fits in your wallet -- and creates an instant mobile hotspot for up to five devices.
There's a lot to drool over with this device, but the bummer is, it's not available in the U.S., only in the countries where Vodafone operates. So I looked around for anything comparable, and found a few options.
 But first, let's look at the specs on the Mobile Wi-fi R201. Windows 7 will automatically recognize the mobile router and ask you if you want to connect, according to a post by Sarah Zenz on the Windows Blog. A user simply enters the WiFi authentication key for the device and is connected. The router also supports the Digial Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard, which lets DLNA-compatible devices share digital content like music, video and photos, while preserving DRM restrictions.
More @ http://www.networkworld.com/community...
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One of the best ways to reduce costs in a virtual desktop infrastructure deployment is to optimize the guest operating system. I slimmed down a virtual machine guest running Windows 7 Enterprise edition to reduce the growth of the cloned desktops in my tests of VMware View 4.5. Besides reducing the amount of storage and CPU consumed by my test VDI systems, my guest VMs got a little performance boost along the way.
My tests showed that there are some limits IT managers should keep in mind when stripping down Windows 7 for use in a VDI deployment. Among other factors, it is easy to be too enthusiastic in removing services and applications that may be "little used" as opposed to "unneeded." There is no substitute for fine-tuning in your environment, but here are some milestones that I discovered on my way to creating a leaner, meaner Windows 7 reference clone.
More @ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Virtualizati...
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BDNA Corporation, in conjunction with solutions partner BrightPlanIT, LLC, will present a live webinar, Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern, titled “Simplifying Microsoft Windows 7 Migration.”
Windows 7 — Risks and Benefits for Enterprise IT
- While migrating to a new operating system usually involves a simple process for individual consumers, multiplying this process over thousands to hundreds of thousands of end users poses significant questions to enterprise IT decision-makers.
More @ http://origin.benzinga.com/press-rele...
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The folks at Netbook Navigator have been threatening to send me a demo unit of their new 8.9 inch Windows tablet for months. Apparently they decided to send one to the folks at CrunchGear instead, because the site has just published a review of the tablet.
The long and short of it is that CrunchGear feels the Nav9 is pretty good for a Windows tablet… but they’re not entirely sure why you’d want a Windows tablet. Unfortunately, the review does more telling than showing, with the reviewer repeatedly suggesting that Windows 7 isn’t well designed for touchscreen tablets, but never really explaining why, or how that affects this particular device.
More @ http://liliputing.com/2010/09/netbook...
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Microsoft made its latest Windows HPC Server software available Monday, saying new features that integrate with Excel workbooks and harness the power of idle Windows 7 desktops will expand the reach of high-performance computing to smaller customers.
Supercomputing is generally the domain of universities, national labs and other large organizations, but Microsoft says it is aiming for "a broader set of customers" with the availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.
More @ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010...
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I got married last summer. One of the great things about being married is that because so many people have done it, you never have to look far for good advice on building a successful marriage. One thing you hear a lot from family and friends is on the subject of sharing, and how bringing your lives together in happiness and harmony is vital, as is retaining your own individuality and vitality.
This, naturally, got me thinking about file and printer sharing... and to this:
Look familiar?
More @ http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/guid...
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Toyota’s Australian division has revealed it will upgrade its desktop fleet to Windows 7 as part of a new four-year IT services deal with its incumbent supplier Fujitsu.
A statement distributed by Fujitsu said the Japanese IT services giant would manage the consolidation and standardisation of existing mid-range and mainframe services agreements and the provision of managed desktop services (including a service desk) as part of a new joint agreement. MIS Australia this morning reported Fujitsu was Toyota’s incumbent supplier.
More @ http://delimiter.com.au/2010/09/20/to...
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Last week I wrote in Tech Watch about Microsoft discontinuing support for Windows SteadyState -- a blow to admins who have to keep publicly shared PCs up and running.
If you're in charge of a group of publicly exposed PCs -- whether they're in an Internet cafe, a library, a corporate common area, a school, or the McMurdo Station Penguin Shop -- I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Microsoft just published a lengthy, detailed description of ways you can use Windows 7 to more or less duplicate the SteadyState feature set. The bad news is that you have to install Windows 7 on your public PCs (this won't work with XP or Vista), dive into 100 pages of documentation, and master the Microsoft Deployment Tookit 2010 in order to make it work.
More @ http://www.infoworld.com/t/malware/mi...
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It's not a Y2K-style crisis, but there's only a four-year window until Microsoft Corp. ends support for Windows XP. The need to migrate from XP to Windows 7 "will create an extra budgetary and resource burden on companies from 2011 to 2012," according to recent report by Gartner Inc.
The research firm estimates that large and midsize organizations worldwide will migrate about 250 million PCs to Windows 7 over the next few years.
Gartner predicted that demand for IT staffers qualified to handle Windows 7 migrations will exceed the supply during that time frame, leading to higher IT labor costs.
More @ http://www.computerworld.com/s/articl...
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While no one else has gotten their hands on it yet, FastCompany has scored some time with Internet Explorer 9, and their images show a pretty killer feature at work. IE9 will allow you to pin your favorite Web apps right to the Windows 7 taskbar.
Just like your favorite desktop applications -- Chrome, Firefox, Winamp, you name it -- you'll be able to pin your favorite browser-based apps. Better still, it's not going to be limited to actual apps like Gmail or Twitter. Launch partners include everyone from Amazon to the Wall Street Journal.
Cooler still, the Web apps that you pin will also be able to feature customized jump lists (image after the break).
More @ http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/09/...
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In response to a recent Hassle-Free PC that described quickly determining which version of Windows you have, a reader asked the following question about his system:
"Microsoft Windows XP, Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 3: Is this the 32-bit or 64-bit variety?"
Fair enough question: my Hassle-Free PC covered only Windows Vista and Windows 7, not XP. Know why? Because Microsoft didn't make 64-bit versions of XP--not for consumers, anyway. Rather, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition was created specifically for Intel's Itanium family of processors, and not many of those found their way into home PCs.
So if you're running XP on your system, I'd say it's 99.9 percent certain that it's the 32-bit variety.
Ah, but what does it matter? What are the differences between the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows (often known as "x86" and "x64," respectively)? If you're buying a new PC, which one should you choose?
More @ http://www.pcworld.com/article/205885...
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The government in the Swiss region of Solothurn has reportedly confirmed that it will turn to Windows 7 after hitting problems in a long-running desktop Linux migration project.
According to third-party Internet sources, the plan, whose origins go back as far as 2001, had been for the canton to have deployed Debian GNU/Linux distribution for desktop users, backed up by OpenOffice, the Scalix email system, Firefox and a number of KDE desktop applications.
More @ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010...
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To create a new folder before Windows 7 you had to take the following steps: Right Click-->New-->Folder. Now Ctrl+Shift+N on the keyboard does the trick. You can use this shortcut to create a new folder anywhere on your Windows 7 PC where a folder can be created.
Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts demo courtesy of Lifehacker.com.
Win+Space Bar
Pressing the Windows logo key (also the option key) along with the space bar minimizes all open windows and shows the desktop. This is the keyboard shortcut equivalent of mousing over the "show desktop" button in the lower right corner of the screen.
Win+Home
This shortcut minimizes all open windows except the active window.
More @ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010...
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The Ocosmos OCS 1--should the Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation Portable be worried?
(Credit: Damian Koh/CNET Asia) SAN FRANCISCO--Tucked away at one corner of the Intel Developer Forum Technology Showcase area is Korea-based company Ocosmos. Never heard of the brand? You're not alone, but the company's product, scheduled to be showcased at Wednesday's IDF keynote, is generating quite a buzz . We're talking about the OCS 1--a handheld gaming device based on the Oak Trail mobile CPU which runs the full Windows 7 operating system.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-2...
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Figure A shows the standard desktop with a number of windows open. Figure B shows that same desktop with all of the windows shaded and out of the way. A quick right-click of a title bar and you have that window back.
Figure A
A typical cluttered Windows desktop
Figure B
A much neater, and easy to manage desktop, thanks to WinRoll.
I am going to show you how to mimic a very usable, efficient desktop on your Windows 7 machine. This desktop will have the simplicity of Windows, the cool-factor of OS X, and the efficiency of Linux. This may not be to the liking of everyone, but for those of you who prefer a more flexible environment, you will appreciate what these little additions do for the standard Windows work environment.
So, hold on to your hats, we’re going to take that tired, old desktop of yours and make it fresh, and Linux-like.
More @ http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/win...
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