Windows Enterprise Desktop
October 2009
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Slowly but surely, moving to 64-bit Win7
30 Oct 2009 -
Lots More Goodies at the MS Download Center
28 Oct 2009 -
Win7 Auto-detect Doesn't Always Load the Right Drivers
27 Oct 2009
As far as I can recall, Windows XP was the first Windows version to support 64-bit operation (in fact, according to the 64-bit software timeline in the Wikipedia article "64-bit" the first such ...
I was expecting more stuff to hit the MS Download center in the wake of the Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 release last Thursday (10/22/2009) and boy, was I right. Check out the "new items" page ...
In switching my test and production PCs over from Vista (or creating dual boot Vista/Win7 or XP-SP3/Win7 setups), I've observed that while Windows 7 does a very good job of identifying most ...
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More Windows 7 Downloads
23 Oct 2009 -
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Final Version Released
21 Oct 2009 -
Other Win7 Shoe Drops on Thursday
19 Oct 2009 -
Let's trade one Reliability Monitor mystery for another, OK?
16 Oct 2009 -
Patch Tuesday: 13 Bulletins on 10/13 Zounds!
14 Oct 2009 -
Check out the MED-V 1.0 User Guide!
12 Oct 2009 -
As the GA date for Win7 nears, momentum grows, but...
09 Oct 2009
Gosh! There's so much hype and hoopla surrounding yesterday's Windows 7 launch that I'm almost disinclined to add to the clutter myself. But hey: a guy's gotta blog, so there's plenty of ...
In anticipation of the upcoming GA (general availability) day for Windows 7 tomorrow (October 22, 2009) I've been checking in on the Microsoft Download Center regularly to see what's popped up ...
OK, so here it comes. Windows 7 General Availability will occur in just three more days, on Thursday, October 22. I'm starting to see advertisements from HP, Dell, and others that indicate that ...
Anybody who's been reading these blogs for any length of time knows that I am enamored of the Reliability Monitor in Windows Vista and 7. Back in early September I wrote a blog entitled "Why ...
Those inclined to see numerological conspiracy every time the number 13 pops up will want to take a deep breath before pondering Microsoft's release of 13 security bulletins for this Patch Tuesday, ...
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V 1.0) is software that uses Microsoft Virtual PC to provide an enterprise toolset for desktop virtualization. It lets admins create, deliver, and ...
I've been trolling the various blogs, the download site, and the news lately to keep up as the final pieces fall into place for the long-anticipated general availability date for Windows 7 on ...
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Table of Features Exclusive to Win 7 Pro and Ultimate
05 Oct 2009 -
Bott on Upgrading XP to Win7
02 Oct 2009
All the way back on June 29, Ed Bott at ZDNet compiled a table of features that appear only in Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate (and by extension, also in Enterprise as well). Since early ...
One of the big bugaboos of Windows 7 is its inability to directly upgrade systems from XP to Windows 7. Considering that 80% of business users who run Windows are still running Windows XP (source: ...