Windows Enterprise Desktop
January 2011
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Windows 7 Tally Tops 300 Million Units Sold
28 Jan 2011 -
Zinstall Scores Big in SMB Sector Thanks to Cost, Convenience
26 Jan 2011 -
Train Signal Offers Interesting Take on Win 7 Deployment Training
24 Jan 2011
While it's not anywhere near on par with MacDonald's just yet, Microsoft can now claim "more than 300 million copies of Windows 7 sold" since its general availability (GA) date on October 22, 2009. ...
I've written about the Zinstall product before: as long ago as August 16, 2010 (Zinstall XP7 Offers Remarkable XP to Windows 7 Migration Capabilities) and again about two weeks after that (zPOD ...
Last Thursday, well-known computer training company Train Signal released a DVD-based training package for Microsoft Exam 70-681 "TS: Windows 7 and Office 2010, Deploying." Why am I telling you ...
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First Windows 8 Release Date Rumor Surfaces: January 7, 2013
21 Jan 2011 -
Paul Thurrot on Win7 SP1: "Minor Changes"
19 Jan 2011 -
Interesting Meta-Update Hits Windows Update, Confirms Impending SP1 Release
17 Jan 2011 -
Rumors of Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 SP1 Point to Imminent Release
14 Jan 2011 -
Old Hardware, New Uses
12 Jan 2011 -
Hooray: USB-to-IDE/SATA Converter is a Cheap, Effective Hardware Item
10 Jan 2011 -
Windows 7 Crosses 20 Percent Share Line
07 Jan 2011
I just learned something new today: long-vaunted Malaysian Windows rumor/technology site ARS Technica has an equally serious rival in the Russian Federation. It's named WZOR and it's apparently a ...
Paul Thurrott's January 14, 2011, article "Sneak Peek: A Quick Look at Windows 7 Service Pack 1" confirms what Microsoft has been telling us all along — namely, no big or dramatic changes, ...
When I logged onto my primary desktop this morning, I noticed a new out-of-band (OOB) update from Microsoft had hit the update center. Normally, such updates are reserved for security fixes ...
I always love seeing images like this one (attributed to Alex Kibkalo in this blog from Matthew Jones entitled "Rumour: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be released to OEMs tomorrow") when rumors of ...
In my continuing efforts to turn a balky and failing 2000/2001 vintage Dell C610 notebook into a slow but still viable Windows XP machine for my sister, I've been learning some interesting things ...
Last spring, my sister announced to me that she'd purchased her son a Dell Latitude C610 notebook on eBay for around $200. "Did I do the right thing?" she asked. "I don't know," I said, "let's see ...
Reports are popping up all over the Web that Windows 7 broke the 20 percent market share barrier last month, according to figures released by Internet tracking firm NetApplications over the New ...
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Unlocker Utility Removes File Delete Frustration
05 Jan 2011 -
Interesting BIOS Flash Experience
03 Jan 2011
Especially when updating Adobe Flash Player components (for example, Flash10k.ocx) at Secunia's behest after updating that software for security reasons, I have to jump through some hoops to delete ...
I've got an Asus EeePC 1000HE netbook, and this weekend I went through a machine refresh for the Windows 7 Professional installation on that machine (I could run Windows 7 Starter on this box, and ...