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TECHREPUBLIC ON MS WINDOWS VISTA The continuing saga of Windows VISTA After deciding to forego the update install for Windows Vista (see the previous blog post), I opted for the clean install. This could be considered the second option. Windows Vista installs itself but keeps a copy of the old Windows XP on hand in a file marked Windows.old or something ... Tags: drivers, wireless, windows vista, microsoft windows vista 2006-12-19 Blog posts Upgrading Windows XP to Windows VISTA Currently, you can upgrade from Windows XP or Windows 2000 to Windows Vista by purchasing an upgrade edition of Windows Vista. You have two options for the installation:In-place upgradeUpgrade Windows XP or Windows 2000 to Windows Vista.Clean installMy next gallery will go over a clean installation that takes advantage of ... Tags: microsoft windows, upgrade, operating system, steven s. warren, windows vista, the hot button, windows xp 2006-12-18 Blog posts Enterprise Vista activation feature hacked In a recent article (Pirates work around Vistas activation feature, IDG News Service, 12/08/06), Nancy Gohring described hacks to circumvent Microsoft Windows Vista’s Key Management Service (KMS). The KMS, part of the SPP process, is designed to prevent piracy of the new Windows operating system while allowing enterprise customers ... Tags: key management service, software, security policy, windows vista, networking, vista, microsoft 2006-12-14 Blog posts Windows Calendar: A new feature of Windows VISTA Windows Calendar is a fully-featured calendar application that comes packaged with Windows Vista. It supports the iCalendar format and has the ability to publish and subscribe to web-based calendars. I had some time today to tool around with Windows Calendar (included in Windows Vista) and for most people the features ... Tags: microsoft windows, steven s. warren, windows calendar, the hot button, windows vista 2006-11-27 Blog posts Video Blog: Install Windows VISTA is a Snap For everyone out there who has not seen how easy it is to install Windows Vista, I decided to put together a 5 minute video that shows you how easy it is. Enjoy. Let me know what you think?tr.wmv Tags: operating system, the hot button, windows vista, steven s. warren 2006-11-30 Blog posts Windows Aero ? Vista's premium user interface As you know, the Graphical User Interface, or GUI, in Windows Vista has undergone a major overhaul. The most prominent example of this overhaul is Windows Aero, which Microsoft describes as the premium visual experience of Windows Vista, because it features a transparent glass design with subtle window animations and new window colors. Windows ... Tags: aero basic, greg shultz, windows aero, windows vista, microsoft windows 2006-11-30 Technical articles Microsoft takes wraps off Vista for business NEW YORK--Vista may be ready for businesses, but are businesses ready for it? Microsoft on Thursday said its newest version of Windows, along with a revamped Office and new Exchange e-mail server, is completed and is now available to business customers. The company said it will make Vista and Office ... Tags: microsoft windows vista, microsoft, windows vista 2006-11-30 News items Windows VISTA can be as expensive or inexpensive as you want it to be Security. When I hear this word it is comforting to me as it should be to you. Windows XP SP2 has been a very secure release for Microsoft. Windows Vista is touted to be the most secure release of Microsoft to date and I tend to agree. But … If ... Tags: microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows, operating system, steven s. warren, windows vista, security, microsoft, the hot button 2006-12-11 Blog posts I give up on the Windows VISTA update I gave it the proverbial college try, but I cant wrestle with it anymore. After trying to install Windows Vista on my Compaq laptop (see my previous post) using the upgrade option, I have come to the realization that it was a bad idea. I had nothing but problems for ... Tags: laptop computer, microsoft windows vista, operating system, windows vista 2006-12-07 Blog posts Video Blog: Working with the Windows VISTA Anti-Phishing Toolbar This AVI video shows you how the Anti-Phishing toolbar works within Windows Vistas Internet Explorer 7. Enjoy! Tags: internet explorer 7, steven s. warren, operating system, phishing, windows vista, the hot button, security 2006-12-06 Blog posts Ballmer discusses life after Vista NEW YORK--The holiday season hasn't gone exactly as Microsoft had hoped. The much-anticipated Zune, Microsoft's portable music player entry, has received mixed reviews, and demand has been tepid. Sure, Vista made its debut, finally, last week--but only for business customers. The Windows XP successor, more than five years in the ... Tags: apple computer inc, microsoft, windows vista, web services, smart phones, microsoft office 2006-12-06 News items Vista cometh to my laptop PC, well almost Today I am taking one for the TechRepublic editorial team and I am installing Vista Premium on my laptop PC. It is a modest machine with a 1.3 Celeron CPU, 512Mb RAM and your basic wireless 802.11b/g connection. I ran the compatibility software Microsoft provided and I was assured there ... Tags: laptop computer, windows vista 2006-12-05 Blog posts Configuring a Dual Desktop Display in Windows VISTA For the average user, connecting a dual desktop configuration took several steps and could be rather confusing. Windows Vista makes it easier to configure a dual desktop display through what they now call the Window Mobility Center. It is like shopping at WalMart; it has a little bit of everything ... Tags: steven s. warren, windows vista, microsoft, the hot button, uncategorized 2007-01-02 Blog posts A fix for Windows VISTA and Broadcom wireless devices (temporary) As you may recall, I have been trying out the latest version of Microsofts Windows Vista (Build 6000). Initial problems with the installation on my Compaq laptop could be explained by my experimentation with the upgrade installation path. (Trust me, back up your data, format your hard drive, and do ... Tags: drivers, windows vista, uncategorized 2007-01-02 Blog posts Video Blog: Windows Collaboration in Windows VISTA Windows Collaboration is a peer-to-peer collaboration application that will ship with Windows Vista. During the 4 1/2-minute WMV video, I will show you how to connect two Vista machines using Windows Collaboration. I will also demonstrate how to share a presentation and control one machine from ... Tags: windows collaboration, microsoft windows, the hot button, windows vista, steven s. warren, operating system, collaboration 2006-12-05 Blog posts Malicious software troubles Windows VISTA? While Microsoft are making much of the enhanced security features offered by Windows Vista, there are concerns that in reality these enhanced features offer little more protection that is currently available. Back in August we saw reports of ‘BluePill’, a malware attack that uses CPU based virtualisation technology to ... Tags: microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows, antivirus, windows vista, security 2006-12-02 Blog posts Vista to take a cue from budget Windows Microsoft will put a feature from XP Starter, aimed at emerging markets, in the upcoming update. Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows, microsoft windows xp, microsoft windows vista, vista starter, mike wickstrand 2006-10-09 News items Microsoft changes Vista over antitrust concerns The company revises several features in Vista in response to concerns raised by antitrust officials. Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft corp., security 2006-10-13
10 things to consider before rolling out Windows Vista in your organization 10 things to consider before rolling out VistaHow soon (if ever) will you upgrade your systems to Vista once it's released? Are you anticipating major problems with the rollout?I suspect,there will be a day. But to be honest, I have no need for it. Linux is the OS for me. ... Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows, operating systems, microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows xp 2006-08-23 Discussion threads Microsoft takes wraps off Vista for business Windows Vista now available to business customersMicrosoft said its newest version of Windows, along with a revamped Office and new Exchange e-mail server, is completed and is now available to business customers. See the photo gallery: Vista's business debut. http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-38303.html Despite Vista's long gestation period and the length of time since Windows XP's ... Tags: sonja thompson, microsoft windows vista 2006-12-01 Discussion threads Blog posts Has anyone tried Vista release version yet? I've been running the release version of Windows Vista for about a week now. I haven't had any major problems and most of my software runs as is. I've only had to get a different anti-virus program and upgrade to Roxio EMC 9.0. The only other problem ... Tags: mr.wiz, microsoft windows vista 2006-11-25 Discussion threads The real story on Vista application compatibility Uggggghhhhhh,Vista breaks applications that need to be broken because they are sloppy and on and on ? No, I don't subscribe and empower that line of thought, most of the applications with security leaks and work fine with XP or Vista are Microsoft Windows products themselves. The ones that have are ... Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows, operating systems, microsoft windows vista
Most security tools not quite ready for Vista Microsoft released Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday, but most security companies look like they need more time to deliver tools to protect the new operating system. Symantec, Trend Micro and CA are still working on products for Vista, representatives for the each of the companies said Thursday. McAfee ... Tags: microsoft windows vista 2006-11-30 News items Microsoft: Fast start for Vista in businesses Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by companies at twice the speed as its predecessor, Windows XP. Twelve months after the release of Vista, Microsoft expects that usage share of the oft-delayed operating system in businesses will be double that of XP a year after it shipped, ... Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows, operating systems, microsoft windows vista 2006-09-29 News items How quickly will businesses adopt Vista? Microsoft has said that it will have Windows Vista ready for large businesses by the end of this month, but are businesses ready for Vista? That is a key question for Microsoft, now that it has wrapped up its development work on the new operating system and is shifting into ... Tags: microsoft windows vista 2006-11-03 Discussion threads Can a coupon save holiday PC sales? Can a coupon save holiday PC sales?article rootVista-capable PC promotionWindows Vista isn’t ready yet, but Microsoft is promising a Vista-related promotion to help encourage holiday PC sales. However, some analysts doubt that even a free upgrade will be enough to keep PC sales from being dented significantly. What type of promotion ... Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows xp, desktops, microsoft windows vista 2006-08-24 Discussion threads Microsoft takes wraps off Vista for business NEW YORK--Vista may be ready for businesses, but are businesses ready for it? Microsoft on Thursday said its newest version of Windows, along with a revamped Office and new Exchange e-mail server, is completed and is now available to business customers. The company said it will make Vista and Office ... Tags: microsoft windows vista, microsoft, windows vista 2006-11-30 News items Overview: What's new in Windows Vista? Overview: What's new in Windows Vista?article rootOverview: What's new in Windows Vista? Do you think Vista offers some genunine enhancements in functionality and security or do the changes seem mostly cosmetic? What do you like (or hate) most about it so far?Nice, but......Like the article says, lots of eye candy. Microsoft ... Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp. 2006-07-18 Discussion threads Microsoft: Vista is ready to roll After five years and many twists and turns, Microsoft on Wednesday said that development of Windows Vista is complete. Windows chief Jim Allchin said Microsoft signed off on the code less than an hour ago. "It's rock solid and we're ready to ship. This is a good day," Allchin said in a ... Tags: microsoft windows vista 2006-11-08
More Detail on Windows Vista At that time, I was still researching a story that addresses Microsoft's Software Protection Platform (SPP), Vista's beefed up anti-piracy measures. This past summer, Microsoft denied that there would be a "kill switch" in Windows, but that was apparently semantic distinction. Instead, Windows Vista's SPP invokes "Reduced Functionality Mode," something of an understatement. After 30 days, the only thing Vista will let you do is access the Internet for an hour at a time, presumably for the purpose of paying up — that is, re-buying your copy of Vista. Because if you buy an illegal copy of Vista, it's your fault. This Computerworld story gives you full detail, directly from Microsoft, about Reduced Functionality Mode. It should be required reading for all would-be Vista users: · The Skinny on Windows Vista SPP and 'Reduced Functionality Mode' Another Computerworld story, authored by the former Editor of Linux Pipeline, Matt McKenzie, delves into Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Vista. It is well worth a read: · Vista and More: Piecing Together Microsoft's DRM Puzzle Microsoft has only deigned to give me gold code for a single installation of Windows Vista. My requests for a larger sample product IDs have been acknowledged but so far not acted upon. For comparison sake, when Windows XP shipped, I was given 20 installations of Windows XP Pro and five installations of Windows XP Home. That permitted me to thoroughly test XP and to research problems that readers have and report back with help and solutions. Because of the single installation, I immediately decided Vista must go on my production Windows machine, a 2GHz Core Duo T60 15-inch-LCD ThinkPad with a SATA-150 hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. A not-so-funny thing happened as I was getting set to do that. Read the next section to get the rest of the story.
No sooner had I migrated the last key application, Eudora, from Windows to the Mac, than the Windows machine started acting up. Other than migrating my Eudora installation, the main thing that changed on my system was that I uninstalled IE7 for XP and ran Microsoft's Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor. Unfortunately, I was not able to prove or disprove that either one of those events was the precipitating factor. The symptoms were a little odd. First my ThinkPad refused to network. Then the program icons for several applications (including all the apps in Microsoft Office 2003) lost the file-associated icon images. I checked and rechecked NTFS file permissions and ownership, that was not the problem. New errors were appearing each time I rebooted. Finally, I resorted to one of the recent backups I'd made of that computer's disk with Acronis True Image 10 Home disk-imaging backup utility. Since stuff like this rarely happens to me, the coincidence of my moving to a Mac and my main Windows box heading south left my wife Cyndy (and others) smirking at the irony. But running a restore from Acronis was a mistake, and it wasn't Acronis' fault. You see, I was totally unaware of an early-adopter issue with SATA-150 (150 Megabytes per second) hard drives and restoring from image-based backups — at least on ThinkPads. After running the Acronis Recovery routine, everything appeared to come off smoothly — except for the minor detail that my machine wouldn't boot. (For the record, the error message was "Missing Operating System.") My USB-connected external backup drive became the C: drive on restart. I tried three different boot discs, and none of them could see my internal SATA hard drive. And then, strangely, the ThinkPad's disk diagnostics, running from the "hidden" partition on the SATA drive, had no trouble seeing both SATA disk partitions. That's when I knew I was into something truly strange. Lenovo support ran through a lot of stuff I'd already tried, but then they had me go into the SATA area in the BIOS setup screens and change the SATA entry to compatibility mode. That did the trick. I was able to both restore the ThinkPad from Lenovo's recovery partition and also resurrect it from my Acronis image backup. Plus, Lenovo pointed me to an Intel-supplied SATA driver that Lenovo offers that lets you leave the faster SATA setting in vogue while performing image-based installs or restores. For more information on Serial ATA (SATA) standards, see the sata-io.org site. So, I guess it wasn't the Microsoft gods after all.
OFFICE 2007 ONLY LINKS Products Home Page - Microsoft Office Online
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Images: The new interface in Microsoft Office 2007 Very well ICONATED!!Good stuff from the boys at MS.User friendliness and interactivity will reach higher levels with the 3-d effect icons and a lot of color that has been added!! Let's hope that no security issues arise!Like GG says ... No security issues?? with M$?? Good stuff from M$?? This is ... Tags: security, aragon.elessar, m$?, good stuff 2006-03-14 Discussion threads
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