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By emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski) Windows 7 SP1 beta rumored by end of 2009, RTM summer 2010: Windows 7 may be out, but Microsoft is of course still hard at work improving the operating system. Rumor has it that SP1 for Windows 7 will come sooner than it did for Windows Vista.

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Windows 7 may be out, but Microsoft is of course still hard at work improving the operating system. Rumor has it that SP1 for Windows 7 will come sooner than it did for Windows Vista.

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By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) “We released 5 major packages. 32-bit versions for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. We shipped 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. In addition, we supported all major languages for each of the operating s...

By Scott M. Fulton, III The physical test platform we've chosen for CRPI browser testing is a triple-boot system, which enables us to boot different Windows platforms from the same large hard drive. Our platforms are Windows XP Professional SP3, Windows Vista Ultimate SP2, and Windows 7 RTM.

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Windows 7 is an evolutionary Windows client release, according to Microsoft, and it was also fit that support for the OS would also be an evolution compared to what was available for Windows Vista. And Windows 7 comes in a world where Microsoft Support is much different from what it was when...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) “The Platform Update for Windows Server 2008 and the Platform Update for Windows Vista are collections of runtime libraries that make it easy for developers to target a wider customer base,” Microsoft revealed. “All the updated technologies in the Platform Update for Windows Vista are...

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By aviraj As you all know Microsoft released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These new operating systems have provided lot of improvements over Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Where we often talk about only Windows 7 when it  comes to public awareness. There is lot more to know about Windo...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) The past week I was telling you that the direct links for the 32-bit (x86) editions for Windows 7 Professional found their way on various websites posting information on a variety of illegal methods to get the successor of Windows Vista (I will not provide links to illegal sources of Windo...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Microsoft first revealed plans to deliver a free security solution designed to accompany its latest iteration of the Windows client to market in the second half of November 2008. Developed under the codename Morro, Microsoft Security Essentials was released almost a month ahead of the...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Windows 7 is a far cry from the problems that plagued its predecessor, Windows Vista, but fact is that resources designed to help customers deal with eventual incompatibility issues are always welcomed (Read the Windows 7 Softpedia Review here). Just ahead of the official launch of the l...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Tomorrow, October 22nd, 2009, Microsoft will release the latest iteration of its Windows client to the public. And while the vast majority of new copies of Windows 7 will be sold preloaded on OEM machines, licenses will also be acquired by customers running older computers. Just ahead of t...

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By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Users will be able to leverage Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor if they are running Windows XP and Windows Vista, the company informed. The tool can additionally assess machines for ... (read more) The last stage of the Windows 7 launch, general availability, is now just three days away. Come October...

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By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) According to KB917607, titled “I cannot open Help files that require the Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) program,” “At this time, there is no WinHlp32.exe download available for Windows 7 or for Windows Server 2008 R2. However, separate downloads for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) With the October 22nd general availability of Windows 7 approaching fast, all eyes turn to Microsoft, as the Redmond company is expected to debut its main marketing effort designed to push the product. However, even in the pre-launch season, Microsoft has not been shy of running various...

Microsoft has made available for download (http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974090 kbln=en-us) an update designed to boost power-saving capabilities for the latest Windows client and server releases. Microsoft noted that the update could allow for pote...

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By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) “Windows 7 has improved the capabilities of ReadyBoost over Windows Vista, including: Maximum cache size has been increased from 4GB to 32GB. Note that to utilize a memory cache of greater than 4GB, the flash drive needs to be formatted with either a exFAT or NTFS file system. Support for up...

By YongRhee[MSFT] Windows Vista RTM Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) Built-in diagnostics for Windows Vista. Applications and Services Logs --> Microsoft --> Windows --> Diagnostics-Performance --> Operational

By Scott M. Fulton, III tested the latest available development and stable builds of all five brands of Web browser, on all three modern Windows platforms -- XP SP3, Vista SP2, and Windows 7 RTM. Once again, we threw the kitchen sink at them: our new and stronger performance benchmark suite, consisting of experi...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Microsoft will, for the first time ever, release updates designed to fix security vulnerabilities in the gold version of its latest Windows client. Throughout the development process, early adopters and testers of Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 and Release Candidate (RC) Build 7100 have be...

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By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) I have been using Windows 7 as main operating system since it launched into Beta in January, and upgraded to the full RTM Ultimate edition as soon as it was offered through my MSDN subscription at the start of August. I also have been running Windows 7 on multiple machines, both at home and at w...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Windows 7 won’t become generally available until the second half of this month, but, despite this, the retail boxes of the operating system are already in stores. Microsoft is making sure that Windows 7 copies are available to retail outlets weeks before the latest iteration of the Windo...

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By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Windows 7’s evolution compared to Windows Vista is undeniable, and the lucky few that so far have had access to the RTM bits of the latest Windows client can confirm this. But fact of the matter is that even in Beta Build 7000 development stage, Windows 7 bested Vista, and the boot time perfor...

By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Microsoft is rolling out a new special offering with its latest iteration of the Windows client at the core. Dubbed the Windows 7 UK Student Offer, the special offering allows students in the United Kingdom to purchase Windows 7 for as little as £30. Microsoft revealed that students had a ch...

By Alan Norton xcopy.exe Vista x64 RTM files 9.7% 3.4% 8.1% 4.5% xcopy.exe Vista x64 RTM files 2.2% 6.6% imagex.exe Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 oscdimg.exe Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 2.6% 9.5% 8.5% N/A 6.6% N/A 3.5% xcopy.exe Vista x64 RTM files N/A N/A N/A 9.3% 8.1% 0.9% oscdimg.exe Vista Ultimate x64 SP2

By Milo Riano Now that the Windows Vista operating system is almost behind us, the Windows 7 RTM already released, plus the growing popularity of Apple and its iPhone technology made sure the PC satisfaction came back. According to David VanAmburg who is the managing director of the index, the decisio...

By Dwight At this point, I think 64-bit Windows issues are largely a thing of the past. For those still worried, I'd refer you to this entry I wrote last December about whether to buy a computer that had 64-bit Vista pre-installed. Technorati Tags: windows 7,64-bit,microsoft,operating systems

By Dwight I still have not used the activation key, though. As with Vista, you have 30 days to activate a copy of Windows 7 before it quits working. I've been promised a 64-bit copy of the software shortly, which I'll put on my home-built, quad-core PC, and am really looking forward to testing Windows 7 o...

By NVIDIA We are very excited here at NVIDIA today, because the fact that Windows 7 has hit the RTM milestone means we are on the doorstep of the launch of the first Windows operating system to treat the graphics processing unit (GPU) as a real peer to the CPU.

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By Yochay Kiriaty If your application is compatible with Windows Vista you are in a good shape! We expect most applications that run on Windows Vista to run on Windows 7. Obviously, you can’t take this for granted and must check (and double check) that your application truly is compatible with Windows 7. Ther...

By Brandon LeBlanc The Upgrade and Full packaged retail product of Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate will come with both 32-bit and 64-bit DVDs. With Windows Vista, the 64-bit version was only available with Windows Vista Ultimate. Due to the incredible adoption of 64-b...

Windows Vista users can easily remember that, at the start of 2008, Microsoft released a number of updates that were pre-requisites for the installation of Service Pack 1. Perhaps with Windows 7 the company is trying to avoid going through a similar ...

By mniehaus As some of you have already discovered, ConfigMgr (RTM and SP1) is unable to capture an image of a Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2 operating system.  Fortunately, there are now two hotfixes available for this, one if you are running ConfigMgr RTM:

 Romania Put together, the updates included in the ISO image are set up to patch no less than 15 vulnerabilities in supported Windows operating systems, including Windows Vista Service Pack 2, but also SP1 and RTM, and Windows XP SP3. In total Microsoft patched ...

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By BSchwarz Just a heads up to prepare for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. It will be available in the coming weeks on the Download Center (DLC) and also through Windows Update and WSUS. On April 28th, we announced the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Window...

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By Sumeeth Evans Just a heads up to prepare for Windows Vista  and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. It will be available in the coming weeks on the Download Center (DLC) and also through Windows Update and WSUS.  On April 28th, we announced the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Win...

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 Romania By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor Microsoft was yet to announce the releasing to manufacturing of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 that the bits had already been leaked to torrent trackers. On April 28, the Redmond company ...

Brandon LeBlanc: Today we are announcing the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. SP2 represents the latest step in Microsoft’s commitment to continuous improvement. It includes all updates that have been delivered since SP1...

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 Romania According to the software giant, the second service pack for the Office 2007 System will only be supported on platforms such as Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 following their release to manufacturing ...

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By MIG-31 This article provides some answers to common questions about Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Do note that this is based on the Release Candidate (RC). There may be some changes to the final release to manufacturing (RTM) version. However, the changes are likely to b...

By Steven Bink Microsoft today released Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 RTM Escrow build to Connect beta testers. If you are a Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 Connect beta tester, you can download this build today from Microsoft Connect

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Microsoft has given testers the RTM-Escrow build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Participants can grab it via Windows Update, as a standalone download, or as a slipstreamed download. By Emil Protalinski | Last updated March ...

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By emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski) This week, Microsoft Connect testers received the RTM-Escrow build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Ars has learned. The company is letting testers grab it as a standalone installer package (all languages) as well as slipstreamed versions in English, Spanis...

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 Romania Nowhere was this more true than with Windows Vista, although Microsoft did its best to convince customers of the contrary. However, Windows 7 is Windows 6.1 to Vista (Windows 6.0), or a Vista Release 2 (R2) if you will. Even in Beta, Windows 7 does not ...

“Internet Explorer 8 is available for the following Windows releases: Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista (RTM), SP1 and SP2.” Internet Explorer 8 Language Packs for Windows Vista and Windows Server ...

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By Softpedia News Hot on the heels of Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) Wave 3 Beta made available earlier this month by Microsoft, Yahoo has released its own instant messaging client. Yahoo Messenger 9.0 is designed to integrate with the latest editions of the Windows client including Windows Vista Servic...

By Windows Installer Team The Windows Installer 4.5 redistributable can install on the following Windows Operating Systems: Target Operating System Windows Vista RTM Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Server 2003 SP2

By DotNetInterop Quietly I've been suffering through an experience with Windows Vista on my laptop.  I got my laptop, a HP/Compaq nc8430, in October 2006 and had been running Vista on it since then.  In the early days, I used a pre-release version of vista, but I switched to the generally-released (RTM) vers...

By Michael Follow me on Twitter. I only post insights that are relevant for Windows admins. Related WSUS 3.0 SP1 can be integrated in Windows Server 2008 Server Manager (0)Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Automatic Updates - Microsoft’s confusing terminology and Network Access Protection (NAP)...

By CraigN.NET Both the Windows Server and Windows Vista teams released new builds today. The much-awaited Windows Server 2008, formerly known by the code-name Longhorn Server, was released to manufacturing today, as was the highly anticipated service pack 1 update Read More......(read more)

By Michael This is really disappointing because SP1 is far more important than Microsoft tries to make us believe for months. I am going to post something about this point these days. Ah yes, there is another reason why I am so grumpy. ...

By Anonymous Windows Vista Team Blog : Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx Download details: Release Notes for Windows Vista Service ...

By Corrine After learning about Vista Made Easy: 50 Tips And Tricks at PC Magazine from Andre Da Costa, I realized I was also missing Andre's Windows Vista RTM FAQ and Quick Start Guide - March 2007 Edition in Windows Vista Bookmarks. That omission has now been remedied with the addition of both refere...

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