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My new book, Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition, is here, so I've set up an activity center that includes errata, changes, and notes from each chapter in the book ... Stay tuned for a daily book giveaway! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RE[3]: run XP on Vista OS News - 7 minutes ago i was gonna say the same thing, windows vista only driver problem was with crappy video drivers from nvidia and the drivers from creative., who apart from ... More...

Microsoft fights Ballmer testimony in ‘Vista Capable’ suit Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7 Lawyers want Windows Update used to push ‘Vista Capable’ lawsuit notices Microsoft gives users six months longer to flee from Vista Businesses focus on Windows 7, XP over Vista Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

TechRepublic is currently running a poll asking users whether their company is eventually migrating to Windows Vista and the choices are “Yes”, “No”, “Unsure”. I think Jason, who authored the poll should have included the option “Have Migrated” and that should have been my answer.Anyways, go ahead and vote in the poll here.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, [...] More...

Do you want to keep you computer clean? This video show simple steps you can perform to make sure your computer is clean.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

These screenshots show the installation and interactive user interface of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, the software giant's new bare-metal virtualization server! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Tapes Releases Instant JPEG from Raw Utility imaging resource (press release), GA - 7 minutes ago The operating system plug-in for Mac OS X or Windows XP/Vista can, Tapes said, eliminate the need to shoot Raw+JPEG because the extraction is very quick. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> It's 10 AM Do You Know Where Your Backups Are? Washington Post, United States - 10 minutes ago With Windows machines, you're in worse shape. The backup utility in some copies of Windows XP is a joke, and Windows Vista's backup tool is little better ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 6, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 7 minutes ago Imaginatively dubbed Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition, this second edition of "Vista Secrets" has is over 250 pages longer than the previous edition. ... More...

Microsoft is talking about Windows 7 as the successor of Windows Vista, but aside from that Steve Ballmer just announced that they have built something called “Windows Cloud” which runs in the internet.Steve contends that they have operating systems for the PC, phone, servers and now it’s time to have something for the internet. This [...] More...

Vista Visual Master helps you customize Windows Vista easily. It allows you to change the look of the windows, buttons, system icons, file icons, reconfigure the boot and logon screen, etc.The features listed are:* System Settings Remove the small arrow on each icon; show Windows version on the computer desktop and hide all desktop items; [...] More...

Hi. In previous posts I talked about the IE8 IEAK and new event logging for IE8 in the Application Compatibility Toolkit. Today, I’m going to discuss the improvements we made to Group Policy support for Internet Explorer 8. Background For those of you who might be new to Group Policy, here is a quick background. Let’s first assume you use an Active Directory environment to administer the computers in your corporate network. If that is the case, Group Policy provides a wide set of policy settings to manage IE8 after you have deployed it to your users' computers. These settings are locked down and cannot be changed by users, as they are always written to a secure tree in the registry. The IE Group Policy node in GPEdit.msc (GPEdit.msc is one of the tools used to configure Group Policies): http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/GPEdit3.PNG Group Policy allows you to create IE (and other software) configurations as a part of Group Policy objects (GPOs). The GPOs are linked to hierarchical Active Directory containers such as sites, domains, or organizational units. A client-side extension ensures that your policies are applied and refreshed regularly. Tools You might be wondering how to configure Group Policy? All the tools to configure create, manage, view, and troubleshoot GPOs are provided in your Windows operating system. Please check the Windows Server Group Policy site to find a list of the tools that are built into your OS. The IE8 Deployment Guide, a very important resource itself, is now updated to include content for IE8 Beta 2. For instance, as there are more than a thousand IE GPs, configuring these policies for the first time may seem like a daunting task for a new IT Professional. For this very reason, the Group Policy section of the Deployment Guide has been updated to include recommended Group Policy settings for security, performance and compatibility with IE6 and IE7. Group Policy support in IE8 In IE8, we have added more than 100 new Group Policies, bringing the total Group Policies supported in IE8 to 1300! Virtually all new IE8 features have Group Policy support, whether it is Compatibility View, Accelerators, or InPrivate Browsing Mode. These policies allow administrators to fully control IE8 features: hide the feature completely, preset the default, lock the user to only use the defaults, etc. For example, an administrator could turn off InPrivate Browsing by enabling the Turn off InPrivate Group Policy. We understand that organizations have different needs. We provided extra granularity in the form of additional policies, so that features can easily be configured to best suit your needs. For instance, Compatibility View has five Group Policies: Turn off Compatibility View Turn off Compatibility View button Turn on Internet Explorer 7 Standards Mode Turn on Internet Explorer Standards Mode for Local Intranet Use Policy List of Internet Explorer 7 sites As an example, if you are confident all your internal line of business applications and web sites work best with IE8, you can enable Turn on Internet Explorer Standards Mode for Local Intranet Group Policy. This will overwrite the intranet standards mode to be IE8. As usual, each policy comes with descriptive explain text that allows you to fully understand what the policy has been designed to do. The Explain Text for Turn on Internet Explorer Standards Mode for Local Intranet Group Policy: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/GPEdit2.PNG IE8 plays an important role in helping protect users against a range of attacks by offering new security features like the SmartScreen Filter, Data URI and Encryption support. All of these security features are GP enabled so the administrator can ensure their users are safe and secure in corporate environments. Based on the feedback we received from customers, we have Group Policy enabled some of the legacy settings like secondary home pages, something that wasn’t available in IE7. We’ve also given extensive Group Policy support for the Favorites Bar and Command Bar; an administrator now has firm control over how the IE UI will look. We have refined our Group Policy support in this release and look forward to your feedback once you’ve had a chance to try it out. Thanks, Jatinder Mann Program Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8974410 More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Photosynth.net PC World - 3 minutes ago You'll also need to use Windows XP or Windows Vista as your operating system, and have a PC configured with at least 256MB of RAM (1GB is recommended) and ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=kJqA41OLJWwJ&imgurl=www.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/blog96e8f4a46d46544143574725cb6433f0.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> Geekzone <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Linkification v7 Geekzone, New Zealand - 12 minutes ago Vista - curb those annoyances - Kirk Jackson with a good rundown of some common Vista issues and how to remedy them. Windows Server 2008 Workstation ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7: Microsoft Says "No Looking Back" DABCC.com (press release), FL - 10 minutes ago If the Mojave experiment didn't get you out there buying a new Windows Vista system, and the Seinfeld/Gates ads didn't have you lining up at your local ... More...

Last night, I gave a Windows 7 presentation to the Boston Area Windows Server User Group at Microsoft's regional office in Waltham, Massachusetts! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> October is Cyber Security (Un)Awareness Month Washington Post, United States - 29 minutes ago Windows 2000, XP and Vista computers ship with a firewall built in. For users searching for firewalls that are more configurable and more consistent in ... More...

I remember the challenges I had during the days of Windows XP when my computer kept on restarting and later on the technician found out it was a Memory problem and that my chip had to be replaced. I knew I could have easily done the testing if I had spare computer parts to test [...] More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Connect Microsoft Email Clients to Gmail Windows & Net Magazine, OH - 1 hour ago Fortunately, you can connect a number of Microsoft mail clients—various Outlook versions, Windows Mail (Windows Vista’s free POP/IMAP client, a replacement ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft releases Process Monitor 2.0 SearchWinIT.com - 13 minutes ago On Windows Vista, Process Monitor also collects thread stacks for network operations." It runs on Windows 2000 SP4 with Update Rollup 1, Windows XP SP2, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Investigate RAM problems with Vista’s Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool TechRepublic, KY - 22 minutes ago In this edition of the Windows Vista Report, I’ll show you how to launch and use the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool. This blog post is also available in the ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=ApD7LXWO8DcJ&imgurl=www.siliconrepublic.com/fs/img/news/200809/378x/windows7desktop.jpg width=80 height=63 alt="" border=1> Siliconrepublic.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Developers to get Windows 7 pre beta next month Register, UK - Sep 25, 2008 It’s also started a corporate blog about Windows 7, which is perhaps the best indication that Microsoft wants to draw a line under the Vista mess. ... Microsoft To Demo Windows 7 At PDC '08 Tech2 Windows 7 Arriving Early, Microsoft to Show Off New OS on October 28 Webmonkey Microsoft: Developers will get Windows 7 alpha next month Computerworld eFluxMedia - InternetNews.com all 89 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft desperately trying to recover Vista’s image Tiger Weekly, LA - 4 minutes ago It’s all a part of Microsoft’s recent advertising campaign to try to recover the image of its current operating system release, Windows Vista. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Sprint XOHM (Mobile WiMAX) PC Magazine - 29 minutes ago It worked fine on my Apple MacBook Pro running Windows Vista Enterprise, though I sometimes had to restart the PC after waking it from sleep mode to get it ... More...

Check out some screenshots of the Hyper-V Manager console for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V! More...