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Microsoft just announced that Release Candidate 1 of Windows 7 will be available on May 5th 2009 and recently they released the version information. Below is a summary. They renamed Business back to Professional… what is the point! These meaninless changes do nothing but confuse consumers (corporate included). Also, trying Read more…
More than a few sites and blogs have posted whiney comments about how difficult the pre-release Windows 7 upgrade process is. Two comments: nonsense; for anyone with any technical skill, the process is simple Microsoft should do what they are doing… spending time getting “real world” upgrade processes in place Read more…
If you watched the news on Sunday (60 Minutes, CBC National, CTV National, Calgary Harold…) you saw scary stories relating to the CONFIKER virus. This virus is set to “talk” to its owner on Wednesday and while no one knows if its owner is still around or if anything will Read more…
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/launch-videos.aspx Internet Explorer 8 for Consumers Join Shola Aluko as he explains why Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser for what you do on the web every day. You’ll see what makes the new browser faster, safer, and more reliable than ever. Internet Explorer 8 for the Enterprise See Read more…
Hardware Ecosystem Support and Enhancements · Adds support for new UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) industry standard PC firmware for 64-bit systems with functional parity with legacy BIOS firmware, which allows Windows Vista SP1 to install to GPT format disks, boot and resume from hibernate using UEFI firmware. · Adds Read more…
In a dual core, dual CPU system which CPU’s are real and which are Hyperthreads? According to my research, on an Intel Xeon 5000 server, the following configuration is what Windows sees: CPU ordinal number CPU id CHIP SLOT FUNC1 (the first CPU)………. (0)……………. slot 1 real core A12 ……………………………….(1)……………. Read more…