7.5 years for WinXP and 5.5 years for Office 2003, it has been a long way and thanks to WinXP, Win2k was almost made non-existant to most people. While WinXP had dominated the OS platform for almost the past half decade, I had been burrying myself inside Win2k Advance Server and Win2k3 Server as my production OS (at least before Vista was released), except for my company issued laptops.
Critical and security updates will still be available for both software thru the extended support period which ends 8th April 2014. Non-security updates will only be available to companies that subscribed to support contracts with Microsoft.
Build 7077 has been known to be available on various torrent sites. High chance is that this will be the final build before RC a.k.a RC escrow. The RC build is projected to be 7100 with builds 7105 onwards to be new developments under the RC phase.
Build 7077 should carry the file name 7077.0.090404-1255_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRC1CULFRER_EN_DVD.iso
Consumers and small enterprises who purchase Windows Vista computers between 26th Jun 2009 and 31st Jan 2010 will be eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 7. Each applicant will be able to apply a maximum of 5 computers per application for up to 5 applications, which makes a total of 25 free upgrades. Anyone who wants to apply for more than 25 upgrades will need to apply for volume upgrade.
Upgrade path will be as follow
Windows Vista Home Premium > Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows Vista Business > Windows 7 Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate > Windows 7 Ultimate
Sysinternals Suite just got an update on 30th March 09 and can be found at the Sysinternals Suite website.
The Sysinternals Suite is a collection of diagnostic tools written by various IT professionals for the IT community to aid them with troubleshooting Windows machine.
Readyboost now is able to support USB thumbdrive up to 8GB. To do so, simply
- Open Windows Explorer and navigate to Computer.
- Right click on the removable drive to be used for Readyboost and select Format.
- In the format window, select NTFS for File system and Default allocation size for Allocation unit size.
- Click on Start
- When done, right click on the removable drive again and select Properties.
- Select Readyboost tab followed by Dedicate this device to Readyboost.
- Click on OK.
A quick seach on mininova shows that the new build 7068 is out for grab, both x86 and x64 version. However, news is that that is a fake build and is infact build 7057. On the other hand, there is evident supporting that the build actually existed.
IE 8 has officially went gold and can be downloaded at IE Homepage.
A post on the Windows 7 blog by Steven Sinofsky, senior VP for the Windows engineering group, has detailed the latest changes made to Windows 7 RC.
Quite some changes had been made on the user interface, due to strong demand during the beta feedback.
Help yourself by helping the troubleshooters. This short article is meant for users with no technical knowledge.
HijackThis is a great utility that run through your registry and running processes to find unsafe registry settings and rogue processes . To use the tool, first download it from TrendMicro. Download the executable would be fine unless you want to have it installed in your system.
To use HijackThis, execute the executable you have just downloaded and accept the licensing agreement. Select Do a system scan and save a logfile. HijackThis will then scan your system and open the logfile. This process should be rather fast. Lastly, copy the contents and post it to whoever is helping you to troubleshoot your system.
MICROSOFT TECHIE Mark Russinovich has dropped the biggest hint yet that Windows 7 will be available at retail by Christmas this year.
source: the inquirer
And hopefully they would. I have been using it on my laptop and certainly love it.
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