Microsoft Extends Consumer Support For Windows 7 & Vista To 10 Years

by admin on February 28, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft Extends Consumer Support For Windows 7 & Vista To 10 Years

Traditionally, individual consumers have enjoyed 5 years of Mainstream support for their Windows product, in which time they received major upgrades, bug fixes, security patches, and more. Businesses enjoyed this same Mainstream support, but also the Extended support which lasted for 5 more years and included only security updates.

Although Microsoft has not made a big deal out of the change, individual consumers will also enjoy the 10-year Extended support from now on, meaning support will end on November, 2017 for Vista users and on January, 2020 for Windows 7 users. As a result, support for Vista will not end later this year as it was meant to.

Link – http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=Windows+Vista&Filter=FilterNO

Microsoft Extends Consumer Support For Windows 7 & Vista To 10 Years

by admin on February 28, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft Extends Consumer Support For Windows 7 & Vista To 10 Years

Traditionally, individual consumers have enjoyed 5 years of Mainstream support for their Windows product, in which time they received major upgrades, bug fixes, security patches, and more. Businesses enjoyed this same Mainstream support, but also the Extended support which lasted for 5 more years and included only security updates.

Although Microsoft has not made a big deal out of the change, individual consumers will also enjoy the 10-year Extended support from now on, meaning support will end on November, 2017 for Vista users and on January, 2020 for Windows 7 users. As a result, support for Vista will not end later this year as it was meant to.

Link – http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=Windows+Vista&Filter=FilterNO

Microsoft Flight Launches February 29, 2012

by admin on February 11, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft Flight Launches February 29, 2012

Prepare for takeoff! On the heels of a successful beta, we’re excited to announce that “Microsoft Flight” will be available to download worldwide for free starting February 29, 2012, right here at www.microsoftflight.com. In addition, the Hawaiian Adventure Pack – which includes the remaining Hawaiian Islands, a new plane and 20 new missions – will be available to purchase the same day through Games for Windows—LIVE.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight

Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture

by admin on February 11, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture

One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture has shown through shifts in technology and expansion of customer usage over time. What started out as an operating system for one person working solo with productivity software is now the foundation of a wide array of hardware and software technologies, a spectrum of connected Windows products, and an incredibly flexible approach to computing.

Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx

PST Capture

by admin on January 30, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on PST Capture

PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment – all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will help reduce risk while increasing productivity for your users by importing .pst files into Exchange Online or Exchange Server 2010 – directly into users’ primary mailboxes or archives.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28767

Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

by admin on January 30, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

This update contains hotfixes for issues that were fixed after the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Note The build of this cumulative update package is known as build 10.50.2796.0.

Download – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2633146

Security Compliance Manager 2.5 now available for beta download

by admin on January 28, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Security Compliance Manager 2.5 now available for beta download

The latest version the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool—version 2.5—is now available for beta download and review!

NEW baselines include:

  • Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Security Baseline
  • Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Security Baseline
  • Updated client product baselines include:
  • Windows 7 SP1 Security Compliance Baseline
  • Windows Vista SP2 Security Compliance Baseline
  • Windows XP SP3 Security Compliance Baseline
  • Office 2010 SP1 Security Baseline
  • Internet Explorer 8 Security Compliance Baseline

Download – https://connect.microsoft.com/site715/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=40885.

Released: Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3

by admin on January 28, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Released: Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center.

This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU5. See KB 2608656: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3′ for more details.

We would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:

  • DST Cadence Release for Dec 2011 – Exchange 2007
  • 22656040 An Exchange Server 2007 Client Access server may respond slowly or stop responding when users try to synchronize the Exchange ActiveSync devices with their mailboxes
  • 2498852 "0x80041606" error message when you perform a prefix search by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • 22653334 The reseed process is unsuccessful on the SCR passive node when the circular logging feature is enabled in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • 22617784 Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • 2289607 The week numbers displayed in OWA do not match the week numbers displayed in Outlook for English users and French users in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

Download – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28751

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 launch March 7th

by admin on January 28, 2012 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

On March 7th, 2012 this online event will allow you to immerse yourself in the exciting New World of Data with SQL Server 2012. Engage not only Microsoft product teams, but with our partners and our most ground breaking customers. SQL Server 2012 is part of the broadest Data Platforms in technology today. Discover how it enables mission critical confidence, blazing fast performance, and stunning interactive data visualizations.

Link – www.sqlserverlaunch.com

Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency

by admin on January 5, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency

In this post, we are going to dive into a feature in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Storage Spaces are going to dramatically improve how you manage large volumes of storage at home (and work). We’ve all tried the gamut of storage solutions—from JBOD arrays, to RAID boxes, or NAS boxes. Many of us have been using Windows Home Server Drive Extender and have been hoping for an approach architected more closely as part of NTFS and integrated with Windows more directly. In building the Windows 8 storage improvements, we set out to do just that and developed Storage Spaces. Of course, the existing solutions you already use will continue to work fine in Windows 8, but we think you will appreciate this new feature and the flexible architecture.

Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/05/virtualizing-storage-for-scale-resiliency-and-efficiency.aspx

Refresh and reset your PC

by admin on January 5, 2012 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Refresh and reset your PC

Many consumer electronic devices these days provide a way for customers to get back to some predefined “good” state. This ranges from the hardware reset button on the back of a wireless network router, to the software reset option on a smartphone. We’ve built two new features in Windows 8 that can help you get your PCs back to a “good state” when they’re not working their best, or back to the “factory state” when you’re about to give them to someone else or decommission them.

Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/04/refresh-and-reset-your-pc.aspx

Microsoft shows off early attempts at a holodeck

by admin on December 31, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft shows off early attempts at a holodeck

The ultimate goal of virtual reality developers is to recreate the holodeck, first named and shown in Star Trek The Next Generation. In a new video feature on The Verge, the web site is given a tour of Microsoft’s Edison Labs where the goal of the creators is to create truly realistic looking 3D virtual environments without the need for glasses.

Automatic backups coming to Windows Phone

by admin on December 31, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Automatic backups coming to Windows Phone

Anyone that’s suffered data loss will know how much of a lifesaver backups are. To the average user, backups can get tedious and intrusive, so modern day systems have been geared towards making the process as simple as possible.

Link – http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-is-finally-planning-to-fix-backup-in-windows-phone/

Microsoft’s Visual Studio now has Achievements

by admin on December 27, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft’s Visual Studio now has Achievements

Achievements are the only thing you need to keep a gamer striving towards their next goal. The premise of a few more virtual points for their effort seems to be enough to drive people to do much more. Channel 9 have realised this, and as WPCentral are reporting, are gleefully making the most of the opportunity, with their own achievement system.

Link – http://www.wpcentral.com/visual-studio-achievements-windows-phone-beta-developers

Microsoft PerfView 1.0

by admin on December 27, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft PerfView 1.0

PerfView is a performance analysis tool focusing on ETW information (ETL files) as well as CLR memory information (heap dumps). It can collect and view ETL files as well as XPERF CSV files. Powerful grouping operators allow you to understand performance profiles in ways other tools can’t. PerfView is used internally at Microsoft by a number of teams and is the primary performance investigation tool on the .NET Runtime team. Features include:

  • Non-invasive collection – suitable for use in live, production environments
  • Xcopy deployment – copy and run
  • Memory
    • Support for very large heaps (gigabytes)
    • Snapshot diffing
    • Dump files (.dmp)
  • CPU Performance
    • Support for managed, native, and mixed code
    • Can read XPerf logs
    • Profile diffing

Download –

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