All posts tagged Windows

All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike

Yesterday, Eric announced that there would be a new update for Windows Phone. You can read his post to see what all is included, but I wanted to focus on a specific issue: phones “updated” using any unofficial mechanisms.

Despite the fact that many people have claimed that an unofficial update mechanism worked fine for them, we cautioned that phones which were updated via this method were not going to be able to update past build 7390. Unfortunately for those customers out there who acted on information from sources outside of Microsoft, the rubber meets the road today.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/05/04/all-updated-windows-phones-are-not-alike.aspx

Windows 8′s user account roaming feature

win8roamingThe feature, which appears to be only available for “Linked” Windows accounts (presumably to Windows Live), allows for users to “roam” to different computers and devices with their various settings and configurations, automatically applied.

The range of settings for roaming include the desktop wallpaper, Aero glass colour, accessibility options, language options, applications settings (probably only for AppX packaged apps), Windows settings and Wi-Fi profiles and Windows-managed passwords.

As someone who uses both a desktop and laptop, this is clearly going to be one of the killer features of Windows 8.

Windows 8′s user account roaming feature

win8roamingThe feature, which appears to be only available for “Linked” Windows accounts (presumably to Windows Live), allows for users to “roam” to different computers and devices with their various settings and configurations, automatically applied.

The range of settings for roaming include the desktop wallpaper, Aero glass colour, accessibility options, language options, applications settings (probably only for AppX packaged apps), Windows settings and Wi-Fi profiles and Windows-managed passwords.

As someone who uses both a desktop and laptop, this is clearly going to be one of the killer features of Windows 8.

Migrate iPhone applications to Windows Phone

Microsoft released a developer tool on April 29 that is aimed at helping iPhone developers port their applications more easily to Windows Phones.

Microsoft officials described the new API (application programming interface) mapping tool as similar to a translation dictionary. From a new post on the Windows Phone Developer Blog:

Link – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tool-aims-to-help-developers-migrate-iphone-applications-to-windows-phone/9322?tag=content;selector-blogs

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials–Available to download

Starting today MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials for testing and evaluation purposes.

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Link – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials–Available to download

Starting today MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials for testing and evaluation purposes.

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Link – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx

Windows Home Server 2011 now available to download

Starting today MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download Windows Home Server 2011 for testing and evaluation purposes. 

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Link – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx

Windows Home Server 2011 is Ready for Release

Today, the Home Server engineering team signed off the release version of WHS 2011. An exciting milestone which now starts the process to make it available for purchase.

Affordable and easy-to-use, Windows Home Server 2011 is the ideal solution to help families keep their important digital files and data automatically backed up, organized, and accessible from virtually anywhere.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowshomeserver/archive/2011/03/29/windows-home-server-2011-is-ready-for-release.aspx

Windows Embedded Handheld 7 slips off the Microsoft roadmap

A year ago, Microsoft officials went public with their roadmap for the company’s various embedded mobile operating systems. At that time, the Redmondians said to expect Windows Embedded Handheld 7 — an enterprise-targeted update to its ruggedized-device operating system — to arrive in the second half of calendar 2011. But those plans seemingly have changed.

Link – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-embedded-handheld-7-slips-off-the-microsoft-roadmap/9005

Windows 7 SP1 Available via WSUS

For customers with IT departments, today we are making SP1 available on the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) catalog, which makes it available through management tools including WSUS, System Center and others. These tools make it easy for IT professionals to deploy SP1 in their environments in an automated fashion and at their own pace.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2011/03/08/windows-7-sp1-available-via-wsus.aspx

From DOS 5.0 to Windows 7: Tracking Microsoft’s upgrade process

Ever had the urge to put one computer through 20 years of Microsoft Windows history?

Andrew Tait (or “TheRasteri” on YouTube) did. He decided to take one virtual machine and put it through the upgrade process from MS-DOS 5.0 all the way to Windows 7, and test out whether settings stuck and programs still worked.

Link – http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/03/03/from-dos-5-0-to-windows-7-tracking-microsofts-upgrade-process/

From DOS 5.0 to Windows 7: Tracking Microsoft’s upgrade process

Ever had the urge to put one computer through 20 years of Microsoft Windows history?

Andrew Tait (or “TheRasteri” on YouTube) did. He decided to take one virtual machine and put it through the upgrade process from MS-DOS 5.0 all the way to Windows 7, and test out whether settings stuck and programs still worked.

Link – http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/03/03/from-dos-5-0-to-windows-7-tracking-microsofts-upgrade-process/

Windows Live Mesh reaches 5 million connected devices

Today, we’re excited to announce an important milestone: Windows Live Mesh has now connected 5 million devices, with over 3 million users syncing 2.2 petabytes to the cloud. Windows Live Mesh was released on September 30th, 2010 and joined SkyDrive, a service already used by 70 million customers, as a core component of Microsoft’s consumer cloud strategy.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/03/01/windows-live-mesh-reaches-5-million-connected-devices.aspx