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October 2009 Security Bulletin

The Trustworthy Computing security response communications team has just released this months Security Bulletin to TechNet EDGE This Bulletin contains details about the 13 released bulletins, 8 being critical and 5 being important, plus other advisories. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:15 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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First Windows 7 Arcade Machine

For all the people that are compelled to get an arcade machine installed in their house, here is another option by using Windows 7 to power it. Andrew Dugdell is best known for his technical talks, but in this interview on EDGE , he talks about another Read More...
Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 11:30 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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Free Windows 7 Boot Camp at the PDC

On the Monday (16th Nov) pre-conference day before the PDC, there is a free Windows 7 bootcamp being held at the PDC conference center. Key Windows 7 engineers, including Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang, and Arun Kishan will provide a deep dive into building Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:32 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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Stopping User Desktop Services from Starting up in Windows 7

In Vista, I used to use Windows Defender to change ( remove/disable ) some of the User Desktop services which would startup when I logged in. For example, on some desktops I wanted to stop Windows Live Messenger or other applications which checked for Read More...
Posted Friday, September 04, 2009 1:16 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 : Windows XP Mode RELEASE CANDIDATE Available for Download

Windows XP Mode is specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses to help ease the migration process to Windows 7 by providing additional compatibility for their older productivity applications. The newly updated Windows XP Mode now works with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:59 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Migrating to Windows 7 – The full guide

So you are hearing that Windows 7 is a great product, you have tested it and this has been confirmed by your own tests, but now you need to get to the business end of your job. You need to deploy this on 1000’s of desktops in your company. How do you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:42 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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TechED US – Day One Wrapup

Adam from Edge provided a 1.5 min update on the key highlights from day one of TechED straight after the keynote had finished. Key things Holiday Release for Windows 7 File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2 Key new things in Windows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:05 AM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Beta 2 release of “Geneva” Framework, “Geneva” Server and Windows CardSpace “Geneva”

Today we announced the availability of the beta 2 release of the “Geneva” products : “Geneva” Framework, “Geneva” Server and Windows CardSpace “Geneva” . The new beta introduces new features, such as the seamless integration with Visual Studio, which Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:26 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Get Windows 7 Here

Windows 7 is available for download this morning. You can go here ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx ) as your starting point. The RC will be available at least through until the end of July 2009 and there is no limit on the number Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:15 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Windows 7 RC Release

Starting today, MSDN and TechNet subscribers can access the Windows 7 RC release candidate, with general public availability coming next week. Generally speaking, the Win7 Beta that came out a few months ago was pretty feature complete, so the changes Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:00 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Migrating 20 Laptops from XP to Windows 7 live on stage @ MMS

Joey happened to be walking through building 44 and met the team putting together the demos for day 2 of the Microsoft Management Summit. What they are planning is pretty exciting, where they are going to wake up 20 laptop through wireless and the using Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:03 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

April 2008 Security Bulletin on TechNet Edge

Yep we have patch Tuesday, but what does this really mean? The guys in the Trustworthy Computing team have started a show on TechNet EDGE which provides details of each vulnerability and its potential threat. You can get details about the latest updates Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 5:11 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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The Fastest Copy of Windows 7

On the partner floor at the recent SXSW show, we found a drag bike which contains two servers which are designed to process the media and telemetry of the bike. While it has not been down to the track yet, they think it will do 0-60 in around 1 second!!! Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 3:42 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Windows 7 : Building .NET Sensor and Location Aware Applications

Yochay in the team has just released a Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample onto MSDN. The Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample Library provides an abstraction of the native Sensor and Location API and provides strongly typed objects for Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 7:37 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Windows 7 : BitLocker To Go !!

How do you secure your business critical information when it is stored on a USB Drive? Research suggests that more sensitive information is lost on these devices than in any other way.  Fortunately there’s a new Windows 7 feature that might just Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:52 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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