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| Heads Up: Vista SP1 Distribution to Become Automatic. (Windows) By Bryant - Published: April 23, 2008, 4:32 pm - Views: 3053  Print  Email
Windows Update will start automatically installing Service Pack 1 today in waves (read: possibly now for a random handful of you) for those of you who left Windows Update on its default update setting ("Install updates automatically"). If you do not want this to happen, your best course of action would be to change the setting in the Windows Update control panel applet. On that note, Vista SP1 distribution and installation has been moving along just fine on computers flagged by Microsoft as having no SP1 driver conflicts, so there's no reason not to install Service Pack 1 for most consumers. |
HEY! If you:| Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed to "Annoy Users" (Windows) By Devin - Published: April 12, 2008, 10:48 am - Views: 4502 Print Email
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The User Account Control in Windows Vista improves security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels, but UAC has been widely criticized for the nagging alerts it generates. According to one Microsoft executive, the annoyance factor was actually part of the plan.| The Five Pillars of Windows 7 (part 5 of 5) (Windows) By Bryant - Published: April 6, 2008, 12:25 pm - Views: 5158 Print Email This posting is provided “as is” with no warranties, and confers no rights. All of the information herein could easily be right, wrong, up, down, in, out, backwards, forwards, heavily dated, or totally false. You can interpret it as you wish, or not interpret it at all. Also, in case you haven't figured it out, all of this is non-static and heavily subject to change.The final pillar focuses much more on the business-oriented aspects of Windows 7 rather than the consumer additions we saw in the previous four pillars. The scenarios covered by this particular pillar are designed to make deployment and maintenance of Windows 7 easier than any prior operating system. Most of the scenarios in this pillar seem to be nothing more than enhancements of features which made their debut in Windows Vista, which is good for companies looking to minimize costs while looking to deploy an improved OS since it would mean less training for both employees and IT professionals. This is the final post in the series, so feel free to comment on any of the five pillars in this thread. The fifth pillar is across the link. Read More... |
| The Five Pillars of Windows 7 (part 4 of 5) (Windows) By Bryant - Published: April 5, 2008, 11:17 am - Views: 5278 Print Email This posting is provided “as is” with no warranties, and confers no rights. All of the information herein could easily be right, wrong, up, down, in, out, backwards, forwards, heavily dated, or totally false. You can interpret it as you wish, or not interpret it at all. Also, in case you haven't figured it out, all of this is non-static and heavily subject to change.The third pillar in my series focused on how Windows 7 would personalize computing online, at work, and at home. The home computing additions coming to Windows 7 also include a number of home media and entertainment ideas in the fourth pillar for Windows 7, though this particular pillar focuses less on personalization and more on delivering your media to you quickly, efficiently, and vibrantly. Most of the material in this pillar is likely covered by the eHome labs, which means most of the material covered here will be fairly vague. As with the rest of the pillars, you'll find out more throughout the development of the operating system, though if the eHome team has control over most of this pillar, I wouldn't be surprised to see an overwhelming amount of definition come to the scenarios in this pillar once the Beta 1 milestone is reached. Comments? Insight? Post! Click the Read More link for the fourth pillar. Read More... |
| The Five Pillars of Windows 7 (part 3 of 5) (Windows) By Bryant - Published: April 4, 2008, 2:01 pm - Views: 5879 Print Email This posting is provided “as is” with no warranties, and confers no rights. All of the information herein could easily be right, wrong, up, down, in, out, backwards, forwards, heavily dated, or totally false. You can interpret it as you wish, or not interpret it at all. Also, in case you haven't figured it out, all of this is non-static and heavily subject to change.So far, we've discussed the Specialized for Laptops and Designed for Services pillars of Windows 7. The common thread between these two focuses on connectivity and utilization of online resources. The third pillar, unsurprisingly, shares the same common link with the other two pillars. Part Three of my series on the Five Pillars of Windows 7 will expand on some of the elements of the Designed for Services pillar with Microsoft’s plan for personalization and access. Given how susceptible the User Interface of an application or operating system is to change, this pillar could see the largest shift in scope over the coming years, so don't be terribly surprised if the information in this pillar sees the most change out of all of them. Comments are appreciated. You can catch pillar three after the jump. Read More... |
| The Five Pillars of Windows 7 (part 2 of 5) (Windows) By Bryant - Published: April 3, 2008, 10:46 am - Views: 7018 Print Email This posting is provided “as is” with no warranties, and confers no rights. All of the information herein could easily be right, wrong, up, down, in, out, backwards, forwards, heavily dated, or totally false. You can interpret it as you wish, or not interpret it at all. Also, in case you haven't figured it out, all of this is non-static and heavily subject to change.Yesterday’s pillar (Specialized for Laptops) focused on changes which, while applicable to all platforms on which Windows 7 will be found, have a slant in favor of mobile platforms. This is part two of my series on the Five Pillars of Windows 7. Most of the emphasis in today’s pillar will be focused on how Windows 7 will spread the Windows Experience away from just your hard drive. As always, comments are appreciated. Pillar Two (Update: with screenshots!) is after the break. Read More... |
| Exclusive: The Five Pillars of Windows 7 (part 1 of 5) (Windows) By Bryant - Published: April 2, 2008, 2:05 pm - Views: 9518 Print Email This posting is provided “as is” with no warranties, and confers no rights. All of the information herein could easily be right, wrong, up, down, in, out, backwards, forwards, heavily dated, or totally false. You can interpret it as you wish, or not interpret it at all. Also, in case you haven't figured it out, all of this is non-static and heavily subject to change.The old idea where Microsoft bases an operating system on central pillars? It’s back, and with a complete refocus of priorities. Looking back, the original pillars of Longhorn were Avalon (WPF), Indigo (WCF), and WinFS, as well as the pseudo-pillar which was referred to as “Fundamentals.” No longer does Microsoft’s basis for an operating system focus on key architectural developments such as the various frameworks of yore. Now, it seems, pillars are at least tentatively being redefined as design and usability concepts upon which to build the operating system. Over the next five days, I’m going to spend some time on AeroXP presenting to you the separate pillars upon which the Windows 7 experience (and indeed, Windows 7 as a whole) will be built. What you'll see are the five pillars of Windows 7 and the specific scenarios which the Windows team plans to enhance. Wherever possible, I'll enhance the scenario depictions with visual aids (read: screenshots). The first pillar is after the jump. Read More... |
| Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Public Download Now Available (Windows) By deeper2k - Published: March 21, 2008, 8:59 pm - Views: 8620 Print Email
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage Windows Vista. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone version can be installed on systems with any of the following language versions: English (US), French, German, Japanese, or Spanish (Traditional). |
| One last interview from MIX08 (General) By Bryant - Published: March 15, 2008, 12:03 pm - Views: 5012 Print Email So I finished tweaking my interview with Jensen Harris. Thankfully, this one was under ten minutes long, which means I could upload it onto YouTube! I'm encoding the Jensen Harris interview in 720p right now, but if you don't feel like waiting, you can either download it in 1080p or watch it via YouTube. Corrections have been made to the previous two interviews. Feel free to update your copy (sound fixes on both interviews as well as a minor correction to the content of the Tim Harris interview). Sadly, I can't upload those two to YouTube due to time constraints. The Jensen Harris video can be watched below. Watch: Jensen Harris interview The biggest lesson you can learn from this video is to opt into the Customer Experience Improvement Program. Do it, seriously. It makes later versions of Office, Windows, etc. better for everyone. They don't collect anything that can be traced back to you. They just collect things like which buttons or UI elements get accessed + how often, which functions are performed + how often, and other non-traceable things. No file names are collected. No file contents are collected. It's all perfectly clean. |
| Research Development Kit for Singularity Released (Software) By Devin - Published: March 8, 2008, 9:44 pm - Views: 765 Print Email
The RDK is said to include "source code, build tools, test suites, design notes, and other background materials." It is distributed under a proprietary academic non-commercial use license. Discuss in the forums (thanks Rhys) Read More... |
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