September 27, 2010 3:55 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
amazing customer service from Soluto for their Windows boot optimizer,
Soluto fixes all the problems I reported,
Soluto Windows Boot Optimizer gains great stabilityIn the past two weeks I've written twice about Soluto, a Windows boot optimization program that observes the Windows boot process and makes recommendations about programs that run at boot time intended to speed up that process:
September 22, 2010 2:07 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Prowess SmartMigrate,
Prowess SmartMigrate supports XP to Windows 7 VM migration free to home users,
SmartMigrate could shake up commercial XP-to-Windows-7 migration tools marketplaceLast week, I spent a fascinating hour on the phone with some engineers from Prowess, a Seattle-based software and services firm that offers a free software product called
September 20, 2010 1:42 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IE9 beta fast and minimalist,
IE9 earns accolades from Paul Thurrot,
IE9 offers improved HTML5 and CSS3 supportHow about this for a quote from Windows guru and maven Paul Thurrot?
Unlike its immediate predecessors, IE 9 is not about more for more's sake. Instead, IE 9 takes the same path Microsoft plowed with Windows 7 and then Windows Phone 7. It's clean, simple and fast. It gets out of the...
September 17, 2010 4:06 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
new 2011 PC Tools products add faster boot and better pro-active malware blocking to the mix,
PC Tools gets boot-time performance boost in 2011 versionIt's not often that fate conspires to show me how new software changes system behavior, without me having to jump through lots of extra hoops to gather the necessary data. But because of the confluence of two sets of unrelated events this week, that's exactly what happened as I started learning my...
September 13, 2010 3:45 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
PC World touts Soluto,
Soluto is interesting but not production ready,
Soluto offers a great concept but suffers from poor executionI'm a subscriber to PC World and always make time to flip through the magazine when it hits my mailbox. It was with some interest I looked over Preston Gralla's recent piece on...
September 10, 2010 3:54 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Brian Harry blogs on September 2010 TFS Power Tools release,
interesting new tools for Team Foundation Server,
MSDN releases new Team Foundation Server Power ToolsThere's a new posting from Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry, who's also working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server out as of yesterday (9/9/2010). It's entitled "
September 8, 2010 2:35 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Microsoft offers interesting XP-to-Windows 7 option for "virtual migration",
MS adds P2V tool for XP VMs/VHDs to Software Assurance line-up,
Zinstall products provide a nice foil to MS Software Assurance P2V offeringI subscribe to numerous different Microsoft newsletters, to the tune of perhaps 15-20 per month (or more frequent mail-outs as the case sometimes is). Last Friday, a fascinating e-mail from Microsoft Connect showed up in my inbox. Entitled "P2V...
September 3, 2010 8:54 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
2010,
Windows 7 Family Pack offers 3 licenses of Windows 7 Home Premium for $150 starting October 3,
Windows 7 Family Pack to resume on 10/3/2010,
Windows 7 Home Premium family back is backWhen Windows 7 shipped last year, Microsoft offering a so-called "Family Pack" deal on Windows 7 Home Premium for about 30 days after the GA (General Availability) date on October 22, 2009. For $150 less one penny, buyers could purchase a license that covered up to three PCs for that Windows 7...
