May 11, 2009 5:03 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
exFAT,
FAT12,
FAT16,
FAT32,
FAT64,
formatting UFDs in Windows 7,
formatting UFDs in Windows Vista,
NTFSI'm helping to revise a book on Windows 7 right now. By well-known Windows mavens Brian Knittel and Bob Cowart, it's to be called Windows 7 in Depth (Pearson, 2009, ISBN: 0789741997). In...
May 9, 2009 3:17 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
upgrading from Windows Vista SP2 RC to final release version,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista SP2 RC,
Windows Vista SP2 RC expiration date,
Windows Vista SP2 release candidateIn my frenzy to test and evaluate Vista SP2 for stability I built myself a test system around the slipstreamed version of Vista x64 SP2 RC available from MSDN for download to subscribers. And while my results were overall positive--FWIW, SP2 seems to add significantly to Vista stability and...
May 6, 2009 1:31 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
enterprise PC virtualization,
Enterprise Vista,
enterprise Vista desktop,
enterprise Windows 7,
enterprise Windows 7 desktop,
MED-V,
Microsoft Assurance,
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack,
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop VirtualizationWay back in February I blogged here about Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, aka MED-V. In the past few weeks, Microsoft has announced that...
May 4, 2009 3:45 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
BitTorrent,
download Vista SP2,
Enterprise Vista,
enterprise Vista desktop,
MSDN,
Windows Vista SP2With Vista SP2 now available via MSDN and other restricted download venues (not to mention BitTorrent servers which already offer acess to all 36 languages that MS plans to support in its first public release of SP2), it's time to start thinking about migrating to this latest version in your...
April 29, 2009 3:26 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
enterprise Vista desktop,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista SP2 availabilityBitTorrent is turning into an unofficial prerelease mechanism for Microsoft software these days. It's cartainly become a nonpareil source for Windows 7 builds that's right in synch with Microsoft's own internal releases. Yesterday Vista SP2 was already available online in Torrent form hours before...
April 27, 2009 4:13 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
64-bit Vista,
Enterprise Vista,
installing an OS into Virtual PC 2007,
lessons learned on Virtual PC 2007,
Remote Desktop Connection,
Virtual PC 2007,
Windows Vista,
x64 VistaOK, so I'm climbing a learning curve with x64 Vista and Microsoft Virtual PC that is at times frustrating, at other times just plain weird, but always interesting and even sometimes moderately entertaining. I'm starting to get the hang of this whole Virtual Machine thing at long, long last and have...
April 24, 2009 6:18 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
64- vs 32-bit Windows Vista,
Enterprise Vista,
Virtual PC 2007,
Windows Vista 64-bit,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista x64For a long time now — perhaps even too long, if recent experience is any indication — I've avoided x64 Vista on my production and test machines. Myths and rumors about lack of drivers, stability issues, software compatibility problems, and more, had dissuaded me from using the product on my...
April 21, 2009 12:07 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
ChangeWave Research,
changing Vista deployment and purchase plans,
Enterprise Vista,
enterprise Vista desktop,
Windows 7 vs. Windows VistaIn a survey conducted in February, 2009 by ChangeWave Research, over four times as many respondents professed themselves to be "very satisfied" or...
April 17, 2009 4:52 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 predictions,
Windows Vista,
Windows XPOf the many and varied sources of Windows information I read regularly, the coverage at OSNews.com is always interesting, often insightful, and even funny or mordant on occasion. That's why I read Thom Holwerda's recent story "Y
