December 19, 2012 8:00 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsOK, I admit it. I’m often a “better late than never” kind of guy. I’ve been writing about UEFI and Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 since
December 17, 2012 7:29 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsWindows 8 has been out for almost two months now in GA form, but the numbers at NetMarketShare still barely register its presence. A quick look at the November 2012 OS pie chart shows that...
December 14, 2012 6:49 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsWhen is a PC not really a PC? When it's a virtual machine (VM), of course. In that case, software is used to emulate a physical machine of sorts, as well as the operating system and applications it supports. Burning with curiosity this morning, I fired up DriverAgent to see its takes on what goes...
December 12, 2012 11:04 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsI’m editing an upcoming book for Sybex from my friend and sometimes co-author Darril Gibson. Its current working title is MCSA: Microsoft Windows 8 Complete Study Guide: Exams 70-687 and 70-688 (ISBN-13: 978-1-118-55687-0), and it’s chock-full of interesting and...
December 10, 2012 8:19 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsIf you work with Windows desktops, especially virtualized ones, you're probably already wise to the wiles and virtues of working with Windows images, probably using some mix of virtual disk (.vhd or .vhdx) and Windows image (.wim) file formats. As you begin to work your way into Windows 8 images,...
December 7, 2012 4:17 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsWindows 8 offers at least one major improvement over previous Windows versions -- namely, the ability to refresh the underlying operating system while keeping personal files intact. That said, if you use the built-in Windows image file for that purpose on your Windows 8 machines, you'll end up...
December 5, 2012 8:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
DesktopsGenerally speaking, if your PC (desktop, notebook, or tablet) runs an i3, i5, or i7 CPU you should be able to install and use Client Hyper-V on a Windows 8 installation on that machine. But the only way to be 100% sure is to check the CPU's various hardware capabilities to see what you've got at...
