Today at the JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in Boston, Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as “Windows Blue” will be called Windows 8.1and will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store. Read the full article @ blogs.windows.com.
Read more →Here’s another free tool you may want to download: Windows: Glary Utilities is a comprehensive PC maintenance tool, with features to clean and repair your system, optimize startup and memory, shred and undelete files, and more. The Pro edition, normally $40 (but discounted to $28 right now) is completely free with this special promo....
Read more →At 9:49 I thought this video was going to be boring but the rime just flew by. What this guy did is set up a VM, Installed MS-DOS 5, and then started upgrading to all major versions of Windows from 1 through 7. (He did skip Widows ME for some reason and included Windows...
Read more →I did something totally stupid yesterday afternoon. For those of you that saw the Tweet about it, here’s the full story. A year or so ago after my new x64 monster was up and running I decided to take my old XP desktop with just 512MB of RAM and have it dual boot XP...
Read more →From Countdown with Keith Olberman, 14 May 2009. Former Senator Graham in his office with a blue screen on his desktop.
Read more →Turns out that despite the fact that at home I’ve got an x64 quad-core PC with 6GB of RAM I can’t install the Windows 7 beta via Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 because I’ve got Windows Vista Home Premium and Virtual PC won’t run on anything less than Vista Business. However, I do have Vista...
Read more →As some of you may have read on FriendFeed and Twitter, after six years, I finally replaced my aging home desktop computer. The old one ran Windows XP at 2.0GHz with 1GB of RAM. The new computer (shown right) runs Windows Vista 64-bit with a 2.66GHz Quad-core processor and 6.144GB of RAM. I’ve nicknamed...
Read more →So I’ve previously cloned the thirteen Vista computers in out lab without any significant problems. Well, problems that I can point to the cloning process as the cause of the problem anyway. What have I been using to do the cloning? That would be the free linux-based Clonezilla. Just boot from the CD and...
Read more →It’s been said that most people who think that Vista sucks haven’t actually used it.
Read more →No, not XP. Yep, here’s proof for everyone that’s so totally worried that they won’t be able to buy XP any more. (BTW: Get over it!) Come November 1, 2008 OEM’s will no longer be able to sell Windows for Workgroups 3.11. (The OS I used in grad school in 1994-95.)
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