Windows Phone 8 will run Windows 8, with Silverlight centre stage?
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In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to delve in and begin tuning the Windows 7 Search Index.
In March 2011 I was invited by the Yorkshire IT User Group to give a talk on Advanced Windows 7 Troubleshooting. The event was a tremendous success with over 100 registered attendees and a raffle which raised £165 for tsunami victims in the recent Japanese humanitarian disaster. Troubleshooting Windows 7 for Advanced Users: Windows 7 [...]
Internet Explorer was released to the public earlier on March 14th. Now Microsoft is making plans to download it to Windows users via the update system. Apparently with the 2.3 million downloads that occurred during the first 24 hours, Microsoft now want to be sure that users are aware and using their latest browser. Other [...]
By adding entries to the Windows hosts file, you can block access to specific unwanted or known malware-infested websites. Jack Wallen explains how it works.
A recent publication by International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, shows that the worldwide smartphone market will grow up to 49.2% in 2011 as more consumers and business users turn in their feature phones for smartphones with more advanced features. Smartphone vendors anticipate that they will ship more than 450 million smartphones in [...]
To disable the Windows Mobility Center you only need to make one tweak to the Windows Registry file. Mark Kaelin shows you how in this Quick Tip.
I was asked by my publisher to do a live webcast last month on Troubleshooting Windows 7. I chose to concentrate on the entry-level troubleshooting tools that come built into the operating system. These tools can be used by any user with any level of technical skill. I have now made the webcast available for [...]
It’s been a while, but Microsoft has made an update to the Windows 7 Bing Update them pack. The theme pack in question is a unique addition to the collection of Bing-branded themes from Microsoft. Here is how it works, Windows 7 has an option of allowing its users to set themes to customize their desktops the [...]
Windows 8 will be a departure for Microsoft for many reasons, but none will be bigger than the move to support ARM low-power processors for tablet and other embedded devices. This will be hugely welcomed by all sections of the technology community as it’s long past time that Microsoft offered an embedded version of Windows [...]
As the need for productive operations grows, the one thing that can hurt a company is not having timely information. For that reason, one company, Stein Mart recently reported that it’s move to Business Intelligence using SQL Server 2008 has been a big success. Consider that with its 265 stores nation wide analysis of their [...]
Cloud talk is well, up in the air. In this case the question is how many companies will realistically make a move and when? In a survey Microsoft has learned that about 39% of Small to Midsized Businesses (SMB) will make some transition to the cloud within the next three years. What Kinds of Cloud [...]
We all know that Microsoft is very jealous and guarded when it comes to piracy. They have made significant efforts in the past decade to stop it where ever it appears. We’ve seen how the activation key process has changed and matured over the years. And still they are so fearful of retribution that instead [...]
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In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how you can Tag your files in Windows 7 using tools built into Windows Explorer.
One of the issues with cloud computing is how will it be managed? Assuming that the technology and OS and apps work as specified, will managers feel comfortable with this operation? After all, they have to support and manage it. So here is Microsoft’s take on this problem. Yesterday at the Microsoft Management Summit, there [...]
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Sometimes your Windows Explorer's Open With list can get cluttered with applications that don't match the file they are associated with. Mark Kaelin shows you how to fix that.
Microsoft has added Target, the retail store, to its clients in the area of virtualization software application. What is Virtualization? Virtualization, or putting an operating system, inside an operating system and then putting applications in that inside operating system to run. If your base computer is powerful enough, and they can now be, you can [...]
See how your TechRepublic peers answered this question: Will you install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 on your company's PCs?
A leaked image pegs 2015 for the next refresh of Microsoft's Xbox Console. Is Microsoft waiting too long?
The first service pack for Windows 7 has been available for nearly a month at this stage and by and large I think the roll out went without too many problems for most users. That was until today when I stumbled across a post on The Register. Apparently a rake of “fatal errors” are hampering [...]
Jack Wallen shows you how you can apply a simple Windows registry hack that will add a new right-click menu entry for opening files in Notepad.
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how the Group By and Filter features of Windows 7's Windows Explorer work and shows you how to effectively use them.
Microsoft have been touting their new web browser for quite some time now and they’ve managed to get a considerable volume of publicity for it around the world. Despite usage figures that have dropped sharply in the last five years it still remains the world’s most used web browser. The latest version 9, which will [...]
Microsoft and (Research in Motion) RIM will be announcing a new hosting service for Blackberry Enterprise customers using Exchange 2010 Online. This is Microsoft’s hosted Exchange e-mail service. What does the Hosted Blackberry service provide? It offers the most commonly requested BlackBerry capabilities, which are wireless access to e-mail, calendar, tasks and contacts with global [...]
It’s been expected for some time and following the integration of Zune services into Windows Phone, Microsoft has finally pulled the plug on its Zune hardware media players. Despite this the company will continue to use the name for selling music and video on Windows Phone and on the Xbox 360. The Zune was first released five years [...]
The Windows Mobility Center can save you some time and embarrassment when you give your next presentation using your notebook computer.
As you would expect, Windows Phone 7 would inevitably reach an App milestone. That is the mobile device has reached over 10,000 apps, and it reached this number faster than any other mobile device so far. Here are the figures. Windows Phone 7 met the 10,000 app milestone in only 4.5 months whereas the iPhone [...]
You will probably remember the, now famous, Windows Phone data leaking issue. This was eventually traced to a fault with Yahoo!’s email service and its implementation of the IMAP protocols. Microsoft investigated the issue and said it was working with Yahoo to resolve the problem. At the time Raphael Rivera of Within Windows demonstrated that [...]
So if you need to run the 32 bit version, it is already there. So the question is, why did Microsoft pursue this strategy?
When Microsoft and Nokia announced their strategic partnership the world got terribly excited. The thought of the world’s biggest phone manufacturer shipping it’s new smartphones with the new Windows Phone OS on board is an exciting prospect indeed. Then images leaked of a concept Nokia Windows Phone handset that was sexy indeed just days later [...]
The Windows 7 Taskbar is great feature, but you may want to tweak one of its default behaviors with this registry edit.
On March 8, MSDN subscribers will be able to download and install Service Pack 1 (SP1). Furthermore, MSDN subscribers will also be able to download the Team Foundation Server Integration Feature Pack, which facilitates the integration of three environments, namely Visual Studio, Project and SharePoint. What is Visual Studio? Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated [...]
While we still haven’t got an actual shipping date for the Asus Eee Slate PC , we do have some commercials for it at last, which could mean it’s on the way soon. The Asus Eee Slate PC is probably one of the first proper Windows 7 tablets that we’ve seen which have been endorsed [...]
If you’re having trouble with Windows 7 or want to find out more about how to troubleshoot the OS then I’ll be giving a free webcast this Thursday with my publisher O’Reilly. The webcast will be based on my book Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out and is completely free to partake in. Windows 7 might be [...]
A PC is a well defined device. You know, monitor, motherboard, CPU, memory, mouse, keyboard, and software. And a tablet, is that a PC? Last year the answer was clear from Microsoft Until now, Microsoft officials have claimed that iPads are not PCs. And this position is easy to understand. If iPads are counted as PCs, Apple [...]
See how your TechRepublic peers answered this question: Is the beta Internet Explorer 9 as bad as I think it is?
The other day I wrote about a useful tool that can modify your Windows 7 installation DVD ISO file so that you can install any edition of Windows from it. This method, while simple and easy, still meant that you had to have seperate 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) installation DVDs though. Is it even [...]
Century Payments Inc. a growing company in the electronic payments industry, and which is ranked 11th on the Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Companies list, has saved more than $300,000 and counting since switching from one company, Salesforce.com, to another Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online in 2009. Century Payments also helped increase end-user adoption and overall company productivity [...]
One of the problems with Windows 7 is that the ISO files are A) just available for DVD and B) only for a single edition of Windows (i.e. Home Premium, Professional etc.) So what if you could install Windows 7 from a pen-drive and what if you could then use that pen drive to install [...]
e-sushi's minibin sets out to take that clean look and make it even more useful by combining your recycle bin with a system tray icon.