Category Archives: Windows
Windows 7 moves toward August 2009 RTM
Cnet has come up with a report saying that Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 by the end of this year’s holiday shopping season based on PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S. According to the ZDNet Taiwan … Continue reading
Windows 7 final editions announced
We recently revealed that Microsoft still hadn’t announced how many flavors Windows 7 would ship in. In a recent briefing with Paul Thurrott, Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte revealed the SKUs that Windows 7 will ship in. “We feel … Continue reading
Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users
Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading to SP3. Microsoft again yesterday … Continue reading
Windows 7 public beta released, remember to patch
Update 2: We have now posted a method for acquiring a valid key too. Update: It appears that Microsoft.com is suffering badly with “server too busy” messages. The Windows Team Blog have confirmed MS are struggling and adding more servers. … Continue reading
Enable Ctrl+Alt+Delete for Vista Logon Screen
In older versions of Windows, you had to use the Ctrl+Alt+Delete combination to login to the system. This was supposed to provide a higher security login, although I don’t know how. You also might be used to using that combination … Continue reading
Windows Vista SP2 – What’s Inside? What’s Important?
With today’s launch of the Customer Preview Program (CPP) for Windows Vista® Service Pack 2 (SP2), we wanted to provide a brief synopsis of the elements in this service pack, and encourage you to download and test this release. Windows … Continue reading
Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009
Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February 2009. Microsoft sent invites to testers in mid October asking them to take part in the SP2 … Continue reading
Don’t slipstream XP sp3 on Windows Vista!
So I build a new Windows XP ISO with SP3 integrated, this is a Volume License editions (VOL) which only accepts Volume License Keys (VLK). When I want to install it on a clean machine, I noticed that setup prompts … Continue reading
A modular Windows 7? What it may mean for Windows Live
Word seems to be filtering out about a move to a more modular core for Windows 7, with additional pieces layered on top. Mary Jo Foley first wrote about it last week, with a hint at what’s to come for … Continue reading
Windows Vista SP1 Slipstreaming Mess!
Remember all those slipstreaming tutorials you could find on the Internet? I think we had one or two for Windows XP here on Neowin.net before some data on our servers was wiped due to a run-in with Microsoft; we also … Continue reading