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It's the end of an era for Microsoft. Not the end of Windows XP, but the end of the XP era. In the context in which after June 30, 2009, Microsoft will no longer permit its retail partners and original equipment manufacturers to sell the predecessor of Windows Vista, the company has not steered clear of addressing concerns about the future of XP. This, although at this point in time XP and the future seem like two concepts that fail to play well together. We understand some of our customers aren't ready to upgrade their PCs to Windows Vista. Although Windows XP will disappear from stores, we'll continue to offer Extended Support for the operating system for six more years, until April 2014," Microsoft added. Customers that haven't already moved to Vista, or haven’t even debuted plans for migrating/upgrading, will most likely skip Vista altogether. IF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com June 21 The secret of Bill Gates' success INFO WRITE 21 JUNE 2008 FROM DAVID PAUL LOWERIF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com
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From schoolboy to software titan, Bill Gates on how it all started As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn't do that let Microsoft get ahead.
"Most of our competitors were very poorly run," he tells Fiona Bruce, for The Money Programme.
"They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together. They did not understand how to go around the world."
Sir Alan Sugar, one of Britain's computer pioneers with his Amstrad range, testifies to Microsoft's global mobility even as a comparatively small company in the 1980s.
Amstrad, in Brentwood, Essex, was visited by a Microsoft salesman - or "mid-Atlantic smoothie" as Sir Alan describes him - who came to sell Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system.
Sir Alan declined, telling the salesman he was quite happy with the rival DR-DOS system from Digital Research for his new computer, explaining that "we're a consumer electronics manufacturer here, we're not a bunch of geeks, we don't give a sh**". But the Microsoft man wouldn't take no for an answer, and "was constantly coming back each day" to the Amstrad offices, Sir Alan says, until a deal was done. Long game Sir Alan believes he got the better of it, buying MS-DOS for a pittance, a figure he's legally unable to disclose to this day according to the contract he signed with Microsoft.
From Mr Gates' point of view, it was all part of the long game. Getting MS-DOS out there was more important than the price of any particular deal. Debates about Microsoft's tactics to win dominance of the software industry have been stuck in entrenched positions for years. On the one side are Microsoft's competitors, along with some government regulators and courts, arguing that the company has benefited from strong-arm, even illegal practices. On the other, Mr Gates and his colleagues insist their only purpose in life is to make "great software" and that if customers don't like it, they wouldn't choose it. The interview with Mr Gates adds a new dimension to the debate.
Steve Wozniak co-founder of Apple Computer on how it all began "Most of our competitors were one-product wonders," he says. "They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out. "They did not think about software in this broad way. They did not think about tools or efficiency. They would therefore do one product, but would not renew it to get it to the next generation." Self-serving claims? Doug Klunder, a former Microsoft staffer, and the lead programmer for Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet agrees.
"People forget that what really launched Microsoft was [the programming language] Basic," he says. "And then they made the transition to DOS, and then to applications and then to Windows, and managed to do all of those successfully." Klunder says it was Mr Gates' ability to understand the business as well as the technical side that gave Microsoft the edge. On the other side of the argument is Mitch Kapor, founder of the Lotus Corporation. Lotus was at one time bigger than Microsoft, thanks to the success of its 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. Mr Kapor pulls no punches in his criticisms of Microsoft. "Claims by Microsoft that people were buying the software because it was good are pretty self-serving," he says. "I'd like to smoke what he was smoking." Intermediary Mr Kapor claims that Microsoft "took advantage" of its position in controlling the operating system to make life hard for independent software developers like Lotus.
Microsoft's challenges in the age of the internet When these criticisms are put to Mr Gates, he says he finds it "ironic" that he could be accused of such a thing when Microsoft had "evangelised" its software to other companies, begging them "please write software for our platform". And when the criticism is attributed to Mr Kapor, Mr Gates says that he had personally visited Lotus "so many times" to plead with the company to adapt 1-2-3 to work on Windows. In a sense, it is possible for both sides of the argument to be right. On the one hand, Microsoft did hold the fate of other software companies in its hands. When it decided to develop Windows, smaller companies had to fall in line with Microsoft's plans, or risk disaster. But it is also true that because of the success of Microsoft software, its operating system became the intermediary between one industry, of application developers, and another, the computer manufacturers. Slow response? Heidi Roizen is a software entrepreneur who became a friend of Mr Gates. She says of Microsoft that "because they were the operating system, everyone else in the industry had to deal with them".
Stepping into Bill Gates' shoes, by Microsoft's Ray Ozzie Microsoft's clout was, by this argument, unavoidable. Mr Gates himself attributes the success of Microsoft's own applications in 1995 - providing a second great profit centre alongside the operating systems business - to the tardiness of other companies in shipping products ready for Windows. "We tried to get everyone who did productivity software to come along and support Windows," he says. "But they were quite slow, so our own Windows applications, Word, Excel, were doing incredibly well." 'Conservative approach' Others will say it wasn't as simple as that. But there is a final essential element in the Microsoft formula, which is indisputable: its use of massive cash mountains to insulate itself against the vagaries of the market or the failure of a particular product. Mr Gates describes this as his "conservative balance sheet approach". In the early days, Mr Gates explains, he needed money in the bank to provide security for the families of his first dozen employees, most of whom had shown enough faith in him to move to Albuquerque, New Mexico, the location of Microsoft's first office. But as the company expanded he wanted "great financial strength so we would have the flexibility to do software in the new way, or whatever we wanted to do". Mr Gates is proud to claim "we are very conservative", and points out that "even today, if you look at the Microsoft balance sheet, you will see that we keep quite a bit of cash on hand". Well, yes, more than $25bn should be enough for a good few rainy days. The Money Programme special Bill Gates: How a geek changed the World, Friday, 20 June, on BBC Two at 1900. IF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com
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 Installing Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6519INFO WRITE 21 JUNE 2008 FROM DAVID PAUL LOWERInstalling Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6519 provides an experience almost identical to that of Windows Vista with the exception of a quite different finish. In this context, Windows 7 M1 gives the impression of something that Microsoft just threw together rather than a fully-fledged development milestone for the next
version of the Windows client. Leaked details related to Windows 7 Build 6519 spawned observations that the version was too similar to Windows Vista for comfort. Now, make no mistake about it, Windows 7 M1 is no Vista, but at the same time the similarities cannot be denied. The installation experience starts with a standard Windows Vista screen which permits the user to select the language of the operating system, the keyboard input, and the time format. Even the installing instructions mention Windows Vista exclusively. So does the Install/Repair screen that comes next and the Product Key dialog box. And just as in Vista, this part of the installation process can be circumvented. IF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com
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Open letter to Microsoft about Windows 7INFO WRITE 21 JUNE 2008 FROM DAVID PAUL LOWERTo the powers that be at Microsoft, I know you folks are no doubt hard at work on Windows 7 and if you see this it will be during the exhausted daze of a much-needed break. The work to produce a sophisticated operating system like Windows 7 is monumental in fact maybe epic is the right word to describe the task before you. Listen to what I have to say and maybe that work will be less than you think. Maybe. This open letter is directed not only to those at Microsoft hard at work on the next version of Windows, it's aimed just as much at the business decision makers too. I understand that the two groups often end up together (or at odds) determining what features and functions will make it into the OS release so listen up. We are at an unusual time in the computing era with more notebooks than ever being sold and adopted by consumers. We've seen sales figures for a year or two that show that notebook sales outpace desktop sales and with the explosion of the mini-notebook genre I am confident that will not only continue but at an even faster pace. I speak to many people who have replaced their home computer with a laptop or intend to do so with their next computer purchase so it's mandatory that we realize that mobile computers are here to stay. Unfortunately for you, Microsoft, this is the computing area that gives Vista the most problems and it is imperative that you address this with Windows 7. I'm not going to go into details about the problems that Vista has with mobile computing, they are well documented and can be found all over the web. I am going to outline the areas that you need to address in Windows 7 to insure that the best mobile computing experience will be delivered. A lot of the problems that Vista has today running on notebooks and other mobile computers can be traced back to the hefty hardware requirements Vista needs to run well. There's no point in burying your head in the sand and ignoring this as it's a cold, hard fact and you have to make sure that Windows 7 doesn't require such muscle to run acceptably. Sure, it's cool to be able to claim that Win7 will run on the latest and greatest dedicated graphics and quad-core processors but these don't play a significant role in the mobile PC space, a space that will be huge by the time Win7 ships. It's not just a matter of OEMs wanting to keep costs down, which of course plays a role, but it's realizing that this muscle is just not needed in most notebooks the way consumers use them. Rather than trying to deny that, it makes far more sense to accept it and optimize Win7 to run well with lower spec processors, less RAM, slower hard drives and integrated graphics. This is the real world and that's the world you will be playing in with Win7. Mobile PCs have different problems than desktops due to the different usage scenario they present and those problems must be addressed as they are currently horrible under Vista. The process to sleep and resume a notebook must be bulletproof and take place as fast as possible. There is no excuse for the operating system to be performing overhead functions while the device is sleeping or resuming. This happens all the time under Vista and even under WinXP. When the laptop is sleeping it shouldn't need to do anything at all since it's keeping memory alive anyway. Just go to sleep and then resume the same way. While you're addressing these problems make sure, no it is imperative that you do not let anything in the operating system wake up a sleeping system. No scheduled tasks, no automatic updates, nothing. This happens more than you realize under Vista and the result is a super-hot notebook in a gear bag that has been sitting there running with the lid closed and the battery draining away. I have experienced this myself and heard from many others who have experienced the same thing. Along those lines a mobile PC running on battery power shouldn't have any overhead things running anyway. Let the user devote all the power and performance to performing user functions only. The OS is not going to fall behind and if the OS needs to be running background overhead tasks all the time then something's wrong anyway. Another area that needs improvement in Win7 is in the docking/ undocking process. Mobile PCs have the ability to be hooked to a dock even if it's a simple USB hub that has multiple peripherals plugged in. Vista takes a long time to reinitialize each peripheral plugged into a hub when it's connected and that shouldn't be happening. Just let the peripheral stay in the device tree if that's what it takes and give an error if the user tries to access it when unplugged from the hub. That's the way it used to work and a far better way to handle it than to constantly be polling for connection/ disconnection. Don't make it take up overhead unless it's a real problem. This theme can be applied to many areas of operation, don't spend a lot of resources trying to protect the user from him/ herself. The system should focus on running the user's tasks and running them only, not doing a lot of things in the background to protect the system from the user. This is such a waste of resources and there are no resources to spare in many of the notebooks that will be in use when Win7 goes live. Trust me, the sub-$500 laptop is here to stay so prepare for it, not exclude it like Vista does. You ended up looking so silly with your ULCPC program to let OEMs sell WinXP instead of Vista. Make sure that Win7 will run on all mobile PCs out of the box. The best way to accomplish all of this is to make Windows 7 a modular operating system that only installs what is actually needed for the particular system on which it's running. Vista has proven conclusively that a "one size OS fits all" is a myth that will not work on today's hardware. The OS must only install and execute the major pieces that are actually needed for a given system so if it's running on a mini-notebook with lower-end specs then it should only use what is really needed. Multi-touch is sexy all right but it's not needed on 99.9% of the PCs in existence and I'll bet even when Win7 ships so don't bulk up the OS with it. That goes for any special functionality that doesn't aid the user run-time performance on any given system so make Win7 a modular system. Win7 should be smart enough to analyze the system at install time and only install what will be used on that particular system. There is simply no room for code that is not going to be used on the user's system so don't even install it. If the system has no firewire ports then don't install firewire support, and you can apply that across the board. I hope you get the gist of what I am telling you here, that the days of bloated system code are over. The hardware and user demands will no longer support it, if they ever did. The computing landscape for the most part has shifted toward lighter PCs in both bulk and performance. This will not change between now and when Win7 launches so you have to plan accordingly. Of course given the development cycle time for a Windows OS I suspect the basic OS is already feature locked. If that's the case I sure hope you've already gotten it right.
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I agree with a lot of the things you've said but I don't think your firewire example is necessarily a good one. It doesn't mater if drivers are installed that aren't being used. For instance, nobody complains that Apple include drivers for lots of printers and having a plethora of drivers just helps with PnP. I think the problem lies with all the services and scheduled events that are running by default. The fact that there are so many guides telling users to turn this or that service off to improve performance proves that a lot of them are unnecessary or not essential. I quite like the idea of having a basic OS install that matches the hardware on your PC provided that I can easily activate additional features. However, remember that Microsoft did provide Vista Basic to address this need and nobody wants it. In fact, Microsoft have been sued because Basic users decided that it isn't really Vista because it lacks Aero. I think all this proves is that it's very hard to please everyone and it's probably best that I stop here before I end up writing a comment as long as your post. One last thing, I agree 100% with you on how sleep should work and hope that this can be implemented in the next version of Windows. MS should not treat a sleeping PC like a sleeping Pocket PC which I think is the problem. Posted by: Jake | June 03, 2008 at 03:15 PM Linux isn't guilt free with alot of these either but I might add a few things: 1. Don't CREATE new hardware with Intel to fix your stuff. If you do anything, work on a new standard WITH the Linux developers so that Suspend/Resume/Hibernate works perfect no matter WHAT OS it is. 2. Get rid of bloat....we don't the file system to be a database too. We need it to be a filesystem. WinFS is a HORRIBLE idea. Just improve upon and then OPEN ntfs so others may use it. Stop pretending you make money off of ntfs. You don't. 3. In fact, open Windows itself. With prices hardly changing between devices with Windows and without, you can't make that much money on that Windows license. Plus you could use a little help closing your security holes. Posted by: gorkon | June 03, 2008 at 03:40 PM @gorkon - I disagree about WinFS. Although users may not have used it directly any more than they do the built in desktop search, it would have been great for developers. I'd love to be able to query the folder structure as if it is a database rather than deal with the file commands that Microsoft currently make available. Posted by: Jake | June 03, 2008 at 04:02 PM When I get my computer in the near future with Win7, I just want the darn OS to be compatible with all my softwares. Please!! Just make sure all the programs I have installed in VISTA right now, which took me considerable amount of time and effort to get them to work, will run without those dreaded compatibility issues. Posted by: PJ | June 03, 2008 at 04:08 PM Great Letter James. Maybe MS will hear some of it. I don't care what bells and whistles MS decides to put in, just make sure that they work with a real computer and not some imaginary 4 core ,8 gigs of ram dream machine. I'm actually OK with having to upgrade my hardware every 18 to 24 months. But. I don't want to have to spend top of the line money just so my OS will run reliably. Please MS, look at the 10 most common things most people do with a computer and design an OS that makes them super easy to do with 99% reliability. Posted by: TateJ | June 03, 2008 at 04:15 PM Microsoft is a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them. I expect to see a big change in an upcoming version of Windows if only because they were slapped pretty hard with Vista. It's hardly the dog some people make it out to be but, being a dev, I don't use it. I don't personally know a single dev that does use it. In fact, I only know a handful of people that use it regardless of their vocation. Microsoft likes to throw around the numbers of Vista units sold but what percentage of those were "sold" only because they forced manufacturers to preinstall Vista? I don't know offhand, but I do know they were forced to again allow XP preinstalls and forced to extend their support of XP. Personally, I needed a new laptop and, yesterday, I bought a new Macbook Pro despite it's being painfully expensive compared to a lot of the Windows laptops I looked at. Why? Vista. Sure, I could have wiped the drive and put XP on it but I can do that with OSX, too, and have the best of both worlds. Users complain about Vista, devs complain about Vista, manufacturers complain about Vista, retailers complain about Vista...if Microsoft hasn't learned a few things from this, they deserve to lose a sizeable chunk of the market. But I can't believe they'd be that stupid so I'm optimistic. Posted by: Mark | June 03, 2008 at 04:59 PM >>>The work to produce a sophisticated operating system like Windows 7 is monumental in fact maybe epic is the right word to describe the task before you. Or they could just outsource it all to Apple, who seem to be able to get the task done. (Recall the Allchin memo marveling over the things Apple had while MS was still "at work" on them -- for *years*.) And look, by the time Win 7 is at Alpha, we'll already have better Linux and maybe a rev and a half of Google's Android OS. Those two are *seriously* gunning for MS. Posted by: Mike Cane | June 03, 2008 at 05:38 PM Great letter! I already installed linux (Suse 10.3) on my 2 desktop computers and my sony vaio UX. But on my UX I use XP, because Linux gives me 1:40-2:10 hours of worktime while XP can work for 4:00 simply))) That is the only point. Posted by: Maltsev Victor | June 03, 2008 at 06:20 PM Great letter James. And while your at it make most of the preinstalled programs optional. I don't need MS Mail, Calendar etc. Make Windows 7 smart enough to see that if I install Outlook that it should offer to uninstall those programs that I don't want. Having an install system like Office where I can choose a full install or what components to install in a custom installation is really the only way to go. Also design a proper uninstall system. Registry entries, program folder, the lot. Stop clogging up my system with stuff I've tried to uninstall. Gordon Posted by: Gordon Cahill | June 03, 2008 at 06:32 PM I agree with some comments but disagree with others. I use Vista as a Media Center PC. In that scenario I definitely WANT Vista to wake up at 2am for its scheduled maintenance, defrag, updates, etc. Posted by: SiteCharts | June 03, 2008 at 10:07 PM While I agree with the sentiment displayed here, the issues that you are talking about aren't purely down to Vista, but are also down to shonky hardware and drivers for that hardware from manufacturers. The reason that Vista takes so long to sleep is because driver writers have made the OS do assorted tasks before it's allowed to sleep, this is *required* to make sure that devices still work when they get woken up. When your computer comes out of sleep Vista has to re-initialise that hardware, again things have to be done. Apple has the luxury of making hardware and software, they can make sure it all Just Works. If you want an example of just quite how hard it is look at all the sleep issues with Linux. Incidentally, Vista doesn't poll for hardware, and no operating system has for near enough a decade. When some new hardware is attached the controller it's attached to (USB/firewire/SATA) will raise an interrupt which will stop the OS from doing what it's currently doing and get it to pickup the hardware. It's a bit of a simplified description, but I'm sure that if you're interested you can just use google. As for modularity, I don't really care all that much. There was a point when I cared about every piece of software installed on PC, now I just want things to work, and there are operating systems that do that. I don't want the hellish Windows 98 problems again when it turns out that I didn't click some silly tick-box during the installer. But mostly I agree with you. I think that MS built a nice base with Vista, I just want Windows 7 to be the same but faster and leaner, most of the features that I want are already there. Posted by: inomine | June 04, 2008 at 02:04 AM I'm okay with scheduled tasks running during sleep... It's having then run on battery power that's the problem. I hope Windows 7 will be able to detect when mobile units are on battery and disable power intensive tasks, postponing them until the unit is back on AC power. That'll solvethe "hot pocket" problem too. -- Steve Posted by: Anton P. Nym | June 04, 2008 at 08:08 AM Steve, the problem with scheduled tasks running during sleep is that in Vista it actually wakes up the device and sometimes it doesn't go back to sleep. Posted by: James Kendrick | June 04, 2008 at 08:12 AM Great letter! hopefully some that can make a difference reads it. Hope you get a consulting job working as part of the design team!!! Posted by: Chad | June 04, 2008 at 09:12 AM I agree with a lot, but here's what I hope for: One of the biggest advantages of other competing OS's is tweakability. By this I mean having a setting for everything. I understand that this may confuse many users but that's what default settings are for. With this regard, I agree that the user should have the option to install whichever features they deem necessary. Thus, their system will only be as loaded as they need it to be. When in need, additional features should be able to install from the original OS media as they do currently, or automatically from the web (let's not bury our heads in the sand here, most users have net access at some point). Regarding the power abilities, I propose REM: no not Rapid Eye Movement, but Rapid Energy Management. If I want my computer to sleep a deep sleep, I should be able to configure sleep to turn everything off. Permanently. Don't wake up for anything. If, however, I want my PDA to be able to check my mail, my computer should be able to succeed where SideShow so miserably failed: Leave Bluetooth in a low power state on sleep, and when I access my mail with my PDA, I should be able to have my computer fetch my mail without ever having to turn it on. This includes using local WiFi access, enabled without the system waking, providing me options of which network to use (and the respective settings) on my PDA, essentially turning my computer into a low power router. Throughout this process, BT was in a low power state, and WiFi was turned on and off. Nothing more, nothing less. I understand a lot of this is up to hardware manufacturers, drivers and many other factors, but the dire truth is that's how it should be by now... I'll end my rant now and crawl back under my Vista and Windows Mobile rock, mold, algae, earthworms and all. Posted by: Kenneth | June 04, 2008 at 09:19 AM Hi Nice work James. This is just IT !!! I would add a request too : Make the new windows a breeze to update from XP because i don't and i wont go for Vista anyway !!!! Posted by: odm973 | June 04, 2008 at 05:25 PM Amen to optimization and customization of installed components. Also, I suggest rethinking of the UI and input methods. The UI needs to consider that for some, being able to do most tasks should be completable without using the cursor. Others need to be able to do most tasks without keyboard input. Consider things like pen-input. It needs to work, and work fast. I can't wait for it to pop-up a window, and I don't want to have it take up screen real-estate always. Think about touch-screen input -- I need a sweet onscreen keyboard that knows when to come up and when not to. Copy apple if you have to. It's worked for you before! Steal from the iPhone, from MacOSX, and even from those crazy ubuntu compiz guys. You know all that stuff that people drool over on youtube? Do it. But then make it optional, for those that want it. But most of all, make it work. Please. No bugs, no lag, no features that I need to spend all day disabling that should never have been the default anyways.
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Eight Things About Windows 7INFO WRITE 21 JUNE 2008 FROM DAVID PAUL LOWERThe list is in no particular order of importance. 1. Windows 7 won't be much different from Windows Vista. Microsoft is on record this week stating that Seven will be based on Windows Vista, which builds on Windows Server 2008. As I've long observed, desktop and server operating system development are in tandem. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 are code equivalent, at least the kernel and core services. Vista broke too many applications, a situation that Microsoft doesn't want to repeat with Seven. The driver module won't change, and Microsoft won't much mess with UAC (User Account Control), either. Microsoft's taken enough pain there. CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday night at the D Conference: "We gave up some compatibility for security. Tough trade-off." Compatibility is Seven's primary design goal. Anyone expecting a radically new Windows will have to wait. Seven won't be it. 2. There's no new kernel or modular design. This really is unfortunate. There seems to be some confusion among some Microsoft Watch commenters about my position regarding the Windows kernel. I don't advocate Microsoft rewriting the kernel. That would be ridiculous. Starting from a new kernel doesn't mean chucking the old one. Microsoft has a new kernel, it's the one that ships with 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. That kernel fixes some of the driver and software access problems of the past. That said, the kernel isn't the issue but what's wrapped around it. What I had advocated: Microsoft stripping the operating system down to the kernel and building back up a modular structure that would make Windows better suited for all kinds of computing devices. There needs to be one Windows that can run on any device, not just PCs. But modularity isn't Microsoft's primary design goal for Windows 7. It's compatibility. 3. The user interface won't radically change. Multitouch will be a subset of the Windows 7 UI not a replacement for the current motif. Microsoft clearly plans to make some changes to the Vista motif in Seven, but nothing radical. This week's multitouch demonstration impressed, but it will be akin to Tablet PC. If the supporting hardware is there, multitouch will be an option. Microsoft's Tuesday night multitouch demonstration impressed, but it's smoke-and-mirrors marketing. Microsoft needed to show something new, and the D Conference was a good venue. Before the multitouch demo, Steve Ballmer explained some of the end user experience problems with Windows Vista. Based on Microsoft research, UI changes had the most "jarring" impact on end users. He then affirmed that Microsoft wouldn't be making any new, radical changes to the Windows UI. From that statement, Microsoft moved to its Windows 7 multitouch demonstration. Multitouch is radically different. My money is on the CEO. Multitouch won't replace the existing UI motif. 4. Microsoft plans to ship Windows 7 for holiday 2009. Some of the Microsoft Watch commenters seem confused about this point. This week, several Microsoft executives, including the CEO, reiterated delivery within three years of Vista's general availability. Some people assume that means early 2010. Microsoft won't again make the mistake of missing holiday sales. More importantly, because Seven builds on Vista, Microsoft is more likely to deliver sooner than later. The company is shooting for 2009. 5. Seven is about fixing Vista perception problems. Whether the designation is deserved or not, Vista is synonymous with Windows Me. Interestingly, Windows Me underwent a partial UI makeover from Windows 95 and 98. Vista has gotten a bad rap, deservedly and not, and it's a perception problem Microsoft hasn't been able to fix. Maybe that $300 million advertising campaign will do something. There seems to be some confusion among some Microsoft Watch commenters about how poorly Vista is doing. Between Jan. 1, 2007 and March 31, 2008, PC manufacturers shipped approximately 342 million PCs worldwide, according to published Gartner figures. However, the figures include x86 servers. During the same time period, OEMs shipped about 11 million servers, not all of which were x86 models. So, being as generous as possible to Microsoft, let's lop 42 million units off the top, to account for x86 servers and computer sales during the first 29 days of January 2007, when Vista wasn't yet available on new PCs. Microsoft shipped 140 million Vista licenses during the same time period. Typically, Microsoft sells about 80 percent of Windows licenses on new PCs. The percentage has probably declined, because Vista Enterprise is driving more businesses to buy through Software Assurance but let's again be generous to Microsoft. That works out to around 112 million Vista licenses. Based on this arguably loose estimate, Windows Vista shipped on 37 percent of the 300 million PCs. During the D Conference on Tuesday, Microsoft's CEO said that about half the PCs going to enterprises had Windows Vista; he also conceded that some of those licenses would be downgraded to Windows XP. These numbers are disappointing, given the nearly six years between Windows releases. But imagine the pent up demand in late 2009—eight years from XP's launch—for Windows Seven. Microsoft will try to get Seven out fast, with modest changes and solidly reliable and backwards compatible. 6. Microsoft won't say much more about Windows 7 until PDC. The multitouch demonstration was toe-dipping for Microsoft. The company used Tuesday's information disclosure to bust some Windows 7 myths and get out some positive information about Vista's successor. The summer should be pretty light on additional information. Microsoft will save the big noise for October's Professional Developer Conference. 7. Windows 7 developer beta should be available at PDC. Given that Seven will build on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Microsoft should be ready for that big developer beta in October. The timing would be right for Internet Explorer 8 public beta. 8. Web services integration will be tight. If Windows 7 builds off of Vista, but with only modest changes, where will the big features bang come from? Business and consumer Web services. I expect to see tight Live services integration with Seven, including Live Mesh and Office Live. Microsoft won't let that Windows Server code go to waste, either. I expect to see more integration between desktop and server software. This is something Microsoft probably would have done during the Vista release cycle, if not for the European antitrust case. There's more to Microsoft's so-called "Interoperability Principles" than just the European Union. Microsoft can use the Principles as justification for tighter integration between the desktop and server, seeing as how the company publishes the protocols. That's a change many enterprises would welcome. IF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com DOJ Has Windows 7, Why Not You? INFO WRITE 21 JUNE 2008 FROM DAVID PAUL LOWERIF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com
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The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
In fact, it has nothing to do with the client and server products, or with Windows for mobile phones. It simply is a new release under the Windows Embedded brand umbrella. Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is a platform designed specifically for handheld portable navigation devices. According to Kevin Dallas, general manager of the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft, Windows Embedded is already a household name with the original equipment manufacturers producing PNDs.
"Windows Embedded powers many of the portable navigation devices in the marketplace," Dallas stated. In this context, Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 takes Microsoft's offerings one step further by delivering a platform that can bridge PNDs with Windows computers, and mobile phones via Bluetooth, and can even allow users to connect to the Internet. "Our commitment to this segment has always been about providing the platform and tools that give our OEM partners the most innovative technologies while reducing the complexity of development. We firmly believe the release of Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 helps us fulfill this promise by taking the PND experience to the next level. Adopting Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 today will allow device-makers and solution providers to focus on innovation while bringing smart, connected, service-oriented portable navigation devices to market in time for the 2008 holiday retail season and beyond," Dallas added. Chris Jones, Canalys vice president and principal analyst, indicated that PND manufacturers were under constant pressure to ensure the evolution of their devices in a market which was becoming increasingly connected and service-oriented. Based on Windows CE, Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 includes the following features: Windows Live, Bluetooth capabilities, MSN Direct and even Windows SideShow. Download: Windows® Embedded NavReady™ IF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again) LATEST INO 20 JUNE 2008 FROM DAVID LOWERIF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com
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It sounds like Microsoft is aiming to get Windows 7 out earlier than it promised — at least if you believe the company’s CEO.
During his fireside chat with Chairman Bill Gates at the D6 conference on May 27, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft was aiming to deliver Windows 7 in late 2009. For those of you who’ve attempted to follow Microsoft’s conflicting ship-date commitments for its next version of the Windows client, that is a month or two earlier than Microsoft execs said just yesterday morning (via a Q&A with Microsoft’s Windows Engineering Chief Steven Sinofsky). Microsoft’s party line has been that Windows 7 will ship three years from the date that Vista became generally available. And that’s where things have gotten a bit squishy. Microsoft began offering Vista to its business customers in the fall of 2006 and to consumers in January 2007. When I asked Microsoft for yet another clarification on Windows 7’s ship date last night, executives said the difference between Ballmer’s latest pronouncement and Microsoft’s stated timeframe was “really only a matter of a month or two.” Remember; Microsoft’s Windows team’s new mantra is underpromise and overdeliver. It looks better to say you will ship in 2010 and actually deliver in 2009 than it does to say 2009 and have your due date slip into the next year. The reason this “month or two” matters is because of the holiday PC sales season. With Vista, Microsoft missed getting code to its PC partners early enough for them to preload it on machines they sold during the holidays. I’d bet the new Windows regime is doing its darndest to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself here. All those folks who bet on a 2009 Windows 7 ship date in my ZDNet blogging colleague Ed Bott’s date pool are sitting prettier as of today. Meanwhile, speaking of ongoing uncertainties, will developers attending Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference the last week of October get alpha/Community Technology Preview (CTP) bits of Windows 7? That’s been the rumor for a while now, but Microsoft still isn’t saying. As of May 28, however, registration for the PDC is now open. Given that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is keynoting, it’s a safe bet Live Mesh and the accompanying development kit for that will be on the PDC agenda….
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Sensing’ more about what’s coming in Windows 7
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Sensing’ more about what’s coming in Windows 7
 Over the past six months, many individuals have downloaded early, unauthorized Windows 7 test builds that have leaked from Microsoft since late last year (the 6519 series). They’ve been looking for clues — any clues — about some of the new bits that will be part of the next version of Windows client, Over the past six months, many individuals have downloaded early, unauthorized Windows 7 test builds that have leaked from Microsoft since late last year (the 6519 series).
They’ve been looking for clues — any clues — about some of the new bits that will be part of the next version of Windows client, expected out in late 2009 or so.
But one potential new Windows 7 feature about which I haven’t seen a whole lot of speculation is something called “Windows Sensors.” (See the screen shot above from an early Windows 7 build sent to me by a tester who asked not to be identified.) What are these mysterious Windows Sensors mentioned under the “Hardware and Sound” category in the Windows 7 Control Panel — alongside Windows SideShow, Tablet PC settings and game controllers? Are they the kinds of sensors that will enable the new and improved multi-touch/gesture recognition that Microsoft has confirmed will be one of the new features in Windows 7? (Monitor vendor Albatron recently demonstrated a forthcoming LCD monitor that incorporates sensors required for multi-touch.) Makes sense (no pun intended), but perhaps there’s something more in the works. Look at screen shot above. This is a “Learn About Using Windows Sensors” screen from the same early Windows 7 build. “Programs on your computer can communicate with your Windows-compatible sensors,” it says. It calls out “Windows Media Player” and “Inbox — Windows Mail” as sub-categories here. And it offers users the option of being notified “when compatible programs and sensors are installed.” Does this simply mean that Windows Media Player and Windows Mail are examples of applets that will be able to take advantage of multi-touch? Perhaps there’s more going on here and Windows Sensors will be the next version of Plug and Play — a way for Windows to automatically “sense” what kinds of peripherals or devices can/should be automatically connected and synced. Sensors are also key to home-automation systems. Could Windows 7 be the control hub for users’ fridges, stoves and home-security systems, via Windows Sensors? IF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com June 19 SpeedTest.net BEST PLACES ON THE NET TO TEST YOUR SPEED It Does All The Work In An Awesome Flash based Web Application TRY IT & SEEIF YOU ENTERED ONE OF MY BLOGS CLICK HERE TO GO TO MAIN HOME PAGE www.davidlower.spaces.live.com
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If you do not boot from CD then a few issues could occur when installing XP SP3 with winnt(32).exe. If you did not have any issues then no need to update.
Fix: XP SP3 manual install (winnt32) issues. Note: I read that some of you think that nLite breaks the floppy F6 method. That is not true, it is a Windows limitation, just disable the OEM Preinstall on the Unattended - General page or integrate the driver. Have you ever wanted to remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger...
How about not even to install them with Windows ? nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components.
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hotfixes with white icons, *KB*.exe, including update packs and Internet Explorer 7 supports generic SFC, Uxtheme, TcpIp and Usb Polling patching. nLite supports Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 and 2003 x86/x64 in all languages. It needs .NET Framework 2.0 in order to run... Check if you have it already, maybe on some of your CDs before downloading if your connection is slow. You may report on the forum any bugs or annoyances found. And remember it is freeware, meaning that only fuel is a good word or a donation.
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winPenPack Flash School is a collection of free and open source portable programs optimized for use with a USB pen drive or Hard Disk for educational purposes. This is the school version of our release
This collection of more than 50 useful freeware and shareware programs geared toward students runs seamlessly on a USB drive. Patience is required during the slow download, but the programs install easily and quickly. A bonus is the handy tray icon pop-up menu. The programs are grouped in eight broad categories: computer, geometry, graphics and drawing, languages and translators, mathematics, music, science, and utilities. This isn't a suite with common interfaces or manuals. The programs require different experience and knowledge levels, but most high school and college students won't have any problems operating these apps.
WinPenPack Flash School lacks a portable browser, but since the installed collection takes up just over 700MB, there is plenty of room to add one. Unfortunately, users can't add or remove programs from the Start list. There is also no easy method to uninstall some apps for space. Most of the applications are the most recent versions. Any updates must be done inside the individual applications.
There is little fluff in this collection. That doesn't mean any user will access all programs daily, but the less-often used will come in handy for math, music, and science students. There are sure to be students who occasionally need an onscreen metronome or a basic CAD program.
It's as easy to install the collection to a hard-drive directory as an USB drive. While it isn't the perfect collection for students, WinPenPack Flash School is a very good start.
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Any expert user will want to install this collection of useful apps on a special USB pen drive. WinPenPack Flash Expert is a collection of more than 150 programs and utility commands designed for the expert user. We found downloading the install package painfully slow, but the installation itself was quick. You'll need at least a 1GB drive to install this 740MB package, but you can also install it on a hard-drive directory. All the programs are portable and write nothing to your system Registry.
Getting to the apps is easy with the included tool tray pop-up menu or the small desktop menu window. The menu is logically grouped in seven top-level categories: Graphics, Internet, Multimedia, Security, System Utilities, and Web Programming. Expert users will find the usual suspects included. Firefox, GIMP, TightVNC, Angry IP Scan, ClamWin, and dozens of other familiar tools are ready to go as soon as this collection is installed to your USB drive.
An introduction sheet includes links to each program's home page, but documentation is hit or miss. Nevertheless, expert users should find it easy to operate each app. The included programs perform needed and helpful functions. You won't find fluff on this collection. We did wish OpenOffice or AbiWord were included for word processing.There is a menu item to uninstall the full package, but no easy way to add or delete select programs. Every expert user has a different idea what constitutes the perfect USB drive toolbox, but WinPenPack Flash Expert is a great start.
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Now also in English. WinInizio PenSuite Titanium Edition is a large collection of many famous software products of any kind that have been optimized to run from a USB pen-drive. Many software developers have authorized to shrink their software with UPX and to transform them into no-install applications, so they can be stored and executed into an USB pen-drive. The WinInizio PenSuite Titanium Edition includes many killer apps like AM Deadlink, Avant Browser, The Gimp, eMule and and Filezilla. Several applications for almost 1 Gb of software that can be used on any PC without setup. The WinInizio Titanium Edition is conceived to be copied in to a blank 1 Gb USB pen-drive.Version Titanium 2.1 features: a new and simple setup has been introduced. The PenSuite's extraction to the hard disk or pendrive is now completely guided.
WinInizio.it is happy to present Wininizio PenSuite, a collection of free and open source software that can be copied onto a USB pen drive or used from a hard disk.
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 FINAL to be released June 17th 2008
 Finally, we have a date for the release of Firefox 3. “After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th,” according to a statement posted on the Mozilla.org site Wednesday. As part of the final preparation, Mozilla also made available today Release Candidate 3, its final release candidate before ship. The team decided earlier this week to create another build to fix a problem in the Mac OSX version causes by the introduction of Apple’s OSX 10.5.3. As the open source project works to increase the 18 plus percent market share of its web browser, it is hosting a download day on June 17 and hopes to set a Guinness Book of World Records records for most downloads in a 24-hour period. Paula Rooney is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for almost two decades. See her full profile and disclosure of her industry affiliations. The third major release of the browser that ended Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox 3.0 FINAL to be released June 17th 2008's monopoly is almost here. Mozilla Firefox 3 will ship on Tuesday the 17th. To mark the occasion, the non-profit behind this open-source browser hopes to set a new world record -- most downloads of a program in a 24-hour span -- on that day. Like a lot of programs these days, however, Firefox 3 has been available for months already in pre-release form -- first as an alpha last summer, then a beta starting last winter and, for the last several weeks, in "release candidate" builds. The arrival of the "finished" version may be a formality for many people; I myself have now put Firefox 3 on every computer but my desktop at the office. Despite beta software's deserved reputation for unreliability, using Firefox 3 has been almost completely drama-free. The only problem I've found so far have been add-ons that don't work, which I expect will be updated for the new browser soon enough. It may be that I could have written my Firefox 3 review weeks ago (as one of my competitors did). But I'll save it for next week, when I can test-drive what most people will still recognize as the real thing. For now, I'd like to get your take on Firefox 3 if you've already made a release-candidate build your everyday browser. Does it deliver what you wanted? Where does it fall short? Do any Web sites not look or work right in it? Firefox 3 Draws Near
The third major release of the browser that ended Microsoft Internet Explorer's monopoly is almost here. Mozilla Firefox 3 will ship on Tuesday the 17th. To mark the occasion, the non-profit behind this open-source browser hopes to set a new world record -- most downloads of a program in a 24-hour span -- on that day. Like a lot of programs these days, however, Firefox 3 has been available for months already in pre-release form -- first as an alpha last summer, then a beta starting last winter and, for the last several weeks, in "release candidate" builds. The arrival of the "finished" version may be a formality for many people; I myself have now put Firefox 3 on every computer but my desktop at the office. Despite beta software's deserved reputation for unreliability, using Firefox 3 has been almost completely drama-free. The only problem I've found so far have been add-ons that don't work, which I expect will be updated for the new browser soon enough. It may be that I could have written my Firefox 3 review weeks ago (as one of my competitors did). But I'll save it for next week, when I can test-drive what most people will still recognize as the real thing. For now, I'd like to get your take on Firefox 3 if you've already made a release-candidate build your everyday browser. Does it deliver what you wanted? Where does it fall short? Do any Web sites not look or work right in it?
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I’m very satisfied with this amazing piece of software. I would
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player to date, with some awesome audio features to enhance music, some
awesome graphical features to enhance the already awesome appearance,
and some awesome organizational features to allow you to find your
music in a much faster and convenient manner. Windows media player 12
is by far the best windows media player out there to date because of
not only all of these features, but several more, I could just go on
and on with the added features, but I’d recommend checking out these
other sweet tools on your own time, after downloading from the
Microsoft website or buying an operating system which was created by
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