App Compat Industry News

The latest installment of interesting news, hints and tips as compiled by the ChangeBASE team - enjoy!

Platform News

Customising the WinX menu on Windows 8

Part2 of the low-level dive inside the clipboard

DaRT 8 Beta for troubleshooting and repairing system failures within an organisation.  Q&A

Miss the start button in Windows 8? Some 3^rd-party apps to bring it back

About touch-hardware on Windows 8

ConverterTechnology OfficeConverter 2010 compared with Microsoft’s Office Migration Planning Manager

Bunnies, Eggs and Disney themes for Windows 7

Migration News

XP and Office 2003 support ends in two years

Migrating print queues from 32bit to 64bit OSs

Recorded Webcast with Microsoft and Quest: Fast, Automated Application Readiness for Windows 7, and Office 2010 IE 8 or 9 and Virtualization

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Packaging News

New mechanism for updating Adobe Flash Player

New mechanism for updates in Visual Studio 11

Registration-free COM the old-fashioned way: The car mp3 player

Visual Studio 11 no longer supports .vdproj installer projects

WiX 3.6 RC0 build is now available

The InstallAware vs Embarcadero (Delphi) spat continues

Advanced Installer 9.0 has been released containing an MSI EXE wrapper

Cloud News

Microsoft Online Backup Service, part of Windows8 Server

Virtualisation News

App-V 5 beta is now available

Support policy for Microsoft applications that are running in a Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) environment

How Citrix XenApp works, What is XenDesktop?, What is XenServer virtualization?, What is XenClient?

Upgrade XenApp 6.0 to 6.5 (if you are very brave)

More info on the new Hyper-V features in Windows 8 Server Part 1 Part 2

New product included in MDOP, Microsoft User Experience Virtualization, try it here

Win a book: App-V Advanced Guide

ThinApp SDK vs ThinReg

Browser News

strive to make pagination irrelevant

Microsoft have bought Netscape

Mobile News

Stephen Fry discusses the current state of mobile phones

A VM for running Android under Windows

Android Captures Majority Share of U.S. Smartphone Market

RIM, makers of Blackberry are in trouble

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