Windows News

Here's the latest edition of the Industry Newsletter by Carl Bennett!

Windows News

Milestone 3 of Windows 8 has been leaked.

Windows 8 has a new install program format, AppX. It looks like the followup to ClickOnce and one click deployment, neither of which have had an impact on the enterprise desktop.

Windows 8 will have a taskbar that spreads across multiple monitors, and will have support for limiting 3G data.

Windows 8 Server edition comes with a new version of Hyper-V.

I can reveal that the version number of Windows 8 will be 6.2, which reveals that it is intended to be fairly compatible with Vista (6.0) and Windows 7 (6.1).

A revealing interview with Steven Sinofsky by a rather aggressive WSJ columnist Walt Mossberg.

The full 30 minute recording of the Windows 8 tablet demo.

Windows Thin PC (the one for VDI with built in virtualisation, my top-tip for one-to-watch) has reached RTM and will be released on July 1^st.

Aerial Photographs Windows Desktop Theme, and a special theme for teenage girls … Justin Beiber.

Cloud and Packaging News

Cloud News

Windows Azure Toolkits announced for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Microsoft have just made their biggest acquisition to date, buying Skype for $8.5bn.  It may be dwarfed by buying Nokia for $19bn.

Microsoft’s Cloud computing overcomes the laws of physics, illustrated by a confusing infographic.

The American National Institute of Standards and Technology has defined Cloud Computing.

Learn about Cloud Computing and virtualisation technologies at the Microsoft Virtual Academy.

San Francisco has joined the London Underground and USDA in The Cloud.

Packaging News

Robert Dickau has written a blog post on different methods for detecting existing installs.

Microsoft research has a neat solution for depixellating images.  Its relevance to packaging? Check out this funky oldskool setup icon!

Companies use ‘branding’ registry keys to stamp installs on machines, but it is not that straightforward on 64bit windows.  Here’s a solution.

Small, simple freeware for mounting ISO files in Windows 7.

The 2011 Rapture failed because of install issues.

Progress bars on the underground.

Office News

Here's the second section of Carl's newsletter, all about Office.

Expect Office 2010 SP1 at the end of June with a big list of changes.

Office 365 will be released in June.

New leak of Office 15 Milestone 2 has a lovely UI.

Not news, more of a did you know … Did you know that Office 2010 has a built-in method for letting anyone see your presentation over the web? It’s a bit like GTM.

Hotmail Connector updated for reading your hotmail from Outlook.




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Operating System News

Here's another great newsletter from ChangeBASE's Carl Bennett, focusing today on operating systems.

Please feel to add your links and suggestions to the comments section.

Operating System News

At long last we have an official preview of Windows 8 to drool over. Steve Ballmer has said it “will come out next year”.

Windows 8 has a new filesystem, I’m hoping it is this one.

Don’t leak information about Windows 8, you’ll get fired.

Windows 7 now accounts for a third of worldwide OS market share.

After installing Win7 or Win2008R2 you can get a BSOD or a frozen computer, here’s a fix.

A bug in Windows 7 deletes all System Restore Points on every reboot if your pagefile is highly fragmented.  Here’s a workaround.

Meego, an operating system for netbooks (and cars) by Nokia, Intel and Maemo has reached version 1.2

Microsoft’s free antivirus scanner and malware detector.

Why is hybrid sleep off by default on laptops? (and how do I turn it on?)

XP sounding good after all these years.

Every Microsoft PDC video is online.

Every previous newsletter has some funky Win7 themes for you to try.  This one is no exception.

Interesting article on app virtualisation...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/26/desktop_virtualisation_applications/

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