Windows XP Mode works quite fine within Windows Virtual PC Beta release recently with the rolling out of Windows 7 Release Candidate. A fully licensed Windows XP Professional with SP3 is more than generous for people who in hesitation of transiting their business OS. Well, many people found themselves in bewilderment when they want to [...]
Microsoft had rolled out public testing of Release Candidate of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 yesterday. I believe lots of people had tasted the new version of Windows 7 by now, and some might have loaded RC for the next minor update for Windows Server. Fast, super fast, is the first impression I [...]
Back when Windows 7 Beta was rolled out in January, there is one specific function in it that caught lots of people’s attention, that is the feedback tool, which can record users’ problems in video, compress them and send back to Microsoft for engineers’ analysis. Later on, with all those leaked builds of Windows 7, [...]
Windows Virtual PC Windows Virtual PC is the latest Microsoft virtualization technology that allows you to run many productivity applications on a virtual Windows environment, with a single click, directly from a Windows 7-based PC. Windows Virtual PC has a number of exciting features including: Seamless Applications: Launch applications installed on a virtual machine directly [...]
IE 8 is an arguably successful IE upgrade, but there are some annoying issues hanging around. One of them would be the endless prompt of “Download Windows Search to improve history and favorites results” if you didn’t have Windows Search installed on your computer while using IE 8. Microsoft had provided a solution over their [...]
While EST time still hanging around May 4th, Microsoft had lifted the embargo for public download of Windows 7 Release Candidate, first through Windows Ecosystem on Microsoft Connect, then on their official website. Up till now, Microsoft had refreshed the license keys distributed for activating the RCs with brand new 10 keys. When will Microsoft [...]
Graphics Well, I got a comparison here. For the latest version of Virtual PC, VPC 2007 SP1
Few will doubt the fact Windows Virtual PC XP Mode is a great idea, but where does it come from? In essence, Windows Virtual PC is just a special edition of Virtual PC, which got the latest update, 2007 SP1, in last May. Windows Virtual PC adds in several key components that make life much [...]
Two weeks ago, people had been guessing which build would eventually got selected to be presented to the wide public serving as the final Release Candidate for Windows 7. Build 7077 was firstly identified as official RC-escrow, then build 7082 was rumored to be a RC for RC. Well, after that guessing, people shifted attention [...]
Windows XP Mode refers to Microsoft’s pre-configured virtual machine working inside Windows Virtual PC, which contains one fully licensed copy of Windows XP Professional SP3. Windows XP Mode is just what rumor had been boasting, the killer app that will provide Windows 7 with killer compatibility for software that only work within Windows XP. Got [...]