Archive for August, 2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download from eOpen or MVLS sites now, it should become available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers tomorrow. (me downloading it below)
The folks at Engadget just posted a great review of Windows 7, an except below. “Where Vista felt like a sprawling mess, Windows 7 has patched up the holes and feels like a tight, unified mechanism. It’s hardly full of surprises, but that’s usually a good thing when it comes to operating systems. If you’ve […]
Rumours are afoot that Snow Leopard build 10A432 is gold master and likely to go RTM. Snow Leopard is due for general release in September, just ahead of Windows 7 on October 22nd – strange coincidence eh? Source: here
IT purists have previously told us that if you want to run an operating system on lower-end hardware you need Linux, but it seems that the community is changing it’s tune. Taken from Computer World: What: Circa-2002 ‘white-box’ desktop bought off Craigslist for $25 Specs: 2.4GHz ‘Northwood’ Pentium 4 CPU, 1GB PC2100 DRAM, 120GB IDE […]
If you are an “IT Pro” and need to make sure you retain management of your Windows Server environment after upgrading to Windows 7 then you are in luck! The remote server administration tools for Winows 7 have been released and can be downloaded here. Source: here
Yesterday Microsoft PressPass announced a teleconference between Microsoft Corp. and Nokia executives, with no more information. But that does not stop the blogs speculating and the beliefs suggest that Nokia will be releasing a Symbian based version of Microsoft Office for their smartphones. Nokia (like Apple) has already licensed ActiveSync for Exchange connectivity so a […]
