Microsoft has launched another tool for installing Windows 7 on netbooks lacking an optical drive. Microsoft sells its operating systems on optical drives. But a large number of netbooks in the market lack an optical drive. So how can netbook users upgrade their computer to Windows 7?
Buying a USB DVD drive is definitely a good solution but last month Microsoft launched a better solution in the form of a utility with which you can download and install Windows 7 on a netbook using a USB flash drive. This tool was based on an open source code. But then Microsoft’s decision to impose new licensing restrictions on software using an open source code led to the violation of a GPL licence. Microsoft was eventually forced to remove the utility. They have reintroduced it after a bit of retooling. The new tool, however, is clunkier than the previous one. It requires you to download several different files including the installer, .NET framework, Bootsect.exe and IMAPI.
The previous tool had these files bundled together so they could be launched by a single command. By separating out these applications, Microsoft has reclaimed its rights to apply a more restrictive license to these programs while at the same time releasing the USB installer tool as open source software.
The new tool is available for download from the Microsoft Store
After a billion dollar antirust fine from the EU and countless court hearings, Microsoft has finally decided to scum to pressure from the EU and remove IE from the European version of Window’s 7.
Looks like there was a reason why Microsoft allowed 10 million of us to download Window's 7 beta. According to Steven Sinofsky the company's senior vice president for the Window's Live Engineering Group, the company has already received half a million bug reports from its 10 million plus beta testers.
We're sorry if you were too busy to even notice that Window's 7 was in public beta. More importantly we would like to thank Microsoft for allowing us to test their new OS before they released it so we can tell them what we like from what we don't like so they can at least listen to most of our concerns.
If my memory serves me right this would be the second time that the license for XP has been extended. The loophole in the Microsoft law says that no system can run XP unless its RAM is no more than 1GB. The rule was initially set so laptops that are sent to developing countries could get the Microsoft love. But with the rise of netbooks that has once again fueled the XP fans.
Microsoft plans to take multi touch to a fresh level with Side Sight, a hands-off 'touch screen' permitting users to control their doohickeys without leaving muddled fingerprints. The principal complaint about touch screens are the fingerprints - the larger the screen, the more prints there are, and it seems like no matter how often you clean the device, there's always fingerprints left over. Microsoft's Side Sight multi touch development will eradicate that issue by permitting users to control a 'touch screen' without essentially having to touch the screen. Side Sight works by mounting sensors along the length of the sides of a thingamabob, which will become aware of your finger movements up to a full 10cm away from the apparatus. A sharp jerk in the direction of the device can be employed to click, which circular motions can be employed to rotate. Microsoft presently has a working replica using an HTC Touch and sensors associated to a computer via USB, which broadcasts the signals via Bluetooth. Incorporating the sensors into the piece of equipment is the next footstep, and Microsoft asserts that one day the system could permit users to exploit multi-touch on very diminutive devices that otherwise wouldn't be talented to exploit a touch screen.
A publicity blitz intentional to lend a hand for Microsoft to buff up the flecked brand name of its Windows Vista operating system began this week with a head-scratcher of a money making stunt. The advertisement features Jerry Seinfeld bending some new-fangled shoes, Bill Gates fiddling with his shorts and no bring up of Vista. Microsoft articulates the advertisement is predestined to get public talking, and that additional parts of the marketing crusade will in point of fact get into what its software is able to do. But the marketing, which will outlay hundreds of millions of dollars in excess of quite a few years, is in actuality just “air cover,” according to Bill Veghte, the Microsoft administrative who is accountable for supporting Windows, in all probability the major money-spinning franchise in history.
80GB hard drive constraint which previously crippled Netbook producers from offering enhanced storage space options to go along with Windows XP. Microsoft has just got a bit more compassionate with their constraints on Windows XP for net books. The software monster earlier limited use of Windows XP on Netbook’s to just 10.2" non-touch screen LCD, 80GB HDD and 1GB RAM. So, the high-quality news is we can soon be expecting Netbook’s with two times the hard drive competence as even the 160GB ones are now allowable along with Windows XP. Previously unconfined in the Taiwan market are MSI Wind U100 and EEE PC 1000H with 160GB spinning hard drives.
Microsoft develops its merchandise line by a new-fangled mouse christened Arc. Media describes that Microsoft requires commencing its innovative mouse Microsoft Arc. With the innovation in the computer world scaling new peaks every moment, the world witnesses’ new products every now and then. The device proffers an extraordinary characteristic, for the reason that it is collapsible. The ergonomic design of the mouse is revolutionary and the name Arc captures to the appearance of the mouse. The piece of equipment is wireless and gets presented in dark red and black. When the mouse is collapsed or folded then its dimension gets halved and it is prepared by all means to be transported. By all accounts, the now Microsoft Arc mouse will be obtainable in autumn and it will priced approximately at $ 60 (~ €39).
Microsoft has delivered a letter to its Windows customers that detail the destiny of XP, Vista developments, and few details about Windows 7. June 30, 2008 will be the final day for Windows XP sales - it will no further be certified to key PC producers and sold at retail. Microsoft will endow with comprehensive support for XP until April of 2014. Microsoft is not wounding off the accessibility of Windows XP completely, however. Businesses will be capable to obtain Vista Business or Ultimate and have "downgrading" rights to utilize Windows XP. Downgrade rights are accessible to all businesses that accredit Windows. Windows XP Home and hors d'oeuvre version will still be obtainable on low-cost "net-books".
Microsoft on Thursday revealed strategy to acquire Mobi-Comp, a Portuguese corporation that makes software for the mobile globe, including mobile rearrangement to Web sites such as Face book. Microsoft predicts the achievement will advance its mobile ambitions, predominantly in structuring novel mobile data fortification and distribution services, the company whispered in a statement. The company also predicts to utilize Mobi-Comp to further swell its aptitude to supply compelling software that can be utilized for labor and play with mobile phones, PCs and the Internet. Conditions and Terms of the pact were not disclosed. Mobi-Comp proffers quite a few Web based software services.
Microsoft has put out an intact variant of wireless desktops, intended at bringing what you sort on and what you sort with under the matching umbrella. The Wireless Laser computer 7000 sits in close proximity to the pinnacle of the pack, with sufficient features to send your fingers on an untamed ride. Do these features append value to the one who pay for, or do they detract from the understanding? Read on to reveal it.
A tipster claims Microsoft is scheduling to upstage WWDC by announcing a Blu-Ray Xbox 360. A tip has been scooted out spelling Microsoft plans to 'upstage' Apple by launching a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360 an hour before WWDC. The tip comes from the acquaintance of a Microsoft employee, and the claim reveals the Xbox 360 Blu-Ray will be obtainable for Christmas 2008. "I‘ve got a secure friend who works at Microsoft, formerly with the HD-DVD division and at present in the E&D division (Xbox, Zune). I’m told MS will upgrade Apple with a Monday 9am PDT publication (1 hour before WWDC) via press discharge that the Xbox 360 will avail Blu-Ray before Christmas. Price was “under the recent Elite”, but I couldn’t avail any more details." Whether this will prove factual or not will be seen Monday.
Yahoo! Quickly replies to windows owner Microsoft's official pronouncement and expresses that they're geared up to move on now. Microsoft Corporation today revealed that it has introverted its bid to take over Yahoo! Inc. “We go on with to accept as true that our wished-for possession made sagacity for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the marketplace as a whole. Our purpose in pursuing an amalgamation with Yahoo! was to make available superior choice and modernization in the marketplace and generate authentic value for our relevant stockholders and human resources,” expressed Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft.