Today is Thursday 22nd October 2009, the offical launch date of Windows 7 and probably the biggest day on the technology calendar this year. I was lucky enough to get my hands on Windows 7 back in July and I am sure that Microsoft are going to be having a very happy board meeting next Monday. Record pre-orders on Amazon, millions of people blogging about … Continue reading Seventh Heaven?
It is just 2 days until the release of Windows 2008 R2. While a lot of people are hanging out for the Windows 7 (released on the same day), it is the new server operating system that is going to make waves in server rooms everywhere. Significant improvements have been made to Hyper-V in the form of Live Migration (think VMotion but without the price) … Continue reading Windows 2008 R2 is almost here
This article is a little slow coming, as today is actually day 4. If you missed my earlier posts you may wish to start reading my Windows 7 and Office 2010 day 1 post first. I’ve decided that this will be the last post in the series for two reasons. Firstly I am not going to roll back to Vista, I’m a forward looking guy. … Continue reading Windows 7 and Office 2010 day 3
Thanks to a huge response to my previous post Windows 7 and Office 2010 day 1… I decided I should keep up the momentum. I’m off to work at a client site a long way from my office tomorrow, so today was about ensuring everything I need to do my job remotely works. A quick description in four words could be either “no need to … Continue reading Windows 7 and Office 2010 day 2…
Yesterday I decided to free myself from Windows Vista, formatting my laptops hard disk and installing Windows 7 and the Technical Preview of Office 2010. The experience has been absolutely brilliant, fast boot time, slick user interface, network settings accessible in 1 mouse click and Office is pretty cool for all kinds of reasons. Installation from USB flash drive takes around 20 minutes and is … Continue reading Windows 7 + Office 2010 day one…
Windows 7 clients can gain remote access to network resources using a feature called DirectAccess. Microsoft see this as a game breaking technology that will change the way we work remotely. A Windows 2008R2 server  acts as a gateway for DirectAccess clients providing access to servers on the internal LAN. DirectAccess does away with the need for third party VPN clients or access gateways on … Continue reading Windows 7 DirectAccess overview
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