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JUN 30

Essential Tool for the Job - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Windows Vista (RTM Announcement)

Posted by Baldwin Ng

RTM Announcement - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 Hello, It's been a few months since I last blogged about the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 - formerly known as WVHA or Windows Vista Hardware Assessment. Today, I'd like

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JUN 13

Behind the Scenes of the Windows Vista Sound Schemes

Posted by Chris Flores

I'm posting this on behalf of my colleague Steve Ball. Hi, my name is Steve Ball and I'm a Principal Program Manager Lead on the Windows Sound Team . I'd like to take a moment and give some background on sound schemes in Windows as well as the new sound

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Tags: Windows Vista, Audio, Featured News, Robert Fripp, Ultimate Extras, Sound Schemes, Steve Ball

JUN 09

IE partners with American Forests for green Carbon Grove campaign

Posted by Chris Flores

Last month, Window's Internet Explorer launched Carbon Grove, a green campaign designed to mobilize internet users to pursue reductions in their personal carbon footprints. Today, we are excited to announce that the campaign is expanding to France, and

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Tags: Windows Vista, Windows, IE7, Featured News, Internet Explorer, IE8, WebSlice, Carbon Grove, American Forest

JUN 09

Need answers about Windows Vista? New Windows Client TechCenter Launches

Posted by Chris Flores

Unfortunately I was unable to make TechEd this year. Today marks the start of a highly eventful week at our yearly conference for IT professionals. Roughly 10,000 attendees will gather at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FLA. This year at TechEd

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Springboard Series, Mark Russinovich, IT Pro, Enterprise, TechNet, TechEd 2008, Windows Client TechCenter

JUN 04

New Whitepaper: The Business Value of Windows Vista

Posted by Chris Flores

This one is for all you IT professionals out there. A lot of you are probably having discussions inside your company about when to deploy Windows Vista, or you've deployed it and want to know which of the new capabilities can have the biggest impact on

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, BitLocker, Enterprise, Whitepaper, Business

MAY 27

Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch

Posted by Chris Flores

For years Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices. The advent of the original Windows graphical user interface forever changed the way people used their PC's.

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Tags: Windows, Featured News, Demo, surface computing, Windows 7, AllThingsD, D6, Touch, Surface, Multi-Touch

MAY 27

Communicating Windows 7

Posted by Chris Flores

Typically when Microsoft ships a new OS (like Windows Vista), we immediately start talking about the next version-which begs two questions: 1) is Microsoft working on a new version of Windows, and if so, 2) why aren't you talking about it? I thought I

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Tags: Windows Vista, Windows, Featured News, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1, Disclosure, Windows 7

MAY 22

Update: Windows Optimized Desktop for the Enterprise

Posted by Chris Flores

I'm relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise. We've been talking with a lot of organizations about what they need most from an optimized desktop experience,

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Tags: Windows Vista, Virtualization, Featured News, MDOP 2008, Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios, Enterprise, Optimized Desktop

APR 30

Microsoft takes steps to “Integrate IT” at the Microsoft Management Summit

Posted by Chris Flores

I'm relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise. During Virtualization Briefing Day in January, Shanen posted to give you background on what we're doing to

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Tags: Virtualization, Featured News, Deployment, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Management Summit, Windowss Vista

APR 23

Automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1 begins today

Posted by Chris Flores

We're excited about the progress we've made with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. On March 18th, Windows Vista SP1 was made available for customers who chose to manually download and install it from the Microsoft Download Center or Windows Update in English,

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Tags: Featured News, Windows Update, SP1, Windows Vista SP1, Automatic Update

APR 23

Updated Language Packs Released

Posted by Chris Flores

We have made available updated Language Packs for users using Windows Vista SP1 as well as those running Windows Vista RTM. For those running SP1, the Language Packs should be showing up for you under Windows Update. The specific language packs which

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, SP1, Windows Vista SP1, Language Packs

APR 23

New Ultimate Extras Released

Posted by Chris Flores

If you're running Windows Vista Ultimate and noticed two new Ultimate Extras have shown up on Windows Update - don't worry, your eyes do not deceive! Today we released two new Ultimate Extras: Windows Sound Schemes and Windows DreamScene Content Pack

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Tags: DreamScene, Ultimate Extras, UltimatePC.com, Sound, Sound Schemes, Windowss DreamScene

APR 15

Releasing Windows Vista SP1 for more languages

Posted by Chris Flores

It has been almost a month since we released Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update in 5 languages. To date: millions of people have successfully installed Windows Vista SP1 on their PCs. So we're happy to announce the next step for Windows Vista SP1 availability.

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Tags: Windows Vista, Featured News, Windows Update, Windows Vista SP1, Language Packs, Languages, Microsoft Download Center

APR 07

Windows Vista SP1 Update

Posted by Chris Flores

I have a quick update for you about Windows Vista SP1. The Microsoft Update Blog contains some important information about updates to the SP1 prerequisite distribution plan. Starting tomorrow, we are resuming the automatic update and installation of the

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Tags: Featured News, Windows Update, Windows Vista SP1, Prerequisite, Language Packs, Automatic Update, Microsoft Update

APR 03

Microsoft Introduces $10,000 Digital Home Makeover Contest

Posted by Ben Reed

Did you know that the Windows Media Center team is conducting a Digital Home Makeover Contest to celebrate the consumer availability of new Extenders for Windows Media Center? For one lucky winner, a makeover team will transform their disconnected digital

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