One small step for native code; one big leap for Windows Phone 7 jailbreak

Just weeks after the launch of Windows Phone 7 around the world, the inevitable attempts to jailbreak the operating system is yielding some interesting results. Today, Australian developer Chris Walshie was successfully able to prove a method to run “native” unmanaged code on a retail Windows Phone 7 device.

The pieces started falling into place when user “hounsell” on xda-developers.com noticed the a third-party application in the WP7 marketplace (Network Profile by Samsung) used “native” code, not Silverlight-managed code as all non-Microsoft apps should.

Upon closer inspection, he documented some interesting characteristics of the application that gave it its native capabilities – most notably a DLL called “Microsoft.Phone.InteropServices”, which if poked the right way provided COM access.

Building upon this, Chris was able to successfully code and deploy a valid WP7 application using the developer sideloading process to a Windows Phone 7 device that inherited the ability to run unmanaged code.

Even though this breakthrough pretty much provides root access to the core of the Windows CE-based system including registry and file system necessary for future jailbroken applications, the last and major piece of the jailbreaking puzzle remains – sideloading an application on a common non-developer device, since such an app would never make it through marketplace certification.

Fortunately, you can bet the geniuses at xda-developers will figure something out.

Update: If anyone’s wondering why jailbreaking is important, it’ll be beneficial to indie developers who want to push beyond the limitations of the Silverlight framework and SDK – including but not limited to access to the microphone and camera. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could override the Bing search button?

Via : istartedsomething.com

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Microsoft Showcase Cross-Platform Game Using Windows Phone 7

Microsoft recently demonstrated the new mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, which can play video games from various platforms (Microsoft). This demo is done at Microsoft Tech-Ed at Middle East Conference.

Rudder played computer games in the PC, then move to the Windows Phone 7 to continue the game earlier. After previously using a PC keyboard, then he use touch screen and accelerometer of Windows Phone 7 to play in that device. Then, he move to the Xbox 360 device and continue the game using the usual stick.

Microsoft's future is likely to make an application market for all of Windows operating system, with cross-platform content.

Windows Phone 7

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Windows 7 Leaked To eBay

PC users don't have to wait until Windows 7 is officially launched later this month to get their hands on Microsoft's new operating system—it's already for sale on eBay, and at cut rate prices. A copy of Windows 7 Ultimate was selling for $167.50 on Sunday, while a copy of the Professional version was going for $132.50.

Numerous other eBay sellers are hawking other editions, at varying prices.

Officially, the full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for $199. Windows 7 Ultimate is priced at $319, with the upgrade version at $219. The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119.

Some sellers are pitching retail boxed versions of the software while others, the majority, are offering registration keys that allow users to activate a previously downloaded copy of Windows 7. Microsoft has already released Windows 7 to businesses, so it's possible the sellers obtained access to the software keys through their jobs or other professional contacts.

It's buyer beware, however. The software may lack Microsoft's official Certificate Of Authenticity and other piracy protection measures. So it's questionable whether purchasers will receive support for the product, or whether it will even run at all.

Under some circumstances, reselling software violates Microsoft's licensing terms and may also be illegal. The software maker h as sued numerous eBay members in the past, accusing them of distributing pirated or counterfeited versions of its products.

Windows 7 officially goes on sale Oct. 22nd, with Microsoft planning a series of events and launch parties around the country.

From : Informationweek.com

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Download KDE for Windows

The KDE on Windows team today announced the immediate availability of "Caizen", (a.k.a KDE 4.3.0) a new stable Release of KDE.

This release contains many bug fixes and some new applications. The binary packages could be installed with the installer by using the version "stable 4.3.0" (or "stable latest").

In case you are upgrading your KDE installation, deselect the skip basic settings checkbox on the first installer page and press next until you are guided to the release settings page, where you can choose the required version.

In this release major changes have been made to the infrastructure used by KDE on Windows: The msvc-packages have moved to the Visual Studio 9.0-compiler and packages for MinGW 4.4.0 have also been added. This will also mean that if the MinGW 4.4.0 packages show that they are stable enough, MinGW 3.4.5 packages might be discontinued in one of the coming releases.

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows. Currently Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista are supported.

The preferred way of installing KDE apps under Windows is the KDE-Installer.

KDE on Windows is not in the final state, so applications can be unsuitable for day to day use yet.

For some help from the project members join the IRC channel #kde-windows on freenode.

Go get it : windows.kde.org/

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Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8089.0726 Update Detailed

The past week, Microsoft released a collection of updates for all the clients under the Windows Live Essentials brand umbrella but failed to provide details on what the refreshes brought to the table.

It took the Windows Live mail team a couple of days to make public the information related to the introduction of Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8089.0726. While end users had access and could download Build 14.0.8089.0726 of Windows Live Mail since August 19, 2009, only later the past week did Microsoft provide information on the update. Still, the Windows Live Mail team is an exception; additional teams, including the group building Windows Live Messenger, continue to keep mum even at this point in time.
Rodger Benson, lead program manager, Windows Live Mail, revealed that the Build 14.0.8089.0726 refresh was designed to solve some incompatibility issues with the email client that was stripped from the Windows client OS and moved into the Cloud. In addition, the latest Build of Windows Live Mail also introduces fixes for bugs reported to Microsoft by end users through feedback.
“Windows Live Mail can now properly import Outlook Express mail account settings that were transferred from a Windows XP to a new Vista or Windows 7 system using the Windows Easy Transfer wizard,” Benson explained. “Some users had problems launching Windows Live Mail and we have addressed this. In some cases, after you closed Windows Live Mail, the application would appear to close, but the wlmail.exe process would continue to run in the background. That process would prevent Mail from launching in the future. On Vista and Windows 7, Windows Live Mail wouldn’t connect properly to POP email servers using SSL. In particular, this affected some users of Yahoo! Mail.”
As I have told you since last week, applying the update to Windows Live Mail will take the version number of the email client all the way to Build 14.0.8089.0726. Microsoft has said nothing yet about distributing the updates automatically to all the components of the Windows Live Essentials but the version number of Windows Live Mail can be checked through the About Windows Live Mail dialog.
Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8089.0726 is available for download here.
Windows Live Family Safety is available for download here.
Windows Live Writer 14.0.8089.726 is available for download here.
Windows Live Photo Gallery 2009 14.0.8081.709 is available for download here.
Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) 14.0.8089.726 is available for download here

source: news.softpedia.com

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Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 released to manufacturing

At last… RTM-ed…Windows 7 has been a tightly controlled product from its first days on the drawing board. The last milestone is proving to be no exception: On July 22, at precisely 4:40 p.m. ET, Microsoft announced it had released to manufacturing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

What’s up with the weird hand-off time? It seems to be designed to coincide with CEO Steve Ballmer’s keynote address for Microsoft’s 13,000 or so field sales folks who are in Atlanta this week for the MGX conference. Unfortunately, the MGX folks are running late and Ballmer wasn’t yet speaking at 4:40… oh well.)
The Windows builds that are being released to manufacturing today were compiled over a week ago, on Monday July 13, company officials confirmed. Specifically, it’s build 7600.16385 that is the RTM version of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
There’s not much new left to say about either product. Very little has changed between the Release Candidate builds that went to the public in May and the RTM versions, testers who’ve been dabbling with leaked copies of the 16835 build say.
(Check out all of ZDNet’s Windows 7 coverage via our Special Report page. And if you are all about Windows Server, check out my colleague Jason Perlow’s coverage of the RTM of Windows Server 2008 R2 here.)
While Microsoft did a bunch of tuning and final testing in the last month-plus, the final Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 products won’t be very different from the last build testers saw, officials said. Microsoft’s intention was to keep the code base stable so that partners and customers could start testing on it months before the products went to manufacturing, officials said. While some testers welcomed that dependability, others were less-enamored of going to the trouble of testing with the feeling their input was going to make little difference.
PC makers will get the official bits from Microsoft by the end of this week, as Microsoft officials said yesterday. Those who want to download the official builds from Microsoft won’t be able to do so for another week plus (depending on whether you have an MSDN/TechNet, volume-license agreement or some other way of getting the bits earlier than the general availability date of October 22).
Speaking of October 22, that is the date Microsoft is considering to be its worldwide consumer launch of Windows 7. There will be a bunch of new hardware that has yet to be seen from a variety of manufacturers that will be preloaded with Windows 7 available on that date, said Mike Angiulo, General Manager of Microsoft’s Planning and PC Ecosystem team. (No word still on whether Microsoft will hold a single big launch, like it did with Vista in New York; I hear company officials are leaning away from going that route.)
The “business launch” of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is slated for November 9, officials said. (Actually, it’s going to be a triple-play launch of Win7/Win Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010, as Microsoft told its partners attending the Worldwide Partner Conference last week.) It sounds as if there will be a number of business launch events starting on that date and continuing for the next couple of months.

source: blogs.zdnet.com

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Can Windows 95 runs on iPhone?

I thought it was impossible, but what do you think?

The hack makes use of a standard Windows 95 image and the Bochs emulator, though as you can expect, the performance is thoroughly crummy. They’re working on getting Windows XP to work too.

From : bink.nu

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Download Windows Server 2008 with SP2 RTM ISO

Windows Server 2008 shares the aforementioned cipher abject with Windows Vista, and that explains why a individual Service Pack 2 (SP2) is appear for both operating system.

With the RTM of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 adaptation 6.0.6002.18005, the Windows Server 2008 with SP2 slipstreamed or chip DVD ISO images are as well been able by Microsoft.

People who wants to install WS2008 in apple-pie accompaniment from beginning blemish can download the accession ISO application BT network.

Download Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP2 RTM

32-bit (x86) English Volume Licensing Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_Server_en-us_VL-KRTMSVOL_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,032,248,832 byte
SHA1: 49D0D6917C1256FE81048D414FA473BBC76A8724
MD5: B9201AEB6EEF04A3C573D036A8780BDF
CRC: 18243291

32-bit (x86) English Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_Server_en-us-KRTMSFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2032181248 byte
SHA1: F732C5E031C07C5A20E501DC3ECFCB6F414E4750
MD5: A571251133FB485A0953CF8E40B692AE
CRC: AA1B1D88

64-bit (x64) English Volume License Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_Server_en-us_VL-KRTMSXVOL_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2755887104 byte
SHA1: 34C7D726C57B0F8B19BA3B40D1B4044C15FC2029
MD5: E94943EF484035B3288D8DB69599A6B5
CRC: 649EDDBF

64-bit (x64) English Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_Server_en-us-KRTMSXFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2752997376 byte
SHA1: 50791CF02B94D04A4D551D841F50F9D4B6006CED
MD5: 088F29CD4819DF8DC5D08ECC7E452693
CRC: 486FEAB1

32-bit (x86) Russian Volume Licensing Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.VOLUME.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_Server_ru-ru_VL-KRTMSVOL_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,125,342,720 byte
SHA1: 3AD66DEFDF9C0418388A0527A1C77196B5C3EC76
MD5: 3A707BA5BACDA8D158E67E732145D1E7
CRC: E0D7E8A8

32bit (x86) Russian Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.RETAIL.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_Server_ru-ru-KRTMSFRE_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,125,228,032 byte
SHA1: 37B8D7419CD2BDB288AEB31AB7FBA62FF255E5A7
MD5: 3824610DE00FFF37AF01716406E0EEE7
CRC: 5CDADE31

64bit (x64) Russian VLK Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.VOLUME.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_Server_ru-ru_VL-KRTMSXVOL_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,597,382,144 byte
SHA1: 8D84360B79301453557065CB645C779224F6F782
MD5: 63C0231761336977154EE981BE7B93CE
CRC: 2138BCD8

64-bit (x64) Russian Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.RETAIL.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_Server_ru-ru-KRTMSXFRE_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,896,330,752 byte
SHA1: BD42ABF4A0D9A74AB7509A8E398B6B5686CD20F0
MD5: E57B2B5F4A7661D17D59531EAE3508F4
CRC: DEA35018

Download Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with SP2 RTM

Intel Itanium (IA-64) English VL Edition: MICROSOFT.SERVER.2008.ENTERPRISE.WITH.SP2.ITANIUM.X64.RTM.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
6002.18005.090410-1830_ia64fre_ServerEnterpriseIA64_en-us_VL-KRTMIAIVOL_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,597,382,144 byte
SHA1: 690A50FC19F89C19598F8D4E777C263673A2C842
MD5: 0EA58BF4A2718CE98EAAEC7F32124066
CRC: 24A28293

Intel Itanium (IA64) English Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.SERVER.2008.ENTERPRISE.WITH.SP2.ITANIUM.X64.RTM.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
6002.18005.090410-1830_ia64fre_ServerEnterpriseIA64_en-us-KRTMIAIFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,596,847,616 byte
SHA1: 00EE1956E29F5B515F6D2807EF03D66A6DADC467
MD5: 4BDBDDF9B557F5A2A392D102F7E6378A
CRC: 8ADCD8C8

Download Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V with SP2 RTM

32-bit (x86) English Volume Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.V.2008.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_ServerV_en-us_vl-KRTMSWOHVOL_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,033,383,424 byte
SHA1: 7002031C61008F31D22E483224FA980B27159B42
MD5: E0815782B2694D15CA8DE22E64030E16
CRC: D4DADDE1

32-bit (x86) English Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.V.2008.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_ServerV_en-us-KRTMSWOH_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,033,321,984 byte
SHA1: 0B2245161E6049C765143A5E8CC630B491F95501
MD5: A75A6C8716B65FE32A53D49CB13B97CE
CRC: CAE773EB

64-bit (x64) English VL Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.V.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_ServerV_en-us_vl-KRTMSxWOHVOL_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,727,526,400 byte
SHA1: 8B0F5C7D3D0113B9AAA384C341A5AE70D90C6226
MD5: 7B4D642F266D4FD7723202FA9049C4A9
CRC: 778A9CBE

64-bit (x64) English Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.V.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_ServerV_en-us-KRTMSXWOH_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,724,667,392 byte
SHA1: B438C3D4BC0D4F0C159C7BB3ADF4FF2D748C9FC3
MD5: B72CD0C42B1073FAAD5AE9285DC2D7F0
CRC: 786D9D69

32-bit (x86) Russian Volume Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.V.2008.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.VOLUME.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_ServerV_ru-ru_vl-KRTMSWOHVOL_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,125,789,184 byte
SHA1: C764E2CA15033B5A2F3549F073701E54E0D60D61
MD5: 4147730AFCB6BEC652A8385A717F02FE
CRC: 813624A5

64-bit (x64) Russian Volume Licensing Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.V.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.VOLUME.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_ServerV_ru-ru_vl-KRTMSxWOHVOL_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,859,972,608 byte
SHA1: 569C410787571532483DB106342B1772A0C4B8AC
MD5: 6F5A358B37E4A1DC2A1DB3084B286886
CRC: A2396920

Download Windows Web Server 2008 with SP2 RTM

32-bit (x86) English VL Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WEB.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_ServerWeb_en-us_VL-KRTMWVOL_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 1,785,407,488 byte
SHA1: 376088DF34C5AB91F2146EE2436A3906A5586E36
MD5: C052F14B8F4746803D3043B87F1C59AA
CRC: 1BE55F83

32bit (x32) English Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WEB.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_ServerWeb_en-us-KRTMWFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 1,785,380,864 byte
SHA1: A4754AC2CF9C406AAE17D5E24A7A1C0331204F64
MD5: ECF26236C62377480885D2C55CC2FB1E
CRC: AD673031

64-bit (x64) English Volume Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.WEB.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_ServerWeb_en-us_VL-KRTMWXVOL_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,424,758,272 byte
SHA1: 755D2776F18566F2C1206137F3613A6770912C89
MD5: 0CEA317FBEBF7F8FF05BA5A619B8EDAB
CRC: F8548EC2

64-bit (x64) English Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.WEB.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_ServerWeb_en-us-KRTMWXFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,423,844,864 byte
SHA1: 26A56A5F1A4CE7536FFAB5B087D65097F781B5D3
MD5: 46680ED1142EEB39CE58186A824586DF
CRC: 4A931337

32bit (x86) Russian VLK Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WEB.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.VOLUME.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_ServerWeb_ru-ru_VL-KRTMWVOL_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 1,793,474,560 byte
SHA1: 6148B1E6735BF5248A30CED1A32A063399DFD06D
MD5: 5260BDAC205441254E2C5CDA17BBD930
CRC: AD73170D

32-bit (x86) Russian Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.2008.WEB.WITH.SP2.X86.RTM.RETAIL.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_ServerWeb_ru-ru-KRTMWFRE_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 1,793,445,888 byte
SHA1: D4F8E8497094237CB0F3EDFC5CE0BC40F0566D8F
MD5: 0A182969F416F521DB323CC002A3B56A
CRC: CE7EEB97

64-bit (x64) Russian VL Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.WEB.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.VOLUME.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_ServerWeb_ru-ru_VL-KRTMWXVOL_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,436,747,264 byte
SHA1: 3E0D10258C6549846A97D944718A7A4EA7DB51D3
MD5: 99F6482BB5FED81212A4266FCF6504B7
CRC: 794C89FE

64-bit (x64) Russian Retail Edition: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.SERVER.WEB.2008.WITH.SP2.X64.RTM.RETAIL.RUSSIAN.DVD-WZTiSO.torrent
BUILD: 6002.18005.090410-1830
FILE: 6002.18005.090410-1830_amd64fre_ServerWeb_ru-ru-KRTMWXFRE_RU_DVD.iso
SIZE: 2,436,743,168 byte
SHA1: 7324BE895A21E0172354D16B22A351CAD60B71D3
MD5: 7B11E286FA61FA13D17376AA9FCB55F6
CRC: 03E8CD2B

The Language Interface Packs (LIP) for Windows Server 2008 SP2 are also available for download. If you’re a student, or with a little trick, it’s possible to get a free licensed product key for Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft DreamSpark program.

(mydigitallife.info)

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Microsoft's new calling: innovative wireless applications

Microsoft's mobile efforts are facing a critical stretch.

After a lull in activity, the company is expected to formally announce today a marketplace for mobile applications, a new backup-and-restore service and the latest version of its mobile operating system.

The plans will be aired at Mobile World Congress, the biggest trade show for the wireless industry, taking place this week in Barcelona, Spain.

Several of these efforts emerged in media reports earlier this month. Executives say this is just the beginning.

"You're going to see from us over the next 24 months, probably more innovation than you've seen in the last, I'd say, three or four years in the Windows Mobile space," said Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, which includes the mobile efforts.

The company is looking to wrest back some of the mind-share in the mobile marketplace from Google, which launched a mobile operating system last year, and Apple, whose iPhone has become the poster-gadget for powerful, Internet-connected phones that are essentially pocket computers.

Indeed, one of the hottest areas for software developers is mobile applications, and Apple has, so far, created the most extensive marketplace for selling them.

Microsoft executives note that mobile is a huge market that's still relatively young and up for grabs.

Bach, talking to students in Redmond last week, said a billion phones are sold around the world each year.

"What it does for us from a business perspective is create tremendous opportunities," Bach said.

He said the next two generations of Windows Mobile — 6.5 is expected today with 7 set to come in 2010 — will have improvements to the user experience, including a greater emphasis on touch controls; "dramatically better" mobile Web browsing (the company announced a new version of Internet Explorer mobile in January); expanded music, video and other consumer-oriented capabilities; and connections to Web services such as Facebook and Twitter.

Microsoft's mobile executives also realize this is an important period for the industry and the company's place in it.

"What happens in the next three years is what's going to define the next 10," said Scott Rockfeld, director of Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business. "And we're truly scratching the surface on what's possible these days."

Some observers are comparing it with the early days of the personal computer industry when Microsoft, IBM and other players jockeyed to attract the most users and application developers to their platforms.

Battle for mindshare

"This is actually the battle of the developers' mind share," said Satoshi Nakajima, who was at Microsoft for 13 years ending in 2000 and now runs Big Canvas, a small Bellevue application developer making on-the-fly photo-editing applications for the iPhone. "I can tell you that at this moment Apple is the clear leader, and just like anybody else, I'm watching Google and Microsoft."

Microsoft is sending CEO Steve Ballmer to lay out the strategy at the Mobile World Congress.

Ballmer first spoke to the industry at this event three years ago, assuring the audience, "We come as a friend."

More : blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com

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Download Free Vista and XP SP3 via IE App Compatibility VPC Images

Since 2007, Microsoft has been offering free copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista for download, in order to make up for a handicap specific to the Windows client, namely the fact that two different versions of Internet Explorer cannot be installed and run simultaneously on the same operating system.

While it is cooking the first Release Candidate build for Internet Explorer 8, the Redmond company is also supporting Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 6, a context in which it is a pain for developers to test their content on all versions of IE.

The situation has caused Microsoft to come up with the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC images, a solution designed to circumvent the limitations of IE running on Windows via virtualization.

With the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC images, Microsoft is offering developers no less than four free copies of Windows packaged as Virtual Hard Disk Images and designed to integrate with the company's free virtualization offerings. The four VHD downloads feature a new release date, just ahead of the end of 2008, although the launched products are similar to those made available in August 2008, following the availability of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2.

“VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista,” Microsoft revealed. “This download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test: IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file; IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file; IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file; and IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with IE7 VHD file. Note: For The Vista image, you will need all three files, downloaded and in the same directory, then simply run IE7-VIS1.exe.”

According to Microsoft, all the VPC images are time bombed and set to expire in January, 2009. In early 2009 the company plans to deliver Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1, having already made available the pre-RC Partner Build. After the availability of IE8 RC, the Redmond giant is expected to deliver a fresh set of VPC images with a new expiration date.
Download:

External Mirror 1 - IE6-XPSP3 [EXE]

External Mirror 2 - IE7-VIS1 [EXE]

External Mirror 3 - IE7-VIS2 [EXE]

External Mirror 4 - IE7-VIS3 [RAR]

External Mirror 5 - IE7-XPSP2 [RAR]

External Mirror 6 - IE8B2-XPSP3 [EXE]

source: softpedia.com

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How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media

A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it. It’s especially true and almost a standard practice for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, or any beta participants, who wants early access to latest build release.

Beside, many people now download the Windows DVD ISO image from BitTorrent using torrent file, instead of having to pay for the hard-copy DVD media to be delivered by post.

Thus a lot of people has soft copy of Windows installation file, normally in the format of ISO format. Normally, the ISO has to be written or burnt to a DVD disc, which can then be used to insert into DVD drive to start the installation of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Unless the ISO is been used to install in virtual machine powered by Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Server, VMWare or Sun xVM VirtualBOx, which can mount the ISO image as CD or DVD drive.

For user who doesn’t want to waste a DVD disc to burn the ISO to physical media, and does not have WinPE (Windows PE) startup disc, here’s a workaround method to install Windows Vista and Windows 7 into physical computer’s hard disk drive or partition (volume) directly with ISO without writing or burning to disc. The without-disc installation method is useful especially during beta and RC period of new operating system in the making, where the new build and new version is launching and publishing every now and then. This tutorial guide assumes that the new Windows 7 or Windows Vista will be installed and replaced the original existing operating system currently installed. The instructions can be modified slightly (mainly on hard disk partition used) to fit into need of readers who want to have a dual-boot, multi-boot, or simply just to upgrade install to new OS.

1. Install a virtual CD/DVD drive on existing Windows operating system.
2. Mount the Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation DVD ISO image using the virtual drive.
3. Copy all files inside the virtual CD/DVD drive mounted with the ISO into any folder on any partition or hard disk drive not going to be used to install the Windows OS. For example, copy into E:\Windows7.
4. Copy the bootmgr and boot folders nested inside the copied folder (i.e. \Windows7) to root directory of system boot drive, typically C:\.

   Note: For Windows Vista, users may need to use this step: Copy the bootmgr folder from E:\Windows7 to C:\ root directory, copy E:\Windows7\boot\boot.sdi file to same folder in C:\boot folder, and then copy bootsect.exe from the E:\Windows7\boot\ folder to C:\ drive.

   Note: boot folder in system boot drive is hidden system folder.

5. Create a new folder named sources under the C:\ root folder.
6. Copy the boot.win file inside \Windows7\sources folder to the source folder created in the system boot drive, normally C:\.
7. Open a command prompt as administrator.
8. Run the following command (change the C to your drive path letter if applicable):

   C:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 C:

   For Windows Vista users who copied bootsect.exe to C:\ root folder, use the following command instead:

   C:\bootsect.exe /nt60 C:

   A successful message is the command completes successfully.

9. Change the name or label of the boot system partition local disk to BDCP or any name you prefer that easier to remember and type (in DOS command promot, use label command).
10. Restart the computer.
11. After booting up, the system will start the corresponding Windows installation process. Select the applicable language to install, time and currency format (regional settings locale) and keyboard or input method in the installation wizard dialog.
12. On the next screen, user will be presented with option to Install Windows. DO NOT press on Install Windows button, instead, click on Repair My Computer link on the bottom left corner.
13. In the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) System Recovery Options dialog window, click on Command Prompt to open a DOS Prompt window.
14. Run the format command to format the primary hard disk or partition to clean state:

    format c: /q

    Note: /q switch, which perform quick format can be omitted to full format. And if existing hard disk partition is of FAT32 filesystem format, use format c: /q /fs:ntfs to convert the file system to NTFS while formatting. Before formatting begins, the command may prompt for hard disk drive or partition label name, if so, enter accordingly (i.e. BDCP).

15. After format completed, start the Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation process again by manually running the setup.exe located in the copied. Note that the setup.exe is not the one located on boot system drive which copied at later step, as the boot drive has been formatted. For example:

    E:\Windows7\sources\setup.exe

16. Continue with installation procedures by following on-screen instructions as per normal practice.

Source : mydigitallife.info

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Windows 7 build 6956 vs. Windows XP SP3

Several of you have asked me to add data for Windows XP to my Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista benchmark post. Well, you asked for it!

Rather than build this into a large post, I’ll just post the data here. For any background check out the original post.

Bottom line: Windows 7 build 6956 beats Windows XP SP3 in each of the tests.

Source : blogs.zdnet.com

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Detours 2.1 is now available

Innovative systems research hinges on the ability to easily instrument and extend existing operating system and application functionality. With access to appropriate source code, it is often trivial to insert new instrumentation or extensions by rebuilding the OS or application. However, in today's world systems researchers seldom have access to all relevant source code.

Detours is a library for instrumenting arbitrary Win32 functions on x86, x64, and IA64 machines. Detours intercepts Win32 functions by re-writing the in-memory code for target functions. The Detours package also contains utilities to attach arbitrary DLLs and data segments (called payloads) to any Win32 binary.

Detours preserves the un-instrumented target function (callable through a trampoline) as a subroutine for use by the instrumentation. Our trampoline design enables a large class of innovative extensions to existing binary software.

We have used Detours to create an automatic distributed partitioning system, to instrument and analyze the DCOM protocol stack, and to create a thunking layer for a COM-based OS API. Detours is used widely within Microsoft and within the industry.

Detours 2.1 includes the following new features:

• Complete documentation of the Detours API.
• Transactional model for attaching and detaching detours.
• Support for updating peer threads when attaching or detaching detours.
• Unification of dynamic and static detours into a single API.
• Support for detection of detoured processes.
• Significant robustness improvements in APIs that start a process with a DLL containing detour functions.
• New APIs to copy payloads into target processes.
• Support for 64-bit code on x64 and IA64 processors (available in Professional edition only).
• Supports building detours with Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET (VC8), and Visual Studio (VC7).

Download Detours Express 2.1!

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25GB of Free Online Storage with Windows Live SkyDrive

The Windows Live SkyDrive Team has posted a in-depth post offering a overview of what’s coming with their next update. First and foremost: Windows Live SkyDrive will be boosting everyone’s storage from 5GB to 25GB. Secondly, they want to give you more control over your files by offering you new features to do so:

Download photos directed to your to Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Download as a .zip file. Download an entire folder in one compressed file (initially available only in the United States, Denmark, and Ireland).

Move files between folders.

Copy files to multiple folders.

Sharing photos is huge these days. They’ve added almost 20 new features to make the photo experience on Windows Live SkyDrive even better such as supporting People Tags, bigger thumbnails, and a new online slideshow using Microsoft Silverlight.

You will be able to also keep your Internet Explorer favorites synced up with multiple PCs using Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live SkyDrive.

There is a lot coming to Windows Live SkyDrive! Check out their blog post for more details on what’s coming up.

Source : windowsteamblog.com

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Vista Transformation Pack 9.0

Vista Transformation Pack will give to your Windows XP system the new and cool look of Microsoft's future operating system: Windows Vista. The pack changes most of the system icons, skins and toolbars and also adds new enhancements to your desktop such as a dock bar or a different system tray clock. It is free and does a great job of giving machine a look similar to Vista. It does have uninstallation options in case you decide you want to get rid of it, so there really isn’t anything to lose.

However, when you install the software it has to overwrite some system files (it modifies things like the boot screen) so Windows will prompt you stating that your system files have been changed. It will ask whether you want to change them back or leave them, so just leave them if you want the system to function properly.

Features of "Vista Transformation Pack":
• Boot screen
• Welcome Screen / Logon Screen
• New msstyles files (visual styles)
• New desktop and file icons
• New toolbar icons
• Progress Dialogs
• Sounds scheme
• System Tray icons
• New Wallpapers
• Windows Media Player Skins

Vista Transformation Pack 9.0 Keynotes:

New 3rd-party applications
ViSplore - Vista Glass explorer simulator
Vista Drive Icon - adding free space percentage in your drive icon like Vista explorer
Vista Rainbar - Lightweight Vista sidebar based on Rainmeter that even consume less resources than real Vista Sidebar

Improved 3rd-party applications
ViStart - Files indexing for documents search, improved reliability and compatibilities
ViOrb - Improved graphic and reliability (C++ re-written)
TrueTransparency - Improved reliability with improved AeroStyle's glass border
WinFlip - Improved stability and reliablity

New functionalities
Setup personization - Allow customizing Vista experiences upon installation without access to Welcome Center
Windows XP Service Pack 3 compatibilities - Now you can enjoy Vista themes after installation with Windows XP Service Pack 3
x64 compatibilities - More secured x64 installation without getting hurt by incompatibilities
There're also a lot of bug fixes and refinements in the program but let's just keep it simple with these for now. You can experience the rest later by yourself.

Changes in Version 9.0
-Added Gavatx's Vista Rainbar 4.3 (Slim) in place of Thoosje's Vista Sidebar
-Added large icon resizing option for high resolution monitors
-Added Personalization setup screen for configuring current user account before installation
-Added running ViStart, ViOrb and ViSplore to WindowBlinds and TrueTransparency's exclusion list (prevent stability issues)
-Added ViSplore project (Vista Glass Explorer for Windows XP/2003)
-Added Vista Drive Icon in place of Vista Windows Drive Icon
-Added Windows XP Service Pack 3 uxtheme patching compatibilities
-Fixed automate 3rd-party applications optimization requirements
-Fixed graphic driver detection issues in transformation package for cases that doesn't use the first slot of driver
-Fixed OS detection incompatibilities with Windows Vista
-Fixed possible errors when auto-configuring user account during installation without "Express Mode"
-Fixed Thoosje Sidebar's auto-configuration bug on some resolutions.
-Fixed uninstallation script to terminate newly added applications such as WinFlip, TrueTransparency, etc.
-Fixed Vista orb positioning in "System Properties" dialog
-Fixed WindowBlinds' installation detection bug in configure user account dialog
-Updated Aero Style's glass border for more visibility and less distortion for both WindowBlinds and TrueTransparency
-Updated AeroStyle's glass border in TrueTransparency to simulate "little-blurring-like" WindowBlinds
-Updated boot screen to traditional ones without Vista flag
-Updated configure user account's installed components and applications UI
-Updated "Glass" sounds scheme from Windows Vista's Ultimate Extras
-Updated installation branding bar image
-Updated TrueTransparency to version 0.9.4
-Updated ViOrb to version 1 (C++ re-written)
|-Added start orb's right click menu
|-Fixed hook recovery when explorer shell is reloaded
|-Fixed always on top visibility issues with some applications including ViStart
|-Updated start orb graphic to for all sides compatibilities
-Updated ViStart to version 2.0 build 3467
|-Added font customization feature in settings.xml
|-Added indexing file search support like Vista (you can search for extension with .ext)
|-Added "Reset Shell" in menu option to reload explorer along with ViStart
|-Added multi-DPI Support
|-Fixed Chinese characters issue with Recent Documents
|-Fixed hook recovery when explorer shell is reloaded
|-Fixed start menu's hooking reliability with full screen and resolution changes
|-Fixed strange ActiveX errors
-Updated Visual style's top taskbar background to have the same image as bottom's like Vista
-Updated WinFlip to version 0.50
-Updated wording in some areas for easier understanding
-Updated x64 operating systems compatibilities
Homepage - http://www.windowsxlive.net
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Microsoft: Pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista

Software counterfeiters pass on Windows Vista and instead prefer to pirate Windows XP, a Microsoft Corp. attorney said today, outlining a practice that tracks with the leanings of many of the company's customers.

While explaining the "Global Anti-Piracy Day" educational and enforcement effort Microsoft launched today, Bonnie MacNaughton, a senior attorney with the company, acknowledged that pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista.

"Historically, counterfeiters tend to focus on the 'n-1' version of software," MacNaughton said. "Because of the more robust antipiracy and security features in Vista, most sophisticated piracy rings still continue to focus on XP. But that's changing over time."

That pirates have stuck with XP -- which retains the bulk of the Windows operating system's market share -- is "very consistent with what we've seen in counterfeiting in the past," said MacNaughton. "There's usually a lag of between one and two years [before they can] figure out how to replicate those antipiracy and security features."

Counterfeiters currently copy Office 2003 rather than the newer Office 2007 for the same reasons, she said.

MacNaughton also touted the day's announcements of new initiatives and lawsuit filings scheduled to take place in 49 countries, ranging from Argentina to the U.S. "As counterfeiters have gotten more sophisticated, we have realized that this is not a situation that we can address alone," she said. "And we want to stress [today] the collaboration with Microsoft's partners and customers, and governments."

In the U.S., Microsoft filed 20 new lawsuits in federal court against software resellers that, according to the company's allegations, either sold pirated copies of Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Office or installed the counterfeit software on new PCs. Nine of the lawsuits were filed in California; two each were filed in Ohio, Oregon and Texas; and others were filed in Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota and New York.

MacNaughton also said that Microsoft is planning on another antipiracy educational effort early next year to make sure that customers know Windows XP's lifespan is coming to an end. "We're expecting that counterfeiters will attempt to fill the void at XP's end of sales," she said.

Microsoft will halt Windows XP Professional sales to small mom-and-pop computer sellers after Jan. 31, 2009. Larger computer manufacturers, such as Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., however, will be able to obtain XP media for "downgrades" from Vista Business and Vista Ultimate licenses through the end of July 2009. Microsoft only recently said that it would extend shipments of XP to OEMs; previously, it had said it would stop the practice in January.

Source: computerworld.com

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Engineering Windows 7 : User Interface: Managing Windows windows

We’ve booted the machine, displayed stuff on the screen, launched programs, so next up we’re going to look at a pretty complex topic that sort of gets to the core role of the graphical user interface—managing windows. 

Dave Matthews is program manager on the core user experience team who will provide some of the data and insights that are going into engineering Windows 7.  --Steven

The namesake of the Windows product line is the simple “window” – the UI concept that keeps related pieces information and controls organized on screen.  We’ll use this post to share some of the background thinking and “pm philosophy” behind planning an update to this well established UI feature.

The basic idea of using windows to organize UI isn’t new – it dates back (so I hear) to the first experiments with graphical user interfaces at Stanford over 40 years ago.  It’s still used after all this time because it’s a useful way to present content, and people like having control over how their screen space is used.  The “moveable windows” feature isn’t absolutely needed in an operating system – most cell phones and media center type devices just show one page of UI at a time – but it’s useful when multi-tasking or working with more than one app at a time.  Windows 2.0 was the first Windows release that allowed moveable overlapping windows (in Window 1.0 they were only able to be tiled, not overlapping.  This “tiled v. overlapping” debate had famous proponents on each side—on one side was Bill Gates and on the other side was Charles Simonyi).  In addition, Windows also has the unique notion of "the multiple document interface” or MDI, which allows one frame window to itself organized multiple windows within it.  This is somewhat of a precursor to the tabbed interfaces prevalent in web browsers. 

As a side note, one of the earlier debates that accompanied the “tiled v. overlapping” conversations in the early Windows project was over having one menu bar at the top of the screen or a copy of the menu bar for each window (or document or application).  Early on this was a big debate because there was such limited screen resolution (VGA, 640x480) that the redundancy of the menu bar was a real-estate problem.  In today’s large scale monitors this redundancy is more of an asset as getting to the UI elements with a mouse or just visually identifying elements requires much less movement.  Go figure!

From Windows 2.0 to Vista.

An area I’ve been focusing on is in the “window management” part of the system – specifically the features involved in moving and arranging windows on screen (these are different than the window switching controls like the taskbar and alt-tab, but closely related).  In general, people expect windows to be moveable, resizable, maximizable, minimizable, closeable; and expect them to be freely arranged and overlapping, with the currently used window sitting on top.  These transformations and the supporting tools (caption buttons, resize bars, etc) make up the basic capabilities that let people arrange and organize their workspace to their liking. 

In order to improve on a feature area like this we look closely at the current system - what have we got, and what works?  This means looking at the way it’s being used in the marketplace by ISVs, and the way it’s used and understood by customers.

Caption buttons give a simple way to minimize, maximize, and close.  Resizable windows can be adjusted from any of their 4 edges.

Source : blogs.msdn.com/e7

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Windows 7 Pre-Beta Availability Confirmed

Microsoft is making headway with the building process of Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client, and is gearing up to release a development milestone of the operating system at the end of next month.

Microsoft's professional Developers Conference in Las Vegas, between October 27-30, 2008 will be synonymous with the broadening of the Windows 7 testing program past the limited testing pool of the company's close partners that was given access to early builds including Milestone 1, Milestone 2 and Milestone 3. The Redmond giant will in fact offer a pre-Beta build of Windows 7 to all PDC2008 participants.

"We're (...) giving every attendee a pre-beta copy of Windows 7. Yes, you heard that right. You'll be able to install your own copy of Windows 7 and play with it on your hardware. This is a very limited release, and PDC2008 attendees will be the first to get it. Gotta love the PDC," revealed Mike Swanson, Microsoft technical evangelist.
In just one month Microsoft plans to deliver the first consistent taste of Windows 7. The company demonstrated the operating system's touch computing capabilities earlier this year, but otherwise detailed in no way M1, M2 or even M3. Screenshots, videos and a tad of information on the recently dropped Windows 7 Milestone 3 Build 6780 were made available from third party sources, but Microsoft continued to be mute on the matter. At PDC2008 Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, will be the one to introduce Windows 7 to the world.

"In our first keynote at PDC2008 Ray Ozzie will talk about the new world of Software Plus Services, with Bob Muglia joining him, to unveil our new Cloud Computing platform," Microsoft revealed. "In a second keynote, Ray will return to talk about building immersive user experiences and introduce Steven Sinofsky, who will give developers a first look at the next version of Windows, Windows 7. Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell will join Ray and Steven to dive deep on the latest Win32 and .NET platform advances that enable a next generation of user experiences spanning multiple devices, including a look at the latest developments in .NET, Silverlight, "Live Mesh", and the rest of the client platform."

source : news.softpedia.com

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Windows 7 M3 Build 6780: Pictures and Videos

Yes, new post about latest Windows 7 M3 Build 6780. Background: I’ve reported priori Windows 7 versions before.

Start Menu: the visual design of search box and shutdown/lock buttons are changed. The right panel is simplified.

What programs are installed?

Accessories

Calculator

User Account Control appeared only once during my experience. When I clicked SnagIt installer UAC popped up. That’s very nice to see Microsoft has decided to restrain UAC.

source: thinknext.net

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New Windows Live Betas – Download Wave 3 Now!

Recently Microsoft Published the so long waited Services from the Live family. With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today, we thought we’d provide our readers with a small headstart on the rest of the world.

Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including Messenger v9, Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronisation, Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector.

There are two options to download the package (English)

Web (installer) 1mb

Full (installer) 134mb

You can access to the Liveside.net website to find more links which by the way, offers the betas in more languages.

English
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-all.exe

Italian
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-all.exe

German 
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-all.exe

France
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-all.exe

Spanish
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-all.exe

Download : Windows Live Beta Installer (Web)
Source : Live Side

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