There’s been some speculation online that Windows, Dell and (RED) are going to make an announcement later this week at Davos.  Wouldn’t it be incredible if, through the simple act of choosing a PC, and at no extra cost to you, you could put someone living with AIDS in Africa on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for more than six months?  Windows, Dell and (RED) are proud to introduce our (PRODUCT) RED products later this week.  Look for details in the coming days…

When you are using Windows Explorer - the file management program that opens when you double-click on ‘My Computer’ and the like - you can move to the parent folder by clicking the back-space key.

By ‘parent folder’ I mean the folder that contains the one you are looking at. In the following image we see that the ‘parent folder’ of Adobe is Program Files.

Another way to achieve the same thing is to press the F4 key followed by the up arrow, and then Return.

Note for Vista users: using the Backspace key in Vista mimics the use in web browsers, that is, it takes you to the previous folder you looked at. To go to the parent directory using Vista, hold down Alt and press the Up cursor.

I’m relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise.  It’s the first in a series of posts from Shanen exploring what we’re doing to make it simpler and easier to introduce and get the most out of virtualization of Windows in enterprise environments.

Today we’re making a series of announcements outlining our company-wide strategy for virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter.

For all the hype and excitement in the industry, the primary scenario of using machine-level hardware virtualization to consolidate server machines has been used on less than 10% of hardware servers.  While virtualization started in server consolidation, it is only a small piece of the value offered by virtualization.  Nowadays virtualization is not a single technology; instead, it is a collection of technologies that can be applied to all aspects of the server and the desktop.  Less than 1% of desktops take advantage of virtualization and yet machine virtualization, application virtualization, presentation virtualization and even profile virtualization are upcoming virtualization techniques that when applied can increase the flexibility, business continuity, security and agility of desktop deployments.  Application virtualization — the notion of reducing conflicts between

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I created this image in Paint.NET I hope you like it.
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www.noirextreme.com/earth this where I got the source from.

and to NASA as they are the owners of the imagery.