May 28th, 2008

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Run Sysinternals directly from the Internet

Microsoft has announced a beta of Sysinternals Live - a service that allows you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the web without searching for and downloading them. Simply enter a tools Sysinternals path into windows explorer or a command prompt like this:

Sysinternals live URL

And believe it or not, after clicking the go button, a share will show up:

Sysinternals live Files

If you are on an older system (Not sure what versions of windows support this yet)...you can browse over to their public website to easily grab any of the downloads at http://live.sysinternals.com

I would imagine this is a new drive sharing feature of Vista, and Windows 2008...I will have to explore the possibility of offering our free tools in the same way.

Written by Steve Wiseman on May 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Vista Compatible Antivirus Software

Free for Personal Use Versions Available:

Avast! (32 and 64 Bit)
AVG (Warning: AVG 8.0 includes Toolbar) (32 and 64 Bit)
Avira AntiVir (32 and 64 Bit)

Subscription Antivirus Software

Avast! (32 and 64 Bit)
AVG (Warning: AVG 8.0 includes Toolbar) (32 and 64 Bit)
BitDefender (32 and 64 Bit)
CA Antivirus (32 and 64 Bit)
F-Secure (32 Bit)
K7 AntiVirus (32 Bit)
Kaspersky Anti-Virus (32 and 64 Bit)
McAfee (32 and 64 Bit)
NOD32 (32 and 64 Bit)
Norton (32 Bit)
Panda Antivirus (32 and 64 Bit)
Sophos (32 Bit)
TrendMicro (32 and 64 Bit)
Windows Live OneCare (32 and 64 Bit)

Note: Unless specifically stated in system requirements that 64 Bit supported, it is assumed the product only supports 32 Bit systems.

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Written by Corrine on May 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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New Dock Like Taskbar Coming in Windows 7?

Some personse have noted a difference in the appearance of the Windows Taskbar in yesterdays demo of Windows 7 by Julie Larson-Green at the D6 | All Things Digital event. But I am not sure if its anything new except for a resizing of the present Windows Vista style Taskbar. Thom Holwerda over at OS News thinks otherwise:

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"The final interesting part was the rather odd-looking taskbar - assuming it even was a taskbar. The bar was twice as high as an ordinary taskbar, and lacked text, using what looked like icons or thumbnails instead. It reminded me of the RISC OS icon bar, mostly. Apparently, Larson-Green was not at liberty to discuss it, because when Mossberg asked her about it, she replied: "It's something we're working on for Windows 7 and I'm not supposed to talk about right now, today..."

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Well, it certainly looks different with more transparency and bigger button icons when an active application is selected on the Taskbar. Then again, its very early in Windows 7's development, what we might have seen was just a temporary ui inconsistency that will be fixed in later builds. Even in an

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Written by Teching It Easy: Windows Vista on May 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Joe Wilcox the misunderstanding Microsoft and Windows as usual

Joe Wilcox over at Microsoft Watch is on the rampage again about Windows Vista being a failure and the lack in transparency from the Steve Sinofsky interview at CNET. Here's at what he had to say:

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"Steven Sinofsky's motto should be, in the spirit of Memorial Day: "Loose lips sink ships." Office development proceeded with scant disclosure under his tenure. Little has changed since he assumed the role as Microsoft's senior veep for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering group. Open disclosure and dialogue punctuated past Windows development—not that the process did much for Vista.

Now Steven is talking Windows 7 to CNET News.com. But he's not saying much. There's even a Microsoft "Communicating Windows 7" blog post, credited to Chris Flores, defending the say-no-more interview.

Microsoft seemingly has plenty of reasons to keep mum about Seven, starting with freezing Vista sales. The company claims 140 million Vista licenses shipped. But that number is deceptive. Based on interviews with analysts and enterprise IT managers, the majority of licenses are on new PCs where Vista is never deployed. Most businesses are stripping off Vista and using downgrade rights to install Windows XP."

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Written by Teching It Easy: Windows Vista on May 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Looking into Windows 7’s Prediction Pool

Mary Jo Foley over at All About Microsoft is reinspecting the possibility of when Windows 7 will hit the market. Here's a snippet of what she had to say:

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"It sounds like Microsoft is aiming to get Windows 7 out earlier than it promised — at least if you believe the company’s CEO.

During his fireside chat with Chairman Bill Gates at the D6 conference on May 27, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft was aiming to deliver Windows 7 in late 2009."

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My Thoughts:

I am sticking to my prediction of February 2010. Microsoft will certainly give a Developer Preview of Windows 7 to attendees at the 2008 PDC for them to start getting ready with their applications as soon as possible. Microsoft has really straightened out their priorities when it comes to releasing Windows. As Steven Sinofsky mentioned, Windows Vista's unpredictability in addition to the reset kind of made IHV's and ISV's hesitate to start messing with Windows Vista, when they should have been getting their code ready from build 5048 released at WinHEC 2005, they actually waited until Vista RTMed in January 2007.

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Written by Teching It Easy: Windows Vista on May 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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