As you may already know, Microsoft has included (finally) his hypervisor (Hyper-V) on the Windows 8 client. However, Hyper-V 3.0 can’t be installed on every x64 processor – such Intel Centrino 2. Indeed, your x64 processor must have a second level address translation capabilities. For checking if you can enable Hyper-V 3.0 on your computer, …
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If you are trying to enable .Net Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 Customer Preview, you may encored the following error – NOTE this doesn’t occur on all machine Windows could not download necessary files from Windows Update. Check your network connection. Error code: 0x800f0906 To solve the issue: Mount the ISO file used to …
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Et voilà, my first big issue with Windows 8: unable to logon after installing Ricoh Multi Card Reader drivers on Lenovo T 520. The drivers have installed successfully and after the reboot, the logon screen was plain – no more way to enter credentials With this important issue, I also discovered that return to ‘Last …
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This is it, Windows 8 beta has been released to download. There is 2 installation methods: Customer Preview Setup: Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup will check to see if your PC can run Windows 8 Consumer Preview and select the right download. Setup also features a compatibility report and upgrade assistance. Built-in tools for creating …
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The waited next Windows version, called Windows 8, will be in beta starting next Wednesday. Many things have been said about this coming version, mainly at the client level (such as the Metro interface or the Windows Marketplace), but there will be also lot of things at the server side level. I can’t wait for …
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Microsoft has silently extended the support lifetime for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Indeed, according to the ‘original’ Microsoft’s support lifecycle, Windows Vista support should end in April 2012. The support lifecycle is now: April 2017 for Windows Vista – http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?c2=11732 January 2020 for Windows 7 – http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?c2=14019
The waited beta program for Windows 8 should start on February 29th Still few days to wait
As you may already know, there is a lot of incoming new product version for the next 12 to 24 months, including the waited Windows 8. Microsoft has published an initial schedule of delivery. Keep in mind this may still change will product groups are still working on many of these products. Windows 8 Anticipated …
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As you may already know, with Office 365 you can configure your cloud services to use your own Active Directory for user authentication. This allow single sign on and password policy management independently of Office 365. However, until now, there was a limitation which obliged you to use multiple ADFS implementation in case of you …
Microsoft has announced the Release Candidate of the Windows Home Server Windows Phone 7 Connector. The purpose of this Add-in is to enable Remote Server Management tasks and relay Media Streams for WHS 2011 including: alert user management media (streaming, pictures…) For more details and testing, go to http://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver
