Sunday, November 7, 2010

First Look: Windows Phone 7 Series Hands on Demo

This is it! What you've all been waiting for: your first look at Windows Phone 7. Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore gives us a full demo of the announcements being made today at Mobile World Congress, including:

  • The new user experience
  • Integration with social networks like Facebook
  • Internet Explorer
  • Photos, videos, and music
  • E-mail and texting
  • GPS and maps
  • Search integration
  • Hardware standards 
More Details. . .

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (KB976932)

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Release Candidate includes previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms.

Download Now. . .

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Best Registry Cleaner for Windows 7

Corruption within your registry keys, registry classes, and registry settings are the most common causes of Windows error messages.

Download Trail Now. . .

Windows Phone 7 "easier than iPhone, Android, BlackBerry"

By Richi Jennings. November 3, 2010.


Microsoft claims that Windows Phone 7 allows users to do things with up to 20% fewer operations than other smartphones. The company says WP7 is more efficient than Android, BlackBerry BBOS, or iPhone iOS. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask, "Really?!"

More Details. . .

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Using Restricted Groups

Author: Derek Melber


If you are a medium or large sized organization, you might have thousands of clients and hundreds of servers that you need to manage. Manually trying to manage all of the local groups on all of these computers is difficult, and almost impossible. Have no fear, Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are here! GPOs provide a mechanism that allows you to control the membership in local groups, and even domain groups, on any computer in the Active Directory enterprise. The specific configuration that you use for this task is the Restricted Groups GPO setting.

More Details. . .

Download .NET Framework 4

You may need it for some of your applications to run

Download Now. . .

.NET Framework Setup Verification Tool

Check your installed version of .NET Framework

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/10/13/8999004.aspx