AppLocker is a new feature in Windows7 that allows you to manage what applications are allowed to run on a managed machine with multiple techniques, including white listing and black listing applications.  It goes way beyond what is available today using Software Restriction Policies. One of the slick features is the ability to use a machine as a reference – configure a machine with just the apps you want users to run, and AppLocker will automatically build a policy from that machine you can deploy across your organization.

Fujitsu LifeBook MH380 now available for sale in USA starting at $449. LifeBook MH380 mini is powered by Intel Atom Processor N450 (1.66GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB). The 10.1-inch Notebook has an LED-backlit display with a 1366×768 resolution. IT comes with 1 GB DDR2 667 MHz memory SDRAM and can be upgraded to 2 GB and 250 GB hard drive.LifeBook MH380 mini is pre loaded with Windows7 starter edition. Fujitsu LifeBook Mini MH380 offer up to 7 hours and 10 minutes of battery life. Fujitsu MH380 is great for students, and mobile professionals.

LifeBook MH380 Mini-Notebook Specification

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Symantec, which has migrated more than 300 million desktops and notebooks to Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and now Windows 7, recommends the following seven-step approach.

Step 1: Asses your environment and plan your deployment.

Discover devices across the network and capture inventory. Determine hardware readiness through reports. Prioritize applications to test and migrate. Evaluate costs and SLAs, and identify potential risks.

Step 2: Build standard Windows 7 images.

Create standard images with settings and configuration for multiple users. Include applications that are required on all computers in the base image. Create generic image.

Step 3: Prepare and verify applications.

Identify the applications supported on Windows 7. Test applications on Windows 7 and with each other to ensure compatibility in your environment. Remediate issues through policies, packaging, virtualization, or—if absolutely necessary—debugging and code changes.

Step 4: Capture user settings and personality.

  If there’s one thing that makes or breaks an OS migration, it’s the successful transfer of each computer and end users’ unique network, operating system, application, and data settings, along with other customizations. In this step, identify global settings to migrate (printer and network drive mappings, favorites, security settings, etc.); determine applications settings to migrate, including custom applications; include data to be moved or require end users to transfer; and communicate with end users about things that won’t get migrated (e.g., MP3 files).

Step 5: Assemble and automate

Now that the pieces are in place, you need to hook them together and encapsulate the templates and files into an automated job or a workflow sequence. (This ensures that when one task completes, the next is triggered automatically.) Create single process flow that includes the following steps: Deploy the image (Step 2); install prepared applications (Step 3); capture personality settings (Step 4); restore personality settings.

Step 6: Migrate systems.

Position any additional servers purchased as part of the deployment plan in Step 1. Make any required network adjustments, such as enabling multicasting. Identify test candidates. Document test cases. Create a phased pilot. Perform migration.

Step 7: Measure and report.

Post-migration reporting and analysis will enable your executive team to track the migration from a distance and help you analyze key aspects of the migration. In this step, identify the total number of migrated systems; report problems encountered during migration; provide overall migration status; verify licenses.Symantec Windows 7 Resource Center for Business Customers.

Microsoft has released a free theme tool for Windows7 and other versions Windows called Windows Experience Pack. Windows Experience pack is a cloud application and it produces an executable with Windows7 and Windows live messenger customization package according to user preferences. Once downloaded and executed, the customization package will offer customers the possibility of saving the avatar locally and choose Bing as the default search engine and MSN as the default home page. For users that don’t have Microsoft’s IM client, the package is designed to also download and install Windows Live Messenger.

With the Windows Experience Pack, you are able create an alter-ego of yourself in a specific destination – a beach, mountain, safari, or city. When you create your alter-ego, you create a fully customized avatar for that destination that becomes a part of a Windows Live Messenger and Windows 7 theme for your PC. You’ll also be able to download a .jpg image of your avatar to share, print, or use as your icon on social networks. Windows Experience Pack is capable of creating a Windows 7 theme complete with a desktop background, out of a plethora of wallpapers, a screensaver, and an avatar which can be personalized and bundled with pictures of end users.

For a specific destination you pick, the following Windows Live Messenger elements are created for you to use in Messenger for your alter-ego:

• 1 static Display Picture
• Up to 4 Dynamic Display Pictures
• A Wink
• 7 new Emoticons
• A new Messenger Scene

For Windows 7, you are given the choice between 3 desktop backgrounds for your destination and a screensaver featuring multiple photos from your destination.

The Windows Experience Pack was created and optimized for Windows 7, but it can be downloaded and used on PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista too (although performance and features may vary).

Avast has released three new security products including Avast Free Antivirus, Avast Pro Antivirus, and Avast Internet Security. These three products are fully compatible with Windows7. Customers will be able to download Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 either as a standalone product, and update to version 4.8, or through the Google Pack.

A new website is also released with these three new products . The website is in English and French. Over the next 10 days or so, Avast will be releasing the products and website in additional languages (German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, and possibly Korean, and Arabic). Other languages will then be added.

Vince Steckler, chief executive officer of Alwil Software, the makers of Avast Said,

Avast! Free Antivirus.

This is our new flagship product and replaces Avast Home Edition (we changed the name to emphasize the product is free). We focus this product on users that use the internet for web browsing and email. If that is what you do on the internet, this is the product you need. We are very proud of this product and we stack it up against anyone else’s paid antivirus—in fact, we have recently started submitting this product in lieu of our paid products to all of the industry standard tests. Virus Bulletin, one of the most respected journals, recently called this product “….nothing short of a miracle” (see separate blog post). Google selected this product for incorporation in many of their Google Packs. You can download this product here

Avast! Internet Security.

This is our brand-new product and is focused on users that do on-line banking or shopping or that have sensitive data on their computer. We believe that these users need some extra layers of protection and developed this product to provide three more layers. This product takes the free antivirus and adds a 2-way silent firewall, a sandbox, and anti-spam. The firewall ensures that only trusted applications are able to receive or send data across the internet. The sandbox provides a means of executing your browser (or any other application) in a protected environment—thus even if you get infected, the infection does not leave the sandbox and does not harm your computer. And the anti-spam helps you get rid of all that irritating email you receive every day. And, we have made this product attractive to consumer users—a single license can be used on 3 computers in your household. This link will take you to the product and download page

Avast! Pro Antivirus

This is the update to the old Professional Edition. We focus this product on individuals that want to customize their security and on businesses. It is the same as Internet Security but without the firewall or anti-spam. This allows world-class security using your own personal choice of firewall and anti-spam. Here is how to get this product

• Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0  is available for download here.

• Avast! Pro Antivirus 5.0 is available for download here.

• Avast! Internet Security 5.0 is available for download here.

With new Intel Core i3 processors, rich multi-media features like SRS premium sound , HDMI and enhanced in a gorgeous slim design. The new Dell Inspiron 15 laptops has arrived.

	NEW DELL INSPIRON 15 LAPTOP Rs. 35,900	Intel Core i3-350M Processor Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 2GB DDR3 SDRAM 250GB* SATA Hard Drive 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330   Graphic card 5.6” (39.6cm) 720p WLED   (1366×768)Display with TrueLife
	NEW DELL INSPIRON 14 LAPTOP Rs. 27,900	Intel Pentium Processor T4300 Genuine Windows  7 Home Basic 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 250GB* SATA Hard Drive 14.0" (35.5cms) High Definition  (1366×768) LED Display with TrueLife

At CES 2010 MSI showed a dual touch screen Notebook tablet concept device, currently this device lacking a name. It would be available by the end of June 2010 if device feedback is positive. This concept device is powered by Intel’s Melow processor using SSD storage and runs Windows7 as operating system. This concept device also has a virtual keyboard and an E-Book reader.

After the launch of Windows7 it is the largest selling operating system according to Microsoft. Apart from this Windows7 supports more than 800,00 unique applications and more than 240,00 unique devices.

Ballmer revealed at CES 2010

The Windows platform represents the broadest ecosystem of developers in the world from casual games to the most powerful software running the world’s biggest organizations. There are over four million Windows applications in all, and Windows 7 allows software to become even better. Developers are creating rich applications that take advantage of the new technologies in 7. Our partners have delivered over 800,000 new unique Windows 7 applications exploiting these new technologies with over 240,000 new devices, peripherals, and machines just since we delivered the beta release.

Windows 7 Facts

• Windows 7 is by far the fastest selling operating system in history. PC sales jumped nearly 50 percent the week Windows 7 launched.
• On Black Friday, retailers sold 63 percent more PCs than they did the year before.
• According to NPD, the 2009 holiday season saw greater than 50 percent year-over-year growth for Windows PC sales.

Sony has launched an updated version of its W Series mini Netbook at CES 2010. Sony’s W Series mini Netbook is made of reprocessed plastic chassis comprised of approximately 23 percent recycled CDs. It also comes in a stylish reusable carrying-case made from recycled PET bottles—no wasted cardboard packaging. These Netbook is perfect for casual PC users users looking for Web browsing and social networking at their fingertip. Like most new 2010 Netbooks launched at CES 2010, it is also powered by Intel Atom N450 processor.

The VAIO W Series has a HD (1366×768) 10.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display that lets you view an entire web page side-to-side on a single screens. It has an 250 GB hard drive with a long battery life , users can get up to seven hours of use on a single charge. It also comes with parental controls helping parents to make their kids online experience easier and secure. Featuring Kidzui and Online Family Norton software, kids have the freedom to learn, play, search and discover sites on the Internet while it gives parents the tools to manage the sites they visit.

The VAIO W Series eco-friendly mini notebook comes in sugar white with a translucent green interior. It is equipped with Microsoft Windows7 Starter operating system.