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).
Windows7 will have a Windows XP mode, XPM is built on the next generation Microsoft Virtual PC 7 product line, which requires processor-based virtualization support (Intel and AMD) to be present and enabled on the underlying PC. To run Windows XP in Windows7, users needs a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). It will be made available, for free, to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions via a download from the Microsoft web site.
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With Windows7 Microsoft offering a huge list of applications that can be disabled via “Turn Windows Features On or Off”. Windows7 testers also noticed that they can also turn off internet explorer in Windows7 .There are a number of features that can not be turned off with Windows Vista but the final version of Windows7 will allows users to turn off more applications. In addition to Windows Vista feature turn off list Microsoft has added following programs to turn off list :
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Microsoft has confirmed that the next version of Microsoft Office system called ”Office 14” can be run on old Windows XP systems. Microsoft might be considering that most of the big enterprises will go for Wundows7 upgrade or not. So if Office 14 run of Windows XP systems that gives Microsoft another to way to sell their next version of Office system.
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When Microsoft has released the service pack 1 for Windows Vista they managed to kill most of vista cracks that allows users to bypass the Windows Vista activation process. Microsoft announced Windows Genuine Advantage update set up to kill the SoftMod hack would be served to Windows Vista users in the coming weeks. Microsoft is releasing this update only for Windows Vista ultimate edition having English as their primary language.
Below is a screenshot showing what a user would see on a system that has detected the SoftMod activation exploit:
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Microsoft press is celebrating 25th Anniversary, with giving a free e-book every month. This month Microsoft is giving Visual C#2008 Express Edition E-Book. Last moth Microsoft offered a free copy of Windows Vista Resource kit E-Book
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Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!
By Patrice Pelland
ISBN: 9780735625426
In this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition
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Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition
By Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, and Jerry Honeycutt with the Windows Vista Team
ISBN: 9780735625969
In-depth, comprehensive, and fully updated for Service Pack 1, this Resource Kit delivers the information you need to administer Windows Vista.
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On December 4, 2008 Microsoft is opening it’s Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 service pack 2 customer preview program to a broader range of people. MSDN and TechNet subscribers will also have access to download, install and test the beta of service pack2. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 service pack have fixes issue that are reported by customers and partner driven feedback surveys. Service pack 2 contains all previously released updates, SP2 will contain changes focused on addressing reliability and performance issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards.
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Vista Start Menu is the best replacement classical Windows XP Start Menu . Vista Start Menu enables you to access all available applications and files on your hard drive in just one or two clicks. Vista Start Menu is fully compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP and all other modern Windows platforms. Let’s have a look some of the advantage of Vista Start Menu over other Windows Start Menu
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On 9th October, 2008 Microsoft has released a list of 4000 software applications that are compactable with Windows Vista. According to Microsoft 9000 products are fully compatible with Windows Vista operating system including 5,500 hardware devices and more then 3,500 software programs.
The Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet containing software applications which have earned the status of “Certified for Windows Vista” or “Works with Windows Vista.” Additionally, this list contains applications with a status of “Compatible.” “Compatible” means that the application has been reported by the publisher as compatible with, or supported on, Windows Vista. These applications have not gone through the Microsoft Windows Vista Logo Program.
Download Windows Vista Application Compatibility List
To find Cookies folder on Windows Vista system click Start, type
C:\Users\Lincoln\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low,
and then press Enter. That should take you to the real Cookies folder. Once you’ve found it, you can make it easily accessible:
To Access Cookies folder in Windows XP just type “Cookies” in run window.
