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Windows Vista troubles around the corner?

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Operating Systems, Security, Support Issues | No Comments »

Anyone who is using Windows Vista had better be forewarned.  If you think that the security restrictions around Windows Vista and Windows 2008 server are harsh, things are only going to get tougher with Service Pack 1.  It appears that ...

Windows 2008 Server…first looks installing Domino and Sametime

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in Notes/Domino, Operating Systems, Sametime, Support Issues | 3 Comments »

The Windows Server 2008 package for x86 architectures finally showed up on the MSDN site last week. I finally got some time over the weekend to install this in a VMWare environment. Since Windows Server 2008 had adopted ...

Microsoft Scalable Network Pack. Good or bad?

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Operating Systems, Sametime, Support Issues | 4 Comments »

Recently our support center has received a flurry of calls regarding performance of Sametime Meetings.  After some in-depth investigations by our development team and network engineer, we have found something can really boost performance.  Windows 2003 SP1 introduced the scalable ...

Windows 2008 Server

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Operating Systems | 2 Comments »

Windows 2008 is coming and coming very very soon.  Anyone who has access to MSDN will see that Windows 2008 x64 edition has been released and the 32-bit edition should be coming out shortly.  Right now the worldwide launch of ...

Windows Vista SP1 RTM

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Operating Systems | No Comments »

As many consumers have eagerly awaited, Windows Vista SP1 has finally been released to manufacturing and is expected to be released to the public in March 2008. http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx

Internet Explorer 7 auto-deployment imminent

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Browsers, Operating Systems | No Comments »

Microsoft has informed the public that it will push out Internet Explorer 7 via the Windows update service. In order to ensure the widest deployment of the browser update, Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation has been disabled. There ...