Installing Windows Archive

  • Microsoft releases Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool: Lets you install Windows 7 without an optical drive

    Microsoft releases Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool: Lets you install Windows 7 without an optical drive

    Would you run Windows 7 on a netbook? It's a good question, especially when you look at some of the benchmarks vis-à-vis battery life and past versions of Windows, namely XP. But let's put that aside for a moment. Let's say you do, in fact, want Windows 7 on that shiny new netbook of yours. Problem: your netbook doesn't have an optical drive, which makes installing Windows 7, oh, impossible. Until now! Microsoft has released the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool that let's users create a bootable Windows 7 USB drive or DVD ISO.

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  • How Microsoft will lift us out of the IT-spending dumps

    How Microsoft will lift us out of the IT-spending dumps

    I was on a panel a few weeks ago with Rob Enderle a few weeks back and he was asked by an international journalist what he expected in terms of financial news in the next few months. He made a very interesting point that, being an Apple fanboy, I ignored at the time. He said [...]

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  • Here’s a list of applications that are glitchy with Snow Leopard

    Here’s a list of applications that are glitchy with Snow Leopard

    Head's up to any of y'all looking to upgrade to Snow Leopard this weekend (that's my plan, along with installing Windows 7). It's not exactly a surprise, but some applications may be a little wonky with the new operating system, and this Web site has a list of what's what.

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  • Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting that ChromeOS will beat Windows or even OS X is like expecting Coby to come up [...]

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