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TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 (Level 200)
White Papers The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment version 2.0 deployment tool enables one to determine in a matter of hours whether the computers on the network are ready for the Windows Vista operating system. The presenter of this webcast demonstrates how...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 Solution Accelerator Debuts (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast introduces Windows Vista Hardware Assessment version 2.0, an automated software tool that helps eliminate the need for IT staff to perform a manual inventory. With detailed information of each computer on the network, Windows Vista...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
Setup And Troubleshoot Windows XP Hardware Components And Device Drivers
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Windows XP Operating System Exam Cram 2 (Exam 70-271), discusses how manage and troubleshoot hardware devices and drivers. This sample chapter, taken from Supporting Users and...
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
Safely Remove Hardware Update For Windows Vista 64-bit (KB936824)
Downloads Install this update to resolve an issue where an Apple iPod may be corrupted by using the Safely Remove Hardware feature on a system running Windows Vista.
[May 9, 2007, 7:33]
Safely Remove Hardware Update For Windows Vista (KB936824)
Downloads Install this update to resolve an issue where an Apple iPod may be corrupted by using the Safely Remove Hardware feature on a system running Windows Vista.
[May 9, 2007, 7:24]
Upgrading To Windows Vista: Is Your Hardware Ready? Are You?
White Papers Before you decide, you need to know if it will work with your current system's hardware and software. With Windows Vista? The intent of this white paper is not to elaborate on the features of the Windows Vista operating system, but rather to serve...
[October 31, 2008, 10:38]
Graphics Hardware And Drivers For Windows 'Longhorn'
White Papers The Longhorn Display Driver Model allows for the visual effects seen on a user's desktop to scale relative to the available graphics hardware. For example, the experience of viewing Longhorn on hardware with capabilities equivalent to a high-end...
[April 15, 2005, 1:48]
VERITAS Storage Foundation For Windows: Comparing Software Versus Hardware RAID Performance
White Papers This paper summarizes the performance study comparing VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows (VSFW) software RAID capabilities to hardware RAID 0 and RAID 5. The VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows provides a comprehensive solution to storage...
[January 15, 2005, 2:00]
Managing A Real-Time Hardware Interface With INtime And Windows XP Embedded
White Papers However, when an application requires real-time performance from a hardware interface, a real-time extension is required, along with some partition of the platform and the application. Time-critical threads must be executed under a real-time kernel...
[August 9, 2005, 6:00]
TechNet Webcast: Maximize New Server Hardware Potential With Windows Server 2003 Enterprise X64 Edition (Level 200)
White Papers Now that many of the new x86 servers are 64-bit capable, and Windows Server 2003 x64 editions have been on the market for two years, it might be time to take full advantage of x64 technology. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
Upgrading To Windows Vista: Is Your Hardware Ready? - Are You?
White Papers There are five choices of the Windows Vista operating system. Four retail versions either preload on a new PC purchase or one purchased separately; they are: Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, and Windows...
[January 23, 2008, 10:31]
In A Class Of Its Own: Kentucky Department Of Education Leverages The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Early Adopter Program And Standardizes On Dell Hardware To Deliver Advanced Technology To Schools
White Papers It joined the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Early Adopter program and consolidate Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure on 370 Dell PowerEdge 2600 servers. For more than a decade, the Kentucky Education Technology System (KETS) has provided...
[August 13, 2004, 0:00]
Check RAM When A Windows Install Fails
News And in my experience, a hard drive issue, Windows hardware compatibility problem, licensing crisis, or a corrupt installation file is usually the culprit. But I recently encountered an installation error that illustrates how a seemingly unrelated...
[February 5, 2003, 11:53]
Microsoft Bug-checking Tools Promise Fewer Crashes
News Microsoft is readying two tools to help hardware makers create more stable and secure Windows drivers, which should help reduce the number of crashes. Second beta versions were released at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here this week...
[May 30, 2006, 16:40]
Gates Announces 40 Million Vista Sales
News Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista so far, Bill Gates told a crowd of hardware developers on Tuesday. That's more than the total install base of Windows' largest competitors, Gates quipped, as he began his keynote at the...
[May 16, 2007, 10:31]
Desktop Linux Wins Plaudits For Stability
Talkback "But since we're talking GUI, XWindows (unlike Windows) allows apps to access hardware directly" X Windows does not allow ANY direct access to video hardware. But this is a far cry from providing "direct access" to hardware.
[March 11, 2005, 17:25]
Via Demonstrates Tablet PC
News Semiconductor maker Via Technologies is demonstrating a working prototype of its Tablet PC reference design this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Taipei, Taiwan, as it continues to push into the growing market for...
[May 8, 2002, 17:31]
Ballmer: Make Computing Easier
News During his opening keynote, which kicked off this year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer entreated hardware developers to renew their vision of the way computing devices should look and act...
[April 8, 1999, 9:33]
Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users
Talkback If I am running Windows under a virtual machine (Virtual PC or VMWare) I am not running on the minimum hardware required, it is running on emulated not real hardware. Most software also states what the minimum hardware requirements are.
[February 25, 2005, 19:37]
Longhorn's Needs Set For Revelation
News Microsoft said it will unveil the hardware requirements needed to run Longhorn -- the next version of Windows -- at developer conference in May. In an email, the software maker said it will outline the required specifications for computers to run...
[February 19, 2004, 7:20]
