Category Archives: opsys

Virtual PC Is Now Free! Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you’re just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 absolutely free. Microsoft is also offering … Continue reading →

A successor to the Microsoft Windows operating system, while still very much in the theoretical stage, is expected to better leverage multicore processors, for starters, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday afternoon.                Speaking at The Venture Forum conference, Microsoft’s … Continue reading →

From pluralsight.com:   I’ve received numerous questions recently about where to find the latest and greatest WCF build, especially since the name change from WinFX to .NET 3.0. One way to find the bits is to browse to Microsoft’s new … Continue reading →

The infamous narf2006 has made good on his earlier promise to provide a video of Windows XP booting on an Intel-based iMac. While the video looks fairly convincing, we’ll continue to reserve judgment at least until Colin Nederkoorn hands narf … Continue reading →

Microsoft has pushed back its plans to support a new type of PC firmware, called UEFI, or United Extensible Firmware Interface, which has begun working its way into the PC market. Microsoft said in a presentation during last week’s Intel … Continue reading →

IBM researchers Singh, Smith & Reed are developing in their free time legacy BIOS support for Intel Macs. "BAMBIOS" is using Boch’s BIOS emulation code and has also adapted its graphical BIOSes for the current ATi and Intel graphics chipsets … Continue reading →

This is groundbreaking, history setting  news and shows Linux as the viable alternative to Microsoft Windows.  Not only does Microsoft lose all that revenue, which is a shame really.  But it shows other companies that it can be done.  If IBM … Continue reading →

A http://blogs.msdn.com/john_pollard/archive/2006/02/18/534538.aspx blogból: This one surprised me a lot when we found it. You can reboot a computer that is running IIS remotely by running the command:    iisreset [computerName] /reboot It’s been very useful today when we’ve been patching a whole … Continue reading →

Ctrl+Alt+De1337 writes "The Mactel-Linux folks have now successfully bootedLinux on a 17" Core Duo iMac. They used the elilo bootloader, a modifiedkernel, and a hacked vesafb to boot from a USB drive. No GUI pictures fornow, just white text on … Continue reading →

nLite is an all-in-one GUI utility that will give you the ability topermanently remove unwanted components such as Internet Explorer, OutlookExpress, Media Player, MSN Explorer, MSN Messenger and a variety of othercomponents from your own Windows CD. This results in … Continue reading →