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Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out – [Christmas eBook Giveaway]

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:34 AM PST

It wouldn’t be the holiday season without having a Christmas giveaway for you and we’ve got five copies of Windows7News’ editor Mike Halsey’s new Microsoft Press Book Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out to give away to lucky readers.  Each winner will receive a copy of the book as an eBook in time for Christmas.

You’re beyond the basics, so dive right in and troubleshoot Windows 7 — from the inside out!  This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of prevention tips, troubleshooting techniques, and recovery tools. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts keep their Windows 7-based systems running smoothly — and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. 
 
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  • Use quick and simple guides to prevent problems such as data loss and identity theft
  • Get the very best out of the built-in features
  • Make your own quick fixes to the most common problems
  • Handle viruses and other threats, and get tips to help protect against cyber-crime
  • Learn advanced troubleshooting techniques by understanding how Windows 7 works
  • Use step-by-step guides to diagnose and repair system and hardware issues
  • Recover and restore the operating system — and your files — in the event of a disaster
  • Use power utilities built into Windows 7 for performance, maintenance, and advanced diagnostics
  • Get a companion ebook and additional content online

This really is a proper give-away too!  All you need to do is email Mike directly at mike.halsey[at]gmail.com with Windows7News Giveaway somewhere in your subject line by the end of this weekend (Sun 12th Dec).  5 winners will be selected, completely at random, early next week and the winners will be informed by email.

You can find out more about the book here.

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Microsoft Has A Record Year For Security Updates

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:22 PM PST

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for this month is looking like another bandwidth-buster: the company plans on offering 17 patches to fix 40 issues across six versions of Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2), three versions of Internet Explorer (6, 7, and 8), and four versions of Microsoft Office (XP, 2003, 2007, and 2010).

Microsoft’s patch days have gotten increasingly crowded in the last few months – in October, the company fixed 49 issues across 16 patches, for example – and as a result, 2010 has been a record year for Microsoft patches. Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center, commented on this in a blog post about December’s updates:

Looking back over 2010, that brings the total bulletin count to 106, which is more bulletins than we have released in previous years. This is partly due to vulnerability reports in Microsoft products increasing slightly, as indicated by our latest Security Intelligence Report. … Meanwhile, the percentage of vulnerabilities reported to us cooperatively continues to remain high at around 80 percent; in other words, for most vulnerabilities we’re able to release a comprehensive security update before the issue is broadly known.

Some would point to the record number of patches as proof that Microsoft’s products are insecure and error-prone, but I think that the plentiful patches indicate a company firing on all cylinders in order to keep its customers protected. The fact is that Microsoft regularly releases security updates for products released almost a full decade ago – though I like Apple’s products, the company sometimes allows security flaws in their flagship operating system to go unpatched for months, and they’ve almost completely dropped support for products just half of Windows XP’s age.

Only two of the December updates have been marked as “critical,” and the problems that they both address could allow an attacker to gain control of a compromised computer. Fourteen of them are marked merely as “important,” and the last is labeled as “moderate.” As always, regardless of an update’s rating, I recommend that all users allow Windows Update or Microsoft Update to keep their computers updated automatically.

Source: Microsoft Security Response Center blog

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Dell Kace Helping To Speed Up Windows 7 Migration

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 02:22 PM PST

Back in February, Dell acquired Kace who currently have 2,300 customers and more than 1.2 million machines under management. They specialise in helping medium size businesses to migrate to new OS’s and software updates. On friday Dell Kace is set to release it’s latest version of Kace K2000 Deployment Alliance, its Windows 7 deployment and Windows XP migration product.

This latest update makes the whole migration process for medium size businesses to Windows 7 much easier. The latest version of Kace will feature policy-based migration, offline migration, and continuous driver feed updates.

K2000 addresses many of the pains associated with migrating to Windows 7. It’s designed to determine the hardware and driver compatibility and backs up and transfers the end-user data. For IT managers, it’s integrated with Kace K1000 management appliance which was enhanced in May and is due an update soon.logo dell kace 165x65 Dell Kace Helping To Speed Up Windows 7 Migration

And the price tag for this migration service? It starts at $4,500 for the first 100 nodes, or $39,000 per appliance, so it’s by no means cheap.

According to a new survey Dell carried out, 71 percent of IT professionals said they were planning on migrating their organisation to Windows 7 by 2011, and 38 percent of them have already started. Of course by simplifying this process, Dell are hoping this will speed up the process and draw more interest.

Microsoft is seeing the fastest adoption of any OS in their history. It’s already managed to achieve over 25 percent of the market just over a year after its launch, and it’s not showing any signs of slowing down. In comparison, Vista barely got above 20 percent of the market since its release.

So more and more companies and businesses are providing solutions for people to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7. It appears to be working and with the deadline of 2014 looming for the end of Windows XP support, companies are eager to begin the usual 12-18 month process of migrating.

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