Microsoft rolls out fresh Windows XP 64 beta
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WHILE MICROSOFT and AMD are suggesting it will be well into next year before the final version of WinXP 64 is released, yesterday it started offering a fresh preview edition of its up-and-coming software which now supports both Intel and AMD 64-bit ...
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It&#39;s a big day for Microsoft as the company launches its XP Reloaded marketing campaign with the releases of Windows Media Player (WMP) 10, Portable Media Centers (PMCs), and the MSN Music preview.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. has started recruiting testers for the first beta of Windows Server 2003 R2, an update to Windows Server that the vendor plans to ship in October next year.
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NEW YORK/LONDON  - Microsoft Corp. rolled out  Windows Vista in 70 countries on Tuesday, delivering a PC  operating system able to better manage the explosion of digital  media and enhance Internet security.
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Microsoft has released yet another hotfix&#39;to fix a newly discovered problem in its XP Service Pack2 (XP SP2) release.
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NEW YORK/LONDON  - Microsoft Corp. rolled out  Windows Vista at retailers in 70 countries on Tuesday,  delivering a PC operating system that aims to better manage the  explosion of digital media and protect users from the dangers  of the Internet.
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The latest beta release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is available to the general public as a free download. Microsoft decided to release the update publicly several weeks earlier than planned, easing Vista early adopters' year-long wait for enhancements to the desktop operating system.
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Consumers will be offered a major upgrade of Windows XP after Microsoft releases Service Pack 2 through Windows Update later this week.
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Microsoft announced Tuesday that it would post the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site this evening at approximately 6 p.m. Eastern time.The move marks the first opportunity for all users of the six-year-old operating system to try out its final upgrade. Previously, several thousand users were given access to test builds of SP3 only by Microsoft's invitation.According to a company spokeswoman, the version that debuts Tuesday, dubbed a "release candidate" to note progress from earlier betas, will be available from the Microsoft Download Center. She was unable to say when the service pack would post to Windows Update so users can download and install it with the company's update service, however.The final version of Windows XP SP3 remains slated for delivery sometime in the first half of 2008, the spokeswoman said. She also warned off casual users from trying the preview. "As this is a release candidate, we strongly encourage only those who are comfortable installing prerelease code to download Windows XP SP3," she said.Recently, Microsoft has been downplaying the significance of Windows XP SP3. In a white paper posted to its Web site last week and also Tuesday, the company praised Windows Vista at XP's expense, reminding users that "Vista provides the most advanced security and management capabilities of any Windows operating system.""Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP," the spokeswoman said.According to the white paper, the Download Center version of XP SP3 will weigh in at about 580MB; the version downloaded and installed via Windows Update, however, will be much smaller, typically around 70MB.Windows XP debuted in October 2001 and was last updated as SP2 in August 2004; SP3 will be the final major upgrade of the operating system.
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com December 7, 2004, 10:51 AM PT. Microsoft said Tuesday that it has released a near-final test version of updates to its Windows and Windows Server operating systems.
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After first unveiling the product at CES in January, Microsoft on Monday released Beta 2 of Windows Home Sever, and is opening up the beta program to a broader group of external testers. Previous releases were tested by over 1,000 Microsoft employees and the Redmond company's partners.
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The new version lets customers upgrade a virtual Windows XP system to Windows Vista and includes USB 2.0 support, among many other new features.
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Microsoft says it has distributed about 106 million copies of its major security update for the Windows XP operating system. Microsoft completed work on the update, called Service Pack 2, more than two months ago.
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Microsoft announced today that it will soon release -- to a limited number of testers -- a beta version of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. Here's what we know so far.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ has released the beta of a tool that will test business PCs to see if they are compatible with Windows Vista. Users can download the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 Public Beta online now. The application helps business users see how much effort it will take to migrate desktops in a company to Vista by testing the hardware and device-driver capability of PCs against the OS and issuing reports about those results, according to Microsoft's internal Windows Vista blog. In addition to testing hardware for Vista, the software also will check to see if a PC is compatible with the Office 2007 suite, according to Microsoft. To download the beta, users need a Windows Live or Passport log-on so they can first register for the beta program. Since making Windows Vista available to business customers last November, Microsoft has offered a host of tools to help customers with the deployment of the new OS with two more coming earlier this week at its TechEd 2007 conference in Orlando. Released at the show, the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs helps IT administrators set encryption policies for laptops in an enterprise using the encrypting file system and new BitLocker features of Windows Vista, while the Virtual Hard Drive Test Drive allows enterprises to run a virtual version of Vista on PCs to see how it will interact with existing applications.
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WASHINGTON - Windows XP Service Pack 2 is the first major upgrade to the world&#39;s most popular operating system in well over a year.
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The new beta of Fusion incorporates major changes including "Unity," a new feature that lets you run Windows XP applications from your Mac desktop.