Linkbait: Industry News for AOK

My colleague has done it again. He has compiled a list of great reading and links relating to desktop migrations, application compatibility and general news on computing

  

Enjoy!

Operating Systems News

Gartner 2010 OS figures show operating systems are worth $30.4 Billion

Windows 7, now 18 months old has sold 350 million licenses, passing OSX Snow Leopard in only two weeks.  ChangrBASE get mentioned in an article describing the numbers

Windows 8 Milestone 2 Workstation has been leaked, Windows 8 Milestone 3 Server has been leaked

Windows 8 will have a revamped Task Manager, an app store similar to iPhones, Cloud synchronisation & Windows Live Cloud roaming, a new touch-friendly UI, History vault, a black screen of death, fancy webcam ui and facial recognition logon, other features rounded up

Get the new look with some Windows 8 unofficial wallpapers

Windows XP End Of Support Countdown Gadget counts down the days until support ends.

Windows ThinPC with built-in virtualisation layer has moved to Release Candidate

Very pretty Windows 7 theme from Microsoft and the story behind its creation

Waterdrops theme for Windows 7 and the story behind it

Packaging News

Chris (Samuel L.) Jackson realises that stupid users are stupid

InstallAware continue to tell their turbulent story. 

Flexera have released mergemodules for InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1

A sensible replacement for the weird win32product wmi class

Updated sysinternals tools

Browser News

IE9’s share on Windows 7 has doubled since March but IE’s overall share continues its decline

IE10 preview has rendering modes for IE5 - 10

IE10 will support Windows 7 & 8 but not Vista or lower.

IE9 compatibility inspector  

Cam of a silly video about IE

What browser are you using?

Mobile News

Nokia and Microsoft sign partnership agreement

iPhones and Android track your every movement, Microsoft phones don’t. The parody writers have a field day

iPad, 1994-style

Android has 350,000 daily activations

Technology news

This doesn’t fit anywhere but I still felt it worth sharing.  Do not invest in SSD drives they fail.

A beginner’s guide to Group Policies

I love the Microsoft NT Debugging blog, mostly because it shows me how little I really know about Windows.  Here’s a great article telling the story of a missing icon in the control panel.

Learn about Dynamic Memory in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V

Office News

Office … the game: Ribbon Hero 2 is available. Play your way to learning the ribbon. 

A fix for the fix in Outlook 2007 that broke print previews

Office 2010 SP1 is due ‘in mid-summer’

Oracle let go of OpenOffice

Partner News

ConverterTechnologies’ have a Forrester report on how Advanced Planning Prevents Microsoft Office 2010 Migration Pitfalls

Application Compatibility For Windows 7 Made Easy

Cloud News

Toyota invest £7.5 million in Azure

I love the Ipad (1994) style link.