Microsoft recently announced that the service packs for Windows 7  and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to OEM partners, and will be released to customers on February 22nd. Here is a list of interesting updates within each service pack: Windows 7 – Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 is essentially a cumulative update [...]

Microsoft announced the release of its Windows 7 SP1 public beta today at their Worldwide Partner Conference.  There are no feature enhancements in this service pack; instead it is just a roll up of previous released updates for the OS. Although most firms usually wait for the first service pack to be release before deploying a [...]

Microsoft announced at TechEd 2010 this week that a public beta of Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 can be expected near the end of July. Although service packs rarely introduce new features, Microsoft has included two new items for Windows Server 2008 R2, as we previously discussed here, that are intended to enhance virtual [...]

As firms transition to Windows 7, many of them are weighing the decision of implementing the 64-bit version of the Operating System on new hardware.   The performance gains of running the 64-bit OS on new hardware are significant, and initial observations are proving the concern of running 32-bit applications on a 64-bit OS may be [...]

Microsoft has announced that Office 2010 has been released to manufacturing.   Depending on the type of licensing agreement you have with Microsoft, you may download Office 2010, according to the following schedule: April 22nd, 2010 – Customers with an MSDN/Technet subscription will be able to download the suite via the MSDN website. April 27th, 2010 [...]