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whitepaper Plug and Play Device Driver Migration in Windows Vista2007-01-31 Microsoft
  This paper provides preview information about Plug and Play driver migration and installation for in-place upgrades to the Windows Vista operating system. Developers, support staff, and manufacturers can use the information in this paper to better understand driver migration behavior and debugging techniques for Windows Vista. The paper includes an overview of the Windows Vista Plug and Play device driver migration architecture, driver migration scenarios, definitions, and common device migration problems and errors.

Tags: Upgrades and Migration, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Debugging Printer Drivers2007-01-30 Microsoft
  This paper provides information about debugging user-mode printer drivers developed for Windows Vista. This paper also applies to Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. It provides guidelines for printer driver developers and testers to obtain more detailed information about a printer driver when it halts in a debugger.

Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Windows Longhorn - AERO0000-00-00 Computer Performance
  Longhorn is hard to define, but fortunately easy to use. From one perspective, Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open (AERO) is Longhorn's replacement of XP's Luna desktop. Others see AERO as Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0 and the GPU combining to deliver stunning visual displays. Microsoft would like to emphasis that AERO is the most efficient and intuitive front end to date.

Tags: Graphics Components, Windows XP, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Open File Backups: How BackupAssist Handles Open Files in Windows NT, 2000, XP and 20032006-11-15 BackupAssist Backup Software
  In order to maintain a reliable and recoverable backup strategy it is essential that the backup solution provides support for backing up open files. Without having open file protection in the backup solution mission critical data files can be missed. Consequently, the backup data sets will be unreliable and incomplete, all because certain application files were in use or open during the time of the backup process. BackupAssist provides two different technologies for backing up open files in Windows environments - Snapshot Technology and Conventional File Copy. This paper explains how each technology works, where they apply, and what the advantages and disadvantages are of each method of open file support.

Tags: Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, Windows XP		   
whitepaper Windows Vista Review - Part 4: The Vista Experience2006-11-12 Penton Media
  Microsoft has made a concerted effort to imbue Windows Vista with a holistic user experience that was only hinted at in previous Windows versions. To understand what this means, consider the evolution of Windows: Not the pixels, widgets, and other onscreen interface elements so much as the overall "Feel" one gets from Windows. Over time, Windows has evolved from a clumsy Graphical User Interface (GUI), built on top of MS-DOS, to a cohesive and complete environment of its own. The current Windows version - Windows XP - is reasonably stable and provides a number of user-friendly touches that enhance and simplify certain experiences. Windows isn't perfect - and maybe it never will be - but it gets the job done.

Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Windows Vista Review - Part 3: Installing Windows Vista2006-11-09 Penton Media
  While a person will install Windows Vista in ways that are similar to previous Windows versions, under the covers, everything has changed. The DOS mode portion of Windows Setup, present even in the NT-based Windows variants such as Windows XP, is finally gone, exorcised from people's lives for good. But the changes go much deeper than simple changes to Setup methodology. Microsoft has completely recast its approach for moving bits from an install medium (typically a Vista Setup DVD, but it could also be a network share or other location) to the PC's hard drive.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Windows Vista Review - Part 2: Understanding the Vista Product Editions2006-11-08 Penton Media
  Microsoft released Windows XP in just two product editions, Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional Edition. The difference between the products was fairly obvious, and with its enhanced feature set, XP Pro was the more expensive version, as one might expect. Over time, however, Microsoft muddied the waters with a wealth of new XP product editions. There were three major versions added: Windows XP Media Center Edition (which received three major releases and one minor update between 2002 and 2005), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (which received two major releases between 2002 and 2005), and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, which took most of XP Pro's feature set and brought it to the x64 hardware platform.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Windows Vista Review - Part 1: Introduction2006-11-06 Penton Media
  Paradoxically, Windows Vista is both revolutionary and evolutionary. While it includes modern OS features, such as a new hardware-based Graphical User Interface (GUI), Vista will also feel like familiar territory, for the most part, to anyone that's already familiar with Windows XP. More problematic, over the past few years, many of Windows Vista's best features have been jettisoned, and it's unclear whether they'll ever appear in future Windows versions. Other features, like Internet Explorer (IE) 7, the Avalon and WinFX programming interfaces, the RSS platform, and more have been back-ported to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, watering down the uniqueness of the Vista platform.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Migrating to Vista Using Windows Easy Transfer2006-10-27 TechGenix
  This paper explains how to use Windows Easy Transfer to migrate user accounts, files and program settings from an existing computer running Windows XP to a freshly installed new computer running Windows Vista. Windows Easy Transfer is a quick and easy way for users to transfer their files and settings from their old computers running earlier versions of Microsoft Windows to their new computers running Windows Vista.

Tags: Upgrades and Migration, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Offline File Caching in Longhorn Server2006-10-26 TechGenix
  This paper takes a look at some of the ways that Longhorn Server facilitates offline file caching. Longhorn Server's file caching feature has been greatly improved over the previous version. In case a person is not familiar with offline file caching, the basic idea behind it is that when a client accesses a share on the server, that share's contents are automatically cached. If the user attempts to access the share at a later time when no connectivity to the server exists, then the user's workstation will transparently use the cached copy. Any changes that the user makes to cached files will be automatically synchronized with the server the next time that the user establishes a connection to the share.

Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista		   


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