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Windows Vista Released to Manufacturing

As Windows Vista hits the Release to Manufacturing milestone, Microsoft looks back at what it took to build the most heavily tested, highest quality and most secure operating system in the company’s history.

Microsoft says Windows Vista is its most heavily tested operating system ever, with deep investments made to ensure greater security, reliability and usability. But after all the time, expense and effort to get it right, does Windows Vista meet the quality bar? For answers to this and other questions about the quality of Windows Vista, PressPass spoke with Sven Hallauer, release manager and director of program management at Microsoft.

Q&A: Windows Vista Released to Manufacturing

Download Free best Windows antivirus software

These are three free guardians antivirus software for your computer system.

Softpedia has a small review of three anti-virus software that are free to use, complete with screenshots. Consider using Microsoft’s or Adaware’s anti-spyware utilities too to keep your XP healthy.

From the article:
Yesterday was a Friday 13th indeed, because I was just about to have some electrical cables inside my house melted, and I don’t want to think about what could have happened if this problem hadn’t been detected in time but let’s move to the computer world. Fortunately, no viruses here, and apart from one over voltage problem that gave a little work to my UPS, everything’s just fine. Having these in mind, I thought about giving you a hint on some excellent antiviruses that are also completely free, and which are pretty easy to find.

Microsoft Office Free tutorial and how to collection

If you are looking for some good Free tutorial and how to collection, just go to Microsoft web site.

This site offers small how to and tutorials about:
=> Excel
=> Word
=> PowerPoint
=> Office System products
=> Publisher
=> Windows accessories etc

You will learn how to use Microsoft software in the classroom with tips and tricks presented in these how-to articles.

Windows 2003 server add additional IP address

Many new Windows sys admins are not sure about – how to add additional IP address to a Windows 2003 (2000) server. It is easy to add an IP address. J ust follow the instruction mentioned below.

=> Click on Start button

=> Open Cotnrol Panel

=> Open Network connections

=> Select Local Area Connection (for first Ethernet card)

=> Right Click and select Properties

=> Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

=> Now click on Properties button

=> Click on Advanced tab

=> Now you need to add in an IP address section Enter IP details such as IP address, Subnetmask etc

=> Save the changes and go back to Windows server desktop

How do I verifty that new settings are working?

Open command prompt > Click on Start button

=> Select Run

=> Type cmd and press enter

=> Type the following command at DOS prompt:
ipconfig /all

Intel Quad-Core QX6700 Performance

ExtremeTech has published Performance for Intel’s newest quad core processor, the Core 2 Extreme Quad E6700. After running through the gauntlet of 3DMark and content creation tests, among others, the quad core CPU boasts impressive performance results, particularly in video and 3D tests. According to the article, video creators and 3D animation artists should probably start saving up.

From the article:
You can think of the QX6700 Quad as a pair of Core 2 E6700 dies built into one CPU package. The clock frequency and front-side-bus speed are the same. Both dies each have 4MB of L2 cache. The L2 cache is shared between the two cores on the same die, but not shared across dies. This really is very much a repeat of the original Intel Smithfield CPU, which paired two Pentium 4 dies into a single package and dubbed it a dual-core CPU.

CPU architects, marketers, and users can argue whether or not Kentsfield is a “true” quad core, but from the perspective of motherboards and software, it’s a quad-core CPU. You can even install Windows XP Home Edition, which only “sees” a single CPU socket, on a system with a QX6700, though that would be something of a waste.

Would like to work at Google India? Just participate in competition

There is absolutely no prerequisite, except, you win a writing competition to work at Google India.

If you have a clear, concise style and can use words to inform and persuade consumers, Google would like to hear from you. Google is looking for exceptional individuals to join the Google team in India, and organising a contest the Google Wordmasters Challenge to find and reward India’s best writers.

The contest will be judged by a panel of respected professional writers.

And hurry. The contest is open only to the first 300 participants, so the sooner you enter, the better. The deadline for entries is 25th September 2006.

More info @ Google website

Windows XP or 2003: Howto Add Copy To and Move To to Windows Explorer

For some reason, Microsoft decided not to activate the Copy To and Move To menu items in Windows XP Explorer as they did for Send To. This Microsoft Windows Registry hack adds Copy To and Move To to the right-click context menu of Windows Explorer.

Adding Copy To and Move To functionality to the Windows Explorer right-click menu starts with the finding the key in the Windows Registry file.

Dell Dimension E521 AMD based desktop computer system

Great news, finally Dell started to roll out new AMD based system.

Dell today announced four new desktop computers with choices of sizes, processors and graphics that help make it easier for customers to personalize PCs for specific needs ranging from entertainment to office applications.

Check out Dimension E521-specific: AMD SempronTM , AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor options; six USB ports, and three slots (one x16 PCIe, one x1 PCIe and one PCI)

Dimension C521 are available worldwide starting tomorrow with one-year limited warranty2 and service support, priced at $719, $329 and $359 respectively.

More info @ Dell website…

Five Habits of Highly Profitable Software Developers

This article illustrates five habits of software development teams that make them more effective and therefore more profitable.

FTA “Software developers who have the ability to create and maintain quality software in a team environment are in high demand in today’s technology-driven economy. The number one challenge facing developers working in a team environment is reading and understanding software written by another developer. This article strives to help software development teams overcome this challenge…If you follow these five habits, it will help development teams create software that everyone on the team can read, understand, and modify. When software development teams create new value too quickly and without consideration for the future, they tend to create software with increasingly high implementation costs…”