Goodbye Vienna Hello Windows 7.

 

Hello world!

Or that’s what Microsoft should be saying, as we all know Bill Gates is planning to reveal next year "2010" HA HA ! Some people say the so called Windows 7 is just an remake of Vista (spit), now Microsoft is taking the piss and admitted that Vista (spit) is just a prototype of OS7,(So all you dumb ass’s that paid for Vista (spit) got ripped off, because a prototype is known in IT as a beta (testing copy) so go and get your money back NOW) all though OS7 boots up like Media centre and basically behaves just like it. It looks like Vista (spit) and has its explorer.exe and we don’t know yet about wether they are keeping the network settings and we hope NOT! This OS7 dose look good and sounds OK but I can see it having a heavy dependency on memory, HDD, and cache, just like its predecessors. It will have a streamlined Kernel (NT), an inbuilt virtualisation server for the support of older programs and is also an X86 platform so in other words it runs on all 32 bit processors and it will be compatible to run on Memory sticks also known as Flash cards, sticks and dongles. Personally I am quite interested on finding out more information on this OS and in the mean time you can find out more on it at his site OS News and here Think Next and I have a little video on the fabulous Windows 7, so if you would like any other information on it just drop me a line.

YouTube – Windows 7
  

Second Video too Windows OS 7

This is the second video talked about above in the blog Goodbye Vienna hello Windows  7, I hope you like then and if you want more you know what to do, you notice how much it resembles Media centre!!

YouTube – Windows 7
 

Switchless Installers

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Ryan VM Addon’s, switchless installers, don’t ya just love em? well I don’t know about you but I find them wonderful to download, but when you want to make your own you just want to be lazy. AutoIT is great to start with but you could do with a more advanced script like C++, so that’s where WPI comes in this is a great tool if all you want is a quick install of additional programs on your new OS (Operation System). WPI is a CAB tool, Reg to INF,multiple programing languages,  portable install wizard with many more additional functions.  Give it a go and if you com up with any more good ideas let me know, I’m sure that out there is some great ideas about Linux installations. I would like to know if there are any comments on SLAX!!! Same as Ryan but for Linux and mainly for portable versions, Check it out!

 
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Deployment

I’ve been looking at some new software for deploying applications, though the depth of the extent out there! its crazy to think there to be one for everyone! Any how I was in the middle of changing the default config.XML file of Office 07 to create an unattended install (and yes the old /admin tools (Office custom Install Wizard) are now on the disk , so you don’t have to download them any more), you can still use them though out the Microsoft Office applications and you can find a copy of them in my Sky Drive Public folder. Along the way I found this great Package studio called "Wise" which lets you not only deploy App’s but all kinds of software in clouding OS’s and is suitable for small businesses managing 500 terminals, I’ve only managed to get my hands on the version 5.50 because of the high amount of frauds and viruses out there and is also available in my Sky Drive Public folders. Wise Studio is allot like Microsoft Visual Studio but uses high end management consoles that require console security policies, If you want to know any thing further about integrating Office of parts of these to the unattended installs of windows drop me a line or just pop over to the MSFN forums  and there is thousands to explore and excite you, best of luck .

Deploying Office 07 /admin tools with

Customisation tool                                              Wise Deployment Studio 5.50

Intergarating OS

There are a number of important things in the world today and while
Windows XP does have a lot of interesting stuff to it, there are
certainly other things that it could benefit from having as well.  For
example, there are a number of different things that can be
incorporated into the Windows XP install CD through the use of this
addon pack.  It was a pack created by Ryan VanderMeulen and it includes
a number of useful addons that people interested in getting additional
functionality out of Windows XP might want to take a close look at.

Some of these include:

• Shell extensions for the copy to and move to functions that are available in file manipulation;
• HashTab 1.9; a specific program that increases the functionality of Windows XP;
• Microsoft Calculator Plus 1.0; a replacement for the calculator
  file that normally comes with Windows XP and an upgrade in terms of
  what you can actually do with the calculator itself;
• MS HighMAT CD Writing wizard;
• MS Make Cab;
• An extension to the font properties and the OpenType fonts that come already with Windows XP;
• A remote desktop client; something that is lacking in the original Windows XP install.