Windows XP looks too tough to die


XP Mode consists of the Virtual PC-based virtual environment and a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). It will be made available, for free, to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions via a download from the Microsoft web site

Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 [SuperSite Blog]

For a long, long time Microsoft tried to push Windows Vista to end-users as a replacement for Windows XP, a strategy that failed in many ways: users often "downgraded" to XP, many companies and retail vendors chosen not to upgrade (forcing the extension of XP’s lifecycle) and, in the end, Microsoft was forced to accelerate the development of Vista’s successor: Windows 7 (allegedly a Vista without all the “bloatware”). It seems Microsoft, in a classic case of “if you can’t beat them, join them”, has gone one step beyond with Windows 7: instead of trying to kill XP, there will be an option to run applications in XPM (xp mode), which is nothing more than an instance of Windows XP running in a virtual machine

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Looks like Windows XP is too tough to die…

 

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Windows Update wants to be Apt-get when it grows up

Download Squad listed three Linux applications that “make us hate Windows”: Apt-get (and its graphical interface Synaptic), Compiz Fusion and Amarok.

Compiz Fusion adds Vista and OSX “like” eye-candy to Linux, even in my old laptop, and it’s one of the reasons why current distributions are more appealing in recent years. Amarok is a really neat media player, probably is the best way to sync an iPod in Linux and the next version seems to be quite promising. So both of these tools are great but neither of them makes me feel like I need them everywhere, on every computer I lay my hands on.

But if there’s one thing anyone who uses a Debian based distribution just can’t live without is Apt-get, a better Windows Update that manages the updates of virtually all the installed packages, not only from OS and selected tools (Internet Explorer, Office, etc…), and hardly requires a reboot to apply them (usually only a new kernel requires a reboot).

3 Linux Apps That Make Me Hate Windows [Download Squad]


Control Windows Services with Launchy

I’ve been a long-time fan of Launchy, and most of the other application launchers out there, for some time. And now I found out another good use for this neat little tool:

Launchy Utility: Easily start, stop, and restart Windows services [labs.atellis.com]

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