Microsoft: Windows 7 and Office 2010 Thread
anyone figured out how to keep the RC going?
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you never read the EULA!?!?!?yeah I taught myself that trick cause I had a similar problem in which I couldn't tell the difference between ultimate and pro ISOs.
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Thank you
Eff you.
I just filled that job slot I was holding for you. With an untrained monkey.
I just filled that job slot I was holding for you. With an untrained monkey.
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A) It does indeed upload your file to YouTube in Windows Media format so YouTube has to do a codec conversion.
B) WLMM upscales your source video to 1280x720 without giving you any choice in the matter so you lose a good amount of sharpness there.
C) In converting to 1280x720, WLMM adds pillarboxing bars to your video. YouTube explicitly states this is a no-no since its player will add the pillarboxing bars if needed as a function of the player not by trying to add the bars into your source video.
I'd normally only consider working with video on my Mac but the stuff I want to edit and post to YouTube are game videos captured with Fraps. As far as I've been able to tell there is no Fraps codec for the Mac.
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OK, after running another test I've officially determined that the current incarnation of Windows Live Movie maker is complete sh!t for publishing to YouTube.
A) It does indeed upload your file to YouTube in Windows Media format so YouTube has to do a codec conversion.
B) WLMM upscales your source video to 1280x720 without giving you any choice in the matter so you lose a good amount of sharpness there.
C) In converting to 1280x720, WLMM adds pillarboxing bars to your video. YouTube explicitly states this is a no-no since its player will add the pillarboxing bars if needed as a function of the player not by trying to add the bars into your source video.
I'd normally only consider working with video on my Mac but the stuff I want to edit and post to YouTube are game videos captured with Fraps. As far as I've been able to tell there is no Fraps codec for the Mac.
A) It does indeed upload your file to YouTube in Windows Media format so YouTube has to do a codec conversion.
B) WLMM upscales your source video to 1280x720 without giving you any choice in the matter so you lose a good amount of sharpness there.
C) In converting to 1280x720, WLMM adds pillarboxing bars to your video. YouTube explicitly states this is a no-no since its player will add the pillarboxing bars if needed as a function of the player not by trying to add the bars into your source video.
I'd normally only consider working with video on my Mac but the stuff I want to edit and post to YouTube are game videos captured with Fraps. As far as I've been able to tell there is no Fraps codec for the Mac.
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The problem with the Mac was that it didn't have support for videos created with Fraps. In case you didn't know, Fraps has it's own codec so when you install it on your Windows machine, you get support for Fraps videos in everything. Media Player, Live Movie Maker, etc...
The problem on the Mac side was there was no Fraps codec available for OS X. Or so I thought. What I totally forgot about was that I had this installed. And low and behold...what do you think is one of the formats it supports?
http://perian.org/
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Here's a cool piece of software designed for Windows 7. It's called GeoSense, it's not really an application but a driver.
Right now only the weather gadget is location aware but hopefully this will get installed by OEMs and create a user base for developers to create location aware apps for. That is until GPS becomes standard on laptops
www.geosenseforwindows.com
after you install it type in "location" in the start search bar and open the location and other sensor control panel and enable the geosense sensor. After that it should work.
What does Geosense do?
Geosense is a Windows Sensor that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.
Although not required, it works best on computers with a WiFi adapter.
How does it work?
We employ thousands of pigeons around the world to stalk our users with the promise of breadcrumbs.
No, seriously, Geosense is designed to use a hybrid mix of geolocation service providers and geolocation methods to pinpoint the most accurate location information possible - including but not limited to WiFi triangulation, cell tower triangulation and IP lookup.
Currently supports:
Google Location Services (WiFi)
Google Location Services (IP)
Under consideration:
Google Location Services (Cell)
Skyhook Wireless (WiFi)
Quova (WiFi)
Navizon (WiFi)
Why is it free?
We are neither hippies or rich but we want to help kickstart a pool of cool location-based or location-enhanced applications on Windows 7. We believe this is an adequate solution until PC vendors integrate hardware GPS sensors into Windows 7 PCs.
If you're a Windows 7 PC OEM and would like to integrate Geosense in your solutions, please contact us.
Geosense is a Windows Sensor that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.
Although not required, it works best on computers with a WiFi adapter.
How does it work?
We employ thousands of pigeons around the world to stalk our users with the promise of breadcrumbs.
No, seriously, Geosense is designed to use a hybrid mix of geolocation service providers and geolocation methods to pinpoint the most accurate location information possible - including but not limited to WiFi triangulation, cell tower triangulation and IP lookup.
Currently supports:
Google Location Services (WiFi)
Google Location Services (IP)
Under consideration:
Google Location Services (Cell)
Skyhook Wireless (WiFi)
Quova (WiFi)
Navizon (WiFi)
Why is it free?
We are neither hippies or rich but we want to help kickstart a pool of cool location-based or location-enhanced applications on Windows 7. We believe this is an adequate solution until PC vendors integrate hardware GPS sensors into Windows 7 PCs.
If you're a Windows 7 PC OEM and would like to integrate Geosense in your solutions, please contact us.
www.geosenseforwindows.com
after you install it type in "location" in the start search bar and open the location and other sensor control panel and enable the geosense sensor. After that it should work.
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I got GeoSense working on the Acer laptop and first it didn't work but now it started working and it works great. There's a google map demo you can download from the geosense website and it was pretty close. It said I was across the street at the neighbors house but that's still pretty good. On my desktop though it was way the fuck off (same external IP address too), it thinks I'm in Sarasota which is of 50 miles south of me. Odd that on the same home network I get entirely different results. I guess Google has my location due to my wifi network? I guess it's pretty popular.
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I got GeoSense working on the Acer laptop and first it didn't work but now it started working and it works great. There's a google map demo you can download from the geosense website and it was pretty close. It said I was across the street at the neighbors house but that's still pretty good. On my desktop though it was way the fuck off (same external IP address too), it thinks I'm in Sarasota which is of 50 miles south of me. Odd that on the same home network I get entirely different results. I guess Google has my location due to my wifi network? I guess it's pretty popular.
Yup! It was in Vista too but the improved it a good bit and made it look a little more like stickies in the 7 version.
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Office 2010 is set to RTM next month and it will be available to businesses on May 12 (I believe that means Volume License and SLA) and to Consumers on June 15th.
Also MS is offering a Technology Guarantee which is similar to what they offered to customer who bought a PC with Vista on it just before Windows 7 came out. If you buy a copy of Office 2k7 or a new PC w 2k7 between Mar 5th and Sept 30th you can upgrade to the 2010 version of your 2k7 edition for free. So if you buy 2k7 Home and student you'll get the home and student 2010 when it comes out by going to www.office.com/techg
2k7 Home and Student = 2010 H&S
2k7 Standard = 2010 Home & Business
2k7 Small Business = 2010 Pro
2k7 Pro = 2010 Pro
2k7 Ultimate = 2010 Pro
Also MS is offering a Technology Guarantee which is similar to what they offered to customer who bought a PC with Vista on it just before Windows 7 came out. If you buy a copy of Office 2k7 or a new PC w 2k7 between Mar 5th and Sept 30th you can upgrade to the 2010 version of your 2k7 edition for free. So if you buy 2k7 Home and student you'll get the home and student 2010 when it comes out by going to www.office.com/techg
2k7 Home and Student = 2010 H&S
2k7 Standard = 2010 Home & Business
2k7 Small Business = 2010 Pro
2k7 Pro = 2010 Pro
2k7 Ultimate = 2010 Pro
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Re: Geosense
Actually Win7 has location features built in (which is turned off by default on most pcs):
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...s/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...36(VS.85).aspx
Although, at the moment, the wifi beacons it is able to locate on are nothing close to SkyHook (one of the ones geosense is using).
Actually Win7 has location features built in (which is turned off by default on most pcs):
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...s/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...36(VS.85).aspx
Although, at the moment, the wifi beacons it is able to locate on are nothing close to SkyHook (one of the ones geosense is using).
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Stunna, got a link for the O2K10 release news? I want to take it to the boss for planning purposes. We have a batch of 30 machines coming in sometime in April and I'd like to hold off deployment for O2K10 if I can.
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Re: Geosense
Actually Win7 has location features built in (which is turned off by default on most pcs):
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...s/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...36(VS.85).aspx
Although, at the moment, the wifi beacons it is able to locate on are nothing close to SkyHook (one of the ones geosense is using).
Actually Win7 has location features built in (which is turned off by default on most pcs):
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...s/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...36(VS.85).aspx
Although, at the moment, the wifi beacons it is able to locate on are nothing close to SkyHook (one of the ones geosense is using).
If you look in the locations and sensors control panel after installing Geosense you'll only see one sensor. In fact I don't think you will see locations and sensors in the control panel until you have one installed. I can't check though cause I have geosense installed on all my W7 PCs.
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Office 2010 is set to RTM next month and it will be available to businesses on May 12 (I believe that means Volume License and SLA) and to Consumers on June 15th.
Also MS is offering a Technology Guarantee which is similar to what they offered to customer who bought a PC with Vista on it just before Windows 7 came out. If you buy a copy of Office 2k7 or a new PC w 2k7 between Mar 5th and Sept 30th you can upgrade to the 2010 version of your 2k7 edition for free. So if you buy 2k7 Home and student you'll get the home and student 2010 when it comes out by going to www.office.com/techg
2k7 Home and Student = 2010 H&S
2k7 Standard = 2010 Home & Business
2k7 Small Business = 2010 Pro
2k7 Pro = 2010 Pro
2k7 Ultimate = 2010 Pro
Also MS is offering a Technology Guarantee which is similar to what they offered to customer who bought a PC with Vista on it just before Windows 7 came out. If you buy a copy of Office 2k7 or a new PC w 2k7 between Mar 5th and Sept 30th you can upgrade to the 2010 version of your 2k7 edition for free. So if you buy 2k7 Home and student you'll get the home and student 2010 when it comes out by going to www.office.com/techg
2k7 Home and Student = 2010 H&S
2k7 Standard = 2010 Home & Business
2k7 Small Business = 2010 Pro
2k7 Pro = 2010 Pro
2k7 Ultimate = 2010 Pro
would it be cheaper to buy the 2k7 version and get the free upgrade?
or just get the 2k10 version?
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ohh.. and stupid me, last time i didnt know what i was doing when i formatted to windows 7 RC, and therefore nearly having to wipe my iPhone because iTunes kept saying it was synced to another computer.
there is such a simple way to not have to deal with that..
there is such a simple way to not have to deal with that..
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I looked, I think 2k10 is cheaper to wait. On my bosses PC I setup I put the 2k10 beta on it so he can get used to that and then when RTM is available we'll upgrade the beta to that.
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Here's a neat utility that customizes the Windows 7 Taskbar Previews. This is nice for my big screen monitor. This is pretty much a simple way to change the registry settings.
http://kishan-bagaria.deviantart.com...izer-156609502
http://kishan-bagaria.deviantart.com...izer-156609502
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Good news from Microsoft today! They've dropped the requirement for virtualization support from XP mode so that it will run on any processor. Also SP1 of server 2008 r2 will have dynamic memory! So good news all around for me today. Cause I can use both of those!
There's some stuff about VMWare and a partnership with Citrix in the link below if you want to read it.
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/p...topVirtPR.mspx
• Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology. This change simplifies the experience by making virtualization more accessible to many more PCs for small and midsize businesses wanting to migrate to Windows 7 Professional or higher editions, while still running Windows XP-based productivity applications.
• Two new features coming in Windows Server 2008 R2 service pack 1. Microsoft Dynamic Memory will allow customers to adjust memory of a guest virtual machine on demand to maximize server hardware use. Microsoft RemoteFX will enable users of virtual desktops and applications to receive a rich 3-D, multimedia experience while accessing information remotely.
• Two new features coming in Windows Server 2008 R2 service pack 1. Microsoft Dynamic Memory will allow customers to adjust memory of a guest virtual machine on demand to maximize server hardware use. Microsoft RemoteFX will enable users of virtual desktops and applications to receive a rich 3-D, multimedia experience while accessing information remotely.
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/p...topVirtPR.mspx
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Win 7 SP1 Announced
Stunna You posted 2008 R2 SP1 but not Win 7
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/...5125/272413/0/
Stunna You posted 2008 R2 SP1 but not Win 7
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/...5125/272413/0/
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^that guy who wrote that article is an idiot. The schedule for SP1 release date has always been within a year of the general release of RTM. Never has MS ever said that it would be 22 months after 7 came out that they'd deliver SP1.
There's nothing in 7 SP1 just an updated RDP client to support RemoteFX. I was hoping for USB 3.0 support or SATA3g. I guess it already supports them cause they work with windows 7, sooo.....
Too mad native blu-ray playback isn't supported.
There's nothing in 7 SP1 just an updated RDP client to support RemoteFX. I was hoping for USB 3.0 support or SATA3g. I guess it already supports them cause they work with windows 7, sooo.....
Too mad native blu-ray playback isn't supported.