migration

So I bought win7 and got two links for 32-bit and 64-bit win7 installations. I downloaded the 32-bit version, installed it and activated, but now after two years I'm migrating to new hardware and I want to know proper procedure to successfully migrate windows activation key from one machine to...

I installed my copy of Windows 7 in the second partition of my HDD. I keep my Windows XP in my primary partition (long story short: I'm migrating to Windows 7 but I have a lifetime of work built on my XP system that I can't afford to lose. Thus, Win7 was installed on my system on a purely...

I regularly activate Windows Mail on Win-7 for myself and my customers who are used to Outlook Express 6 and like it. I know how to migrate the address book from OE6 to Windows Mail but I can't seem to find the actual EMail folders in Win-7, Windows Mail. In OE6 they are *.dbx files and are...

A large real-time service (KGW) with several user windows (one graphical under Java) is not compatible with session 0 screen output being removed (Session 0 Isolation) in Win7 (and Vista). Under XP the first user to logon would be assigned to session 0, and would inherit KGW’s status windows...

At this moment I have a dual boot system with 2 Windows 7 installations on 1 HDD. Windows 7 is on the C-drive and on the K-drive. There's also an E-drive voor data. These are all partitions of one HDD. I like to change my installation in a dual boot system divided over two seperate HDD's. I...

Using the User State Migration Tool (USMT) 4.0 to migrate from an x86 platform to an x64 platform, COM+ component settings will be corrupt. Note The issue does not happen when migrating from x86 to x86 or x64 to x64 platforms. Opening COMEXP.MSC or... More...

Enterprise IT had a good business case for moving off Windows XP and onto the more modern Windows 7, but Windows 8 is shaping up to be a different story Link Removed

This strange behavior occurs on the island of Hahajima, Japan, where birds known as Japanese white-eyes like to eat lots of tiny land snails. Read Full Story: Snails migrate by getting eaten by birds and pooped out somewhere else

Although enterprises are in the midst of migrating more machines to Microsoft's Windows 7, the aged Windows XP still accounts for nearly 6-in-10 PCs in corporations, according to a recent report by research firm Forrester. read more Link Removed

Although enterprises are in the midst of migrating more machines to Microsoft's Windows 7, the aged Windows XP still accounts for nearly 6 in 10 PCs in corporations, according to a recent report by research firm Forrester. Windows 7 powered nearly 21 percent of all business PCs used to reach...

Despite years of experience selling to businesses, Microsoft hasn't eliminated the application compatibility problem. read more Link Removed

Despite years of experience selling to businesses, Microsoft hasn't eliminated the application compatibility problem. Link Removed

Despite years of experience selling to businesses, Microsoft hasn't eliminated the application compatibility problem. Link Removed

In part two of this two-part series, Larry Waldman, Excel Program Manager, talks in detail about how to execute the migration of Excel client solutions to web-based Excel Services solutions. Larry walks through the migration of a sample Excel client application to its new incarnation as a...

Livingston, NY based House Party Inc. recently got together with Crain’s New York Business to discuss its migration to Windows 7. The company decided to make the switch in early 2010 when Microsoft contracted them to do a Windows 7 launch party and found that the biggest issue was the data...

Find out why Microsoft advocates a User Virtualisation approach to Windows 7 migration…and how this approach could reduce your migration cost and time by at least 30%. More...

Microsoft is holding its official launch of its cloud-hosted application suite, known as Office 365, on June 28. CEO Steve Ballmer will be on hand at the New York launch event, according to an invitation I received. (click on the image above to enlarge) June 28 also may be the date when the...