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Windows 7 Beta is Out and it Rocks! |
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Written by Joe Shonk
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
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In case you haven't heard, the Beta for Windows 7 is now available on TechNet and MSDN for download. It will be made available for everyone else on January 9th. So far, the Beta has been working great under VMware Fusion with 1 gig Ram. Microsoft even fixed my worst pet-peeve with Vista. That is, when you open up Explorer, the folder's pane no longer ping pongs around. (Sure the UAC was very annoying, but at least you could turn it off!) Also, I have been choosen as a moderator of the Microsoft Win7Beta forums so you'll find me hiding over there. One interesting note for the virualization junkies out there. Windows 7 supports boot from .VHD file WITHOUT the need for a hypervisor. This is huge step in client side virtualization and management. Eventually, You'll be able to use a tool like Citrix's Provision Server to PXE boot your workstation(this part you can do now) and provide an offline version for laptops. This one .VHD image could be used to run Windows 7 on: - Raw Hardware on the Client
- Type 1 Hypervisor on the Client
- Type 2 Hypervisor on the Client
- Streamed to the Raw Hardware/Hypervisor on the client
- Raw Hardware delivered Remotely
- Type 1 Hypervisor delivered Remotely
- Type 2 Hypervisor delivered Remotely
- Streamed to the Raw Hardware/Hypervisor delivered Remotely
Lots of possibilities! Joe
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