Let’s face it. Virtualization is everywhere in businesses today. There probably isn’t an IT admin out there that doesn’t swear by it. The sheer number of benefits it adds to the IT departments with its reduced resources, better energy savings, easier administration, etc. It’s also nothing new really. It’s been around for quite some time now, but it has usually been limited to the IT departments, developers, system testers, or the other elite geeks. It hasn’t really been a product for mass consumption – until now very soon. Anyone who hasn’t been hiding under a rock for the past few weeks has probably heard about Microsoft’s new OS, Windows 7, and how it’s incorporated a built-in Windows XP virtualization. It[…]
Tag: Windows 7
I’ve been playing with Windows 7 Beta since its official release. As most have expected, it really is much like the current Vista. But I’ve noticed enough tweaks to be inspired. It can really be looked at as like the jump from Win98 to Win98 2nd Ed. It definitely improves over Vista, and so far, every way is better (at least to me). There are quite a few GUI and UI changes, but I’m not going to get into those. What I’ve focused on so far is tracking down any and all security related items that seemed to irk me in Vista. One of the first things I checked out was UAC. They changed it slightly but mostly just to[…]