I’m sure when Microsoft recently announced “XP Mode” in Windows 7 for compatibilities sake, many a IT admin cried out in happiness and disbelief.  However, like many good things in life there are some nagging little strings that also are coming along for the ride.  The first string being that if you want compatibility mode you’re going to have to pony up for either Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, or Windows 7 Ultimate as those are the...

**The box bordered in red will no longer be an option on most flash drives after Window 7′s latest security update** Microsoft announced today a move to make it harder for viruses such as Conficker to piggy back on Windows’ auto-run feature when a flash drive is inserted.  Instead of the flash drive having access to auto-run features as soon as the drive is inserted, users will have to manually launch programs contained on the storage device.  However,...

I know that technology and the gadget world as a whole move at a pretty fast clip, but a new job posting by Microsoft brings a new meaning to the words “forward thinking”.  The job posting by Microsoft states: Are you a talented SDE/T Lead looking for the next technical challenge on a key operating system component? Are you passionate about distributed systems, networking, file systems and want to be the leader of a cutting edge project? Are you looking for a...

If you are of the category of users either publicly or self designated “heavy” you no doubt are familiar with and spend quite a bit of time with ISO files.  When said files are written to a CD/DVD, the user is usally installing or testing something large such as a big software program or even the latest Linux distro.  Until now in the Windows land burning such files meant you would have to head to Google and find either free or paid software that take care of...

IT departments are long known for not being on top of and grasping the latest in technology.  This fact is no surprise.  They like to take the careful and more reserved approach, instead waiting months to years before upgrading hundreds of computers’ operating systems as the effects of incompatibilities can be extremely costly and time consuming to fix bring production to a standstill and even putting the company out of business as a result of the shut down.  Now...