Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - US$80.99

Windows 7 Home Premium offers the best entertainment experience on your PC, making the things you do every day easier. With fewer clicks, faster searching, easier browsing, and simpler ways to connect, there's less between you and what you want to do. Windows 7 is designed to improve the performance of your PC, so it's faster, more secure, and more reliable. PCs with Windows 7 simply work the way you want them to work.
1. This product includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for a single computer
2. 90 days of Microsoft Support Services
3. Simplify everyday tasks by finding something instantly, comparing documents side-by-side, or opening your favorite file in just two clicks
4. Enjoy a PC that works the way you want it to with better support for today’s technologies, like 64-bit PC hardware and memory
5. Watch Internet TV; pause, rewind, and record TV, movies, and other video content; or use Touch to interact with your PC in new ways
6. Use Windows Media Player to stream music files on any network-connected device
7. Pin any program to the taskbar and rearrange the icons on the taskbar just by clicking and dragging
8. Easily change backgrounds, window colors, and sounds to reflect your personal style
9. Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC, from documents to emails to songs, right from the Start menu, just by typing a word or two, with Windows Search
10. Use HomeGroup to connect all your PCs running Windows 7 to a single printer

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Required Processor 
1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor 
Required Memory 
1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit) 
Required Hard Disk Space 
16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit); for the download version, an additional 3 GB is required 
Required Media Drive 
DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive 
Required Connectivity 
Internet access (fees may apply) 
Required Sound Card 
Music and sound require audio output 
Required Video Card 
DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or later driver 
Additional System Requirements 
Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.
Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. 
Other System Requirements 
Additional requirements to use certain features: Internet access (fees may apply). Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. For some Windows Media Center functionality, a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required. Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware. HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7. DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive. Music and sound require audio output. Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware. 


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Why enterprises will skip Windows 8

Enterprise IT had a good business case for moving off the nearly decade old Windows XP operating system and onto the more modern Windows 7.

Windows 8 is shaping up to be a different story.

The world doesn’t know much about Windows 8 right now, but one thing is clear: The transition from Windows’ traditional desktop user interface (UI) to the new, touch-based Metro UI will make for a rocky transition. Fresh from a Windows 7 upgrade that has moved corporate Windows desktops into the current decade, IT is likely skip Windows 8, even if consumers embrace it.

The effect of even small changes to the desktop UI in enterprise adoption can’t be overstated. Vista introduced moderate changes to the UI that forced a jarring adjustment upon some enterprise users. For example, the new File Explorer, with its concept of libraries, was lost on many workers. Other changes that might seem subtle to more sophisticated information workers, such as the new taskbar, also confused. Paul Shane, IT director at the Philadelphia office of Milliman Inc., said that as he rolled out Windows 7 in the enterprise last year, many users even had trouble navigating the new Start menu. “If it’s not a shortcut on the desktop, they’re in trouble,” he said. Vista had other issues, of course, and IT waited for Microsoft to get it right with Windows 7 before moving forward.

Windows 8 will be far more challenging. Metro grafts a consumer-focused touch-screen user interface that was originally designed for devices running its mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 (devices to which the user can’t practically attach a mouse and keyboard) onto the traditional information worker’s laptop or desktop with its much larger, vertically oriented screen.

Windows 8 is a complete re-engineering of the desktop user interface. Gone is the desktop metaphor, replaced by a “personal mosaic of tiles” similar to the UI of the Windows Phone 7 OS.

This “touch-first” Windows 8 and its Metro UI may be designed to be used with a mouse and keyboard as well as touch, but it’s still not going to be an easy adjustment for enterprise users. It will be like walking into a different house, with a completely different floor plan and décor.

Split personality

Yes, the operating system will let users step down into a “Windows 7 mode” to run their legacy Windows applications, but users will be forced to work in both interfaces, and running two Windows personalities side by side is bound to confuse. Why? Because the two UIs have some very different ways of doing things.

For example, Windows 8 changes how the file system works. In the new file system model data files are associated with applications and can only be manipulated from within applications. Meanwhile, in Windows 7 mode things will operate as they always did.

Choosing Windows 8 will force users to live in a dual-UI world for an extended period of time, as both enterprise and commercial applications will need to be completely rewritten to support HTML 5 and Javascript in order to move into the Metro world. That transition is likely to take many, many years.

Transition pain. Questionable gain.

No doubt IT will be asking why enterprise desktops and laptops need touch right now. With HP’s TouchSmart, its all-in-one touch-screen desktop PC, many of the aspects of touch-screen technology that make it compelling on hand-held tablets and smart phones go unused – and it can be clunky to interact with a large, upright touch-screen monitor. Touch is instead most commonly used only as what Ken Bosley at HP calls “an absolute pointing device,” an alternative way to push a button or select an item on screen.

“Nobody is going to sit down and spend an hour updating a spreadsheet with touch. That's not what it's good for,” said Bosley, product manager for HP’s consumer Desktop Global Business, during a conversation we had aboutemerging touch-screen display technology last year. “Even with web surfing you'll probably type in the URL on the keyboard. But following links you use touch. It's used for very quick types of interactions…to start a DVD or something,” he said.

The TouchSmart is geared toward and sells mostly to consumers.

Windows 8 also wants a wide screen display with a 16 x 9 aspect ratio at 1366 x 768 pixels. A 1024 x 768 or higher display will still work, but not optimally.

Most enterprises don’t change out monitors every time they upgrade or replace personal computers. And to take full advantage of Windows 8, IT will need to buy multi-touch screens –- either integrated, as with the TouchSmart, or separately. And touch screen technology, says HP’s Bosley, adds about $150 to the total cost of a PC purchase.

In evaluating Windows 8, the question IT needs to ask is this: For the extra cost in hardware and training, and the likely disruption, what value will Windows 8 bring to the enterprise user? In the short term, the answer so far looks to be “not too much.”

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http://blogs.computerworld.com/18634/why_enterprises_will_skip_windows_8?source=rss_blogs

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Slipstream Microsoft Office 2010 With Service Pack 1

Like many of you, I'm always wiping out my PCs and reinstalling from scratch. So anything that can save a bit of time is greatly appreciated. And slipstreaming falls neatly into this category: It's a way by which you can combine a software product like Windows or Office with the contents of a service pack, so that you only need to install it once, and not install each component separately. Slipstreaming can be a great time saver overall: Even though it requires you to waste a bit of time up front, it then saves time repeatedly going forward.

Looking back over the 13-year history of this site, few articles were as popular and long-lived as my series on slipstreaming Windows XP with each of its service packs. And with the releases of Windows Vista and then Windows 7, I was asked hundreds of times when or if I'd be making similar guides for those OSes. Unfortunately, Microsoft promised and then reneged on a simpler and faster scheme for slipstreaming Windows in recent years, and now it's basically no longer feasible.

But Office, fortunately, still retains this capability. In fact, it works exactly like the promised new slipstreaming capability that never happened with Windows Vista. And with the release of Office 2010 SP1 this past week, it's time to take a look at slipstreaming that update package right into the base Office 2010 install files. That way, all future installs of Office 2010 will include the SP1 updates too.

What you need

To perform this feat, you will of course need the Microsoft Office 2010 installation media, which I personally copy the contents of to a network location. You will also need two Service Pack 1 "packages", since there are separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions of SP1. These packages can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site using the following links:

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 32-Bit
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 64-Bit

(Why do you need both? The Office 2010 Setup media includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the suite, and while most people--even those using 64-bit versions of Windows--will want to install the 32-bit version, it's a good idea to update everything just in case.)

How to do it

If your Office 2010 install media is still, well, media-based--that is, it's on a disc--you'll want to copy its contents to your PC. So create a folder in the root of C: called DVD (C:\DVD) and copy the contents of the DVD to that folder.

Next, you need to extract the contents of the Office 2010 SP1 file packages. We'll start with the 32-bit version.

Create a folder in the root of C: called SP1 (C:\SP1), and then copy or move the SP1 file package to the root of C:\. Then, open a command line window (Start Menu Search, cmd) and enter the following command:

c:\officesuite2010sp1-kb2460049-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\sp1

A User Account Control (UAC) dialog will appear (click Yes) and then the Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) window.

Accept the license terms and then click Continue. The files will extract and then you'll be told that the extraction is complete. It happens pretty quickly.

Next, move the contents of the SP1 folder (not the SP1 folder itself; everything inside) to C:\DVD\x86\Updates.

Now, repeat the above steps for the 64-bit file package, using a slightly different command line:

c:\officesuite2010sp1-kb2460049-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\sp1

As before, you'll have to deal with the UAC prompt, accept the license, and click Continue. Once the files are extracted, move the contents of the SP1 folder (not the SP1 folder itself; everything inside) to C:\DVD\x64\Updates.

Now, close the command line window. (You can type exit in the window to do this.) Delete C:\SP1, which should be empty, and the two Office 2010 SP1 file packages. Then, move the C:\DVD folder somewhere on your home network (and rename it to something like "Office 2010 with SP1") if that's how you intend to install it later. Or, you can copy the contents of the C:\DVD folder (and not the DVD folder itself) to a DVD and use the built-in Windows 7 disc burning functionality to burn it to a new Setup disc.

Original Source: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/office/slipstream-office-2010-service-pack-1-139664

Microsoft makes 22 patches to software

Microsoft fixed 22 bugs in its software yesterday and closed several important security holes , including a critical flaw in Bluetooth.

According to the Vole, three of the patches fix problems in Windows The four bulletins patched issues in all versions of the Windows operating system and in Microsoft Visio 2003 Service Pack 3. Only one has been rated "critical." The remaining three are just "important."

Microsoft bulletin MS11-053, which addressed a critical vulnerability in the Windows Bluetooth stack on Windows Vista and Windows 7, is being seen as particularly important. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability by crafting and sending specially crafted Bluetooth packets to the target system to remotely take control.

The problem is how an object in memory is accessed when it has not been correctly started or if it has been deleted. Attackers can use this flaw to crash the system, install programs, access data and create new user accounts.

It is unlikely to be used much. The attacker would have to be within Bluetooth range to use it. However those who use gear in public spaces, such as airports, could be at risk.

The Bluetooth bug is a kernel-level problem and gives attackers "complete system access."

The second priority patch addresses an "important" DLL-preloading issue in Visio 2003 Service Pack 3. This has been around since August 2010 and Microsoft has been busy trying to fix it with lots of different patches. It only affects those who use Visio in the enterprise although users could be at risk for remote code execution attacks on the unpatched machines.

Microsoft fixed 15 vulnerabilities in Windows kernel-mode drives. These would appear to be important but in reality the attacker has to already have access to the target system before these bugs can be exploited

Microsoft Office Outlook 2010

All of the products we offer in our catalog are full, retail versions that come with a genuine license key. You will be able register the license key online, as well as download updates. You can verify the authenticity of any key with the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool. In the rare instance that a key doesn't pass validation, we will immediately issue you a refund.

Help me decide

• Manage multiple email accounts from one place
• Easily manage large volumes of email
• Customize common tasks into single-click commands
• Make scheduling a breeze
• Easily find what you?re looking for
• Stay connected to your social and business networks
• Receive voice mail transcripts in your Inbox
• Initiate live conversations from Outlook
• Great for small business

System Requirements

Processor Required

500 MHz processor or higher

Memory Required

512 MB of RAM recommended for accessing Outlook data files larger than 1 GB

Hard disk

2 GB available disk space

Media drive

DVD or CD-ROM

Display

1024 x 576 or higher resolution monitor

Operating system

Windows 7, Windows Vista with SP1, Windows XP (must have?SP3) (32-bit), Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0, or later

Other

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 is the earliest version for using Exchange Server with Outlook 2010. ?
Certain inking features require running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later; speech-recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device; Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services. ?
Connectivity to Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Connectivity to Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality. ?
Internet Explorer 6 or later, 32-bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees might apply). ?
Actual requirements and product functionality might vary based on the system configuration and operating system. ?
Grammar and contextual spelling in Outlook is not turned on unless the computer has 1 GB memory. ?
This product includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for a single computer. We recommend the 32-bit version, which runs great on both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows. People who routinely use very large documents or spreadsheets that need more than 2 GB of memory may want to run the 64-bit version, but many common add-ins for Office don't run correctly in the 64-bit edition.

Product Overview

• Synchronize multiple email accounts from services such as Hotmail, Gmail, or just about any other provider to Outlook 2010
• Improved connectivity with Microsoft Exchange Server supports the use and management of multiple Exchange Server email accounts in one location
• New conversation-management tools enable you to save valuable inbox space by turning dozens of email messages into just a few conversations using the new Clean Up feature
• Save time by creating and defining multistep tasks that you can execute with a single click, including reply and delete, move to a specific folder, create and send a new email message to an assigned group, and more
• Conveniently and efficiently schedule appointments, share your calendar, and manage your schedule
• Grab your readers' attention by using compelling visuals such as prebuilt SmartArt graphics, Office themes, and Styles
• Enhanced Search Tools provide you with ways to quickly find and manage large quantities of email, calendar items, tasks, and contacts
• Use Outlook Social Connector to quickly view the history of email messages, meetings, or attachments you receive
• Get additional information about people, such as mutual connections and other social information, through SharePoint My Site, Windows Live, or other popular third-party sites, to stay on top of your business and social circles

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How to Save Money to Upgrade PC Software

Recently I calculate the money of software I paid. It is an amazing number - Over 1,000 US$. Once new software comes out, if we need to upgrade it, we must pay much for it. So I need to take consideration of this and cut the cost. 

Later this month I'll be canceling my subscription to a leading security suite that runs on two of my home-office PCs. I'll replace it with Microsoft's free Security Essentials, which I've been using on my notebook since I bought it two years ago. I realized several months ago that I simply no longer needed to spend money for the convenience of an all-in-one security app.

That got me thinking: Is there any software that the average PC user needs to pay for? Most of us bought our current operating system--usually Windows 7 or Mac OS X--as part of the purchase of the computer itself. Do-it-yourselfers have Linux as a free-OS alternative.

The programs we use for work, such as Microsoft Office 2010 and specialty apps like Adobe Photoshop or Intuit'sQuicken/QuickBooks accounting software, are likely provided by our employer. (People who work from home and/or for themselves have to buy their own software, but they can at least write off the cost of the programs they use in their work.)

What about all those commercial security suites and system utilities? I search online and found that there are some product keys sold from some online store that is cheap. So I try one and it is successful. Perfect!! 

Excluding Mac OS X Snow Leopard (number 8 on the list) and two Windows 7 Home Premium upgrades (standard and three-user family pack at 10 and 11, respectively), only two titles on Amazon's top 20 have no free equivalent that I'm aware of: Honest Technology's VHS to DVD Deluxe, which tops the Amazon list, and Nuance Communications' Dragon Naturally Speaking, which comes in at number 18.

Here's a rundown of Amazon's top-selling programs and their free counterparts.

It's no surprise that Microsoft Office 2010 takes four of the top 20 spots on software-sales list: Office 2010 Home & Student is number 2, Office 2010 Home & Business is 12th, Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student Family Pack is 13th, and Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student 1 Pack comes in 17th.

Now each time I will go to the retail store to looking for the discount suites. So I can save money without pay more on the Microsoft Store. My favorite site is www.Softwaretake.com!!

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate - Only US$129.60

Windows 7 Ultimate is designed for people who want it all. It gives you everything Home Premium and Professional offers, plus added security features and the flexibility to work in multiple languages. Create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch TV programs for free, whenever and wherever you want.

• 1. This product includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for a single computer.
• 2. 90 days of Microsoft Support Services
• 3. Simplify everyday tasks by finding something instantly, comparing documents side-by-side, or opening your favorite file in just two clicks
• 4. Watch Internet TV; pause, rewind, and record TV, movies, and other video content; or use Touch to interact with your PC in new ways
• 5. Use BitLocker and BitLocker To Go to better protect your valuable files, even on removable drives such as USB devices
• 6. Access corporate resources seamlessly when you're on the Internet, without having to initiate a VPN connection*
• 7. Switch among any of 35 languages as easily as logging off and back on again
• 8. Back up your files to an external hard drive, secondary hard drive, writable CD or DVD, or to a network location
• 9. Take advantage of the powerful diagnostics and troubleshooters built into Action Center to resolve many computer problems on your own
• 10. Run many existing productivity and business programs designed for Windows XP—if not pre-installed, it can be downloaded free from Microsoft

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Required Processor
1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
Required Memory
1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit) 
Required Hard Disk Space
16GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit). For the download version, an additional 3GB is required. 
Required Media Drive
DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive 
Required Connectivity
Internet access (fees may apply)
Required Sound Card
Music and sound require audio output
Required Video Card
DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or later driver.
Additional System Requirements
Windows XP mode requires at least 2 GB of RAM (32-bit)/3 GB RAM (64-bit) and 15 GB of available disk space. 
Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.
Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. 
Other System Requirements
Additional requirements to use certain features: Internet access (fees may apply). Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. For some Windows Media Center functionality, a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required. Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware. HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7. DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive. Music and sound require audio output. Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.