Finally it is known. Earliest date you can get Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2) will be August 6th. This date is for those fortunate enough to be MSDN or TechNet subscriber.
Mere mortals will need to wait until October 22nd.
[2009-07-22: Windows 7 has reached RTM status.]
Microsoft has shared his Hyper-V integration components with Linux community. That contribution to Linux Driver Project will make it possible to have integration between any Linux and Hyper-V that was previously reserved for Suse and RedHat.
In worst-case scenario this will enable other distributions to work faster while under Hyper-V.
You can see more details on Windows Virtualization Blog.
I do like Windows 7, but I still have few computers that for various issues (mostly driver availability) must work under Windows XP. Just to have fun, I decided to install Windows XP Media Center Edition this time.
Image of MCE is little bit bigger and it occupies two CDs. There is no DVD image so you are force to insert second one in appropriate moment. What came to me as surprise is that it requires Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 to be inserted as third disk.
First attempt was just to cancel that dialog and that left me with unusable operating system since half of programs went missing.
For second attempt I just took Service Pack 2 from Internet and gave it to installation. It worked until next file was required and that file could not be found. That left me puzzled since that file was on CD1. I gave him CD1 and OS was installed. When I tried to apply SP3, everything just froze.
In third attempt, when asked for SP2 CD, I just returned first disk back in. I was surprised that installation didn’t mind and everything was installed perfectly. Even subsequent installation of service pack 3 went without problems.
Why did this happen? My guess is that slip-streaming is to be blamed. On original disks, everything was arranged in proper order but when service pack was slip-streamed (MCE comes with SP2), all updated files were arranged on first disk. Nobody bothered to re-arrange it and that caused need to reuse CD1. Installation itself knew only that it needs SP2 files and nobody bothered to change prompt to something more useful like “Please insert first disk again”.
For those hungry of old style Starcraft players eMooseSC is casting eSports Heritage Classic games. For all Boxer fans, it is time of joy since he is actually doing quite well (or was - I know about first games and I am hiding from results myself).
First video of tournament can be found here.
P.S. Sound is quite lousy. :(
As you may know, MobiReg is free registry editor for Windows mobile (both Smartphone and Pocket PC).
This version is just small evolutionary step and adds renaming of value names. This should make playing with configuration a little bit easier.